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

PasturesNew

NEH wrote: »

Studio flats nr where we used to live in Aberdeen go for 91K when they've been renovated.

£91k for a studio isn't unusual in a lot of places, but how big were they?

NEH

PasturesNew wrote: »

£91k for a studio isn't unusual in a lot of places, but how big were they?

Aberdeen is a very expensive place to live because of the oil industry hence the reason we've left....

Well the one that has just sold for the 91Kthey turned it into a 1 bed. The bedroom could fit a small double in but nothing else and by getting rid of the cupboards they managed to make a small lounge/kitchen with a shower room....I've no idea where they would have put their clothes or anything else as there was only room for a bed, small corner sofa and that's about it....

The original studio flats sell for about 79K, room for one very small sofa and a small chair as you need the rest of the room to be able to pull the bed down....

kabayiri

A couple of years back not far from me there was a 2 bedroomed small bungalow up for auction. The garden was quite small too.

The developer living across the road from it bought it; demolished it; and in it's place built a 5 bedroom, double garaged property, selling it for just under 500K. A renovated bungalow would have fetched perhaps 250-300K.

I think this illustrates our changing use of land well.

Really2

kabayiri wrote: »

A couple of years back not far from me there was a 2 bedroomed small bungalow up for auction. The garden was quite small too.

The developer living across the road from it bought it; demolished it; and in it's place built a 5 bedroom, double garaged property, selling it for just under 500K. A renovated bungalow would have fetched perhaps 250-300K.

I think this illustrates our changing use of land well.

Exactly my point sort of.
Buy old you get more land and a smaller house for the same money.

So yes the 5 bed is now on the same plot as the old house, but I dare say it is a lot cheaper than a 100 year old+ 5 bed detached.

So yes new builds are smaller but thy are not really comparable to houses when land was so cheap.

I bet more detached houses have been built in the UK in the last 40-50 years than were ever built in the last 500 years.

kabayiri

Really2 wrote: »

So yes the 5 bed is now on the same plot as the old house, but I dare say it is a lot cheaper than a 100 year old+ 5 bed detached.

But then, to shoot myself in the foot (metaphorically speaking!), only 2 doors up from the new 5 bed is a row of small cottages dating back to the late 18th century.

They are tiny really, all oak beams and woodworm, if you ask me. Yet they fetch 80% of what the 5 bed would.

Err, I really don't know what point I'm making now........Ops, can someone take my 'Submit Reply' button away please? :rolleyes:

Really2

kabayiri wrote: »

Err, I really don't know what point I'm making now........Ops, can someone take my 'Submit Reply' button away please? :rolleyes:

People buy what they want and people pay a hell of an excess for "Character".

I must admit i am not a person who falls in love with houses, I am a big and practical man (oh err.)

kabayiri

Really2 wrote: »

I must admit i am not a person who falls in love with houses, I am a big and practical man (oh err.)

I'm not sure what to make of this thread now.

First, we get PN confessing to 'cupboard love'.

Now, your admission of 'big and practical'.

I think I'll stick to the diy board (ooeerrr missus).

BitterAndTwisted

jenner wrote: »

im confused as to why all the 'newly converted or refurbished' flats and houses have en-suites in nearly every bedroom. i saw once a flat, not new built but i think newly converted and it was 3 beds and had 3 en suites but no general bathroom, which means that when you have guests visiting (not staying) they have to go into your bedroom to use the loo. i cant understand this

I can't understand it either: this whole en-suite bathroom fetish has passed me by. I just can't understand why it would be better to devote really valuable floor-space to a room you're going to use for about 15 minutes a day max.

Plus, the idea of lying in bed having to listen to a darling beloved doing number two or even a number one with only one door between us makes me feel squeamish in a way I just can't articulate.

Another thing is en-suites remind me of cheap American hotel-rooms.

Family bathroom, separate lav and a downstairs cloaks is what I'd prefer. Guests or visitors tramping through my bedroom? Sod that, they can go and pee out in the garden!

NEH

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

I can't understand it either: this whole en-suite bathroom fetish has passed me by. I just can't understand why it would be better to devote really valuable floor-space to a room you're going to use for about 15 minutes a day max.

Plus, the idea of lying in bed having to listen to a darling beloved doing number two or even a number one with only one door between us makes me feel squeamish in a way I just can't articulate.

Another thing is en-suites remind me of cheap American hotel-rooms.

Family bathroom, separate lav and a downstairs cloaks is what I'd prefer. Guests or visitors tramping through my bedroom? Sod that, they can go and pee out in the garden!

I can understand one en-suite perhaps even two.....When there is a houseful, trying to get a shower you're sometimes left until lunchtime before you get even near the bathroom...As for hearing your OH pee or anything else what's the difference between that and having the main bathroom next door....At my mum's house my old bedroom used to be next to the main bathroom and you could hear everything no matter what...

lostinrates

Never mind christmas, year round. The demise of the family meal and eatin in front of the tv are amoung lots of life style changes blamed for current health an obesity problems...yet we don't make it practical for families to eat together or children to sit down in the kitchen to eat.

I don't mind if they cost a lot to heat, because I don't use heating, I like big rooms, and space.
bitter and twisted, only fifteen mins in the bathroom a day? . I'm sure I spend three times that in a bathroom a day. Agree about separate loo though...