Would you rather have separate Dining Room or Garage?

Anatidaephobia

dominoman wrote: »

I'd want to keep the garage.

An extra room just gets used up and filled with stuff, which then looks untidy. A garage you can use for the mower, tools, workbench, paint cans etc.

Unless I had a huuuuuge cellar (which I don't) I'd definitely want a garage over an extra room.

I think the opposite - a garage gets used up and filled with stuff whereas a room can be used! Each to their own

penguin83

Separate dining room every time. Our garage cant really fit a car in anyway unless it is a teeny tiny one or you are super slim. We have three children and liked the option of having a separate 'scruffy' living room when they got older and keeping a nice lovely untrashed one for us! x

Davesnave

Contessa wrote: »

A few months ago a very young and new Estate Agent came to value my house. He said it wouldn't appeal to families as it's old fashioned. Why?

It has a separate dining room. Families want a kitchen-diner nowadays. News to me!

He also said the fairly large garden wouldn't appeal either-don't children play out nowadays?

That EA didn't get my custom.

An eat-in kitchen is great, but if there's a dining room too, it may be used for parties and large family meals on special occasions, besides also doubling as homework room, away from distractions, or a sewing room, Lego room or w.h.y. when that large table comes in handy.

I know ours was used for all those things, and when we've finished bashing this place about, we shall have another.

Children do play out, just not out where Mummy & Daddy can't see them. Chris Packham was banging-on about it, and the consequences, a few days ago. He's right too.

Kazza_Monkey

Hi,

We are a young family and the house we have just bought has a garage conversion on it. We are going to use it as a study (we are renovating at the moment), we also have a seperate dining room, something we have never had before but was a must have for us as our youngest daughter doesnt eat properly and is under weight because eating in front of the telly is too much of a distraction, yet when we are at my parents house sitting at the dining table she eats very well. we also have got a play room which we thought perfect for rainy days and a large garden for the kids to run around in. we have enough space to park 3 cars on the drive so for us the garage wasnt essential (i think hubby would have liked a garage to tinker with cars in but the one we have got now would have been too narrow anyway.

kidmugsy

Parking a wet car in an unventilated garage is asking for trouble. It would be better off outdoors, drying in the breeze. Garages are for deep freezes, tumble dryers, gardening clutter, bikes, and so on.

J_i_m

This is a definitely an each to their own thing.

Personally, I'd rather have the garage as a garage, not so much to park my car in, but for secure storage for other things which really ought not be stored in the actual house, or if it's too big.

I have this little idea in my head, that I want to have a garage as a my own little prep-shop if I ever had the funds to buy myself a go-kart and go racing. I definitely wouldn't want to leave something like that on the drive way :P

00ec25

depends on people's lifestyle

theoretically a 3 bed house is aimed at a family market, but we are led to believe that many families nowadays never eat together any more so a formal dining room is no use to them if there is adequate eating space in the kitchen or in front of a TV elsewhere!

a garage therefore is a useful storage space for, as others have said, stuff (rarely for cars!) you wouldn't want in the house but hoard nonetheless. Whereas a formal dining room is dead space to those sort of people

personally my car is in my garage and I would only buy a house which could meet that need or, as in one case, had the land to build a garage on. When I had a 3 bedder it had a kitchen diner - plus detached garage!

burnoutbabe

I have seen a few places that have converted 2/3 of the garage into something else. So you still have a space to put bikes and store stuff, but the rest is liveable space.

rach_k

Definitely an extra room for me. I know lots of people with garages but nobody puts a car in them because they're not big enough for modern family cars (well, not if you don't want to climb out of the sunroof). People I know tend to use them for storage, but you can still do that if the previous owners used the conversion as a dining room or study - most stuff would fit through a standard door, surely?

We eat breakfast and dinner in our dining room every day - it's part of being a family. We don't have off road space for the car but I'd still take the dining room over a garage (or even a drive).

ellie27

Would you rather have a separate dining room or garage?

Well, I would have any room rather than a garage. I would want to use it as a bedroom rather than a dining room.

We have 2 young children and always eat dinner together in the kitchen. If my house had no space at all for a table/chairs in the kitchen then I would have a separate dining room. If there is plenty space in kitchen for a table then the other room would be used as a bedroom/study.

We have a garage and our driveway is big enough for 4 cars so the garage is full of toys/mower/strimmer/patio table and chairs etc