Quirky property

getmore4less

Sounds like this one.

Scotbot

Doozergirl wrote: »

Having to walk through another room bears no impact on them being able to do that!

Particularly after a bottle of red! For the occasional night, it just doesn't matter. If you're close enough to have them stay...

CP26 wrote: »

Freeisgood...it is a 400 year old cottage with 2 chimney stacks coming up through it so any renovation would be very difficult and probably costly.

I dont mind just having one bathroom really, and it might be that the bedroom you have to get to via another bedroom could be turned into a proper ensuite.

Can you post the right move link?

Cakeguts

If you have to walk through one bedroom to get to another does that mean that the owners have made a large bedroom into two so that they can charge £400k for a 4 bed rather than £350k for a 3 bed?

lincroft1710

CP26 wrote: »

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We are hosting Christmas this year and will have 2 couples staying over, so a 3 bed would be fine in theory.

As there are only 11 weeks to Xmas, you may still be in your current home

Davesnave

Speaking as someone who's spent a lot on de-quirking, I'd say beware of the word, as very often it resides in EA details as a substitute for 'bodged-up by a loony.'

I'm talking stupid narrow corridors where you can touch both walls with your elbows, strange ramps where floor heights don't match, high toilet cisterns which wash your shoes and trendy ovens that fail to cook things when the wind blows hard. Oh, and don't forget the 7 exits. Was someone in a fire, I wonder?

All that is probably easily forgivable in a 400 year old cottage, but in a 1970s bungalow it's just bloody annoying.

So, context is everything, and if the quirks make the house a little less saleable, then it may just fall inside rather than outside your price bracket. That'll help you forgive it too.

CP26

Thanks for the comments.

That is indeed the floor plan. I was prepared to look at making the bathroom additions a bit more private or removing them entirely so was liking the idea of a quaint cottage....however OH has ruled it out...not because of dodgy room loos but because he thinks the road is too busy and he doesnt like the lack of central heating in a 400 year old cottage.

Nevermind...our search shall continue!

Seems open plan loos arent that rare though...seen another one today with an open ensuite. Find it very odd!

freeisgood

With that bathroom...surely it would be possible to put a corridor though it? Make one bit and enclosed shower and sink room and the other a loo?
As for the Bed room through to the other 2nd bedroom...both have got windows in the right places...so you should be able to put a stud wall across the first bedroom to create a smaller room (meaning you have a corridor with wardrobes in) taking you to the 2nd bedroom...there are possibilities

LMG1305

freeisgood wrote: »

With that bathroom...surely it would be possible to put a corridor though it? Make one bit and enclosed shower and sink room and the other a loo?
As for the Bed room through to the other 2nd bedroom...both have got windows in the right places...so you should be able to put a stud wall across the first bedroom to create a smaller room (meaning you have a corridor with wardrobes in) taking you to the 2nd bedroom...there are possibilities

I was about to say the same thing. Looking at that floor plan it looks pretty easy to create separate access to both those bedrooms by partitioning the bathroom & the bedroom that is currently a walk through. I guess it would depend on the size of the rooms though because if they're already fairly small, partitioning them to create a hallway for access might make them too small.

Slinky

The ground floor would do my head in using that arrangement. Having to walk through the hall and breakfast room to the dining room - you'd never use it. I think I'd have to knock through and make the lounge a dining room and knock the breakfast room into the dining room to make a lounge.

As for upstairs, what a jumbly mess that is.

And looking at the overall measurements, it's pretty small.

Not one for me!

There must be something better than that out there somewhere.