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Opinions on this house please - heart vs head!

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Pootles34 · 09/07/2020 15:54

I'd really appreciate opinions on this house please. Its sensibly priced for the area, but a few issues - no off road parking apart from the garage, and the layout is a bit peculiar - but I think maybe that's just an older house thing? Obviously it'll need a bit of updating (bathroom carpet...!), but we'd be happy to wait to do that.

I love the garden, and the house does look really cosy. We haven't viewed yet as our house isn't on yet, although it will be in the next week or so. I'd really appreciate any thoughts - thank you!

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Themostwonderfultimeoftheyear · 09/07/2020 15:59

Do you have young children? It would be a no for me as I have a 4yo so wouldn't be comfortable with it being on the road or with the unusual downstairs layout. However with older children or no children I think it looks lovely and cosy.

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Pootles34 · 09/07/2020 16:02

Oh sorry yes that would have helped - yes a 4 yr old and 9 yr old, but the lane it's on is incredibly quiet, and i don't think he'd be any more likely to escape than he is at present.

It is the downstairs layout really - I feel like george clarke would be able to sort it out - wonder if he's free Grin. We don't have the money to re-jigg it all immediately, it'd have to wait 5 years at least I think.

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Aquamarine1029 · 09/07/2020 16:03

There's a lot I really like, but being so close to the road, the parking situation, and the awful kitchen would be hard for me to overcome.

Wooosh · 09/07/2020 16:03

The house and garden look lovely. But currently living in a house with no parking that would not be a deal breaker for me. Too much hassle, particularly with kids.

AIMD · 09/07/2020 16:03

I like the character And the lovely stone and fire places. The garden looks really lovely too! It is a really odd layout though and I don’t think I could see pass that unless I thought I could rearrange it in some way. Also the rooms look quite small for the price (but I understand it might be a more expensive Area than I’m comparing it to).

Is there somewhere close to easily park on the street, if so lack of off road wouldn’t bother me. I wouldn’t want to be walking for miles from the car though or driving around busy streets to find a space.

Aquamarine1029 · 09/07/2020 16:04

If you could afford it, I would take out the wall between the kitchen and dining room and reconfigure everything.

BoxAndKnife · 09/07/2020 16:04

The individual rooms look lovely, and I agree it's wonderfully cosy, but I think layout is very odd. The 3rd bedroom is basically stuck in the middle of the house with access to the 'garden room'...unless you're going to use that as a study / very occasional guest bedroom I can't see how it would work.

The kitchen is tiny and looks very dark.

The parking would annoy me.

The garden is lovely.

How many people would be living there, OP?

BlessYourCottonSocks · 09/07/2020 16:05

I really like it (but it is too pricey for me). I don't think the off street parking would bother me, because you have got a garage and it looks like a quiet lane.

I could probably move in and do very little, to be honest. Garden is nice.

BarrelOfOtters · 09/07/2020 16:05

I think it's absolutely lovely. Agree if you have kids you might want to think about the front door. But you could possibly rejig the garage access?

It would be a no from me if it's a really busy road that is would you be causing queues as you tried to get in the garage?

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Pootles34 · 09/07/2020 16:07

You can park 2 cars on the street outside the house - half on the pavement, which I normally hate but is ok there because it's so quiet, and there isn't any pavement past this house anyway.

There aren't any busy streets - it's a relatively quiet village, and this is an old back lane that doesn't go anywhere but to the 8 or so houses down it.

In fact you can see on street view that there's two cars parked outside when they came to do the google photos.

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BarrelOfOtters · 09/07/2020 16:08

Has bedroom 3 got a window??

UncleShady · 09/07/2020 16:08

No parking would drive you up the wall but the downstairs bedroom is the real issue. It's not like it's just at the bottom of the stairs, there's loads of doors/rooms to navigate which when there's a child chucking up is not good.

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Pootles34 · 09/07/2020 16:08

Sorry I really haven't given enough info in my op - there are 4 of us. Me, DH, 9yr old DS and 4 yr old ds.

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thedaytodayyesterday · 09/07/2020 16:09

I absolutely love it, and it’s in my favourite part of the world. W have no parking either, and it doesn’t bother me. It depends how much you value where you shove your car I guess? Kitchen is tiny the rest is so lovely, maybe you could knock another room?

Fanthorpe · 09/07/2020 16:09

It looks like it’s been well taken care of. A lot of the furniture looks wrong for the rooms, those sofas are out of proportion for example.

BoxAndKnife · 09/07/2020 16:10

I think bedroom 3 would be the dealbreaker. It doesn't look like there's a window, just a door onto the garden room? Who would sleep there?

JacobReesMogadishu · 09/07/2020 16:10

Not with 2 kids. Only 2 bedrooms upstairs. To me it’s a 2bed house with an office downstairs. I couldn’t have either myself or a child long term on a different level. Bedrooms look small too.

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Pootles34 · 09/07/2020 16:11

The downstairs bedroom has a sky light. The chucking up issue had occurred to me - I'm not sure i like the thought of being on another floor to one of the boys.

What I'd really like to do is extend over the garage i think and have 3 bedrooms upstairs, but we couldn't afford that now.

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Aquamarine1029 · 09/07/2020 16:12

I think it would be a lovely home for a couple, but not with two young children.

JacobReesMogadishu · 09/07/2020 16:13

Potentially you could put both kids upstairs and you have the downstairs bedroom....but it’s tiny with no window. You could maybe convert the garage and knock through into the bedroom and have a big master bedroom downstairs. Or just convert the garage and have the small room as an office/playroom.

I think the living room is a weird shape as well and will be dark in the end away from the window.

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 09/07/2020 16:14

It's very nice for what it is - a small, traditional, cosy cottage. If that's what you are after this one is great.

The third bedroom concerns me. I'd only consider this if dh and I could use the 3rd room and put both dc upstairs.

The street parking doesn't bother me.

Disfordarkchocolate · 09/07/2020 16:15

I think it really depends on your nine year old. Would he be happy in a downstairs bedroom?

BringPizza · 09/07/2020 16:16

My first thought was the beams downstairs look quite low in some rooms- are you or your DH tall?

We have 2 bedrooms upstairs and one downstairs. When the DC were tiny they shared a room and we had the other upstairs room. Then they had the upstairs rooms and we were downstairs (so neither of them was alone downstairs), and now they're teenagers one is downstairs 'away' from the rest of us and loves it.

Fanthorpe · 09/07/2020 16:16

Does the downstairs bedroom have no window?

I’d take down the wall between the kitchen an dining room. Take all the wall mounted cupboards away and have floor to ceiling pantry storage in the utility.

That room where they’ve got the tv, that should be wall mounted and an l-shaped sofa. Make it into a tv nook.

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 09/07/2020 16:17

Just had a look on RM at other 3beds within a mile and wow - this one....

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-71502492.html

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