Three storey town houses, yay or nay?

scholesfan88

We're currently buying a 3 storey for this reason, though it's a semi and not a townhouse.

The third floor is solely the master bedroom.

The rest of the family can go about their daily business without disturbing me whilst I sleep due to working late/night shifts permanently.

MERFE

We bought a 3 storey house, also a semi not a townhouse. Our layout is kitchen diner, lounge and downstairs toilet on the gf, ff 2 large double bedrooms and bathroom then the top floor is a loft room which is huge.

Next door had theirs fitted with an ensuite but we have 2 children in ours one at each end so prefer the space and don't mind them having to come down the stairs to use the toilet, they have young legs.

We chose this house rather than others we saw for the bedroom sizes, our kids are 2 teenagers and one nearly teen so they spend a fair amount of time in their rooms so it suits us.

There is still a good sized loft above the loft room, big enough for suitcases, christmas trees and whatever else so I don't feel we lost out on that by having a loft room.

We don't find the sound travels too much, I can't usually hear the kids unless they have friends round and start running about and I have to shout pretty loud when dinner is ready for them to hear me if they are right up the top.

Murphybear

We lived in a townhouse some years ago

Ground floor one non specific room, cloakroom and garage

First floor, large kitchen and lounge. Small balcony, lovely views

Second floor 2 large bedrooms and bathroom

We liked it but were a lot younger and thinner then

Not sure I’d like it now though.

scottishblondie

We sold our townhouse last year, but we liked it. Ours was:

Ground floor: small living room, utility, kitchen/diner and toilet
First floor: master bedroom with en-suite and large living room
2nd floor: 3 bedrooms, one with en-suite, family bathroom

I liked the separation of the top floor bedrooms from the busy downstairs, but I did find it a bit difficult carrying the baby up and down in the middle of the night. The only real problem I had with ours was that I wished there was more living space on the ground floor. The layout had the kitchen/diner separated from the living room by the utility. If we had stayed on we were planning to extend out the back to make a big family room across the width of the house with bi-folds in to the garden, which would have given us a much better space.

ianthy

Just sold our 3 storey terraced house - it's time to downsize. Loved to bits and will really miss it. I think its really down to the layout, we kept reception rooms and kitchen on the GF, master suite, WC and spare bedroom on 1st floor and 2nd floor 2 beds and bathroom plus study. it seemed to work well and was popular with the families that viewed it.

newsgroup_monkey

I absolutely loved my 3 storey townhouse, but it was an absolute horror trying to sell it.


Sounds a similar setup to Murphybear as above.



Even though we'd heavily updated it - converting the groundfloor garage and bedroom / study into a 30ft straight-thru lounge with french doors leading to a patio with a toilet/utility room. It was all we could do with the downstairs as the kitchen/lounge was on the middle floor.


We left the middle floor as a study/ lounge-diner/ kitchen with 3 further bedrooms and bathroom on the top floor.


Really struggled to sell, despite being in a nice part of town (non-estate, cul-de-sac) even though it was cheap for the floor space and cracking value (which was what attracted us in the first place I guess). Small garden, but 2 car spaces on the front too.



Much as I love them, I wouldn't buy another.

ethank

I loved my townhouse but generally you have lots of upstairs space and very little reception space. Eventually, I had to move for more space!

GDB2222

I work from home, and my office is on the top floor. I am up and down the stairs many times a day. Even though I'm getting on a bit, the stairs don't bother me, as I'm used to them. It was a deliberate decision to put me up here, so that I would get the exercise.

It might be more difficult with a young family, though.

AlexMac

My wife never went above the 1st floor.

Her kids lived up there

A happy segregation?


I haven't quite worked out why I am even responding to this Q...?

konark

Vile things; you'd have to sentence me to live in one.



They tower over the road making it look like a canyon.


Kitchen and lounge on different floors is a killer for me.


If land wasn't so dear nobody would choose to live like this.