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What would put you off a house...?

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  • Slinky
    Slinky Posts: 9,982 Forumite
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    Waterlily24 wrote: »
    We had a house with the kitchen at the front and I must say I loved it. It was in cul de sac so not very busy.



    Our new house has this, it's rented out at the moment, but in the few weeks we spent there doing it up, I spent quite a lot of time in kitchen just looking down the culdesac to the park at the end of the road just watching people doing their thing. I'm looking forward to that view.
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  • Amanda_Cm
    Amanda_Cm Posts: 168 Forumite
    Don't really like houses with kitchen at the front because I have young child. Want to be able to see it while playing in the garden. And also having an easy access to the kitchen when dining in the garden.
  • YoungBlueEyes
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    That wouldn't bother me at all DCFC79, but as others have said maybe resale would be a bit trickier...?
    I think it's a nice layout. I think more people baulk at having the main bathroom downstairs or the rooms are too small etc than would refuse a house cos the kitchen is at the front.
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  • YoungBlueEyes
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    Thanks for that TamsinC. Seems like we got lucky with our houses but then we never had to deal with outside contractors to sort any problems out. We certainly never had a problem like you've described, fingers crossed it gets sorted out soon!
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  • DCFC79
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    What about a kitchen without a sink but 1 in the utility room like here, find it weird myself, a sink should be in the kitchen. Ive looked at the 2 kitchen photos and cant see a sink that's obvious nor 1 mentioned in the description.
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    DCFC79 wrote: »
    What about a kitchen without a sink but 1 in the utility room like here, find it weird myself, a sink should be in the kitchen. Ive looked at the 2 kitchen photos and cant see a sink that's obvious nor 1 mentioned in the description.
    About 10 years ago, we looked at a freshly redeveloped £1m house near to where we used to live - no intention (or ability!) to buy it, but that's what open days are for, right...?

    The kitchen was lovely. Huge island... but... only a tiny sink, about big enough to rinse a tomato in. But there's a utility room there. Oh. Hold on. Nope, none there at all. <shrug>
  • NaughtiusMaximus
    NaughtiusMaximus Posts: 2,832 Forumite
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    DCFC79 wrote: »
    What about a kitchen without a sink but 1 in the utility room like here, find it weird myself, a sink should be in the kitchen. Ive looked at the 2 kitchen photos and cant see a sink that's obvious nor 1 mentioned in the description.

    It is a little weird but I could live with it, it helps that there appears to be no door between the kitchen and the utility room, just a doorway.

    I would never consider that house though due to the badly overlooked garden.
  • DairyQueen
    DairyQueen Posts: 1,822 Forumite
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    DCFC79 wrote: »
    What about a kitchen without a sink but 1 in the utility room like here, find it weird myself, a sink should be in the kitchen. Ive looked at the 2 kitchen photos and cant see a sink that's obvious nor 1 mentioned in the description.

    It would make me think: "damn, immediate kitchen refit needed'. It would also signal that I needed to check the house carefully for similar oddities. It wouldn't deter me from buying a house I really liked (price adjusted for the necessary changes).
  • DCFC79
    DCFC79 Posts: 40,598 Forumite
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    edited 19 March 2018 at 11:11PM
    NaughtiusMaximus wrote: »
    It is a little weird but I could live with it, it helps that there appears to be no door between the kitchen and the utility room, just a doorway.

    I would never consider that house though due to the badly overlooked garden.

    A washing machine and a tumble dryer/fridge in the utility room yes but not a sink, well its the first time Ive seen it. Id find it annoying having to move any pots/pans etc into the utility room when it should be in the kitchen so close to hand.

    Yes the garden is badly overlooked.
    DairyQueen wrote: »
    It would make me think: "damn, immediate kitchen refit needed'. It would also signal that I needed to check the house carefully for similar oddities. It wouldn't deter me from buying a house I really liked (price adjusted for the necessary changes).

    I'm currently looking for my first property to buy and this ticks most boxes, the kitchen would need adjusting, would prefer not to have the cost of doing major works.
  • Kim_kim
    Kim_kim Posts: 3,726 Forumite
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    DCFC79 wrote: »
    What about a kitchen without a sink but 1 in the utility room like here, find it weird myself, a sink should be in the kitchen. Ive looked at the 2 kitchen photos and cant see a sink that's obvious nor 1 mentioned in the description.

    THE kitchen hasn’t many cupboards, hence everything is piled on top of the cupboards. I really dislike their busy messy kitchen, probably like that because of lack of storage.
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