We have two dds, currently in year 4 and year 1.
We need to move house in the near future, as while both our dds are currently at a lovely primary school, our catchment secondary school that every child on our current street gets allocated has a very bad reputation and is currently rated inadequate.
We're considering one house, a stone's throw from the secondary we'd love our dds to go to, that has been on the market for quite a while. The reason it's been so hard to sell is, we suspect, because the layout of bedrooms and bathrooms upstairs is rather odd.
The crux of the issue is that there is no family bathroom, and the bedrooms/bathrooms are very unequally sized.
On the top floor, there is:
- A massive master bedroom (1), with a huge ensuite (two sinks, a loo, bath, huge shower)
- A big bedroom (2) with an ensuite (bath with shower attachment, loo, sink)
- A small to medium sized bedroom (3)
- A tiny box bedroom (4)
- A tiny box bathroom with a loo, sink & shower squeezed in
Obviously, if we lived there, dh and I would take the master bedroom, but the issue would be which bedrooms/bathrooms our dds would use.
We were thinking we'd probably do it like this:
Dd1 in bedroom 2, and dd2 in bedroom 3. Dd1 would use the ensuite attached to bedroom 2, while dd2 would have baths in our ensuite while she's still little, and then when she's older would have sole use of the tiny box bathroom, with the option of baths in our room if she wanted them.
Mumsnetters with older children - once dd2 is a teenager, is she likely to resent the fact that dd1 has a much bigger room, with a decent sized ensuite, while dd2 would have a smaller room and the use of a non ensuite tiny bathroom?
Should we take the fact that the house has been on the market for so long as a sign, and leave it alone?