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Would children downstairs and parents upstairs put you off buying a property?

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RestingWanderer · 15/04/2026 13:30

Hello. We are in the process of buying a house and have found a beautiful chalet bungalow on a quiet road which ticks a lot of boxes for us. The main downside is that the master bedroom is upstairs, but the other smaller bedrooms are downstairs. We've discussed this as a family, and have got comfortable with the fact that we would be sleeping upstairs whilst our two children (8 and 10) sleep in the downstairs rooms. This will be fine for us, HOWEVER, we are now a bit concerned that this might cause problems for us when it comes time to sell - Even though we have made peace with this, i can imagine that this might put a lot of people off and they might not even want to view, if they know that the family couldn't all sleep on the same floor.

My question for the forum is whether this configuration is likely to put you off of purchasing (or even viewing) a forever house?

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Kornpaper · 16/04/2026 05:30

I'd quite like the idea of most bedrooms being downstairs tbh, as it would mean that when the dcs move out and we get too old to manage stairs, we could just live on the ground floor. DH is from a country where most suburban houses are single storey, so sleeping on the ground floor has always seemed normal and not anything to be anxious about.

We currently live in London in a Victorian house, all bedrooms are on separate floors although all above first floor level. Sleeping on a different floor has been fine for us. We don't get too worried about people breaking in or fires, because it hasn't happened in any of our homes or people we know.

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