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

StCharlotte

It would definitely be £400 000+ plus here. It's an expensive area.

My friend bought a new build just like that in the mid 90's. Same proportions and as she was single, it suited her just fine.

The difference was she only paid £30,000 for it back then.

In addition to lack of storage, where does the car go?

It's the lack of storage that blows my mind as much as anything.

I know someone who lives in a 2-bed flat, which has an airing cupboard and two huge built in cupboards. I'd rather that any day.

I've lived in a tiny house with DC and it makes everything so much harder. For a couple with a friend coming to stay now and again, that house would work, provided they didn't have any hobbies that involved any kit like climbing equipment, or motorbike leathers.

Also, I don't get the obsession with en suites. In a three-bed house with a downstairs loo, I'd much rather that bedrooms 2 and 3 were similar in size, than to take a massive chunk from one bedroom to squeeze in an en suite.

It seems fine as a starter house for up to a couple and maybe a baby. Obviously it would be an issue with an older child or multiple children, but if the average age of first baby in the UK is now 30, all the 20-somethings need somewhere to live. For the storage, that's the train-off between garden+stairs or storage. The same size flat would have much more usable space because it wouldn't have stairs or need the second toilet, but it wouldn't have a garden.

It's built by Persimmon, it'll probably start falling apart soon regardless.

It's not huge but like others said its not really worth commenting on. My house is probably smaller than this without the garden and cost just over £180,000

@irisetta

It's built by Persimmon, it'll probably start falling apart soon regardless.

Are Persimmon bad these days? We lived in a flat that was built by Persimmon probably around 1999/2000 and it was solid, we hardly had anything go wrong. It was even pretty sound-proof because there was a gap between our ceiling and the floor of the flat above and the floors were thick concrete.

Argh. I hate it when I spot a typo *whose children have left the nest

Also another benefit of this tiny house? You could get all the housework done in a hour!

I've spotted where I'd hang my laundry (above the stairs) I wonder if I could re-jig the downstairs loo to squeeze in a washing machine? Mainly so I can close the door on it.

Then it would be IKEA and tiny living ideas. Use the walls and ceilings for storage.

@FellowFlipFlop

I've got a 2 bed new build that I thought was small but we at least have a separate kitchen, an understair storage cupboard and a small en suite and I thought we were cramped. There's no way I would buy a house that tiny - bearing in mind you're not supposed to use the loft in the new builds where on earth would you even put stuff like your Christmas tree?

Your not allowed to put stuff in your loft? Why?

@ShesMadeATwatOfMePam

To normal people like me, that's a perfectly nice 2 bed starter home - and i suspect to all the people who aren't middle class mumsnetters who live in a 5 bed pile in the country.

You don't have to settle for that, though. When DH and I first got together we lived in his flat which was one bedroom and one open plan kitchen/reception room plus tiny bathroom. I remember looking at a house very like this one and coming to the depressing realisation that we wouldn't actually fit our stuff from the flat into it. We ended up with a 1930s semi that was actually £40K cheaper because it needed a lot of work, but gives us SO much more space.

@BlackAmericanoNoSugar

"Are Persimmon bad these days? We lived in a flat that was built by Persimmon probably around 1999/2000 and it was solid, we hardly had anything go wrong. It was even pretty sound-proof because there was a gap between our ceiling and the floor of the flat above and the floors were thick concrete."

Yes, terrible. There was a Dispatches programme about them. www.channel4.com/press/news/britains-new-build-scandal-channel-4-dispatches

Same here. Until a year ago I lived in a Persimmon house for 18 years and it was built to a very high standard.

@Abitodd - building regulations are not retrospective otherwise every year we’d all have to be doing major work to our house. Lots of Victorian houses have bathroom off the kitchen but you couldn’t build a house like that now.

Would be ok for a full time working couple with no kids and who go out several evenings, to anyone else it would be cramped.

@TitusPullo I think they changed the rules again, for a while you had to have 2 doors between kitchen and toilet, but in very recent years (as in the last couple/few) it's actually changed again so you can have a toilet coming off the kitchen.

I live in a very small space with my 8 year old and actually find it quite freeing - can clean the whole flat in no time at all and it just forces you to become more minimalist and not have excess stuff. There are downsides, but bigger doesn't always mean better when it comes to homes imo.

Looks like an OK starter home to me. Would be fine for a couple working outside of the home. Would be a nightmare with kids though - there doesn't look like there's a lot of storage for kid 'stuff'!

@user85963842 - very possibly, not sure the bathroom off the kitchen will make a comeback though

@TitusPullo let's hope not

We lived in a one bed flat much smaller than that in our 20s. Before that we'd lived in one room in a flat share so a whole flat to ourselves felt pretty amazing. A house like this would have been beyond us. It is really too small for a family with kids though.

@XPuppetry

Its around 230k near me

I live in a similar house (much worse garden though) and its the lack of storage which is the worst. There is no where to put a hoover, ironing board or anything you might normally stash away. Ours also doesn't have a loft space so things like Christmas decs have to be kept in bedrooms

£240k? That’s madness. All the people saying it’s fine as a starter home, so it is, but who could afford that as a starter home?

@StanfordPines £230k is certainly "starter home" money in some parts of the country (sadly).