Bungalow - whilst young?

MacMickster

In my opinion, the only people who have a problem with bungalows are those who haven't got too much going on up top.

Ask them if they would want single-storey villa abroad and the word bungalow wouldn't cross their minds.

jules888

bloolagoon wrote: »

As I have said houses are rare in my preferred area. Phone call from estate agent today that a 4/5 bed bungalow and 2/3 reception room in a lovely location is now on market.

I have never considered a bungalow as only in early 40,s.

Would you consider a bungalow over a house so young. I have never considered pros and cons as believed I am too young.

Our ist house was a bungalow as it was the only home in the area we could afford to buy at that time.We were only 21.
My son has a few friends who live in bungalows.Any age can.

BornAtTheRightTime

So OP, have you seen the bungalow yet and what did you think?

Leodogger

MacMickster wrote: »

In my opinion, the only people who have a problem with bungalows are those who haven't got too much going on up top.

Ask them if they would want single-storey villa abroad and the word bungalow wouldn't cross their minds.

I agree, and how many people would buy an apartment abroad and think it was great (all on one level), yet you may have people above and below you to cause noise, or they will buy as you say single storey villas and think it is wonderful ! No difference really to a bungalow here in the UK.:)

I think it is a OAP aversion thing where anyone buying a property under the age of 60 thinks they are admitting they are past it if they buy a bungalow, when in fact it is a great way to live in my opinion and I have had both They should build many more as the population is ageing and most people over say 70 need them when they develop arthritis and health problems, plus it puts them with other older people for peace and quiet so I think perhaps it is a good thing that young people don't like them, so they will keep buying houses next door to noisy teenagers and young kids like we had when we lived in our house

marlasinger

JWhite wrote: »

Why is it a problem to go through the lounge to the kitchen ?

Because the way it's laid out it means you have to walk between the sofa and the TV, and getting in the way of anyone watching TV/playing video games, etc.

Callie22

I'm young (ish!) and I like bungalows. When they're done nicely, they're great. OH and I would like to live in one, mainly because we need the flexibility of an additional downstairs room for OH's work, and very few houses now have that additional space downstairs - older places tend to have been knocked through, and modern houses tend just to have one room and the kitchen downstairs. Bungalows are much more flexible that way.

However, they do tend to have a few issues. We've looked round quite a few and lots of them tend to have very, very tiny kitchens, which isn't great. The more newly built ones we've seen also tend not to have gas which does put us off a bit, and they often have horrible 'low maintenance' gardens (i.e. concrete as far as the eye can see). Then there is the general issue that they are smaller, overall, than a two storey house with the same footprint.

I also do like having 'older' neighbours and OH and I have always got on really well with our elderly neighbours. In fact, we still keep in touch with one set of older neighbours from the last house we rented - we cemented our friendship with apples! They'd give me the apples from the tree in their garden and I'd give then pies and crumbles, which they loved!

Leodogger

marlasinger wrote: »

Because the way it's laid out it means you have to walk between the sofa and the TV, and getting in the way of anyone watching TV/playing video games, etc.

Doesn't that really depend where you have your TV, for instance the bungalow we are buying has the TV next to the kitchen door but that is because they have a big brick fireplace in it which takes up half the wall space available, so we are going to remove it and put in a smaller one so that we can move the position of the TV to the other end of the room.

There are always ways and means of changing things round

As mentioned, the kitchens are usually smaller. In the one we are in now though we have a 12 ft x 7.5 ft kitchen but the one we are moving to is a 9ft x 8ft 6" kitchen, so much shorter but slightly wider. We will manage though as we are thinking of blocking up a doorway and using the wall space for units. As I say, ways and means

phoebe1989seb

JWhite wrote: »

Why is it a problem to go through the lounge to the kitchen ?

Our current house - three storey Georgian, so definitely not a bungalow, lol - had a similar layout when we bought it as a major project two years ago and it was one of the first things we decided we'd have to change to make it work for us.

Firstly, the kitchen was at the furthest point from the front door - which in itself isn't an issue, many of our previous (Victorian) houses were configured this way (to keep cooking smells from reception spaces of course), but they had a corridor/hallway leading directly from front door to kitchen, enabling groceries to be carried through to their destination without passing through reception rooms.

Our current house had no such hallway - instead you had to walk through three rooms before arriving at the kitchen with the shopping, which we thought less than ideal for modern living and tbh the lack of traditional hallway was almost enough to deter us from buying, but we knew we could improve on the layout with a bit of juggling about

Secondly, whilst adjacent to the old kitchen there was a back door, this again was at the furthest point from the driveway, so if dropping off shopping from the car we'd have to walk all round the candlestick to get to the back door.

For us it made more sense to reconfigure the layout so that the space formerly occupied by the kitchen (it had been ripped out before we bought anyway so a new one was essential) became a formal living room and the old hall (a not inconsiderable space of 16' x 10') be incorporated into the new kitchen area.

I'd much rather walk through the breakfast area of the kitchen - as we have to do now - to get to the reception rooms, than vice versa.......but maybe that's just me

Bella73

I think it's funny how some people are so ageist against bungalows we have just bought ages 36 and 40 and we love it and out of our friends who live in nearby houses have the biggest garden.

Road_Hog

Well, it's been an enjoyable thread. I have of course (having been sussed by some posters) been on a complete wind up. It was fun.