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Would you rather have separate Dining Room or Garage?

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  • Buellguy
    Buellguy Posts: 629 Forumite
    Garage all the time, without one the motorbike insurance would be astronomical/virtually impossible to get due to postcode
  • lincroft1710
    lincroft1710 Posts: 19,408 Forumite
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    There are two kinds of people in this world, those with loaded guns.....

    Sorry - those who prefer to have a garage and those who don't. Your house is for you to live in, the next owner can make the changes they want.
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  • Catti
    Catti Posts: 372 Forumite
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    I bought my house after the garage had already been converted into a part grannie annexe. The room itself (the rest of the annexe has been taken up into a larger kitchen, is always on the cold side and has served as a junk room for the last few years anyway. But we already have a dining room.

    I have just cleared this out to make a working office space and a laundry room and it works well for me, not so different from my previous garage which never had a car in it whilst I lived there!
  • pinkshoes
    pinkshoes Posts: 20,673 Forumite
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    Unless it had a garden with a HUGE shed and access to the shed via the side of the house, then I'd rather have a garage.

    It seems pointless converting it back to a garage now it's a dining room, but I would never view a house unless it had a garage.

    ps - does anyone actually use separate dining rooms nowadays? How very 1970s!
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  • teddysmum
    teddysmum Posts: 9,533 Forumite
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    We have a lounger/diner and rarely use the dining part, now our sons have their own homes. My husband uses the garage for working on his motorbikes. The freezer is in there, as is the tumble dryer.


    My son does have a house with separate dining room, but his garage is essential for storing items, including the children's bikes, large toys, garden furniture etc, after a house move.
  • flimf
    flimf Posts: 92 Forumite
    Extra room :) a garage will just lure me in to hoard more crap.

    PLUS you have two spaces for the car
  • Old_Git
    Old_Git Posts: 4,751 Forumite
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    depends on the area.If it was high risk I would want a garage .
    I turned one of my downstairs bedrooms into a dining room and bought a shed for the lawn mower ect
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  • Hermia
    Hermia Posts: 4,473 Forumite
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    Garage for me. I live in an area where car crime is rife so would really appreciate a garage. I have also always found dining rooms often end up as dead rooms as I prefer to eat in the kitchen and I can never work out what else I could use it for!
  • pinkpiglit
    pinkpiglit Posts: 304 Forumite
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    pinkshoes wrote: »
    ps - does anyone actually use separate dining rooms nowadays? How very 1970s!

    I would, if I had one. Separate dining room for dinner parties would be fab! Trying to squish 12 people round the dining table (albeit an extending one) in our lounge is a royal PITA.
  • dimbo61
    dimbo61 Posts: 13,727 Forumite
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    No I would want a dining room and a lounge and also a double garage plus parking for 5 cars!
    OH that is what we already have :-) !!
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