Really small galley kitchen - would you?

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We are thinking about putting in an offer on a house and the only thing putting me off is the tiny kitchen. Here is the link www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-40161755.html

Too small or workable?

Yes, go in slightly lower than you expect them to accept. Good luck

I had a teeny kitchen for 12 years, it wasn't the end of the world. The rest sounds good to me.

If you buy one of those Hometrack online valuation surveys you get a report on local market conditions, which include the average petcentage of asking price properties are going for locally. We got ours for 92.5% of asking price, which was what the report said was right locally. Main valuation was way over actual valuation though!

I had a teeny galley kitchen in my London flat. I could cook more easily in that, than my current kitchen, which is 4 times the size but layout like a bag of shite and tons of space wasted.

It's probably 3 times the size of that kitchen but that one has double the usable counter tops for actual prepping / working etc.

It's certainly usable in the short term, unless you're running a small catering firm.

Store the crockery etc in the dining room.

Having a second look tomorrow morning to be certain. We put in an offer of £270k and the estate agent said there is no way the vendor will go below £280k so we said £280k and the vendor is saying £290k and he will take off the market (£290k was what he was going to sell at last time before the chain collapsed). Apparently another FTB is looking tonight so our plan is to go and look very carefully at it tomorrow then if we are sure to walk around the corner to the agent and put in our final offer of £290k. But he might hold out to see what their offer is so no guarantees. Arrgghh! Fingers crossed!

Ooh, you're looking near me! We're in Selsdon, and have just spent 12k knocking a load bearing wall down and installing a new (ikea) kitchen. It's disruptive but the only way to make the space liveable, IMO. Not as expensive as you'd think either...