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 love our bungalow. At 1,300 sq. feet inside, set in 5,000 sq. feet of land (we're on the corner of a cul de sac) it's perfect. DW has MS, so being on one level is a godsend. I've gone around the outside and put in ramped decking, so she can get in and out of the house with no effort.

Given the last house we (well I, since the car park on the show home was pea shingle so inaccessible to wheelchairs) viewed was 1,100 sq. ft and tiny rooms, it looks like this is our life house.

(We're a 2 minute walk from the local doctor and dentist, and 1 minute from a chippy, corner shop and bus stop ...)

I totally understand why we won't be seeing many properties like this surviving.

I said last year prior to having a miscarriage I wanted to live in a bungalow because I'd feel safer everything being on one floor and I wouldn't be worried about falling down the stairs carrying Baby and hurting them.

I live in one but it's actually made me rather unfit, not going up and down stairs at all.

I lived in a fairly modern(1970’s) bungalow that had been totally revamped to bring it up to speed, brilliant place. No running and up n down stairs, no lugging if vacuum cleaners etc. I’m seriously hoping to retire to something similar.

Loved our bungalow which we sold last year.
Not ideal with small children though in terms of noise. In a house now and it works much better for our family.

I grew up in one and have just spent a few months living in a rented one while waiting for a house purchase to go through. It reminded me of exactly why I hated my childhood home — I much prefer the privacy of being able to move around upstairs out of sight of visitors or anyone downstairs without being dressed, for instance, and I like having a separate downstairs loo for visitors. In the big, 1970s bungalow I’ve just been living in, the bathroom visitors would use (the only one not an en suite) is right down in the ‘bedroom’ part of the house, which can feel rather ‘public’. It was worse in my childhood home, where the bedrooms were at the opposite end of the house to the bathroom, which was off the kitchen, so you had to walk though visitors in your nightclothes to change a tampon at night etc. (I recognise that was an unusually badly-planned house, courtesy of my father.)

In hot countries you have locked shutters inside the open windows .. I wouldn't feel safe with them open at night !

We have one and I don't love it. Bought it because it was in the right place for the right price but I do miss stairs.

Ours is just a rectangle with a central hallway and rooms off it. Perhaps if there were some turns and angles here and there, I'd prefer it but it's a bit too much like a glorified static caravan. Our windows are large and open outwards from the top (so gap is at the bottom), for this reason, even in the height of summer, I always close them at night as I'm worried about animals or bugs coming in (we're in the middle of nowhere).

It obviously has a massive attic but it's too shallow for a loft conversion without major construction work.

We have a 1920’s Californian bungalow, I love it.
High ceilings, sash windows with fly screens, big rooms and no stairs.
(It’s insulated so not too bad to heat or cool)

But It has weirdly wide doorways compared to modern houses. (Found this out when we brought the wrong sized door twice)

We have windows that open out and you can latch them to be open two different amounts. The bedroom windows stay latched open all summer. I know the dog would bark too so I don't worry about burglars.
The biggest advantage is that I can paint the exterior myself with just a step ladder. I wouldn't be comfortable up a high ladder with a paint tray etc. Also no stairs to vacuum and no need for stair gates. When the kids were little they would play a lot between the kitchen, the hall and their bedrooms and it was easy to keep an eye on them and didn't feel too claustrophobic in bad weather.

I am not a fan, but they seem incredibly bad value for money around here - it seems you pay for the square footage on land, not the actual square footage of the occupied building if that makes sense.

Dh’s parents have a bungalow in north London .
Huge garden but inside is pokey .
Not for me, they remind me more of elderly people properties

Bungalows tend to have better gardens than the equivalent bedroomed house or at least they did when I last looked at property. I was brought up in a sixties bungalow (lots of windows) so tend to dismiss a lot of houses as too dark. Maybe why the two properties I have bought for myself were also bungalows.

@OneInEight

Bungalows tend to have better gardens than the equivalent bedroomed house or at least they did when I last looked at property. I was brought up in a sixties bungalow (lots of windows) so tend to dismiss a lot of houses as too dark. Maybe why the two properties I have bought for myself were also bungalows.

Ours is on the corner of a road. So we have two front gardens (which I remember every time I mow the **ers) and a smaller back garden.

There's a bungalow across the road from us which has the opposite. A front garden that you could cover with a newspaper and a back garden that could land Concorde ...

I live in one. There are benefits particularly with small DC. Lots of room for them - our hallway is really really long and they have spent many a rainy day cycling the length of the house/chasing each other/setting up obstacle courses. I also feel a bit claustrophobic when I'm at my sisters house on a rainy day with all the DC. In that respect it's been brilliant and never having to worry about safety on stairs.

However, I long for a two story. I hate the lack of division between living and sleeping. The mess gets dragged into every single room in the house. If we had an upstairs I could block it off and at least the bedrooms would stay tidy during the day. Also I think because I grew up in a two story that type of house just seems more "homey" to me. Two more years when both DC are at school I'm intend on moving.

I live in a bungalow. It was built in the 1930s and hideous when we moved in. I leaded the windows and grow climbing roses up the front. People now think it is ancient. I like living on one level. The garden is huge. There is also a huge front garden which I find a pain to keep tidy.
I leave the windows open - but I have a German Shepherd.