How many did you view before buying

onlyroz

chelseablue wrote: »

That's what we're finding, looking at pictures and thinking something looks nice and suitable, get there and its too small

The one I remember the most was the house with the "dining room" in an alcove under the stairs :eek:. From the pictures the room looked quite big, but in reality you had to stoop down to get into each seat.

I remember the excitement I felt at going to view my first house after starting house-hunting. In the pictures it looked great, and the estate agent told me that the vendor was a landscape gardener, so I had high hopes. Within seconds of going through the front door my excitement turned to crushing disappointment. The house was shabby, the third "bedroom" hardly big enough to turn around in let alone fit a bed, and the rear garden was covered in swathes of bumpy tarmac. Add to that the tacky wood-panelled bar that had been installed in the living room. In the end we only found our dream house by borrowing £20k from the bank-of-mum-and-dad, and extending our search to a wider area.

seven-day-weekend

Paully232000 wrote: »

We found the opposite, we had discounted a house as it looked small, dark and not very nice from the pictures. Only went to see it because was next street up from a house we wanted to see, and on with the same agent. Thought we may as well go and see it, even if for 5 mins.

Turned out was better, and bigger than the pictures gave credit for. Pictures taken at night for some reason, and not very flattering. It is the house we now live in, and after 12 months of decorating and fixing as just perfect for us.

When we bought our house in 1976, we hadn't seen any pictures at all! Obviously it was before the days of Rightmove and internet and all we had sen was an advert in the newspaper, which said 'terraced house, (Area), cheap'. We booked a viewing but when we got there my husband did't want to go in as it was too small. I said we may as well go in as we were there. We loved it straight away (and it was bigger than it looked).

We loved that house and are only just now selling it after nearly forty years.

chelseablue

40 years! Wow!

onlyroz

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

When we bought our house in 1976, we hadn't seen any pictures at all! Obviously it was before the days of Rightmove and internet and all we had sen was an advert in the newspaper, which said 'terraced house, (Area), cheap'. We booked a viewing but when we got there my husband did't want to go in as it was too small. I said we may as well go in as we were there. We loved it straight away (and it was bigger than it looked).

We loved that house and are only just now selling it after nearly forty years.

Older-style terraced houses can often be deceptively large. I've been in some that look very narrow from the front but go back and back and back. It's not uncommon to have a "front room", which is kept smart for visitors, and then behind it a family living room, and behind that a dining room and pantry, and behind that the kitchen.

seven-day-weekend

onlyroz wrote: »

Older-style terraced houses can often be deceptively large. I've been in some that look very narrow from the front but go back and back and back. It's not uncommon to have a "front room", which is kept smart for visitors, and then behind it a family living room, and behind that a dining room and pantry, and behind that the kitchen.

Ours goes back, up and down. We have a sitting room, a dining room, kitchen and bathroom at ground level, a large dry cellar downstairs, two bedrooms up thre first stairs and a third (original) bedroom up the second stairs in the loft.

Joskat

4. The last house was perfect for us and immediately offered FAP as soooo worth it. Two months down the line vendors pulled out of the sale as they decided to stay put. Oddly enough we had a feeling something wasn't quite right with them - EA's also exasperated, so had started viewing other properties (just in case) and from that found our 2nd choice. We offered a ridiculously low figure which was accepted and now we couldn't be happier. We have since heard on the grapevine that the 1st house of our dreams is having a new roof and chimney, and that the open countryside view from the rear may not be so 'open' due to builders planning app.:eek: