DH and I have been searching for a house for ages, but most things have either been too small or too expensive. We saw one today that we think may be a go-er, as it ticks most of our boxes (we can't afford to tick all of our boxes!).
But, I'm worried about storage and space. ATM we rent a flat which we've grown out of (no garden, only 1 1/2 bedrooms), but it's pretty roomy. There's plenty of room for DC paraphanalia, such as the double buggy, car seats etc, and for the coat stand / hooks, in the hall. There's also a big storage cupboard (which TBF is just full of crap but it's v useful).
The house is a good size i.e through lounge, big kitchen. But my pram is the width of the hallway. The hall leads straight into the stairs, with one door into the lounge. There is a cupbaord under the stairs which is a decent size but because of how the house is configured this is accessed in the kitchen.
The only other storage is the loft, which we'd need to board.
Thing is I know I've been completely spoilt with the space we have already. Lots of people I know have to collapse their pram once inside. And pretty much all the houses is this area are the same unless you spend more on somewhere larger, which is not feasible for us. But I'm struggling at the moment either collapsing my massive pram everytime I get in, or struggling round it (you have to push it right up to the foot of the stairs, where the lounge door is, to squeeze past it). DS2 will only sleep in his pram atm so I'm likely to often have a sleeping child meaning collapsing the pram isn't an option anyway.
And where will we keep our coats and shoes? There's no room for a coat stand, and hooks on the walls would mean that the coats would stick out into the hall too much. It's such a shame there's no porch (and building one isn't an option unless we butcher the front of the house.
DH doesn't think the pram in the hall is a problem at all.
Or are these just non-issues and I've being overly fussy????
(and my double is a tandem, not a side-by-side)