We brought a 4 bed semi detached in December, the layout is living room/ kitchen GF, 3 beds/ bath 1st floor and master/ en-suite on top floor. Garage set back from the house . The house is lovely, it’s about 5 years old, great neighbourhood etc the problem I’ve got is the downstairs space just doesn’t match the upstairs, it doesnt have a hallway so everyone has to walk through the living room to get to the kitchen and garden and there is no utility which we had in our old house and I massively miss. On top of this our neighbours can be quite noisy, not all the time but they have their children every other weekend and you can tell when they are there as the noise increases, mainly just the front door slamming but they are in and out a lot.
We have a garage which we have considered converting into a garden room to give us a bit more space, our eldest is about to go to high school so we thought it would be a good space to keep them out the house and hopefully cut down on the foot fall through the house, the garden would also need some work to do this so we’d be looking at about £10k but I’m hesitant as I still don’t know if it’s going to solve the problem.
Ive looked at part exchanging and I found a house that was close to where we live now, the layout was better, had the utility I was missing and the rooms were all separated by the entrance hall. The only problem it was only a 3 bed and it also didn’t have a garage. The development was also quite new so it’s likely to be a building site for probably the next 2 years. They did offer us a really good part exchange offer which was about £20k over what we brought for in December but even with this it was still £40k extra on the mortgage.
Am I mad for considering spending more to get less or would you sacrifice the space for being detached?
My ideal would just be to spend a bit more and get the 4 bed detached but as that’s more toward £70k more my OH is just not on board.