24 m2 ... Too small?

Tancred

somethingcorporate wrote: »

Yep, it was lovely, a converted victorian school made into a bunch of loft apartments. 2 big bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, open plan kitchen/diner/lounge and a decent-sized mezzanine for our office. It was very nice!

It was also only an hours train-ride into london liverpool street so perfect for work and £220k compared to the £275k they were asking for that tiny little postage stamp in central london (that was ironically still an hours tube to work).

I'm buying a 3 bedroom detached and it's only 93 sq m. I thought that was a reasonable size.

MacMickster

Has this flat got furniture in at the moment?

If not, I would suggest that your daughter measures the type of furniture in your home that she thinks that she would need in her flat (sofa, TV, wardrobe, bed, table) and then think about other items that she would need to store such as vaccuum cleaner, ironing board etc. She should then view again armed with some templates of these items (newssheet stuck together will do) and try putting them in place and seeing how much space she has left.

This may give her a better idea of the lack of space available.

Tancred

jaqui59 wrote: »

Here they are in metres ...

Lounge 4.42 by 2.97
Kitchen 1.68 by 2.18
Bedroom 2.54 by 2.46
Shower Room 2.13 by 1.83

Looking at the dimensions this is actually a pretty decent flat for a young single person - when I was 22 or 23 I would have killed for a flat like this one. I disagree that it would be hard to sell because there are plenty of single people these days and it's no longer the small market it once was.

The one big downside is the bedroom size, which is clearly NOT a double one.

kyana

she could consider a small/4ft double for the bedroom which would make it feel bigger but probably not allow much more furniture! (bedside cabinets and a little more room for manoeuvring)
the lounge seems to be a longish rectangle so depending on floor plan it may be possible to have a nice built-in cupboard at one end to use as a wardrobe.
my lounge is set up in a similar way with similar dimensions (studio).
also worth considering is what she's used to. if she's used to living in student/shared accommodation and has never lived in a large/normal sized house all to herself then this may well seem like luxury have 4 separate rooms all to herself!!

moneyistooshorttomention

Except that OP has stated her daughters boyfriend would also be living there with her daughter.

4' wide bed isn't big enough for a couple.

Tancred

nomunnofun wrote: »

The bedroom is the size of a box room! Put a double bed (6'3" by 4') in there and there there is no room for anything else.

That's because it's a single bedroom! It's not designed to fit a double, let alone a king size.

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You've mentioned that there's a patio, is there enough outside space to have a shed for storage of bigger items, or other items when not in use? (luggage, vacuum, drying rack, bikes etc...)?

HappyMJ

Tancred wrote: »

Looking at the dimensions this is actually a pretty decent flat for a young single person - when I was 22 or 23 I would have killed for a flat like this one. I disagree that it would be hard to sell because there are plenty of single people these days and it's no longer the small market it once was.

The one big downside is the bedroom size, which is clearly NOT a double one.

It's hard to sell because it's unmortgageable. If you can't get a mortgage you have to pay cash which severely limits the market.

Since a block of flats similar size to the ones OP is thinking of were built 5 years ago near me they have lost 50% of their value. No one wants them. There are currently 3 on the market at half their purchase price.

DRP

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Mezzanines are all well and good until you have some sort of health problem but still have to climb a stepladder thing to get to bed. One bout of back trouble and that's you sleeping on the floor then for a while....

Personally, even counting that fact out, mezzanines often look very nice....but your face is far too close to the ceiling for those with the slightest scrap of claustrophobia (that would be me then) and for errrrm....full range of nocturnal activities if you get my drift;)

I would also worry about falling out of bed personally...straight down to the floor beneath (no I know I never have in fact...but that wouldn't stop that worry).

Trying to get up and down that ladder half-asleep and/or with a skinful of alcohol would also be fun (not).

a mezzanine in a large open-plan kitchen diner or reception room is fine, but in a small footprint room would make the place look & feel extremely cramped...

somethingcorporate

Tancred wrote: »

I'm buying a 3 bedroom detached and it's only 93 sq m. I thought that was a reasonable size.

It is reasonable, we were really spoilt! It's hard to compare a tiny box place for money money in a grotty city like london to a nice big open-plan, high ceiling apartment just a train-ride away!

We're even more spoilt now, 4-bed semi with almost 170 sq mt of space!