AIBU to be amazed at how far you have to walk in some houses?

[ChachiChichi]

Ok right I'm in a holiday cottage and it's taking me a good 60 steps (ok I wrote this as a guess originally , it's actually 33 but the point still stands!) between the living room and kitchen. The bedroom feels miles away. How do you manage when you live in a massive house? I only have to walk 1 step between my living room and kitchen and I don't have any corridors in my house (just a small landing). I'd find it boring walking around just to get to the kitchen /living room/ bedroom/ toilet.

AIBU to think there's just too much walking involved with some houses and it makes them boring and tiresome?

I live in a bungalow. The kitchen and and spare room are at opposite ends and it takes me 8 steps to get from 1 to another. The rooms (apart from the spare), are big...the hallway not so much.

I've counted (in my head) the number of steps from my sofa to the kitchen (the path I have to do numerous times when I'm cooking dinner and the buzzer goes off). I think it's about 13. Depending on what I'm cooking, that's annoying enough! It's then about 8 steps from the cooker to the fridge, so I try and gather everything from the fridge in one go, to stop having to have to go back and forth.

I can't wait until I redo my kitchen and I can create a better "triangle" of appliances.

I used to live in a townhouse and it was a good 35 steps to get to bed at night. Thankfully the whole house in one go was only ever done at bedtime! (ground floor living room, 2nd floor bedroom). I often just used to sit on the middle floor so I didn't have to do the whole route!

Yanbu wetherspoons are you listening we don't like it 🤣🤣. Also are we all now walking around our homes counting steps 🤣🤣

My house is so huge that by the time the servants have brought the meals up from the kitchen to the dining room the food is stone cold. Blasted nuisance.

How very odd.

40 steps from couch to bedroom. Also 40 steps to walk the length of my downstairs. However couch to kitchen (drawer containing chocolate) is not more than 10 steps!

Reminds me of when Gavin and Stacey are shown round a poky flat and the Estate Agent says he lives in a 3 storey town house "All those stairs!"

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A relative of dh has a chateau in France, and when we first stayed in a top turret room I was a bit miffed at having to plod up and down 88 steps to get a cup of tea first thing. But that was before I remembered that there was a lift at the other end, which would save 2/3 of that, and just mean walking the length of the 2nd storey corridor. 🙂

50 steps from start of my bedroom door to the washing machine. I don't know why I've gone for this rationale. Habit maybe. I do a lot of washing.
I did walk past one of my children on the way who looked puzzled because I was looking at my feet and counting.

I have stayed in similar holiday homes before and think the same!! 😄

You must live a life of extreme excitement and instant gratification to actually get ‘bored’ walking between two rooms …

I don't mind walking between rooms, but what I can't cope with is having to walk to a dining table which isn't in the kitchen. My kitchen is only just big enough to have a small table in it which means that the cooker is only a couple of steps away from it.

I hate to have to carry food any futher than that.

I also dislike kitchens where there is a long island between the dining table and the kitchen so you have to keep walking around the island to get to the table.

We have a galley kitchen which is well organised with the hob, ovens, fridge, dishwasher and sink within 2-3 steps of each other. However, the fridge is undercounter and doesn’t hold much or have a freezer so we have a second fridge and freezer in the utility room which is a 28 step round trip away.

When DP is getting something that will be decanted eg frozen peas, he will take a container and fill it up so only one trip is necessary but I prefer to bring the packet back to the worktop, use it, then return to the freezer. This may be inefficient but it is effective at increasing my daily step count to a regular baseline of 5000 steps without me doing much other than walking around the house and garden. I do have short legs though 🦵😀

I once lived in. a three storey house and it was exhausting.

27 steps and I’m in a new build. Surprised it’s so many

I haven’t measured in m but yes it’s a very long rectangle. So I would say 12m long not 12m wide.

My legs are short so I just asked DP. He said 20m! 🤣 That’s not true. But yes it’s very long.

When we lived in our bigger family house I found it much easier to get my daily steps in than now in our current tiny house. I could always count on a few hundred by going and making a coffee then having a wander round. 😁

I live in a Victorian conversion and the stairs go on forever. There’s a full flight to my front door. Then 2 half flights, first to reach the kitchen/living room, the second to the bathroom/spare room, then another full flight up to the bedrooms. Then a massive fire escape to get to the garden.

If you’re in the garden and need the loo it’s a full trek! The worst is getting to the front door and realising I forgot something in my bedroom. I once counted the amount of stairs I went up/down in a day out of curiosity and it was a bit over 1000.

I’m just used to it now but it would put me off from some kind of mansion type place if I won the lottery! I love those houses with the big staircase in the middle branching off either side but I know I’d get fed up with it. That or I’d install a proper lift!

Suddenly my 12-step diet sounds too much. I should give it up.

I've never even thought about it. I'll check.......................

It's basically 12 steps between each room. dining room - kitchen, sitting room - kitchen, each bedroom to the bathroom,

The utility is directly off the kitchen. The office is directly off the sitting room.

I don't get bored in 12 steps but I like the space. DS & I lived in a tiny temporary flat for a year, and it felt like being shut in a cupboard.

Ours is 4500sq ft and mostly open plan downstairs. I love having space downstairs but by the time I've got to second floor I'm panting. You get used to small same as you get used to big. I'd probably feel lost if we moved to a bigger house.

Surely there are lifts in those houses?

Not in this one - it was tall and narrow and I was very fit at the end of our trip :)

I grew up in an Edwardian terraced town house with 5 flights of stairs . Tall and narrow

Basement floor utility laundry room , storage etc

Ground floor Kitchen diner, garden access

First floor - big through lounge also where the hall and front door were ( stairs up from street to front door)

First floor. bathroom and bedroom

Second floor 2 bedrooms , one normal. One very large sometimes used as a sitting room over the years

Third floor landing onto roof terrace

Fourth floor . Two big bedrooms ( later made into kitchen diner. Bedroom and small bathroom area )

5 flights of stairs with only one bathroom until my dad added a couple extra over the years

My parents owned it for 59 years and did a lot of renting rooms and taking in lodgers over the years

I miss it now but bloody hell was it an inconvenient house to live in 😂

39 steps here. Got caught up in some espionage and foiled a German plot on the way though.