What do you think about the layout of this house?

[Tobermory]

A house came up today in my preferred village and I have a viewing booked on Tuesday.Initially I was very excited as there isn’t much (any) new properties listed there, now I’m over-thinking.
We are a 4 Person family , with 2DDs.
What do you think?

Can't see just blurs when i try to enlarge.

So would it be you and 2 DDs on the third floor, guest bedroom on the middle floor and study on the bottom floor? Seems good to me! Pics a bit blurry for me too though

Can’t successfully enlarge either, can make out text saying garage/first floor/second floor but that’s it!

Not generally a fan of town houses but I think that layout would work well. 3 bedrooms together on the top floor and living areas on the same level as the kitchen.

How big is the garden?

Looks good to me. 3 bedrooms together, the kid's ones a similar size. Living space together, you could turn first bedroom into a playroom depending on age of kids. Den or study on lower floor.

Only thing that would put me off would be accessing the garden, and having to go up a floor to get drinks etc. I'd want a summer house with a fridge freezer in

The first floor has too many chopped up little rooms and doesn't flow.

Hang on- it has two separate garages? And how do you access the garden?

Looks like the dining room and living room have patio doors to outside?

One of those garages would be a great store room and later teen den

Looks great - most 3 story houses have bedrooms in a difficult formation

Let us know how the viewing goes

Sorry for the delay in posting
Yes, two garages on the lower floor which is where street access is. Think who’s would be good potential space for later on if we needed it, as someone said, teen - den type thing.

Garden access via doors in dining room and lounge.

When people are struggling to sell on here and posts links the home is more often than not a town house. They can be tricky to resell as lots of people just don't like them. If resale is important to you then maybe consider a 2 storey house.

Looks good to me. You all sleep in the top floor or may be girls and play room on top floor and you on 1st floor with en suite. Probably the latter depending on their age. Not sure I'd ever use the ground floor much except for visitors.

First floor looks a nightmare with that tiny landing.

Having to take washing up and down from third floor to ground floor would be a pain.

Bedroom on ground floor is miles from a bathroom and would never be used as a bedroom.

Bedroom on first floor also unlikely to be a useful bedroom due to noise and smells from kitchen.

Carrying shopping up to kitchen on first floor, and binbags from kitchen to downstairs would be wearing after a while.

How do you get out to the back garden?

I wouldn't buy this house, nor any town house tbh.

Also only one actual bathroom for all those bedrooms, and only toilet on first floor is in the bedroom.

Assume it's on the side of a hill if access to garden is via first floor. Houses built into hills are more susceptible to damp.

It's a No from me.

For the size of the house, there's very little living space, it's all bedrooms, garages and hallway.

I imagine ground floor room would be an office type space. Hobby room for my yarn.

I’d not thought about taking washing from beds to utility or about taking shopping upstairs.

There is garden access round the side of the house, through the door in one of the garages then up some stairs and also through lounge and dining room.

I really like it with the garden access on the same floor as kitchen/lounge, but then all that useful garage/storage space on the ground floor.

Personally I'm lazy so I'd probably put my washing machine/utility stuff in Bed 5 (guess plumbing is possible as bathroom next door) to save going up/down stairs

I would want to open up the first floor incorporating kitchen, dining and living room in one. It feels very claustrophobic. And as a pp said move utility into Bed5.

I think that the layout is fine, apart from the fact that it's a townhouse. Personally I'd hate having to lug everything upstairs The moment I got in. (OTOH I've lived in 1st floor flat and it wasn't an issue. Perhaps becauseI was younger and fitter? Or it's psychological, with a flat you deal with the stairs before you come through your own front door? )

Bedrooms 4 and 5 aren't really bedrooms IMO. I'd almost certainly repurpose 5 as a utility room. Possibly turn the three lowest rooms into a multipurpose guest suit/study/workroom? If there's level access at ground floor I might go in through the french windows when I had lots of shopping (I do this at home when I have mucky stuff to bring in, rather than trail drips through the house). It's definitely workable and worth viewing.

I live in a townhouse and it really isn't that big a deal. You just get good at always taking something upstairs/downstairs with you!

Once you are inside is guess you'd be mainly on the top two floors anyway, so no real difference to a 'normal' house.

I think the layout looks great o/P and gives you lots of flexibility for teens dens etc.

I don't like the utility on the ground floor. Is that where you'd put the washing machine and tumble dryer? Lugging all that washing to the top floor would put me off! But it depends on price and how much I'd want it.

I don’t really like town houses but that is a really versatile space and it’s not a typical town house because you can access the garden from the middle floor. The top floor is an ideal configuration for bedrooms, the middle floor is ok, as other posters have said it would be good to move the utility upstairs and perhaps open up the kitchen/dining area. The bottom floor has loads of potential, personally I like the idea of a guest suite (although fo these rooms have daylight as they are under ground level?) also as dds get older I’d be tempted to convert one of the garages into a separate living room do they can have their own space to bring friends round. I like it!

Thanks for thoughts

The motherchip, the back wall would be underground, bed 4 has a side window and we’d replace garage door with a window. So darkish I suppose but some natural light.

We currently live in a house with 4 floors (one is a basement) but live across three so this would be an improvement on that!

We were thinking about pulling down wall between kitchen and dining to make it a more open space.

We go and look in the morning. Excited!!

Is the left hand garage actually big enough to park a car? (And would you park your car in it?) If so, then I would keep it as a garage and fit the RH one out with racks of good shelving. What a brilliant garden shed plus loft-substitute that would be! There's never enough storage in new-builds, the loft is often inconvenient, and a shed takes up garden space in probably a small garden.

Went to look today and we like it!
It needs lots of redecoration , the 1980s want their ‘pine everywhere ‘ look back but it’s got lots of potential!

Thanks for your thoughts so far. Much appreciated.