10M by 10.5M Garden for a 5Bed NewBuild

[MyAmara]

We are have reserved a 5bed property in Oxfordshire and the Garden size is 10.5M by 10M.

We are buying off plan and think the garden will be too small.

We have 3 kids (9, 7,4) and will need to get a trampoline in the Garden, We would also like to install a hot tub.

Is the Garden size too small for the house (2000sq feet) of £760k?
Will you buy a 5bed house with this Garden size outside of London.

It is also one of the smallest Gardens for that house type on the development.

We have been looking for ages so getting tired.

Thanks

You really would still want a safety net around a sunken trampoline.

I have a similar sized garden. It's been fine for a shed, patio furniture, trampoline, lawn and border. Wouldn't have managed to fit in a hot tub as well. I'd reconsider that with energy prices OP!

A sunken trampoline sounds like a good idea as it would be less obtrusive. And once the kids have outgrown that, maybe you could add the hot tub if you still wanted one.

For a kick about, a park is better anyway. You may still be able to fit a goal or basketball hoop for some shooting practice in for the kids.

Once the kids are older, you can do lots with planting in a small space if you're willing to abandon the lawn.

Big gardens can mean a lot of gardening to do - there are advantages to smaller gardens OP!

Winters we bought a safety net but have never used it, it just isn't needed. My two are 4 and 8 now, we installed it when the younger one was a newborn. They simply boing as much as they like then bounce or step off.

It was also great for winding the baby!

I think it is fine. It is the same size as our garden (not a new build) and we have a bigger garden than nearly all of our friends here in SW London. We dont have a hot tub but we do have a trampoline, a patio with a table and chairs, some grass and a football goal.

FFS trampolines without nets are dangerous whether set in to the ground or not. If the kid bounces off they will still hit the ground at pace and from height. It's less height but still and impact. How stupid are some people?

My garden is 30m x10m so I’m picturing a third of my garden and I think it would be small. Yes you could have a trampoline and a hot tub but there wouldn’t be much space for kicking a football about. As for parties, depends how many people you’re thinking of.

I agree with the idea of going to a corner of a playing field and measure it out so you can visualise it. Put something down to mark the corners and then measure a hot tub in one corner and a trampoline in another and see how much space is left.

I do think kids don’t play footie in their gardens for long, they’re soon older and off to the nearest sports field.

Well you can call me stupid as much as you like northern, I've had a sunken trampoline for over 4 years and never had anything resembling an accident due to someone boinging off too quickly. It just doesn't happen. I've been on it lots myself, my partner and kids have, and numerous other kids. The only injuries have been due to heads bumping. I don't see the difference between boinging off and eg bumping into another child running at pace in eg a football match.

Maybe my kids and all the ones who have played on it are gentle and not too mad, that's not inconceivable tbh. But I'm just telling you the truth. And it gets used very regularly for over half the year

And from height they're only coming from the height they jumped to?! They don't do mad high bounces right by the edge - doesn't happen in my garden

I am just so glad you aren’t my neighbour Bad enough to live in a house with a tiny garden wthout a neighbour who ‘has’ to have a trampoline and hot tub and plans parties

my only query would be whether your children actually want to kick a ball around?

My garden is 18m x 3m and feels luxuriously big in London, so all the “that’s not a garden!” comments are cracking me up – where ours narrows to 2m wide at the end you can practically touch both sides!

We can neatly fit a shed, raised bed area, patio, lawn and borders in ours. But I wouldn’t want a trampoline and hot tub even at 18m long if our garden was wider.

I think putting those things in would make 10x10 feel small, but leaving them out and being clever with planting would make it feel spacious. I’m on the fence (the one around my apparently tiny garden)

I'm in a 4 bed semi (was a 3 bed but loft is converted), with a 9m x 15m garden. We have a sunken trampoline (mine doesn't creak like neighbours above ground one - don't know if thats typical of below ground installation), large climbing frame, rotary washing line, lots of beds for flowers/veg, and a small patio. I do feel like it's not really big enough for ball games - but dc play them anyway. 10m x 10m will be big enough to fit what you want, but I would say it's on the small size for a 5 bed house and at re-sale it may put some buyers off.

@Namechange466

Am really confused by these comments - 10 METRES x 10m isn’t massive but is certainly not tiny by any stretch of the imagination

so for the people asking if it can really be called a garden at that size - really?!

now 10 feet x 10 feet is tiny but i assume that’s not the size here

10ft x 10ft 1½ people long by 1½ people wide - that's a yard not a garden.

10m x 10m is a tiny garden for a 5-bed house. Sadly becoming more common on new estates as really not enough room for families with young children unless there's a park nearby.

Hot tubs are medieval filth cauldrons 🤢

I guess if you can afford a 5 bed house in Oxfordshire the heating bill for it won't be an issue though?*

Re: the trampoline: up to you but it will cause noise for your new neighbours and t will sit unused for half the year usually going slowly rusty.

Perhaps you could think of toys/items that can be used all year round, aren't noisy and don't promote nasty skin infections or need powerful chemicals to use?

*every single person I know who bought a hot tub during the first lockdown has sold it/got rid of it due to lack of use/cost to heat. I think they are one of those things that's a niceties have for a change on a holiday. Much like a sauna.

Surely you would put a hot tub in a secluded area of a larger garden, not bang outside the window or doors which it would be on a small square of garden this house has.

Sounds small to me but all new build gardens are small, and if you don't like gardening a big garden is often a liability.
I'd be more concerned with how overlooked it is and whether it's possible to do anything about it as that's what can really spoil a house.

We had a garden almost exactly the same size in our old house. I think you might struggle a bit with the trampoline. My initial reaction was there would be plenty of space, but it would be tight if you wanted to have a patio/flower beds/a washing etc as well as I wouldn't have thought you would want to put a trampoline right next to a boundary or a patio. Definitely going to struggle with a trampoline and a hot tub unless you don't really want much garden left. We moved for a bigger garden to be honest, especially as the smaller garden meant we were also shaded a lot.

It's not tiny but it's disproportionately small compared to the rest of the house.

It's the same size as my garden (1970s end terrace, v different house!). You'll be able to have a patio, trampoline and hot tub, but not also have space for a run around/kick about. It will be a choice between the two. My children and younger than yours and I feel it's already too small (even just as patio & lawn!). However, plenty of people don't have any gardens at all and they are of course absolutely fine.

Ours is about 10 x 10. It's small as gardens go but neither of us are gardeners & it suits us.

We have a 6 x 4 shed, a 10ft trampoline (with netting), a patio, a smaller storage box, a flowerbed & a small lawn. Nowhere for a hot tub.

I don't understand how a 5 bed house would have a 10 x 10 garden? How wide is the house?

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Put the dimensions into 3D house planning software (home.by.me is very easy) and then you can do a 3D walk around and see how the space feels. Try it with different garden furniture etc. you can even do it in VR if you have a headset!

@NarcissistsEyebrows

Mine is 14m2 for a detached 4/5 bed in a fairly urban area. I wouldn't want it any smaller but it's OK.

Yours is approx half this size...IMO that's too small.

Also I'm 5 mins away from a very big park. Without that nearby I wouldn't have accepted such a small garden myself

10 m x 10m is 100 Square metres ? 14m2 would be 7m x 2 m ? Maybe my maths is incorrect