British Shoeboxes Aren't Big Enough for a Jolly Good Xmas

PasturesNew

When I grew up, in a council house, our rooms were quite large - and we had two with adjoining double doors. Which was great. Kitchen was large too. The living room was probably 14'x14', dining room was probably 12'x12', kitchen was probably 12'x10'. Guessing the sizes, but that feels about right.

Now, do you find that houses are too small for Xmas?

No room to spread out at all...

Peelerfart

When I grew up, in a council house, our rooms seemed quite large .

Until I went back to the same house,years later then it all seemes so much smaller.Now I'm the parent and my children think our house is plenty big enough

PasturesNew

Peelerfart wrote: »

When I grew up, in a council house, our rooms seemed quite large .

Until I went back to the same house,years later then it all seemes so much smaller.Now I'm the parent and my children think our house is plenty big enough

Maybe you're right. It's hard to gauge isn't it. I was trying to do it based on average sizes of furniture and what I remember we had in the rooms.

Also, maybe we had less stuff in those days, making rooms seem bigger.

the_ash_and_the_oak

the house i live in is same size as when it was built (1890s?) imo.

Thing is the rooms aren't really that big - can tell it was built before televisions dominated living spaces

Mr.Brown_4

Fortunately my six friends and I suffer from a growth disorder which means there is plenty of room around the table in our Barratt's 3 bed come Xmas day. Unless that porker Snow White comes to visit of course.

kabayiri

My place always seems bigger on the inside than the outside. All my friends make the same comment when they come to visit.


Which reminds me, Dr Who says my lease is up come Xmas (he's got some Xmas special planned, or something...). Probably a good thing, there's not much you can do to make a blue box look festive is there?

bo_drinker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdIsHig7Hcg

Really2

I would say living rooms are bigger in new builds compared to pre 1920's houses in general.

But the bedrooms are smaller in new builds.

I supose it depends on what you buy but I could not buy a bigger house than my new build for the money.

My brother has a 1800's double frontage cottage and the living room in that is fairly small.

the_ash_and_the_oak

agree w above - bedrooms in our house are pretty big, but most of the houses on our street had two downstairs rooms which have been knocked into one bigger one. they're cottages rather than houses really

the_ash_and_the_oak

tho tbf don't think i've ever actually been inside a new-build

PasturesNew

I think 14' as the shortest wall of a living room makes for a good size. When living rooms are 9-10' on the shortest wall then it all gets a bit dinky.