We are moving into rental having sold our flat - we tried to link up the chain and had house after house fall through so to keep our buyers we've gone ahead and sold. We're still looking to buy but in the meantime we need to rent.
Various factors - commute, school, childcare - limit us to looking in a relatively small expensive area. There also aren't too many places coming up so we've sort of just swapped one property search problem for another!
Anyway, today I saw a really lovely one bedroom flat that I think we could make work for all of us but maybe I'm underestimating the challenges. Thoughts welcome! We are a family of four, two adults and kids aged 2 and 4.
The flat is literally across the road from a lovely park, there's a private garden and a big communal garden too. We would have direct access to both gardens. So what it lacks in indoor space it really does make up for in outdoor space.
We would give the one bedroom to the kids, bunk beds for them and we could have some of their toys and all of their clothes stored in the bedroom too.
Then there's a big open plan kitchen / living room. We would sleep there on a sofa bed and would need some storage there for our clothes too.
We would need to be ruthless with toys / clothes / books and keep some items in storage - capsule wardrobes for all and in reality our kids wear the same three outfits in rotation anyway!
It is also well within our budget and means we are not eating into our savings which feels essential as we still try to buy.
Downsides - obviously another bedroom or indeed another living space would be nice and we won't have space for guests or do to much hosting but I suppose that hasn't really been a feature of our lives for the past year and a half so maybe we can live without that for longer. Storage is also really lacking and we'll be relying on ikea shelves really plus leaving out of season clothes in our in laws house.
Any thoughts or experiences would be welcome please and thanks.