Someone posted a link to this show home on Reddit

[StanfordPines]

They wanted to comment on how small it was, and I agree.
I thought I’d share.
I’d be interested to see measurements and know how much they are asking for it.

www.revolutionviewing.co.uk/persimmon-homes/generic/the-morden/1/360/v-2/index.html?fs=true

I suspect that’s why the laughable ‘dining room’ is this named - because it’s actually not legal to have a toilet opening directly off a kitchen...

I believe you can. It’s very common in this part of the world. I can think of 3 friends who have the main bathroom of the kitchen and I’ve lived in a house like that.

@GinaJaffacake

I’d take out the downstairs loo and use it as storage. Having a downstairs loo directly off your kitchen is grim. The storage would be more valuable both to live with and to sell on.

I agree but I believe that all houses now have to be built with a down stairs loo. And I believe, but I might be wrong, that you wouldn’t be allowed to take it out.

Building regs changed a few years ago - you don't need two doors between a toilet & a kitchen now as long as you have a hand washing sink in the toilet apparently still stinks though
There is still a bit of under stair storage, and I do rather like the gplan-esque sideboard.

Handy to be able to cook whilst sitting on the toilet though.

We looked at identically sized houses when we first started to search for our first house when we were expecting baby #1

We would have been happy with it but outgrown it fast

We still bought a 2 bed terrace but it was 120 years older and 50% bigger by square footage and we will be outgrowing that quite soon (unless we extend or go into loft)

Nowadays you can have a toilet off of a kitchen as long as there’s a sink in the ‘bathroom’.

It didn’t used to be allowed but it is now.

It’s definitely pokey isn’t it! But I’m sure will appeal to the people that want the new build life but can’t afford a bigger property and don’t want a flat. As someone else said it’s like a flat split into two levels.

My first 1970s starter home was very similar, even narrower but slightly longer. The kitchen was separate though. It was in South Wales and is worth around £100k. No one stayed in them for more than 3 years and therefore didn’t do any maintenance or bothered with the gardens. It looked really shabby.

It is what it is, a starter home, my first house was an old mid terraced cottage was about the same size and it was fine though I’m sure the new build is far cheaper to run than my little old cold money pit.

My first house bought in 1996 was about that size. It was a new house by Redrow, I paid £46k for it and I loved it.

I sold it for £132k in 2003, nice profit made!

The bedrooms look tiny. Are those really proper double beds? Even so they are struggling to squeeze in bedside tables and you would need to crab walk between the bed and wall

some of the 2 up & down are bigger because the downstairs bathroom is an extension

That's why our housing market is fucked up. How your house tripled in value in 7 years is immoral bonkers.
Even these little boxes are out of reach of most young people nowadays.

It’s a very small house, I live in a Victorian terrace on the south coast and my kitchen is the size of the entire ground floor of this house. My house cost £220k just over two years ago.

It works as a starter home for a couple, at the right price.

I think I've stayed in bigger caravans

I don't think I'm being snobby but I've genuinely lived in a 1-bed flat that was probably about the same size (floor space at least) as that 2 bed house. If you or your partner is tall it would feel really cramped. I've also looked around delightful Victorian terraces in lovely bits of towns that my DH was hunching over to stand on the landing or parts of bedroom etc!

For new builds like this, where do people store clothes etc (as I couldn't see space for wardrobes)?

Also, is there pre-boarded out / usable loft space?

I lived in a place like that with 3 under 4.

They are not family homes.

But grand for a single or couple starting out

We’ve moved around a lot and every country we’ve lived in, other than the U.K., has given the size in m2 (or square footage) of the total property in adverts.
I also don’t believe people would choose to live like that it many other countries. They’d just live in an apartment. These houses specifically cater to that British desire to own a “house with garden” no matter how small.

I've lived in worse pre-kids, but it really is very small. I wouldn't have mined it in my 20s (apart from the loo off the kitchen, which is minging), but I'm glad I don't have to live like that now.

I think it's fine. I live in a two up, two down Victorian back to back terrace. You can only fit one person in our kitchen at a time or you get trapped! We can't all live in mansions.

I think it's fine, it's designed to be a nice little starter home isn't it.

@Ihaventgottimeforthis

Downstairs loo opening straight into kitchen/diner/lounge. Grimbo.

I thought building regs said at least two doors between a toilet and kitchen ? Also, is it one of the ones they have to build for social housing ?

You no longer need two doors if there is a hand basin (and presumably ventilation too).

The bedrooms are very narrow though - at 7’10” wide you’d struggle to get around with a 4’6” double bed in there.

My db and sil bought a house like this. It is so tiny and of course they weren't on to have twins. Utter nightmare. I know people say they were raised in flats etc perhaps I'm old but when I was growing up despite being from a poverty town and none of our families having much money we all grew up in houses. Posh they weren't but space made all the difference, reduced arguments, allowed area just to 'get away' when you need 5 mins of room.
I feel so sorry now as it appears to be a lot more normal or have no space.
I think I could have lived in that alone or with dh but I don't think many people can easily move once their in their first home and then have dc so you get trapped and i can say from my brothers experience it really is not nice.