Buying on floor space vs bedrooms

airandwater

Waterlily24 wrote: »

Worked it out in square meters and ours is 183.67 excluding hallways and the 3000 square feet is 278.71 so huge lol.

It's cavernous. However, value could be added if ground floor extension or alteration allowed for a 4th bedroom/office on the ground floor.

Waterlily24

We've already had a big extension on ours. It was originally a bungalow 3 bed, 1 reception and small kitchen and bathroom. They would only allow us to increase the footprint by a third so we had to go up and it's now a chalet bungalow. The lounge, dining room, kitchen, utility, study, master bedroom with ensuite bathroom and main bathroom are downstairs and three large bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs. There's only two of us most of the time so certainly don't need anything bigger lol.

maisie_cat

When we were extending our house we considered knocking the front 2 bedrooms into one as our neighbour has done. I sought advice from an estate agent and people with children who all said that 4 bedrooms is better than 3 even on the same footprint. Our smallest bedroom has a bespoke bed because it's 2 inches too small for a standard bed but fine as a guest room.
I have always used square meters to compare properties in the same area, either plot or house plus garage/outbuildings.
In our road there were 3 originally identical detached bungalows for sale, of which 2 have been extended. The square metres range from 70 to 125. The largest has a huge extension that is frankly disproportionate, but it sold quickly for £600k. Another that is 90 square metres at £500k has sold, but the smallest at 70 has not sold at £465k. The smallest is 2 bed and the other 2 are both 3 bed with identical bedrooms.

getmore4less

Waterlily24 wrote: »

Crumbs 3000 sq ft sounds huge. I've just done a quick check on our square footage and it only comes out at 1977 sq ft (does not include hall, landing and stairs though). We have quite a big house 4 bedrooms, three receptions all good sizes and three bathrooms. Largest room(lounge) is 26.75ft x 13ft and the smallest (study) is 11.25ft x 7.33ft.


I'm going to have to check my calculations again lol.

Most houses are a rectangle with bits(porch bay...)

WxDx2 gets close rather than adding room sizes.

troffasky

Beenie wrote: »

When buying our current home, 6 places were in the running. We worked out £ per sq ft on each, and then did a comparison. It helped us buy the home we are in, bought for space and pleasure rather than 'bedrooms'.

Ditto [although metres, not feet]. Put a spreadsheet together and knocked one off the shortlist when we realised that it was £500/sqm more than the place we ended up buying.


Was disappointed to see how few places had £/sqm on their listings.

Waterlily24

getmore4less wrote: »

Most houses are a rectangle with bits(porch bay...)

WxDx2 gets close rather than adding room sizes.

When we did our extension we weren't allowed to keep it as a rectangle. The bungalow was originally 'L' shaped which was squared off with part of the extension. The other part of the extension which was the other side of the bungalow had to go in about 12 inches on each side. We would have much preferred to keep it a rectangle as it would have made the lounge bigger but rules is rules lol.


Must admit I did work it out like you say a while ago but can't remember what the result was.

getmore4less

Shalet tend to be smaller rectangle on top of a bigger one.

Allthough area is a useful measure a lot of big house have lots of low utility spaces like halls and landings

That is why developers have been able to squeeze houses onto smaller plots, smaller connecting space or eliminating some connections like having to walk through rooms

Waterlily24

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Waterlily24

getmore4less wrote: »

Shalet tend to be smaller rectangle on top of a bigger one.

Allthough area is a useful measure a lot of big house have lots of low utility spaces like halls and landings

That is why developers have been able to squeeze houses onto smaller plots, smaller connecting space or eliminating some connections like having to walk through rooms

Yes, the rooms upstairs are definitely smaller than downstairs because the slanting roof starts at bungalow height , hubby made a storage space in there with small doors going into it. In one room there's a bit that juts out where the stairs are but we made that into a little space for my craft stuff, I've got an awful lot in there but head space can be a bit difficult and I'm not that tall.

lincroft1710

Waterlily24 wrote: »

When we did our extension we weren't allowed to keep it as a rectangle. The bungalow was originally 'L' shaped which was squared off with part of the extension. The other part of the extension which was the other side of the bungalow had to go in about 12 inches on each side. We would have much preferred to keep it a rectangle as it would have made the lounge bigger but rules is rules lol.

I don't what "rules" these were, but would suggest they were the whim of the planning authority unless the extension was very close to the property boundary.