why the dislike for bungalows?
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For me it's nice to have the entertaining and sleeping spaces separate and that's easier on different levels. Just a personal preference thing.
Also as the number of rooms increases if makes layouts more difficult and you tend to end up with corridors.
Land is expensive in the UK, a bungalow of the same internal space as a house will cost more to site and also likely to build as the roof will be larger.
Also as the number of rooms increases if makes layouts more difficult and you tend to end up with corridors.
Land is expensive in the UK, a bungalow of the same internal space as a house will cost more to site and also likely to build as the roof will be larger.
irocfan said:
just wondering why do the Brits (on the whole) so dislike bungalows? I've seen it on various property programmes where someone wouldn't live in a bungalow but thinks nothing of living in a flat... apologies apartment
Your 180 degrees out. Theres a huge shortage of bungalows on the market. Wonder why!As above, lots of people do like them: whenever we ran a public consultation event for a proposed development when I was working for the big housebuilders, first (positive) question would always be 'are there going to be any bungalows?'.
There never are, because outside of low-land value areas like Lincolnshire and Scotland, they don't make any financial sense to developers any more, so they usually only build them when forced to do so as 'affordable housing'.
As an observation, they kind of defeat the point of themselves in many circumstances, though, because people usually want to buy them because they're too old or infirm to want to deal with stairs, but in that case you're giving yourself a garden to maintain that is far harder work.
There never are, because outside of low-land value areas like Lincolnshire and Scotland, they don't make any financial sense to developers any more, so they usually only build them when forced to do so as 'affordable housing'.
As an observation, they kind of defeat the point of themselves in many circumstances, though, because people usually want to buy them because they're too old or infirm to want to deal with stairs, but in that case you're giving yourself a garden to maintain that is far harder work.
Those who don’t want to live in one will have the same reason as people who don’t want to live in a ground floor flat - concerns (well founded or not) about security. Not sure I’d leave a bedroom window open while sleeping if I was on the ground floor, for example.
On the other hand, this is balanced by people who want / need to be on the ground floor - a lack of stairs is helpful if you’ve got limited mobility.
On the other hand, this is balanced by people who want / need to be on the ground floor - a lack of stairs is helpful if you’ve got limited mobility.
Downstairs is for living, upstairs is for sleeping 
I admit I have an irrational hatred of them. The undeveloped ones are housing for old folk, the chalet converted ones are ugly monstrosities (with massive gables, white render that goes dirty, grey windows, cheap fake timber cladding etc). They are also almost always marketed with one bedroom more than they should be instead of a reception room like a dining room.
I admit I have an irrational hatred of them. The undeveloped ones are housing for old folk, the chalet converted ones are ugly monstrosities (with massive gables, white render that goes dirty, grey windows, cheap fake timber cladding etc). They are also almost always marketed with one bedroom more than they should be instead of a reception room like a dining room.
irocfan said:
just wondering why do the Brits (on the whole) so dislike bungalows? I've seen it on various property programmes where someone wouldn't live in a bungalow but thinks nothing of living in a flat... apologies apartment
You're basing opinion on crap television. Bungalows are the most desired properties in the UK. Andrew_S said:
Trying to find a bungalow in the South East for my ageing parents to live in was difficult and expensive.
Got one in the end but it needed to be totally refurbished before becoming habitable.
This. Took us 4 years to find one and even then it needed a complete refurb. Other half has mobility issues to a bungalow was a necessity for us but I wouldn't go back to a house now.Got one in the end but it needed to be totally refurbished before becoming habitable.
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