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Would you buy this house if you had 2 kids??

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Nonutter · 30/11/2018 19:51

I love this house. It's in the area we want to be in. But the 3rd bedroom is down stairs. My DC are 5y & 3y. Initially i think they could share a bedroom and have the 3rd bedroom as a playroom but is this shortsited??

Also there's no drive or garage...parking down a path but not right next to the house. Garage can be replaced with large shed for man crap.

Give me some impartial thoughts as I'm slightly in love

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Nonutter · 30/11/2018 19:56

I found this property on the Rightmove Android app and wanted you to see it: www.rightmove.co.uk/s6p/55994526

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mangocoveredlamb · 30/11/2018 19:56

No link!

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Nonutter · 30/11/2018 19:57

Sorry being a div! There you go...

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mangocoveredlamb · 30/11/2018 19:59

Seen your link now!

I wouldn’t, I don’t think there is any way I would be happy with one of my kids eventually sleeping in any of the downstairs rooms. Either external door, or staircase in or open plan to kitchen.

The parking wouldn’t bother me. Our parking is at the end of our garden and is fine!

mangocoveredlamb · 30/11/2018 19:59

But it is a gorgeous house!!

Toomanycats99 · 30/11/2018 20:00

No - your room is quite a way from the downstairs one so may be hard to hear them. Also looks like it has doors to garden.

ifiwasabutterfly · 30/11/2018 20:00

Personally no unless you and dp have the downstairs bedroom. I think they would have to be teenage before they would be happy to sleep downstairs although I know that dd13 still wouldn't be keen on it.

KennDodd · 30/11/2018 20:01

I wouldn't buy it.

IggityZiggityZoom · 30/11/2018 20:01

If the only stopping you is the bedroom I'd buy it and by the time they are ready not share one can go downstairs but I'd secure that door to within an inch of its life.

Ohhgreat · 30/11/2018 20:02

I have a 9yo and a baby and currently have stairs from parking to house. My advice - don't do it!! I hate them!!
Would be ok with kids sharing, wouldn't have one downstairs and you upstairs tho.

riotlady · 30/11/2018 20:02

Depends on the placement of the bedroom I think? Are they likely to be disturbed by noise from the kitchen/living room?

riotlady · 30/11/2018 20:03

Sorry-posted before I could see the link!

exorcisingarrrgggghti · 30/11/2018 20:03

Could you and she have the downstairs room and let the children have the upstairs ones, once they are past sharing?

Racecardriver · 30/11/2018 20:03

Seems fine medium term but when they are teenagers it will be very easy to sneak out for the one downstairs. Garden would also need to be childproofed.

Justletmego · 30/11/2018 20:03

Providing the doors to the garden are lockable I don't see the issue, my brother used to sleep in a bedroom downstairs much the same - off the kitchen. It was never an issue.

Magstermay · 30/11/2018 20:05

It’s a gorgeous house but unless you are happy with the downstairs bedroom long term I wouldn’t personally. It’s not just that it’s downstairs but lack of bathroom and the distance from the upstairs.

arsearsearse · 30/11/2018 20:06

I can see why you live it. But I don’t think the downstairs room is a particularly good bedroom. There’s no bathroom nearby and it means losing a lovely room that leads into the garden. How big is the main bedroom? Could you split that up? Is there acope to extend upstairs?

Magstermay · 30/11/2018 20:06

Sorry I mean you have the downstairs bedroom and kids upstairs when they no longer want to share.

bertielab · 30/11/2018 20:06

Nope -absolutely no.

Singlenotsingle · 30/11/2018 20:06

It's gorgeous. There are minor inconveniences, but worth it for that house! There's a bathroom upstairs and a downstairs loo, and I love that outside studio! You need to snap it up before I do!

WhoGivesADamnForAFlakeyBandit · 30/11/2018 20:07

I wouldn't want them sleeping so far away until they were older, at which point I wouldn't want them so near a door that could be used to sneak someone in or them out! It would make a good spare room and playroom though.

How big is the second room upstairs - I take it no bunk beds possible?

dinosaurglitterrepublic · 30/11/2018 20:07

I would have no objection to sleeping on a different floor to the children, but I wouldn’t want them on the ground floor alone. If you could potentially take that bedroom then I would say fine.

exorcisingarrrgggghti · 30/11/2018 20:10

You could also have this 5 bedroom one for less money!
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-55856610.html

Chocolatedeficitdisorder · 30/11/2018 20:10

I've had a house with a 2up, 1down arrangement for years and my son has always been happy to have the downstairs room next to the bathroom.

I was going to say I would go for, but then I looked at your link and I actually wouldn't.

It's an odd layout, with the 3rd bedroom in a very inconvenient position for contact and use of the downstairs loo, as well as having and exterior door.

If you slept downstairs you would be quite distant from your children and the room is only 7.7ft wide so it would be a squeeze. If one of your DC is down there, you might not feel they are secure or close enough - I certainly wouldn't.

It's a lovely house, but not for a young family.

KatharinaRosalie · 30/11/2018 20:11

It's a pretty house and of course 3 and 5 can share for at least a few more years. I personally don't see the need for living room, sitting room and dining room. You could make one of them into a master bedroom?

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