Bungalow for young family

[dragonmummy17]

Does anyone live in a bungalow with a young family?
We need to relocate (yet to sell our house but we have a few viewings booked in)
Seen a bungalow with a large garden and an attic room within our budget in a village we like. We don't want to move again in a hurry.
I have two DS aged 6 and 3. Always think of bungalows for older people and my boys are loud and active in the garden... do families buy bungalows?

Thank you everyone. We're going to book a viewing once we're under offer so now I'm just hoping it hangs around until we've seen it

Good luck!
I can't imagine living in a house now I've lived in a bungalow. And it's great for the robot vacuum!

I live in my second bungalow now. Our first was when my children were young, we hadn’t ever considered one until we went to Orlando and stayed in a single storey villa and thought it was great. In my cul de sac there are mainly younger childfree people!

We are a family with a 2 year old and 6 year old living in a 1930s bungalow. We converted the loft and that's where the dc's bedrooms and bathroom are. We have our large master bedroom and ensuite downstairs. This set up suits us. A lot of the bungalows on our road have converted lofts and they do make very big family homes.

We bought a bungalow with a huge garden a couple of years ago. We've just finished renovating it and looking to TTC our first child soon. We think it's perfect for family living, all the space. We have a door closing off the hallway to the bedrooms, so we still think of that as the private "upstairs" rooms. I think I grew up in closer proximity to my parents in a semi-detached house, anyway.

Millions of Australians live in them. They're called houses here and are lovely.

I live in a three and a half storey townhouse, and when you accidentally leave something "up-upstairs" as we call it, it's such a painful trek to retrieve it! Whenever we go on holiday to centerparcs etc, I love the apartment/bungalow style living, and insist we're moving to a stair-less house when we get home! I do love my house, but these stairs will be the death of me... I envy you bungalow owners!

Millions of Australians live in them. They're called houses here and are lovely

I’m Aussie as well, and from memory the difference is Bungalow in UK refers to freestanding single story house, whereas we used to refer to these as Californian Bungalows here but now call both ‘single story cal bungalow style’ dwellings and 2-story dwellings ‘houses’. Basically if something is freestanding, we call it a house, although now there are a lot of joined houses (2) with full yards on 3 sides we also call house as they are completely different to townhouses all joined in a row with only the narrow yard.

But yes, millions of us live in single story bungalows from the start of having families. Some people choose to stay in old age and others move on to over 50’s villages (generally small footprint single level villas with no yard, private small paved courtyard, and just common gardens/grounds that the village maintains with your levy fees, not you as an individual) or apartments/flats.

My friend had a bungalow when her kids were that age and I thought it was brilliant. All their toys were in their nearby bedrooms and when they wanted a toy they would just nip nearby to bedroom and get them. They were also very good at putting toys back in bedroom at end of the day. Didn’t need a playroom as kids often played in their nearby bedrooms too. So yes I think based on that they can really work for a young family,

Well, here in WA, it’s just a house.