New "Have a Look at This" thread

General_Grant

Gers said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/111822173#/?channel=RES_BUY

A very very narrow kitchen!  Most odd and the bedrooms are also very small.

pictures #6 and #11 - glass panels for height of the door to the shower room

Patr100

user1977 said:

Gers said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/111822173#/?channel=RES_BUY

A very very narrow kitchen!  Most odd and the bedrooms are also very small.

Bit odd, yes - the usual conversion (if you wanted to turn the original kitchen into bedroom 2) would be to then make the bed recesses into an internal kitchen rather than a bathroom - but instead they changed the bathroom into the kitchen.

Don't think the bedrooms are all that small, just some unflattering pics of them.

Just over 8ft and 9ft wide to narrowest span and one is more than twice as long. Not that small.
it's the way they have positioned the bed that makes it look cramped. 
But that kitchen...awful. 

GaleSF63

Gers said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/111822173#/?channel=RES_BUY

A very very narrow kitchen!  Most odd and the bedrooms are also very small.

I know there are a lot of tenement flats in Glasgow with odd layouts because it's unavoidable  but this wasn't unavoidable; it was ideally suited to being a one bedroom flat with living room and bedroom 1 as living/kitchen and bedroom 2 and kitchen as a decent sized bedroom. 

Gers

GaleSF63 said:

Gers said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/111822173#/?channel=RES_BUY

A very very narrow kitchen!  Most odd and the bedrooms are also very small.

I know there are a lot of tenement flats in Glasgow with odd layouts because it's unavoidable  but this wasn't unavoidable; it was ideally suited to being a one bedroom flat with living room and bedroom 1 as living/kitchen and bedroom 2 and kitchen as a decent sized bedroom. 

Its 'normally' the bathrooms which are long and narrow but no-where as narrow as this entirely stupid kitchen. 

Skiddaw1

Gers said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/111822173#/?channel=RES_BUY

A very very narrow kitchen!  Most odd and the bedrooms are also very small.

Lordy! That really is the kitchen for which the expression 'Galley-style' was invented.

[Deleted User]

Wonder what happened. One home split into two or three?

GaleSF63

rigolith said:

Wonder what happened. One home split into two or three?

Or the other way round. Some old tenement flats had only one or two rooms. 

Plans for tenements in 1906.
4353385122_5bdf58e76a_b.jpg (1024×835) (flickr.com)

user1977

[Deleted User] said:

Wonder what happened. One home split into two or three?

No, like I said above it's what would originally have been a one bedroom flat (bedroom 2 had been the kitchen), but oddly converted into a 2 bed. The "usual" conversion would be to stick the kitchen where they've put the showerroom, and leave the bathroom where it originally was (i.e. the narrow room which they've made the kitchen).

[Deleted User]

GaleSF63 said:

rigolith said:

Wonder what happened. One home split into two or three?

Or the other way round. Some old tenement flats had only one or two rooms. 

Plans for tenements in 1906.

It's always such a shame when someone takes decent housing like that and completely butchers it.

TBagpuss

GaleSF63 said:

rigolith said:

Wonder what happened. One home split into two or three?

Or the other way round. Some old tenement flats had only one or two rooms. 

Plans for tenements in 1906.
4353385122_5bdf58e76a_b.jpg (1024×835) (flickr.com)

Fascinating. It looks like originally not all of them had kitchens, and those that did had beds in the kitchen? 

I know some flats of that period and a bit later didn't have kitchens are they were serviced flats with residents ordering meals from a restaurant on the ground floor, so I wondered initially if it had been like that, and perhaps divided. I assume that that kind of services flats were  aimed at a better-off  owner or tenant, though.