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Poor layout of houses....

tomstickland
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I do sometimes wonder how much effort developers put into adapting their standard templates to fit a development.
For example, today I went to look at a coach house on a development from the early 1990s. Standard 3 garage design, 1 garage for the coach house and the accomodation is essentially a 2 bed flat over the garages.
The coach house garage was on the left. Living room was on the left hand side. It had a garden on the right side. There are no windows overlooking the garden. To get to the garden requires walking along besides the left hand side of the building and then along a corridor round the back.
A few seconds thought and it's clear that it would have been far better to build the mirror image. Garage on the right, stairs on the right, entrance to garden on the right. Living room on the right, view over garden.
For example, today I went to look at a coach house on a development from the early 1990s. Standard 3 garage design, 1 garage for the coach house and the accomodation is essentially a 2 bed flat over the garages.
The coach house garage was on the left. Living room was on the left hand side. It had a garden on the right side. There are no windows overlooking the garden. To get to the garden requires walking along besides the left hand side of the building and then along a corridor round the back.
A few seconds thought and it's clear that it would have been far better to build the mirror image. Garage on the right, stairs on the right, entrance to garden on the right. Living room on the right, view over garden.
Happy chappy
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There are many examples of bad design out there, its a reason I mainly looked at houses with floorplans on rightmove after viewing a few bad ones! So many times I just thought "But why not have the door here?" or "Well thats ruined an otherwise useable space". My favourites are the 3 bed houses where you need to go through one bedroom to reach the bathroom - thats not a bedroom its a fat corridor!
Still, what I think is good is not necessarily what someone else does.0
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