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

Really2

lostinrates wrote: »

I don't mind if they cost a lot to heat, because I don't use heating, I like big rooms, and space.

Not heating big houses can cause a lot of damage, especially to old houses.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'll use this thread to slip in the little known fact that I did, once, years ago, randomly have a quickie in the built in cupboard in a new build

While the sales lady was downstairs at her desk.

That's funny.

On the same note, I was once commenting on a small double bedroom and the general feel amoung people there was that if there was room for a bed and to walk round it, and whatever storage, that floor space, wasn't an issue.

after all, they said, what do you need the floor space for? It made me wonder...perhaps we really are odd ones out , but we really do use the floor space

BitterAndTwisted

lostinrates wrote: »

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...

Oh, I just figured most people showered these days. I don't have a shower here but drawing and taking a bath runs to about five minutes for me in the morning. Leisurely soaking is saved for the occasional weekend evening.

So, apart from the en-suite fetish, how many peeps now have "wet-rooms"? I had to ask a pal what one of these actually was a wee while ago. I thought it was some kind of sauna-type thing.

lostinrates

Really2 wrote: »

Not heating big houses can cause a lot of damage, especially to old houses.

True, I'll happily have fires going though and a stove. They were also not designed to be run at huge temperatures old houses. I'm saddened by lots of the problems peole have with their old houses here when they expect them to run like new houses...wrong paints on old plaster, damp proof courses poorly thought out....double glazing leading to condensation and damp.

I love old houses.

Really2

lostinrates wrote: »

I love old houses.

So do British Gas.

NEH

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Oh, I just figured most people showered these days. I don't have a shower here but drawing and taking a bath runs to about five minutes for me in the morning. Leisurely soaking is saved for the occasional weekend evening.

So, apart from the en-suite fetish, how many peeps now have "wet-rooms"? I had to ask a pal what one of these actually was a wee while ago. I thought it was some kind of sauna-type thing.

I'm not a lover of wet rooms, my brother has one and if you have to go back into clean your teeth you have to walk across a soaking floor....

lostinrates

NEH wrote: »

I'm not a lover of wet rooms, my brother has one and if you have to go back into clean your teeth you have to walk across a soaking floor....

I like them....the trick is to have one well designed and the right size, I had a badly designed one in halls, and as you say, wet feet, and often a wet loo seat :eek:.

They make cleaning MUCH easier, (I curse our shower doors) and look so much nicer...well done of course.

LilacPixie

I detest new builds. We went to see on in Dundee earlier on this year. 4 bed detatched, garage etc and it was tiny. looked lovely and big with the developers miniture furniture but when we got home and actually thought about the house and its layout it was obvious it would never of worked for us. Livingroom small, comtained a corner sofa and tv, looked big but then you get our sofas in then room is tiny. hallway weird shape bit like this [
Dining room maybe 9X9 chair and 4 seats maximum with french doors to garden Doors to hall and seperate door to kitchen.
Kitchen was a big room at 14x14 but double french doors to garden then a window on other wall plus door from hall and door from kitchen and door to utility room.
Utility room tiny with sink and space for washing machine. about 3 foot from front of sink to wall.

upstairs 4 bedrooms 3 ensuite plus a boxroom/bedroom. Rooms were quite small with the master being 14x10 the others smaller. Garden was tiny probable big enough for a swing set and not alot else. Fixed 250K with the usual we pay stampduty give deposited type over priced nonsence.

For us in our area your can get a 50's/60's house with larger rooms and a larger garden for less. Ideally I want to buy land and build my own home to what my familly needs.

toby3000

I once looked at a new flat that had nowhere to put a washing machine. i spent quite a long time looking in cupboards to try and find where you were meant to put it, but never did.

I don't understand where children play in new builds, the second and third bedrooms are often tiny. Ofcourse, in Britain people are terrible snobs and basically want to be able to tell everyone they have 5 bedrooms, and are happy for them all to be tiny as long as they can.

PasturesNew

To me, the big deal of an en suite is "it's mine, all mine". No matter how many other people are in the house I'd know I could just walk 6 paces and my en suite is there. Mine. No queueing, no waiting. All mine. Mine, mine, mine.

Mine.



Oh - and you don't have to get dressed or turn lights on in the middle of the night either. Things you might have to do if there were others about or the bathroom was elsewhere.