Gorgeous character house but will it work?? FLOORPLAN

[chummymummy7]

Right price, right area.

But with no garage or loft (it's converted into a master bedroom) do you think this layout could work in terms of storage and bathroom activity with 2 teen soon to be teens?

There's been a family of 4 living here for 10+ years, so it's worked for them.

my hubby has quite a lot of work equipment and we need a WFH space. There's space for a garden office to be built, the garden is very pretty but isn't that big tbh

Nb: I really love character features, and "feel" and location are important to me - but we do also need practicality - and lack the budget needed to have both

Could he use the sitting room as his office space?

You then have the room next to the kitchen as your living room?

I’d find the fact you had to walk through every room to move around quite annoying - there’s no hallway, but otherwise there are two bath-shower rooms and it looks fairly spacious. Could the conservatory be used as an office maybe? Depends whether it has a tiled roof/heating etc.

Sorry but i think the layout is bad and the rooms are tiny

Go for an uglier building with more space

watch me do a 180 when you link to the property and its STUNNING

I don't like houses where you have to walk through downstairs rooms to get to other rooms. Furnishing the rooms is a compromise and the floor gets grubby. Also the two bedrooms are pretty small - would they have room for a desk?

How much would you use the room at the front? would it work as a hone office?

@Totalwasteofpaper

The kitchen has probably swung it for me

I'd use the first room as entrance/storage etc and make a corridor rather than have to walk through every room.

All the rooms in a row would drive me bonkers and I’d want more than one bathroom with 2 teenagers - I’d keep looking .

yes you have loft room, 2 children have the rooms on first floor they are roughly equal in size, there appears to be a downstairs shower room so that is 2 bathrooms, there is room for big table in kitchen so don't need separate dining room so would make room with stairs a home office,snug, library, storage, homework space, next room main living room off the kitchen and conservatory as alternative living space for when you and kids want to be in different spaces,
so yes it is definitely workable

Gosh, that layout is awful. And to get to the garden from the kitchen you have to go through that weird mishmash at the back of utility, loo, conservatory – so you spot it rains and you can’t quickly pop out to the line, or you’re in the home office and you fancy a cup of tea but have to play Crystal Maze to get to it. Together with the lack of hallway it would drive me bats; but add the tiny upstairs spaces on top and it’s a no from me – it just all feels so cramped.

The kitchen looks nice but you could do something identical in a bigger, non-character house with a much better layout. And add direct access to outside!

Sorry I didn’t notice the downstairs shower - that would make the bathroom situation doable but doesn’t help the layout .

Can you link to the house?

Is it really a two bedroomed house with back extension and loft conversion. No garage would be a pain if only for storage since there is no loft.

[quote chummymummy7]@Totalwasteofpaper

The kitchen has probably swung it for me[/quote]
The floor plan wasn't selling it to me, but looking at the photos on the estate agents site, it looks to me like there's quite a lot of clever storage already in place or clever furniture that has ensured this.

I don't often say this, but it's a lovely house.

We live in an old thatched house with the bedrooms in the eves, we’re on 3 floors two and we have a quirky layout. You get used to it very quickly and I think it’s easier when the Dc are teenagers to live like this than if they were tiny.

You sound like you love it- go for it!

Should add, you’ll find ingenious ways to put storage in every nook and cranny so don’t worry about that. Also if you’re building a garden office you could make it large enough to keep all dh’s work stuff in there.

It's tiny for 4 people. But if you can cope with that, a decent size garden office and a bathroom on the second floor, it should be ok.

If it were me I would knock down the back of the ground floor and build an extension out to the limit of the conservatory, creating a big kitchen/dining/family room with French windows to the garden.

Hmm I see that it looks cute but you have to agree OP that the sitting room (not the one at the front which is basically a hallway) is furnished as a corridor. This would annoy me tbh. Also yy no quick access from kitchen to outdoors. I guess it depends on how much you need that. We have french doors to the garden from the kitchen and I love it, but if you don't have it then it's not a deal breaker.

Bedrooms look really small in the pictures - thinking about teenagers needing space to study and retreat to. OTOH these may be compromises you are prepared to go with. Agree that house is very cute.

All those room through rooms would annoy me. If there was any way to create a hallway, I'd do that, so the rooms could enjoy uninterrupted use, however the house looks too small and of an awkward layout to do that. I'd also add an en-suite bathroom on the top floor.

Very good points about the children needing privacy/desk space - only one of the bedrooms has space for a desk and that's a big consideration unless the front drawing room area becomes a homework area.

@clary I honestly didn't think about the living room being furnished like a corridor! It didn't feel like that when I was viewing. Now I think about it, I suppose it does have a walkway - but aren't most rooms furnished to allow people to walk through them?

This is the link for those who want to see interior pics:

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/121346144#/?channel=RES_BUY

We'll need to decide tomorrow either way, thanks for all your input and ideas. There is side access down the right so building a corridor could be a go-er.

I wouldn’t want to live on a railway line and it really is tiny.

this would be much easier to live in.

aren't most rooms furnished to allow people to walk through them?

No surely not. Our living room just has a door into it from the hall and leads nowhere else so there is no need to walk through it. In fact you can't. I used to live in a house where you had to walk through living room and dining room to get to the kitchen and it was annoying; I would never buy without a hallway now.

It’s much prettier than the house the other poster linked to, and I can see why you like it, it has got very small bedrooms though and I suspect parking could be a bit of a nightmare if you’ve more than one car, but the kitchen and garden are nice.

It's really nice
Would you be able to put in a downstairs loo?

I think it’s a beautiful house, the snug could be used for desk space for one of the Dc.

@Robin233 there's a downstairs cloakroom/shower at the back. It's just a bit fiddly behind the kitchen!