Critique my rightmove listing please

PasturesNew

dgtazzman wrote: »

125m2 for a 5 bed?

.... the living room is too small for the number of people that would be living in a 5-bed...

I hadn't even thought about that. I'm hoping to knock down my living room wall so the hall/living room are all one, giving me an extra 8' of living room .... so then I just looked at the OP's floorplan.

Living room 17' x 10'5" in a 5-bed.

When I've got my wall out, I'll have a 2-bed house with a living room 20'x12'!

So, now you mention it, that is a "bit small" for trying to fit that many bodies into.

co-op_lover

I dont like the front door or the radar.

phoebe1989seb

PasturesNew wrote: »

I hadn't even thought about that. I'm hoping to knock down my living room wall so the hall/living room are all one, giving me an extra 8' of living room .... so then I just looked at the OP's floorplan.

Living room 17' x 10'5" in a 5-bed.

When I've got my wall out, I'll have a 2-bed house with a living room 20'x12'!

So, now you mention it, that is a "bit small" for trying to fit that many bodies into.

Exactly......

Our current 4 bed house is 2000 sq ft and the 5 bed we had previously was 2500 sq ft (both period houses though ).

In our 4 bed house we have three reception rooms - the largest being 18' x 16' - although we're currently converting one of these to an eat-in kitchen and the old kitchen (12' x 11') will be our utility. The five bed had two receptions (each about 16' x 12') and a large (36' x 16') kitchen/breakfast room.

The ratio between living and sleeping spaces worked. The OP's house seems to have an imbalance between receptions/bedrooms and I would definitely want to reconfigure the upstairs space......

Gigervamp

The room sizes are too small and the layout of the rooms is cramped.

I also really dislike the fireplace and would want to rip that out. Too much orange pine to have to paint, and I'd expect a utility room and two or three reception rooms in a 5 bed house.

Sorry OP that you're getting such negative reviews, but it seems to be fairly unanimous about the number of rooms in such a small space.

I expect there is somebody out there who will love it, as you did, but if there are better houses cheaper or only a little more expensive, you'll have to drop the price.

iantojones40

Nothing drastically wrong with the ad or pics.

It's the price.

Cakeguts

Is that a shared drive? The property description says double length garage it doesn't say "double garage." Can I assume that one of the garages shown belongs to a neighbour?

twitterpated

Everything looks nice and clean- you must have spent an age tidying up!

For me it looks like a house, not really a home. A few personal touches would be nice such as flowers on the dining table or more photographs dotted about rather than faded prints on the wall.

As others have said there is an awful lot of pine furniture which isn't to everyone's taste. Many of the rooms seem very dated apart the bathroom. I would have to spend a lot of money on the house to make it into something I would live in.

The garden has so much potential, it is huge! Better garden furniture and some borders with colourful flowers would make it looks a lot more appealing- I'd kill for a garden that size!

To me the price is extremely high however I'm from up North so most house prices down south make my stomach turn.

When we were looking for houses I found floor plans very useful. It's hard to tell the layout from these photos.

Hope you have some interest soon, good luck!

paulsad

I think there will be a buyer out there who will love the place - not much more you can realistically do to it.
Just a waiting game. I got depressed in my last place as it was very quirky - eventually we got a lady who just loved it. Took about 6 months.

SternMusik

twitterpated wrote: »

The garden has so much potential, it is huge!

twitterpated wrote: »

When we were looking for houses I found floor plans very useful. It's hard to tell the layout from these photos.

Are we looking at the same listing? The garden is not "huge" (for a five bedroomed house in a rural-ish location). I mean it's not tiny either, but huge?

And there are floor plans on the rightmove listing.

[Deleted User]

I'd have to agree that for a 5 bed house the rooms are all a bit pokey. It's like they (the builders) have tried to fit as many rooms into a space as possible and as a result the rooms are disproportionate to the type of property.

If I were spending that much money on a house I would expect to get a nice large living area and at least one large bedroom.