Self storage soars as UK houses are too small

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

PasturesNew wrote: »

To be fair, old houses were smaller, lots of terraces of workers' cottages, fishermen's cottages, 2-up-2-down, estate cottages. It's just big Victorian, big Georgian and post-war stuff that was bigger (and posh stuff).

Your average peasant had a small house.

I went to look around at some estates/houses with somebody a little while back, there was a great house for sale, repossession, fairly new build, 5 beds, double integral garage, fabulous house, filled the plot.... it had about 1' on either side, the front 'garden' was a 2' strip with no wall/anything between that and the narrow pavement - and the back garden was about 20' deep.

We bought a new 4 bed it had a huge wrap around garden(too big to manage actually).
We only bought it because we were having to relocate due to my OH's work and it was a quick sale through the builder.
I hated it though from day one.
It had enough room but it had no character so we moved to a 140 year old house that needed renovating but had huge rooms and a hallway over 30ft long /12ft wide that you could easily use as another room.
One thing I could never understand with most of the new builds we looked at was where were you supposed to store everyday stuff,cleaning stuff,kids stuff even coats and outdoor shoes.
Infact hardly any we looked at had enough kitchen units in them let alone proper walk in cupboards.

amcluesent

>Mum has a very large Edwardian house with loads of space and high ceilings.<

Actually, the elderly could hire-out unused rooms in their big houses. As well as some £ to boost their pensions, they'd have someone to chat to as peeps popped-in to add/fetch their stored possessions. Only downside is your stuff could end up whiffing of widdle.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

amcluesent wrote: »

>Mum has a very large Edwardian house with loads of space and high ceilings.<

Actually, the elderly could hire-out unused rooms in their big houses. As well as some £ to boost their pensions, they'd have someone to chat to as peeps popped-in to add/fetch their stored possessions. Only downside is your stuff could end up whiffing of widdle.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
One thing I don't understand is why does everyone assume getting older means you lose control of your bladder.
I have lots of older friends and I can assure you none of them smell of wee or anything else that may leak .
You must know some strange people.

lostinrates

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
One thing I don't understand is why does everyone assume getting older means you lose control of your bladder.
I have lots of older friends and I can assure you none of them smell of wee or anything else that may leak .
You must know some strange people.

Sadly sense of smell seems to fade too, as you age. And taste.

slipthru

Surely we just own to much rubbish these days.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

lostinrates wrote: »

Sadly sense of smell seems to fade too, as you age. And taste.[/QUOTE

Is that so,well you are'nt going to have much to look forward to then in that case :rotfl:.
Or it could be just a case of old tosh and not everyone is the same afterall.

neverdespairgirl

bigheadxx wrote: »

Why not try and live in Poland where your front room doubles up as the main bedroom, the bathroom is just big enough for a bath and the kitchen is 3X6 (feet not metres)

I did that for a year. Two of us, sharing a "large family flat". The living room was about 10 x 6, the kitchen a bit smaller, there wasn't a full-size bath in the bathroom, and the bedrooms were tiny - the large was 8 x 7, the smaller was less than that.

neverdespairgirl

That article reads as if it's been lazily not--rewritten-much from a press release.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I did that for a year. Two of us, sharing a "large family flat". The living room was about 10 x 6, the kitchen a bit smaller, there wasn't a full-size bath in the bathroom, and the bedrooms were tiny - the large was 8 x 7, the smaller was less than that.

Is that the "norm".
If it is it seems a bit ridiculous :eek:.

neverdespairgirl

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

Is that the "norm".
If it is it seems a bit ridiculous :eek:.

I believe so, yes.

The other two foreign teachers living in the town were sharing a small family flat - which lacked the second bedroom. So a 1 bed, in effect (and a small one at that).

I lived in Flat 98, Block 44 - and the town was only 45,000 odd people. Almost everyone lived in these post-war concrete blocks.