Opinions on this house please - heart vs head!

[Pootles34]

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!

It is lovely but it is very bottom heavy and only really 2 bedrooms. Can you classify the downstairs bedroom a bedroom if it doesn’t have a window.

No parking and 2 very small bedrooms especially with children I would think it would be a non starter.

I think it's cute and the garden is lovely but I honestly think you would regret getting something to pokey with such a horrible layout. Your 9 year old might think he will be OK sleeping on a different floor and a long way away from you but I'm not convinced he will be. I'd get the 4 bedroom one and work on adding as much character as you can to that. This really is for a couple only I think. And needs a lot spending to sort out the layout.

I'm afraid it's a big fat no from me. The beams are awful! and it looks so cramped. And it's not really a 3 bedroom house at all.

The idea of changing an upstairs bedroom to a bathroom is a good one, but I've just noticed that you can only get into bedroom 2 through the bathroom. If you change that into a small room, you would have to pass through a sleeping child's small room to go to bed. If you changed the other bathroom into a bedroom, you would be stuck in bed 2 while someone uses the bathroom.

Odd.

It's the shower room that would be changed (at least that's what I thought)

If you change the shower room, then all 3 rooms would be using the bathroom which has the only door into bedroom 2.

It's not a house I would consider buying for a family of 4, and I think it will always be really difficult to sell on because of it's layout.

Not if you change the doors so they're like the shower room was.

It's just a case of people offering options anyway.

The garden is lovely but as for the house, no. I am not anti-beam but those ones are really dark and oppressive. The kitchen is very small for a family (think how much storage you need). A lot of the rooms have the lights turned on because they are so dark/lack natural daylight. Imagine what I would be like in the winter. I have lived in a house that needed the kitchen light on all year round because of the way it had been extended. Never to see a certain room in your house lit up by sunlight is rather depressing, especially at the height of summer. Finally the third bedroom is an afterthought. I wouldn't want to sleep in it, and how would you get out in the event of a fire?

Take down the wall between the kitchen and dining room.

Convert the garage into a bedroom and store room into an en-suite

Deck out bed 3 as an office/guest bedroom

I would leave the layout upstairs or use it as 2 bedrooms with their own bathrooms

Problem is by the time you have sorted out the layout it wouldn’t be worth the money

I can see the appeal but these are the reasons I wouldn't buy it:

Third bedroom - access off the garden room and no window
All bedrooms relatively small
Kitchen far too small
Living room dark at main end
No hallway at all - this is oddly enough the biggest issue, would hate to have to walk into the kitchen and jiggle round that narrow space with a wet dirty child post footy, for example.

My initial thoughts were no becuase of the amount of work required, kitchen and bathrooms, downstairs bedroom and low ceilings.

However having had a quick look at what else is on the market in the local area it does not look too bad for the money. There seems to be very few older properties for sale. The best I could come up with is the one, £50k more but already renovated and example of what the one you found could look like. It also has a smaller garden so I would say yours has more potential if you have the money to spend on it.
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