Is this house too small?

[hibernatingmama]

About to purchase a new house and I'm having slight reservations over the size. It's a new-ish build so rooms are small but the layout is good and when we viewed it felt like enough space.

It's 104sq/m (approx 1120sq/ft), and that'a with a kitchen/diner, living room, utility and toilet on the ground floor, and 3 doubles, small single, bathroom and an en suite upstairs. It also has a garage.

Does this sound too cramped for 2 adults, 1 toddler and a baby?

How big would you expect a 3/4 bed to be?

Ok I'm persuaded. Here you go.

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Thanks OP! That helps loads.

I would be tempted to knock the kitchen diner through into the loo and utility and cut a bit out of the garage to put them instead.

But otherwise i think it will be fine.

The sq m is sort of good for a 3 bed but small for 4 bed with ensuite. If you have a caravan-like efficiency of minimlism and neatly fitted storage you should be OK. Check the master bedroom is big enough for a king size bed. They have a way of drawing small furniture on these plans.

Yes to what @Fleurchamp said - shift the utility and loo into the garage and use that space for a wee sofa/play area for the kids. I think overall it's fine because there are a built-in wardrobes in bedrooms. After a 2-bed flat it will feel amazing, esp with a garage and a big garden! The only area that would annoy me is not having any storage inside the front door for the gazillion shoes, coats, boots etc.

Seems absolutely fine for a family of 4, surprised at posters saying it’s too small. Most people I know in RL have similar size homes, don’t know many with people with downstairs play rooms or all bedrooms enormous doubles etc

1100 Sq foot is small for a 4 bed. To me you’ve got bugger all down stairs space.

We had a 3 bed semi that as 1500sq ft and our current 3 bed is 2500sq ft.

It would worry me the space as your kids grow.

That has lots of potential.

1. You have the option of converting the garage in the future to gain more space (check with local planning though, some councils don't like garage conversions).

1. There is room for an 8 seater table. Unless you have a lot of huge dinner parties, that should be fine.

1. If you don't need a study/office in the future, you could move one of the DC into the smallest room and use the largest bedroom as a playroom with a sofa bed for occasional use as a guest room.

Hard to judge without a floorplan. What's the sqft per floor, & does the garage take away some of the house footprint or is it standalone?

Didn't see you had posted it. Looks pretty good actually; the space is used well.

I think it will be a pain trudging through the lounge to get to the kitchen. As pp's have said, some of the garage space could be converted to reconfigure the layout.

I like the layout. I’ve 4 kids and would be happy with that layout

If you ever wanted more internal space I’d move the utility and loo to the garage door area and have an L shaped kitchen diner.

Looks ok to me. It has three loos! And a utility room. And a garage. A room each for your DC. These are things I can only dream of.

@Lightsabre

I think it will be a pain trudging through the lounge to get to the kitchen. As pp's have said, some of the garage space could be converted to reconfigure the layout.

Surely most the times you go into the kitchen, you're already in the lounge? The food shop perhaps?

Op it's fine, it's very easy to say "we wouldn't accept anything less than 4 large doubles, a playroom and a sun room" if you can afford it. The rest of us ideally need enough bedrooms (check), space to all sit on the living room (check), somewhere to all sit for dinner (Check) and enough loo's that you're not queuing an hour to pee

Those room sizes look decent to me,,

Our 4 bed is 150sqm. The master bedroom is an OK size, but the other 3 bedrooms (all the same size) are small. We gave 10yo DS the study to use as a gaming room/ snug as his bedroom only has space for bed and wardrobe.

Are you planning on staying in this house? Bedrooms might be ok for tiny children, but it doesn't sound like they would be great once they are bigger and want their own space.

Looks fine. Not much room for toddler toys downstairs, but might help you not accumulate stuff. Garage loads of potential to convert.

The bedrooms must be tiny. We live in a very average 3 bed terrace. Same floor area, same lounge and kitchen size but no ensuites. I’d rather have 3 normal sized bedrooms than 4 tiny ones. It’s a money making scam by the developers to shoe horn as many bedrooms as possible onto a plot (I know I’ve worked for them). Personally I wouldn’t buy a new house like that. There’s never anywhere to put any furniture in the bedrooms.

If it’s a new build just be careful of furniture in the show home. We looked at one and the second bedroom had two singles beds in, closer inspection and the beds looked small; when pushed they admitted they weren’t standard singles but had been made up shorter to fit the room.

@DonnaDonna01
It’s not a show home or a new build.

Move the utility area to back of garage and incorporate the space into the dining area.

No but newish and they do tend to have small bedrooms. If it fits what the op needs it’s fine but it wouldn’t be for me.

@hibernatingmama is the location great - if so I think you can absolutely manage with that - given in the short term you have garage for storage. ) I have moved to house I thought was too small - but amazing what you can do by a bit of chucking stuff out you don't need & putting shelves up - cupboards etc

Wish you well

Thanks for all the feedback. Just to clarify as the floor plan is misleading - the dining area comfortably fits 4 chairs and a table but can be moved out to fit 6 for entertaining if I get an extending table, if that makes sense.

The size of the furniture in the floor plan is small but I have seen it in person with real life furniture as it's not brand new.