Would you buy a bungalow with young children?

[hummingbird12]

Just that really!
We're going to look at a bungalow this evening. It's in the area we're desperate to live in. 2 minute walk to our DC's current primary school.

The location is lovely. Great primary and secondary school options. Houses in the area don't come up often and usually out of budget. The bungalow has a great garden and is down a quiet little lane which we love.

We are currently in a 3 bed semi, small garden (although a good size house) with on street parking 10 minute drive from school.

The bungalow is only a two bed but the plan would be to get rid of of the conservatory and do a brick built extension for an open plan kitchen/living/dining area and then turn the current kitchen into a 3rd bedroom.
Will include a floor plan.

Just wanted to further opinions before we go to the viewing ☺️

My son was in a two bed bungalow 1 child arrival of twins means he's making his kitchen and ensuite the current lounge a kitchen and has just finished the lounge dinner extension so kitchen and lounge open on to garden kids bedrooms are one side off hall and theirs at front of house. They find less toys in living room and kids play more in their rooms than if the bedrooms were upstairs ...3 and 6 year old.

If you can't move plumbing you could do something like this

The lounge looks big, you could
split that in half to make a third bedroom and use the current dining room as a living room. As a quick fix. Then the smaller living room and conservatory as dining and
play areas.

I am keeping my fingers crossed for you too ! @hummingbird12

location location location is the mantra :) and you have schools thrown in too - what more could you want.

I think once you move in and actually start using rooms it will all fall into place how and where you want future rooms.

please will you keep us updated ?

@hummingbird12

Any update ?

Did you sell in time / did you manage to buy the bungalow ?

Hey @OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon 🙂

Thanks for asking. The vendors of the bungalow have been so lovely. They really wanted to sell to a family so they gave us 6 weeks to sell ours and have been great since.

We sold in 5 days after going to market but unfortunately our buyers, buyer pulled out so the chain fell through in November. We gave him a bit of time to sell but he had not interest unfortunately so we had to go back to market. We sold again within a week to first time buyers and hoping to complete jan/feb time 🤞🏻

We've been for a 2nd viewing since and it just feels perfect for us. A lot of work to do but nothing too scary thankfully (hopefully). It's in great condition other than being a little dated so we will live in it for a few weeks while we work out how we want it.

Hope you have a wonderful Christmas

The vendors sound lovely !

Will you update ' us ' in the future please ?