Am i being too harsh on the idea of a bungelow?

DKLS

I wouldnt rule them out but I do like going up to bed, not along to bed, I did consider buying one, but only to flatten the house and build a new house on the cracking plot as it would have been cheaper to build rather than renovate.

JencParker

I admit that I shared your view on living in a bungalow. However, as I am looking to downsize but still require a large amount of living area, and having seen a good number of bungalows with loft conversions, the idea is becoming quite appealing. They generally have larger gardens (perfect for my dogs), I work from home and having a bedroom on the ground floor that I can work from is much more appealing than working in an upstairs bedroom, and in order to get the ground floor space I would like, I would be looking at a 4 bedroom property - far more bedrooms than I need that would just end up empty for most of the time.

RevolvingDoor

I would love to have a bungalow but they are quite expensive near where I live.

The gardens are usually big which would be great for my dogs and I think it would be easier to clean. You can always get an extension if you wanted later down the line.

I don't worry about foxes coming in as that has never happened to anyone I know despite people saying it is quite common.;)

Propertyfan wrote: »

You never have to hoover the stairs again! That must be a plus point.

I hate hoovering the stairs!:mad::p

Dan-Dan

downshifted wrote: »

And you moving into a different property will make absolutely no difference to the way your children behave

Who said anything about any sort of behaviour ?

And what is the winking smiley for ? , there is no secrets here

Waterlily24

I've lived in four bungalows and they were all completely different. First from birth until I was about 16. The second one was our second home (moved from a house), five rooms and a kitchen and bathroom. The rooms were all roughly the same size. Mostly old people in that location and a lot of bungalows. We moved to a new two storey house after that because we had a three year old who needed company of his own age. We then moved to a chalet bungalow, which was built as a chalet bungalow (not extended). Then another bungalow five rooms again but the living room was enormous and the dining room and kitchen were very big too. Bedrooms were fairly small though. Both of the bungalows had large gardens the first was a third of an acre and the second was two thirds of an acre.

The one we are in now was quite small, four rooms and a kitchen and bathroom. The bedrooms were all off of the living room. It had a very small hall with doors to the kitchen, bathroom and living room.

We wanted to extend it and keep it as a bungalow but we weren't allowed to extend the footprint as much as we wanted too. In the end to get the space we wanted they allowed us to make it into a chalet bungalow. We got the space we wanted but the original bungalow roof wasn't suitable to extend into. L shaped bungalow and no height in the roof. The footprint is now a large square with an extra bit which is a largish lounge. We were able to get three large beedrooms and a bathroom upstairs.

Now my son has gone we only use the downstairs.

It was a shame we couldn't get the planning permission for just a groundfloor extension as we are getting old (or are old lol).

dibuzz

I've just remembered the only time living in a bungalow was a problem. My Gran bought all the Grandkids a slinky for christmas, I was so disappointed when I couldn't use it. I did spend hours making pretend stairs out of cardboard boxes and encyclopedias though.

hellokitty08

Ive lived in a bungalow my whole life. I sleep with the windows open when needed and I have never had any nasty surprises. (apart from spiders) I love not having to run up the stairs all the time. I was always the youngest in my street, but you know what that means? Peace and quite, no loud parties and no kids in the street (mostly)

Sounds like bliss to me.

Contessa

I live in a house and relocating so I'm looking at both houses and bungalows. Of those I've seen it was a bungalow that was the largest. It would certainly be good not to have to hoover the stairs. I keep an old hoover upstairs so I don't have to carry one up and down the stairs. Stairs are good exercise though and prevent "Bungalow Legs" (whereby older people find stairs difficult as they don't get this daily exercise)

Samantha99

I think it depends on size. I recently viewed a barn type conversion. It was huge! But no upstairs. The rooms and kitchen were all such a good size I didn't notice the lack of upstairs. Also layout. If the bedrooms are in a separate part of the bungalow from the kitchen and living room you again won't notice the lack of stairs.

Davesnave

In this part of the world, getting an affordable property with a 250 metre 'garden,' means either buying an old wreck, beyond sensible redemption, or a fairly utilitarian bungalow. I decided the latter was the better option.

The idea that they are for old folk is suspect.

In sought after roads, the age of the inhabitants tend to increase anyway, whether the properties are bungalows or houses. It tends to be the middle aged/elderly that can afford them, and then they hang on until the very end....