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To love bungalows?

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ChelseaDaggers · 20/09/2020 13:40

I love them! The ones I've seen have always had such good proportions and I like having everything on one floor. I love living in a flat, which I did for many years, (now in a house with stairs), and a bungalow is a bit like a flat, but without the noise issue if you get a detached one and with your own garden, again, if you get a detached one with a garden.

DH disagrees. I'm dying for a bungalow as our next house!

I also love the style of the 70s ones. Maybe a bit "kitsch". I'd decorate it to match Grin.

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Camomila · 20/09/2020 13:43

My brother really wants a bungalow for similar reasons to you. I also like them but don't drive and they all tend to be in the outer-suburbs in our town. I like being able to walk to the town centre.

70s council flats also have really good room sizes where I live (used to go inside lots for work)

FAQs · 20/09/2020 13:45

I love bungalows I think they are often overlooked.

DramaAlpaca · 20/09/2020 13:46

DH and I both grew up in family homes that were detached bungalows in large gardens, so we have a soft spot for them. We don't live in one now, though.

PrometheusB · 20/09/2020 13:46

I used to own a bungalow and mourn it! No stairs to vacuum, no need for a baby monitor because the kids were always on the same floor, no need for a potty because the bathroom was right there, and you could be really flexible with the rooms!

Suzi888 · 20/09/2020 13:46

I love them too, no stairs, all on one level. My friend used to mock my bungalow loving, guess who bought a bungalow this year. Yes I am bitterGrinlol

PrometheusB · 20/09/2020 13:47

And it sold super quickly, lots of people love a bungalow. Ours was bought by a retired couple

InTheCludgie · 20/09/2020 13:47

I like them too OP but where we live they all for the most part have an upper floor, we are in area with good schools so being bought up by families and converted.

InterstellarDrifter · 20/09/2020 13:48

I like them too. I have relatives in the US who all have lovely bungalows too.
The only thing I don’t like about them is that I wouldn’t be able to leave the windows open at night. I’d just be worried about people trying to break in. (Paranoid in outer London)

gubbbbbddaaaa · 20/09/2020 13:50

We always have our windows open , I'd be worried about that at night and when we go out in a one level house ! Aside from that I don't mind them.

IpanemaFlowers · 20/09/2020 13:50

We have a large house that takes me forever to clean, I secretly yearn for a bungalow on the coast with dh, once the dc have left home Smile.

Camomila · 20/09/2020 13:50

Or foxes!

ToastyCrumpet · 20/09/2020 13:51

I grew up in one. Not a fan. You can’t sleep with your windows open.

Roselilly36 · 20/09/2020 13:51

I am desperate to get a bungalow, our house is on the market, but unfortunately no offers yet, I have MS and a bungalow would be so much easier for me.

CoronaIsWatching · 20/09/2020 13:52

I'm not a fan. Though in my head when I think of bungalows I think of those grey depressing ones you often get in seaside towns for retirees

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ChelseaDaggers · 20/09/2020 13:59

Yes, dh says the same thing re windows. Fair point actually. Wonder what the solution to that would be...

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IpanemaFlowers · 20/09/2020 14:01

Latch windows?

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ChelseaDaggers · 20/09/2020 14:02

Yeah maybe latch windows and a big front gate?

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Kenworthington · 20/09/2020 14:05

We’ve just moved into my mums old house as she’s moved into a care home. It’s a whopping big 70s built individually designed bungalow on a huge plot with front and back gardens and I LOVE it. I never used to. But it’s completely brilliant . We eventually plan to modernize the outside of it.

BobbinThreadbare123 · 20/09/2020 14:05

The first house I bought was a bungalow. It was great. I used to have the windows open at night, or leave them on the night latch. Just have to double check you've shut everything when you go to work in the morning! It had really decently sized driveway and gardens and I didn't have to hoover any bloody stairs!

ElspethFlashman · 20/09/2020 14:08

You can get those windows that tilt open at the top. We have them in our two story and nobody can get in. No rain can get in either!

I've always liked them, I was raised in a cramped old 1920s semi-d which was dark and grotty. Bungalows always looked so spacious and bright!

But DH grew up in one and wouldn't hear of it. He likes the privacy of an upstairs. And he has a point, I don't think anyone who has visited our home has ever seen our upstairs and its usually far less tidy than downstairs!

But we live in the country and the bungalow next door has just gone on the market and its a bit lush. Country bungalows really spread out!

eddiemairswife · 20/09/2020 14:11

No. I always have the bedroom window open, and if I was in a bungalow my cat (and her friends} would be in and out all night.

DontDribbleOnTheCarpet · 20/09/2020 14:15

Why can't you sleep with your windows open in a bungalow? We do and always have done.
I like not having stairs but I can see the value of having a floor which isn't visible to visitors.

Whammyyammy · 20/09/2020 14:19

Never owned one, but always loved the idea.

anicebag · 20/09/2020 14:23

I would love one. I imagine a roomba going from room to room and it being much easier.

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ChelseaDaggers · 20/09/2020 14:26

@DontDribbleOnTheCarpet

Why can't you sleep with your windows open in a bungalow? We do and always have done. I like not having stairs but I can see the value of having a floor which isn't visible to visitors.
Like a pp, we live near London and while it's safe enough here, it's high enough crime levels for me to worry about leaving windows open overnight.

Tilty windows sound like a winner.

A spread out, country bungalow sounds like my heaven.

Glad to find so many fellow bungalow lovers!

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