why the dislike for bungalows?
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I grew up in a bungalow... loved it.
Huge footprint, no pissing around with running up and down stairs, lots of light. iI had no idea people hated them until i started looking to buy a house with a girlfriend and she couldn't believe that i was even considering the idea of living in a bungalow! i was almost in shock.
Anyway bottom line, bungalows are great... and even more fantastic if there's an opportunity to turn it into a dormer bungalow...
Huge footprint, no pissing around with running up and down stairs, lots of light. iI had no idea people hated them until i started looking to buy a house with a girlfriend and she couldn't believe that i was even considering the idea of living in a bungalow! i was almost in shock.
Anyway bottom line, bungalows are great... and even more fantastic if there's an opportunity to turn it into a dormer bungalow...
Personally I like old, period properties so given most bungalows are from the last 60 years they’re almost all ruled out purely on architectural style grounds. On the whole they simply look crap and it’s nothing to do with living entirely on the ground floor!
That being said, if I get a hotel room on the ground floor it always feels strange - not bothersome, just different. And, as others have said, I’ve never been in a bungalow where you don’t end up with long, weird corridors or something like having to walk through the dining room to get to the bedrooms (like the in-laws).
A well designed, ultra modern one in huge, wooded grounds would be nice though! I’d want an underground garage with it though.
That being said, if I get a hotel room on the ground floor it always feels strange - not bothersome, just different. And, as others have said, I’ve never been in a bungalow where you don’t end up with long, weird corridors or something like having to walk through the dining room to get to the bedrooms (like the in-laws).
A well designed, ultra modern one in huge, wooded grounds would be nice though! I’d want an underground garage with it though.
227bhp said:
Lack of foresight, we don't like to admit that pretty soon we'll be old and not be able to get up stairs so easy. Live in a bungalow and you get to stay in your own home a lot longer.
Also worth considering that the smell of wee is easier to distribute evenly in a single storey building.227bhp said:
Lack of foresight, we don't like to admit that pretty soon we'll be old and not be able to get up stairs so easy. Live in a bungalow and you get to stay in your own home a lot longer.
I built a self contained 'bed-sit' into our new build with separate front door, as well as bedrooms/kitchen/bathroom downstairs, so when we get old and useless, we can get a 'live in' carer to look after us whilst we float away. Rather that than care homes. I hate looking that way, but it's coming to all of us. Sooner that we think!
Sambucket said:
No cons I can think of.
Here's one - not being able to leave a window open without the risk of someone climbing through! Especially in summer. Another one - not being able to walk around the first floor naked after coming out of the bathroom whilst their is a party downstairs. Yes, I do this ALOT.Gary C said:
Had a look at one before I bought my last but one house, problem was it was a typical 'old persons' bungalow area and it felt like they all needed headstones.
Nothing wrong with the house and it had a much bigger garden than the house I bought but it was such a depressing area
Sounds like a postcode problem more than a house type problem. Nothing wrong with the house and it had a much bigger garden than the house I bought but it was such a depressing area
Sambucket said:
Gary C said:
Had a look at one before I bought my last but one house, problem was it was a typical 'old persons' bungalow area and it felt like they all needed headstones.
Nothing wrong with the house and it had a much bigger garden than the house I bought but it was such a depressing area
Sounds like a postcode problem more than a house type problem. Nothing wrong with the house and it had a much bigger garden than the house I bought but it was such a depressing area
In fact, when I went to view, there was a table with a paper and a bunch of keys plus a chair with a jacket over the back as if someone had just been sitting there. The estate agent opened with 'thats where they found the old guy, died reading his paper'
Put me off a bit
Crumpet said:
Personally I like old, period properties so given most bungalows are from the last 60 years they’re almost all ruled out purely on architectural style grounds. On the whole they simply look crap and it’s nothing to do with living entirely on the ground floor!
+1, nothing fundamentally wrong with them in principle, but in the UK a bungalow often screams grey, boring, and 'old person waiting to die'.Bungalows will be quite attractive when the legs start dreading the stairs. These new 3 floor places will need 2 stair lifts to make them manageable when older.
Developers love bungalows as they can convert them to multistory monstrosities which have a compromised layout and flog them for loads a money as they typically sit on large plots of land.
Developers love bungalows as they can convert them to multistory monstrosities which have a compromised layout and flog them for loads a money as they typically sit on large plots of land.
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