Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

And the other rooms are what?

Various. I've a list of 5 I'm looking at.... they're all different layouts, sizes, rooms.

But, mostly, it's one tiny kitchen and one open diner/lounge.

These houses are 11-15' wide and about 20-24' deep. Max.

Most seem to be 300-350 sq ft per floor.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

The bathrooms in the houses I am looking at are too small for two basins.

If I hold back £5-10k from my budget, I can no longer afford to buy the houses I want.

I want a utility room with a door outside for washing things -not just clothes, but big kitchen things, fridge shelves, things and stuff..... it'd completely feel wrong to use upstairs for it.

Also - a lot of my hobby-style stuff has the potential to be mucky - and I don't want to be lugging stuff back and forth. The mucky work needs to be alongside electrical items. It's not practical to do some stuff upstairs and be lugging wet things back and forth etc.

Utility would be to, say, drag in a load of dirty stones, wash them out - lay them out on a worktop to dry for a few days (walk away from it until I fancy it again() .... then do some varnishing/laquering work, or painting, or sanding. And all riight by the door so I can be inside/outside with mucky stuff and mucky work.

Right, understood. As a alternative, how about an outside tap and some washing up bowls? That's my outdoor solution at my house and works well. That way nothing mucky need make it past the door. Also, the tap can be isolated from under my kitchen sink with its own stopcock so no fear of anyone stealing my water or pipes freezing (my OCDs).

Anyhow, will shut up now because ultimately it is your choice. We just all want you to be settled and happy.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

As a alternative, how about an outside tap and some washing up bowls?

That works when it's dry, light and not windy. Not practical if I do end up full-time working again, which I will probably have to do for the cashflow.

If a house has a tap, fine - if it doesn't, no budget to fit one. Some of the houses have one, some don't.

House one actually has a shed and an outside tap.
House two has an outside tap

Garages also have some potential, size depending. H1 and H2 have garages. One is integral, one is detached.

But I might not get either of those

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Question for NPs - how big are your kitchens and bathrooms?

My kitchen is about 9 x 8 ft. My bathroom is tiny, smaller than in my 1 bed house. Not sure of dimensions. Length... slightly longer than bath, width, not wide enough to have bath width, toilet and basin on one wall. Have had to be really creative with storage in bathroom. Do have a separate downstairs loo though. Would never again live in a house with one toilet. That's my deal breaker.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Would never again live in a house with one toilet. That's my deal breaker.

Yeah .... if you block one you've another. Another bonus of an en-suite.... if you block it you can keep it secret while you sort it out

Not often blocked loos - but I've had some poor performing loos that had issues due to poor fitting/quality.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Question for NPs - how big are your kitchens and bathrooms?

Kitchen I can tell you (house is STILL online as SSTC) - 14'9" max x 7'1"
Bathroom is probably 7'x5' ish

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

You were young.
How far did you travel to work?

This is why I want to live/work within 2-3 miles and not 20-30 miles as it affects the time you leave/come home. I used to be out of the house about 12 hours a day with long/dark/wet commutes with heavy traffic to worry about, so had to be alert.

Couldn't do it now for long.

Not really young, it wasn't even 10 years ago!

Work was a 20 minute (at 70mph) drive away in sometimes really horrendous weather, the worse was a complete white out on the road one night turning that 20 minute drive into a horrible and very stressful 4 hour drive home... for my main shifts, all driving was done at night, rush hour on the way there but dead of night on the way home.

On the days of doing extra hours, I would leave the house at 8.30, drop the boys off at their various places, jump straight in the car and get on the bypass to get to work, work until it was time to pick the boys up, go to appointments, do housework, make the dinner, get ready for work and then be out of the door for my contracted hours by 5.50. I would finally make it home for about 11 ish unless I needed to do the shopping when it would be after midnight before I got home.

It was at that point that I might, if I was lucky, get the chance to finally have a sit down and relax for a few minutes before I would start getting uniforms ready, pack ups for the next day, clothes washing, washing of the dishes from dinner etc but more usually, it would be back home and deal with one of the boys or hubby...I generally slept in a week what most people would sleep in a night.

Before that and in my younger days, I worked no more than 2 miles from my home, so less stress in bad weather as I could walk instead of drive if things were really bad.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

Question for NPs - how big are your kitchens and bathrooms?

DD measured kitchen for her homework this week - it was about 7.6 by 5.8 - but then she has to do stuff in metric.

WE have 3 bathrooms and a shower room but the largest is only 8 by 6, the family bathroom is 8 by 5'6 but it does have 2 sinks and the downstairs shower room / WC is only 8 by 3.

I find if I go more than a few days with less than 7 hours sleep I really suffer mentally and physically - 8 is ideal.

Goodnight all.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yeah .... if you block one you've another. Another bonus of an en-suite.... if you block it you can keep it secret while you sort it out

Not often blocked loos - but I've had some poor performing loos that had issues due to poor fitting/quality.

I'll have to make use of the garden. Or hold on until I go to work.

Would have preferred a downstairs loo here, but can't really see where it would go. And one upstairs loo was better than one downstairs one (as is the case in a lot of the terraces around here).

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

DD measured kitchen for her homework this week - it was about 7.6 by 5.8 - but then she has to do stuff in metric.

WE have 3 bathrooms and a shower room but the largest is only 8 by 6, the family bathroom is 8 by 5'6 but it does have 2 sinks and the downstairs shower room / WC is only 8 by 3.

I thought you meant 7.6 metres x 5.8 metres when you said metric
Which didn't surprise me .... with you being posh