Big enough house?

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I am buying my first home and am looking in a very popular area. A house I like is 1000sqft with two doubles and a box room. I gave one child and am pregnant with my second. Is this big enough? It would all be about the location but I don't want to move in a few years. Anyone live in a house this size?

• have one child.

Link? It sounds like a 'how long is a piece of string type question, post the floor plan or a link to the advert that would help.

it's fairly average, tbh. Ours is 800 sq ft and OK, but too small now the boys are secondary school age. We're looking at houses 1000 sq ft+

Preferably +, but 1000 sq ft seems to be fairly standard for a bog standard 3 bed semi or terrace unless it's more of a "luxury" home.

Could you expand into the loft as the kids grow? That is my plan (funds allowing)

Sorry I don't have a link as I'm on my phone. But it's got a living/dining room knocked through. A gallery kitchen, upstairs bathroom, two doubles and a box room and a small garden. A typical Victorian terrace really.

Yes you could go in the loft but it seems so expensive to do it with planning permission. Not sure you're ever get the money back when selling

Mine is about that with a similar layout to yours and it is fine. My only consideration would be how small bedroom 3 is, will your children want and be able to have separate bedrooms as they get older?

Yes that's my concern. I'm pregnant with my second so they don't say much yet. I guess they can share or one accept a tiny room. It will fit a single bed and bookshelf and small cupboard. Nothing else though. Say about 8ft by 5ft.

Are you sure you'd need planning permission for your loft OP? We lived in a Victorian terrace in London and converted our loft under permitted development. We did it to a highish spec so it wasn't cheap but we certainly got our money back (plus a bit more on top) when we sold the house less than 6 months later. The space it created was fantastic and the house felt a lot bigger.

A loft conversion in London is from about £50k

Moving costs (Stamp duty, estate agent fees, moving fees etc) in London is about £50k to somewhere of the same 'value'.

Lots of variables there of course but you get the idea.