No entrance hall - would this put you off?

PasturesNew

I wouldn't like it because of the heat loss and lack of privacy.
If I viewed I'd be looking to see if I could build a storm porch outside, or if the room was large enough to create an inner hallway, although then I'd think about cost/mess.

However, there's a buyer for every house. It didn't bother you.

looby-loo_2

Mine is a 5 bed detached built in 1907 and has no hall and the stairs go off the kitchen. Frontdoor goes straight into the diningroom. To get to the lounge from the front door we go through diningroom into breakfast room, through the breakfast room into the kitchen, round the bottom of the stairs and into the study, through the study and into the playroom, through the playroom into the lounge.

Quite a trek so we just use the backdoor!

(The far end of the lounge is next to the frontdoor but there is no access so we just go round in a big U shape) Oh, and we have a huge landing with room for a guest bed. The whole layout looks like a Friday afternoon job by the builder and NO I wouldn't buy this house again and it is for sale)

chinatown_2

We've just bought our first home with the same layout as yours. The house is perfect for us though I did say the only thing I wasnt 100% keen on was the door opening to the living room. However it wasnt enough to stop us wanting it. The parking is at the back anyway and any visitors we get will park there and come in this way, and I will use this way rather than push the pram through the living room. Doesnt bother us.

Would there be any way potential buyers could extend and build a little porch? Any restrictions with the plans?

If someone likes your house enough it wont put them off dont worry. Its just a very slow market at the moment.

Jack_Frost_2

Thanks for your replies. I was thinking of getting a quote for a porch and then offer to reduce the price by whatever if faced again with the objection. An inner lobby would make the living room too small and may make getting furniture out difficult. I don't have spare funds to get the porch job done. Out of interest does anyone know how much a small porch would cost to have built? Would planning permission need to be obtained?

poet123

porches have just become exempt from PP but no idea of costs

TBeckett100

hmm, interesting views. terraced houses in the town i live in have a door straight into the room. the terraced house we are buying has a small porch with a very small living room.

we were planning to bring the porch across the front of the house and extending the front room out, however this would mean a door in the room situation. I guess it would be better to keep the wall between the entrance and living room extension to give some seraration