To love bungalows?

[ChelseaDaggers]

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 .

We actually close our first floor windows at night too. Or lock them on a narrow latch. The only ones we leave open all night are the skylights in the attic roof.

I love bungalows and when DH and I retire, that's exactly what we're going to get.

I also detest hoovering the stairs so that's a bonus right there

Ours was L -shaped so the bedrooms weren't visible to guests from the lounge/kitchen/cloakroom.

And we had locking window stays.

Pros:
As PP said no stairs to hoover.

Seem to use all rooms in the house better/easier, e.g. just take clean washign to the bedroom straight away whereas now i pile it at the base of the stairs.

Can do all your own windows/gutters etc.

Cons:
They are more expensive to heat comapred to 2-storey as the heat can't rise up to the second floor its just lost.

Harder to get a breeze in downstairs upstairs bedrooms on hot summer nights.

Utterly love them! I

Often they have vast gardens and sare simple to manage. They can of course be updated inside and outside. Would highly recommend.

Also, most bungalows around here have smaller windows at the top of the big part you open out, so there's no problem keeping them open at night.

I definitely want one with a loft conversion too!

I'm retired and I keep looking at bungalows with the idea of moving, although the thought of moving, again, horrifies me.

At the moment I live on my own, well with the dog, in a three bedroomed house.

As well as the three bedrooms and all the usual rooms, I have a family bathroom, an en-suite shower room and a downstairs loo, which of course all need cleaning.

And the stairs, I hate hoovering the stairs.

The idea of having everything on one level really appeals to me. I wouldn't move to a flat though as I don't want to have someone living above or below me and I need a garden for my dog; yes I know some flats have gardens.

However, it seems to me that bungalows where I live and in the surrounding area are all madly expensive and the only sort of bungalow, in a similar price range to my house, would be a depressing little box. Even though I would only want two bedrooms they still seem to be more expensive than my three bedroom house.

Oh and then there are the 'park homes', which I've considered, that are also just as expensive, and don't even think about the park homes for retirees; the services charges are terrifying.

@ChelseaDaggers

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 .

Yes! I want one and I love 70s style

I love our bungalow. Most houses here in our part of the country are one-storey because we have a lot of space and they are safer in earthquakes (houses here have to be built to certain earthquake safety rules as we are on the Pacific coast - Ring of Fire). Ours is detached with a good amount of land and we have no neighbors in sight. We bought it with the intention of it being our final house. It will work for us until we die.

Bungalows round here go for a fortune and are snapped as soon as they go on the market (SE)

Not a bungalow, raised ground floor in central London.
I have secondary glazing - there are some windows where you can have secondary glazing open at the top, outer window at the bottom. I don;t do it all the time, but certainly get a breeze through when it's stuffy.
Feels secure, and it's cat proof - although I'm occasionally woken by her falling/kicking something over as she tries to scrabble out.

I would consider a bungalow when I move out of London - no need to have two bathrooms, and more flexibility on what you do with each room, and more "age proof". (Office/bedroom or dining room)

Yes I love our bungalow! Such a big plot of land in comparison to all the houses in our budget when we were looking. We've extended it loads and have a huge kitchen and lounge and that would never have been possible in any house we could afford. We've now made ours a chalet bungalow so the kids have the loft conversion with their own bathroom and we have a seperate bit downstairs (our own little hallway which leads to our bedroom and bathroom). The houses on this road get snapped up and refurbished - there's a mix of families and elderly people.

I live in a HA bungalow. it was only supposed to be temporary and 20 years later I'm still here. I hate it. It has huge wheelchair access doors (which I'm not allowed to change), which all open outwards so you can't have 2 doors open at the same time as it blocks access to the hallway. I long for a house.

Oh and I never understand the security worry thing. Our bedroom has a bay window and we have standard opening bigger windows then smaller ones at the top which we leave open at night.

@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.

I don’t understand this post at all, surely you understand that it’s easier to break in if a window is open at ground level, that there is a security risk there, and why would you only have rooms that could be visible to visitors, that there is no point having them if guests can’t see them?

Oh sorry misread, you can see the value in having rooms not visible to visitors..😃

I would love a bungalow. It's a house you don't need to move on from even when older and can longer go up stairs easily. Much easier if you don't have to move, maybe I'm just lazy.

@FAQs

I love bungalows I think they are often overlooked.

Love it :)

We have a 2 bed detached bungalow. We absolutely love it. Lucky enough to also have a large garden and enough room to eventually extend. I would go as far as saying it's our forever home!

I grew up in a 1950s dorma bungalow and hated it.

My parents had the first floor but everything else was on the ground floor. I hated sleeping at ground level and I hated going to the loo / bathing at ground level too. No privacy or peace whatsoever, especially with guests present.

Having said that, it was big and had huge gardens at front and back.

I still think about the East facing views over the countryside.

I've looked around a couple of bungalows and liked them, but found the rooms tended to be smaller than houses. I can see the appeal of them if you're older or don't have small kids and all their stuff.

Bungalows also cost a fortune round here! I'm in the SE and they tend to be on massive plots of land. Plus lots of people seem to buy them and then add a second floor.

Dh wants one. I hate them.

I hadn't considered the risk of crime, because it isn't something I have to do normally. Living so far from civilisation, it's easy to forget about things that other people consider automatically.

I love them.

I'm not sure why liking a certain type of house would make you unreasonable.