To ask if you could make this a home for a family?

[BlueSatsuma]

For financial reasons this is down sizing.

There’s no utility
There’s no garage (extra which I don’t have)
There would be a sunroom

Please don’t flame me, I live in an area where houses are generally larger, but could kitchen work be maximised to make use of the space? Any ideas?

I’m really worried about storage.

Could this work for a family of 4?

Garden quite small too.

is this a wind up? No utility, how will you cope!!!

We are a family of 4 in a 2 bedroom house with, gasp, no utility, garage and not even a sunroom.

Only 3 toilets too! How do people manage!

Is there room for a coat cupboard to be build behind front door.

Do you need the en-suite. Would it be more useful as a wardrobe.

Sunroom is great if it's an option for you.

Loft ladder and loft boarded to store out of season clothes and stuff.

Shed in the corner of the garden for lawnmower and bikes.

I'd say that's a bigger house than many peoples.

Oh wow how will you cope with 4 bedrooms and 2dc

It's not the biggest house in the world but seriously it's hardly cramped. I only assume you're posting to make others jealous that this is what downsizing looks like to you.

Really?

I get downsizing is difficult in any circumstance but you’re being ridiculous. Yes four people will have plenty of room in a four bedroom house.

We're a family of 5 in a 3 bedroom house with a kitchen lounge and dining room. We have one loo.
It's doable

Enormous - we manage fine in a 2bed, 1 bathroom flat.

I feel like this is a bit insensitive.

There are people posting on here desperate about losing much smaller homes.

A four bedroom house with added sunroom for a family with two small children is fine. Of course it’s bloody fine!

In a 3 bed (only one of them double) with no garage or loft and only 1 reception room here. 6 of us. That looks positively mansionesque for 4!

Fuck me, I thought 4 people in two up, two down was a squeeze. Sorry OP, you'll be fine.

I've currently got 7 adults in a house almost exactly that size !!

(I am hoping that a few of them and their partners will move out soon, but one pair are in an 8 ft square room)

It's fine..more than with only two kids!

We're a family of 4 in 1250 sq ft. It's plenty of space.

None of the bedrooms in that layout are huge, but none are absolute duds, either (the older semis around here tend to have 6x7' box rooms as the third bedroom) . Invest in pax wardrobes. IKEA brimnes beds have massive drawers underneath, perfect for bedding and duvets.

If the sun room has a solid roof and decent insulation, it would work as dining space, all year round, giving you more space for storage in the kitchen.

Are you a trol op? Have you heard of the housing crises?

If you're considering having this built, I'd ask if they could ditch the doors between the kitchen and living room. Completely unnecessary and prevent you from having something useful like a sideboard, bookshelves, or more kitchen units, against that wall.

Don’t lose the downstairs loo, one of those is on our essential list, who wants to schlep up and down stairs every time. I’d lose the en-suite and have wardrobes instead.

Yes that could work. Each child gets their own bedroom. There are three loos to ensure that no one is queuing to clean teeth, go to the loo while someone else is in the bath etc.

Presumably there's some storage in the roof space and you could add a large shed to store big outdoor equipment. Make the sun room the dining area. Use Bed 4 as a study.

Buy Marie Kondo's book before you move.

Only one spare bedroom and having to share a toilet with the husband? Oh darling, I simply couldn't.

Is this a wind up? Seriously 🙄

I'm assuming you're buying, ex council properties are great value, if you look for an area where majority are now private you'll easily get a good house for your money. New builds are tiny and too often people won't consider anything else.

I don't mean to be all Yorkshiremen Monty Python but people in the rest of the world live like this.

You have a SPARE ROOM.

Of course it is doable. This is how most people live! Personally I’d rather have one decent sized family bathroom than a teeny en suite. And I’d not have the double doors between the kitchen and living room. I’d use the wall to create a u shaped kitchen and to provide a wall for more tall storage on the living room side. If you want to keep the doors I’d swap the kitchen and dining sides around.

Lol. I'm sure you'll all manage to squeeze in.

Hmm I would say no. We looked at new builds at around 1600 sq ft and even then we didn't think they were roomy enough for 4 people.
It's down to storage - no wardbrobes in rooms, nowhere for hoover and ironing board and shoes and coats.
Lack of utility would be a no for me; I don't want my washer and dryer taking up space in the kitchen and being noisy either.

Can you look at older houses to get the extra space you need?

Even if you convert the bedroom into a storage room can you honestly be bothered to traipse upstairs every time you want to iron or hoover or find some shoes or a board game etc? Also, it's essentially a three bed house but with a 4 bed price tag.

I don't think the layout is bad as the sunroom could be a nice playroom off the kitchen it's just I find I need so many cupboards for all the kids stuff otherwise your house ends up full of stuff and always untidy.

And yes my remark was fuelled by petty envy. We rent and I would kill to own a house, obviously that is not your fault but it's great that you are in the position to buy even if you do have to downsize. Agree with PP about Konmari, you might find you don't need or want stuff that you are keeping for the sake of it.

Flippin' heck - I initially thought it'd be tight for storage, but perfectly doable, for a family with 4 kids. Then I realised it's for a family of 4! Seriously OP, you have a ton of space to play with. If the utility is an issue, maybe make room for a washer-dryer upstairs, as is popular in Germany. Put a nice sofa-bed in the fourth bedroom plus built in storage. It will feel tight for space if you're downsizing, but you've still got a decent sized house there.