Expensive houses with all the bedrooms in the eves

[caterpillarhater]

This is my pet hate, when cruising on Rightmove ( other for property listings available. ) It seems that's the million pound plus properties that I certainly cannot afford all seem to have bedrooms with the ceilings cutting in. I mean your paying the money for half the room. I don't want to only be able to stand up in the Centre of my million pound bedroom or hit my bed when I sit up in bed.

Our house has the windows in the eaves. It's a 1970s (or as we like to call it these days "mid century") house.
You can stand up everywhere though.

What annoys me more is when a house is listed as a 4 bedroom but they have turned a dining room or other downstairs room into a bedroom.

Eaves are good for storage.

I rather like an interesting shaped room, as long as there's enough full sized standing places.

We have some sloped roof sections in several of our rooms. I like the look of it and you soon learn not to bang your head in that part of the room. 😂

£1million would just about get you a detached house round my way

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/123590045#/media?channel=RES_BUY&id=media2

@BrieAndChilli

Our house is listed as 3/4 bedroom because the 4th bedroom is downstairs ideal for a study

YABU to not have links, we all love a bit of property porn and looking for our lottery win house.

Most of what you pay for with housing is location.

You can get your 3000 sq foot in a bad location for 500k.

In Kensington that 500k will only get you a shoebox.

I’m getting this one with change to spare from my £1m to cover stamp duty and bespoke wardrobes for the slopey ceilings:

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/96654976

Nah, way too much internal half timbering and beams.

I agree OP. I can completely understand it with older houses that have had conversions, but I don't get why they do it with new builds. Yes it makes sense in 3 story town houses but they often design 2 story new builds and all the second upstairs rooms have sloped ceilings. It must be to some people's taste as otherwise they wouldn't design and build them in the first place but it seems very impractical and a waste of space to me.

If you like property porn then have a look at some new builds in the US. Beautiful houses and so much better designed than UK houses. Mud rooms, huge kitchen/dining/living rooms, big closets and loads of storage cupboards. Obviously land is a lot more scarce here hence why our houses are smaller but if I was well off enough to buy a large plot of land and build my own house in the UK then I would definitely use plans from the US.

This, a problem she doesn't even have!

In what way do they ‘give character’?

My bedroom in the house I grew up in had a dormer window so the ceiling slanted at that end of the room. I loved it despite frequent head bumping.

I went for a big detached new build for space and laziness reasons, but I'd have loved an eaves room. Maybe not for a bedroom sinc etheyre boiling, but something about them seems more comfortable and looks nicer to design. My white rectangular rooms are practical and large, but they do look soulless and it's a lot of work to make them look homey.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/123427511

Yep, nearly £1m flat in Edinburgh with SO many sloped ceilings. Nice and everything but would drive me mad.

I know what OP means. It's 4/5 bed houses that are really only 3 bed with extra rooms in the loft.

Not only are the top rooms barely usable, but you get no loft space and the downstairs is too small for a genuine 5 bed house.

I can't afford one either, but I don't see what I'd gain from my very ordinary 3 bed, other than extra bathrooms to clean.

I'm 5 foot 3 so can stand up in the loft, personally I love them as an older child/teenager space. They don't mind the sloping ceilings if they get the whole floor to themselves

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Hahahaha I agree!!

I live in what used to be a bungalow, where the massive loft space has been converted to 3 bedrooms. It's great for me because it was the only house I could afford in this town that I could fit my family into.
Two of the bedrooms are fine - big enough that the slope doesn't matter so much but the smallest room is very difficult. If I'd paid a million for it, I'd definitely want bedrooms where all the space was easily useable!

A million pounds would just about get you a semi in Kingston that is just a few yards away from the busy A3 dual carriageway. I can't imagine anyone being willing to pay that much to live in such a place, but plenty of people do, it seems.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/112211033#/?channel=RES_BUY

I know councils vary in terms of building approval but there is no way that extension roof would be approved here at least.

Surely it depends when it was done? I've seen much worse.

I can’t imagine anyone wanting to pay £1.5m for this 4 bed one bath house, it needs some work and the grounds look a bit of a mess.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/116896592#/?channel=RES_BUY

The average house price in the uk is £250,000. So for most people a million pound house is still grander than average.