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townhouse with kitchen/dining room on ground floor- with a 1 year old- am I crazy?!

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Brightsideisbetter · 28/04/2017 00:21

Hello wise ones!
I would love to hear any experiences on split level living. We viewed a townhouse today with a kitchen dinner on ground floor and living room on middle floor.

My thoughts are:

Plus: baba can easily play outside as he gets older and I can get on with kitchen chores while keeping an eye.
There is enough room for baba to have a couple of small toys in kitchen to entertain him why I am cooking.

Negative
As baba grows older would him playing in living room on different floor to kitchen be an issue?

We currently have a Victorian house which is long - so if he is in the living room I can't see him or hear him fron the kitchen. Our kitchen is tiny so he can't play while i cook/wash up currently.. So thinking a townhouse could be better than current set up?! I am sure how much my life will change tho as he gets older. Am I missing anything?

Love to hear thoughts...

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Snoopysimaginaryfriend · 29/04/2017 09:50

We're (hopefully) about to exchange on a townhouse which currently has the layout you describe. DD will be one next month and dd2 is due in August.

We have already started the process of extending the ground floor so we will have a very large kitchen/dining/ living space that opens onto the garden. All the neighbours have already extended and it's the perfect answer to the children/dog/entertaining conundrum for us.

Snoopysimaginaryfriend · 29/04/2017 09:52

Oh something else to consider, our new place has a toilet on the ground floor, ensuite in the first and big bathroom on the second so no running up and down stairs

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