Four of us in a two-bed house?

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After my £&@%ing bitch of a seller just upped their asking price and I flounced off, another house has come up. It's in my favourite road, right by the kids' schools, with a huge 100' garden (long but narrow), two bathrooms and a beautiful eat-in kitchen. Victorian terrace. Cracking.

But two beds. We could almost certainly convert the loft down the line but not immediately as we'd need to save up.

There are two adults, and two boys (6 and 11). The youngest boy would get into a wonderful Junior school and it's right by my oldest son's secondary, where he starts in September.

It's right at the top of our budget. The seller's buyer had dropped out and she has to act fast or she'll lose the house she wants to buy.

We offered £5k over the asking price, and she's said £5k more and it's ours. There were 4 more viewings tonight, so this might be too late anyway. (Although I doubt many other buyers will be in as good a position as we are to proceed quickly - we've already sold and are in our parents' homes ready to go.)

Would we kill each other in a two-bed terrace? Is it simply too small?

The bedrooms are both 11' x 9'.

Sitting room is 11 x 10. They've knocked the kitchen and dining rooms into one, and made the downstairs bathroom into a shower room. The upstairs box room is now an en suite family bathroom (but still leading off the bedroom, which would be a bit of a pain long term).

Houses in this road go very quickly.

The house feels more like a "young professional family" place rather than a "middle-aged couple with kids" place. :-( but I'd love to live on that road.

Would your boys really want to share a room?

Your 11 yo is probably really going to want a bit of privacy soon.

Location, location, location!

If in the medium term you can extend go for it!

honestly, mine would have killed each other in a house that small at that age. are you used to more space, seperate bedrooms? how soon could you do the loft?

You can always move the walls - you cannot relocate the house.
Go for it

if it has a big garden then surely you could make the house bigger at some point?

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Location, location, location ?

It sounds like there's plenty of scope to expand down the line. You could even get a garden room as an extra space for the boys.

Ha ha! No, yes, no, yes. This thread is like the inside of my brain! I can't decide.

We could do the loft in a couple of years. We'd need a year for my fiancé to sort out his finances so we could remortgage onto a better deal than we'll get now. Or simply save up. It might take a couple of years.

I think the bedrooms sound a decent size, as long as there's space downstairs for them so they can get away from each other. Maybe you could have a rule e.g. if one child has a friend visiting, they get the bedroom and the other can have free use of a room downstairs? The garden, loft conversion down the line and location sound great.

Have you asked your children what they think ?

My kids are so lovely, they love every house! They'd love the long garden.

It's walking distance to the town, and near my family. We love the town.

I could see us staying there for years and gradually extending it into a monstrosity. It has a lot of potential, with (like you say) the long garden to build on.

It feels like destiny that it suddenly came up after my last seller had been such a cow. I was just walking down that street telling my cousin how I want to live there, and three days later - ping! Up it popped.

But two bedrooms. Mind you, with 3 beds it'd be worth £50k more and the loft wouldn't cost us £50k (I don't think).

Buy it now!

But four people need room for coats, wellies, books, bikes, sheets, spare duvets... This hasn't even bit an airing cupboard. It's that annoying Victorian design where the stairs go steeply up between the front and back rooms. No landing.

I think get it!

*got, not bit

Thanks. :-) it's probably gone tonight. I should have just secured it with the extra £5k then worried about it later, but I didn't want to string the buyer along. I saw her getting into her car just before the viewing, she looked nice.

I'm going back tomorrow at 2pm with my sensible fiancé. If it hasn't gone already, I'll see what he says.

It only came back on the market this morning. They have 6 more viewings on Saturday!

Yes it will be cramped and at times you will want to kill each other but that's a few years only. If you are seriously talking about a forever home - do it.

Not forever. The front door opens straight into the sitting room. It's really quite small...

There's something stopping me. I did get all tearful (in a good way) when I walked in, and the timing is incredible and it has a tree in the front garden ????... But when it got up to that last £5k, I couldn't do it. Stupid, for just £5k more. But it's a lot for a two-bed place.

It might work ok for you now but unless you can extend or convert your loft very soon it will become very cramped.

An 11 year old might be ok sharing with a 6 year old but a 14 year old will not want to share a room with a 9 year old.

No porch, no hallway, no airing cupboard. Where will you store stuff?

I don't understand why she has an asking price but now wants £10,000 more than it .

I think it is always sensible to play it cool when you view a house you secretly love.

use the loft for seasonal storage at the moment and when you do the conversion have a bit partitoned off to keep stuff in for the future

if you have divan beds (or getting new beds get divan) spare sheets, duvet covers can go in the drawers

get a hut for the garden and the bikes can go in there

declutter and get rid of unused books and other stuff

Go for it. The boys will get used to each other.