House A or B please

Jeepers_Creepers

Angela, which rooms in each house face on to the garden? 

I'm with Scotbot - having sunlight flooding in to the 'right' room is a biggie. Also, if there's any future potential to extend even slightly in to the garden, you can make is spectacular when the sun is literally on your side. Or if you fit folding doors - stuff like that. 

Angela_D_3

In both cases the living room faces into the garden and the kitchens face the street/ culdesac 
Basically I think house A had been painted,  cheap kitchen and new Grey cheap carpets tyst all the viewers have walked all over,  I’d rip them up anyway I can’t stand shoes inside.  I don’t get the impression there’s been a rewire,  the boiler is old. 
The bathroom is new though and the kitchen,  so I could make do for a while. 

House B though I’d have to get keys on the Monday and work to start on the bathroom thst day.  It’s not useable.  Kitchen is alright but it needs rather than wants doing,  boiler too.  Every room needs decorating.  This isn’t me being fussy.  Untouched for 25 years 

RelievedSheff

House B is sounding more and more appealing.

GDB2222

I know people all have different standards, but are the current inhabitants not using this unusable bathroom?

Ramouth

We are currently buying a bit of a house A because it is in a great location and OH loves it.  If there was a house B option in the same location I would definitely choose that though.

Angela_D_3

GDB2222 said:

I know people all have different standards, but are the current inhabitants not using this unusable bathroom?

No they’ve been dead 12 months 

phoebe1989seb

Definitely house B (although as we love gardening, personally we'd want a larger garden, lol!)

Actually, we'd *almost always choose the house that was more of a project and we'd never buy one that had been tarted up to sell....*the caveat being if the tarted up one was in a far better location. As yours are both in the same street, that's not such an issue.

Regarding the bathroom, it's personal choice how much *inconvenience* you can tolerate. We've purchased and immediately moved into a few houses with utterly minging bathrooms (our current cottage had no water supply as the farmer whose land the private supply came from had terminated it, so in the first instance it was bottled/stream water all the way 🙄) and have managed ok. Your mileage may vary!

We've been here almost three years and have only just done the bathroom which was in a terrible state, what with the cottage having previously been tenanted then repossessed!

The light is a far bigger issue imho - I'd want as much coming into the property as possible, so that would affect my decision. If the orientation is similar/the same, again I'd choose house B.

ProDave

It's more than which way the garden faces.

In an ideal world I would have a south facing garden with all the living rooms facing the garden.

But if you are looking at a house with the living room at the front and a kitchen at the back and not much prospect of swapping them around, then the north facing garden would ensure the front living room is sunny.

badger09

House B. Assuming you have the funds to have all the work done. You can choose exactly what you want, within your budget. If the bathroom needs doing immediately, you can do that. For almost everything else, I would advise living in the house for at least 6 months rather than rush into doing the lot.

We did that when we moved here over 20 years ago, because it wasn't my 1st choice of house, I was impatient & we had the money after moving from a much more expensive area. To be honest, the pleasure was so outwighed by the sheer number of decisions we had to make in a very short time. I've regretted at least one of my hasty decisions, ever since, but it would have been far too expensive to redo it . I won't make the same mistake this time.

GDB2222

Angela_D_3 said:

GDB2222 said:

I know people all have different standards, but are the current inhabitants not using this unusable bathroom?

No they’ve been dead 12 months 

You reckon the bathroom killed them?