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.

As pp’s said, I would want a through kitchen lounge.
I would also block off the door from hallway into kitchen. Have a wall and doorway built at foot of stairs and have that as a walk in understaires boot room with floor to ceiling storage, pegs etc. If you have somewhere to dump coats bags etc as you walk in, then the rest of the house will be tidier. Will then give you loads more space on the right hand side of your kitchen.

Children’s rooms, get cabin beds so they have room to play oh the floor.

Oh come on - thousands of families manage in houses much smaller than that, so of course it's doable. A 4 bedroom house is hardly tiny for a family of 4!

But yes you will need to de-clutter if you currently have loads of room.

However I would personally steer away from new builds. They are usually well over-priced and badly made. You could get more space for your money by buying an existing property.

Why would anyone flame you? My house is smaller than that

Oh give over op 😂

I have recently been looking at 3 bed houses (for a family of 4) and pretty much all of them are smaller than that, well terraced houses and semi-detached mostly are.

I think this is an exceptionally tactless post, probably the majority of the population live in a house smaller than this.

Perhaps we don't all live in 'family homes'!

If you're downsizing for financial reasons you'll probably find much better value for money in an older house, and get more space.

Loads of space. A bedroom apiece, two living spaces, including the sun room, and three loos! There are five of us (two adults, three teens) in a two-bed house and only one bathroom/loo, and that's fine.

Whatthenightbrings - I would hate to have to share a loo with my husband! He has his bathroom, I have mine! Re this house, I think it is fine with the sunroom - my only worry would be the small windows - I love fresh air and light!

I think the layout is the issue. As a PP said you don't want those doors into the living room from the kitchen. Then you could have a U shaped kitchen with wall storage as well. Upstairs it would be better with 1 decent sized bathroom and 3 good sized bedrooms rather than trying to claim this is a 4 bed, 3 bathroom house. Sunroom is good but depends how much the temperature varies in there how useable the living space is. Suspect you might end up with the dining room in there. Honestly I'd look for an older house with 3 bedrooms and only one bathroom upstairs.

My house is smaller than that. Two DCs who cannot share. I am single so one less adult but a DP would fit in here easily. We have a kitchen diner that can seat six easily and living room with space for five. Which bit worries you ?

I would not get that house as the rooms are tiny. Too small its better to have a 3 bed with decent rooms sizes than many small bedrooms. I would go for a roomy 3 bed instead.

The master is 12 x 11 that's ridiculous, my budget was tiny but even so I would only go for decent room sizes.

Older house are far better for this, they may not have the fashionable layout or the swanky looking kitchen but rooms sizes are more important then the cosmetic stuff. Anything can be changed but you can't grow a room.

Looks like a normal family house to me.

Just need to add a few built in cupboards for storage. but the room sizes are reasonable.

Yes. We live in smaller house, with less bedrooms and toilets and most of the identical houses in our road have 4-6 people living in each.

I have no utility room, no garage, no garden and only one bathroom/toilet. My DS's don't have a room each or a playroom. You must think my life is fresh from Oliver Twist or something.

Yes, it’s fine.

This is either goady or insensitive in the extreme.

Either way, I predict it'll be pulled by 9.

Stealth boast?
Yes, of course you can?
There's 4 of us in a 2 bed house with a kitchen, loo and lounge diner downstairs. No garage, no utility!

How old are your DC?
I would have the 'sun room' as the family room / playroom / tv lounge room (whatever it's called in your family!)
I'd pinch about a quarter of the front lounge and, accessed from the kitchen, stick the washing machine, coat and shoe storage and some shelves for beans etc.
Upstairs is great as long as you don't have 8 toddlers or anything!

Good luck with your move / downsize. Fresh start!

I’m not sure I follow - why wouldn’t a 4 bed house be suitable for a family with 2 kids?!

But, where would you keep the staff?

Really?! Some people live on another planet...

No, I'm joking

Would love that house!

I was expecting it to be a studio flat or a 10x4 narrow boat. Of course it is enough space. Only on MN

Yes I’m hoping the housekeeper and au pair will share the box room and make do with bunk beds!

No, this is definitely not a wind up, why would I bother to do that? I’m having to permanently reduce my hours due to having Rheumatoid Arthritis and fibromyalgia. It was never on my radar before that I’d work less than full time and then I was hit with 2 chronic illness. I don’t want our lives to be dominated by my illnesses and my kids to suffer that we can’t have the experiences when we planned (carefully) to have 2 kids. At that stage we could afford them and the house etc but as, I said, life changed. I just feel it’s really early unfair on my husband to take all the financial pressure, he has NEVER said anything, but I feel guilty as he didn’t sign up for this.

I’ll just be scrolling past the nasty remarks. I’m really thankful for the positive comments about chnabes we could make to the layout. Yes the doors between kitchen and lounge would be closed up.

I’ve never lived in a semi detached house before, so yes, it would be a different experience. But I’m under no illusion that people have much smaller. This is a very small Irish market town which makes a difference.

Thanks again