To think the layout of this house (especially downstairs) is a bit odd?

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The hall leads straight into the kitchen, and the stairs are in the kitchen so all the cooking smells will go upstairs. I'm surprised that in a house of this size there isn't a 'central' hall that has lots of doors leading into all the rooms. There is no family bathroom, 4 en suites and a downstairs loo. And I wouldn't have put the internal door to the garage in the study, I would've put it in the utility room myself.

"It was built by the current owners a couple of years ago."
And they're selling already? I wonder if it's because the layout doesn't actually work for them.

And as has been mentioned already, I would worry about getting out if there were a fire downstairs, a stairwell/hallway gives some protection.

Susiella I'm in Gainsborough!

I think it was probably built more than a couple of years ago actually. I just assumed it was new as looks very shiny and new, but looking when it last sold, it says the last sale was Nov 2003 so maybe it's not as new as I thought.

Houses are V cheap here. Our 2 bed semi with drive, garage, front garden and good size back garden, family bathroom and downstairs loo is up for sale at £95k (I bet someone can find which one it is! That's a challenge for you, right there. Find my house, it's on Rightmove and I've said where I live :o ) A MNetter started a thread about her house, a 2 bed terrace with no drive or garage and it's up for sale at nearly half a million

Bungmean you cowbag :o my stomach dropped when I saw your post :o

4 en suites and no main bathroom? I find that weird

Is your kitchen red? extremely nosy

^^

I like the house, but I hate rooms off rooms, that is normally the result of extensions but I hate it. In this instance I would say its been badly designed.

I want to see the owners. It's such an unusual layout. Who lives in a house like this?

Ohhh the inner The Sims builder enthusiast in me is loving this thread and all the floorplans!

How did they get that past building regs? My neighbours had real trouble making changes to their very old house with an existing stairs in kitchen that needed replacing. We're told that if they ripped out and put new stairs in they would have to separate them from the kitchen!

I don't know BYO, that's what I'd like to know

I had a "discussion" with an American friend about the trend for lots of bathrooms in a house - she reckons its because builders know they can get more work / more cash out of persuading people to go for more bathrooms. Jack-and-Jill bathrooms used to be common but have been dropped for the all en-suite idea, and the latest trend is to have a fully working outdoor kitchen now (with oven, fridge, dishwasher etc) as well as the usual indoor one.

I think she talked at me for an hour (without once drawing breath) and all I'd said was I liked the two very large fridges in the kitchen of the holiday house (it slept 12, you'd need them!).

I like it and it's crazy cheap, maybe I will buy it

Crazy cheap!?! I'd hate to see an expensive house round your way then :o