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what size of house is big enough?
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Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »For the two of us, our ideal house size is about 3800.
We've had much less, we've had much more, but that's right for our current lifestyle.
If I had 3 children, I'd want at least 4500.
Wow :eek:
Our ~800sqft place down in the SE nearly broke us at £250k, we have no chance of anything near that size (1 child, currently planning for the 2nd) :rotfl:
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Anything above the overcrowding formulae is acceptable for social housing, so can be taken as the nearest to an authoritative answer - so anything above that is personal preference.
http://www.housing.org.uk/policy/policy-news/social-housing-size-criteria-and-statutory-overcrowding/
http://england.shelter.org.uk/get_advice/repairs_and_bad_conditions/common_problems/overcrowding0 -
Anything above the overcrowding formulae is acceptable for social housing, so can be taken as the nearest to an authoritative answer - so anything above that is personal preference.
http://www.housing.org.uk/policy/policy-news/social-housing-size-criteria-and-statutory-overcrowding/
http://england.shelter.org.uk/get_advice/repairs_and_bad_conditions/common_problems/overcrowding
Why would we take the overcrowding guidelines as the authoritative answer?
That is a bit like saying that anyone can live on NMW.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
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We have a five bed for us and two kids - one bedroom for us and each for them, the box room is a study for my OH whose work is based at home and a spare room for when the grandparents stay (OH is kiwi so often for a couple of weeks at a time). When we've extended it will be about 2000 sq ft but if we were not in London we'd probably double this.0
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For me personally, I would want a 4 bed in that situation with a room each for the children. I would want them to have their own space so wouldn't consider 3 beds.This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0
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What size of house is big enough to accommodate 2 adults and 3 kids? I know this is a very subjective question so don't have a go at me!!! Just wondering what people think. If u are a family of 5 how big is your house and do you think it's big enough?
Not sure anyone can answer for you on what you would accept but my personal experience is 2 children, 2 adults in a 1000 sq ft 3 bed semi was a bit of a struggle space wise which was one of the reasons we moved to a bigger house.
Now we are in one that is about 2000sq ft 4 beds and even though at first seemed so much bigger and 'loads' of space, now we have been in here a while I would want one bigger. The only reason is that when you get a bigger house, you fill it with more things, and don't keep the same amount of things and have lots of open spaces.
You make do with what you have/can afford and look for ideas on how to maximise the space and storage so you are not constantly falling over toys and each other.
If they are being built off-plan and you cant visualise 1600sq ft then go and have a look at some that are for sale that have been built that are about 1600 sq ft and see.0 -
I have 3 boys agd 17, 12 and 5yrs and a two bedroom house.
It's not ideal but it's our home. You live to your means,but could always want more!0 -
We are a family of 5, 2 adults, son 8, daughter 6 and a newborn baby. We currently live in a 3 bed detached only 760 sq feet, we managed ok with 2 children but we didn't really have any storage space, now we have the baby we need the extra bedroom. We have bought a 5 bed 2700 square feet, moving house has been the most stressful thing ever and I hope we never have to move again, the plan is that this house will be large enough to accommodate all of us even when the kids are much older!
It all comes down to what you can afford tho at the end of the day, if we were not able to move we would of had to make do with our 3 bed, I'm sure we could of worked it somehow.0 -
We moved with toddlers to get space. If it added streaks of white to my hair, the blonde is worth it.
We've 4 bedrooms, a downstairs loo & an upstairs bathroom. (The builders didn't half chuckle when they realised youngest could not [at the time] see into 'his' sink), but a decade later, we haven't had to move or seriously redecorate, they have a room each & doors that shut so I do not have to contemplate teenage bedroom floors.
We're handy for walking to schools, there's a park over the road & we've a big back garden that we only started digging once they'd outgrown crawling around & jumping out at each other in. Plus we're a minute away from a public footpath that runs up onto the moors behind. When they need a big space to get over a grouch, that hill is big enough to put everything into perspective.0
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