Self storage soars as UK houses are too small

Graham_Devon

LilacPixie wrote: »

you do seem to collect the biggest pile of crap over the years but everything we have looked at had room for a toaster. I keep hoover/ironing board/mop in the understairs cupboard. do new builds not have understair cupboards?? assuming of course they do actually have stairs. In our flat we use what was the coal cupboard to store all that stuff.

They do, but you often find the underneath of the stairs continues into the kitchen, as the lounge is so small, the stairs are longer.

So you end up with a tiny pokey cupboard at the lower end of the stairs, with not much height.

ILW

des_cartes wrote: »

I read once that the likes of Barrat,Persimmon and Wimpey buy special midget sized furniture to put into their showhouses and when anyone unfortunate enough to buy one comes to furnishing it with normal sized furniture they find it doesn't fit.

I have a Victorian 2 up 2 down "cottage". Very little storage so stuff tends to go on ebay.

vivatifosi

Graham_Devon wrote: »

No space for a toaster? !!!!!!.

Notice they don't complain of lack of room for a kettle though.

Hmmm.... A gap in the market for a toaster/kettle combo?

chris_m

Cleaver wrote: »

Jesus, they must all own some f*cking massive toasters. Some 74 Slice Breville Big B*stard or something.

Nah, there's just no room left after the "automatically grinds and brews 36 types" coffee machines that can't even make a bog-standard coffee without a fancy name :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

chris_m

vivatifosi wrote: »

Hmmm.... A gap in the market for a toaster/kettle combo?

You mean like this?
http://www.breville.com.au/products_detail.asp?prod=435

:beer:

vivatifosi

chris_m wrote: »

You mean like this?
http://www.breville.com.au/products_detail.asp?prod=435

:beer:

B*gger. I'm not going to get rich any time soon am I? I was hoping for something with a smaller footprint mind, though if you put the kettle on the bottom then the toast would get soggy and if you put the toaster on its side on the bottom it wouldn't toast evenly. Such thorny conundrums for a Sunday night.

nearlynew

Isn't it ironic that in today's consumerist society when everyone has more "stuff" the houses to store it all in have become smaller?


Or is it all part of the same scam?

Errata

nearlynew wrote: »

Isn't it ironic that in today's consumerist society when everyone has more "stuff" the houses to store it all in have become smaller?


Or is it all part of the same scam?

Houses for the working class have always been small - 2 up / 2 down, 2 down / 1 up, back to backs, were built in their millions and mostly torn down during the slum clearances after WW2.

poppingjay

Maybe people just have too much stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

Errata wrote: »

Houses for the working class have always been small - 2 up / 2 down, 2 down / 1 up, back to backs, were built in their millions and mostly torn down during the slum clearances after WW2.

That's true,just because a house is'nt modern won't always mean they'll be bigger.
Lots of little victorian cottages and tiny terraces were built,some not even having a proper stair case just stairs going from the living area to sometimes just a single room upstairs.
In my opinion you can't beat a middle of the road Victorian or Edwardian property.Fantastic high ceilings and large rooms,huge halls and sit down kitchens.
Even they come with a downside though and that is no matter how well you insulate them and no matter how efficient the heating system is they never get as warm as a new house will be and cost an absolute fortune to heat.
There's benefits in living in a small house and one of them is lower fuel bills.