Hello,
I probably have a typical single-person problem. I want to buy a house and already have a specific one in mind. But like most houses, this one is also too large. I would have 3 rooms and 2 bathrooms “left over.” There is also a 40m² (430 sq ft) utility room. On the ground floor, I can imagine taking down a wall to connect the bathroom with the kitchen to create a larger kitchen. However, since the house is listed (heritage protected), that probably won’t be allowed, right?
Otherwise, everything fits well with this house, and since I’m generally only looking in an area with about 20,000 residents and want a large garden plus an outbuilding, it’s very unlikely that I’ll find a smaller house.
So, what do you do with too much space?
Best regards,
Chris
I probably have a typical single-person problem. I want to buy a house and already have a specific one in mind. But like most houses, this one is also too large. I would have 3 rooms and 2 bathrooms “left over.” There is also a 40m² (430 sq ft) utility room. On the ground floor, I can imagine taking down a wall to connect the bathroom with the kitchen to create a larger kitchen. However, since the house is listed (heritage protected), that probably won’t be allowed, right?
Otherwise, everything fits well with this house, and since I’m generally only looking in an area with about 20,000 residents and want a large garden plus an outbuilding, it’s very unlikely that I’ll find a smaller house.
So, what do you do with too much space?
Best regards,
Chris
AngelusNoctis schrieb:
Don’t you have any ideas for a bathroom or a 40 sqm (430 sq ft) room? Not me. There’s no such thing as “the bathroom”—there are nice and ugly ones, well-designed and poorly designed. You really have to see it. The same goes for the 40 sqm (430 sq ft) room. Saying 40 sqm alone doesn’t tell you anything if you don’t know the ceiling height (a 2 m (6.6 ft) ceiling would make the room unusable for me, regardless of the 40 sqm). Or how many windows there are and their sizes.
As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Is it really surprising that someone wants to see it before commenting? Apart from standard suggestions like a fitness or hobby room, I wonder why an artist—who should be creative—has no ideas at all for extra space. Usually, the problem is quite the opposite: too many ideas and not enough space.
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AngelusNoctis13 Jun 2016 13:28@Frank:
I plan to have my hobby workshop on the ground floor. The 40sqm (430 sq ft) utility room is located on the upper floor. I find that quite impractical for a workshop. I would have to carry everything all the way through the house.
I don’t need a hobby room.
Nor an office.
Nor an ironing room, I have never ironed.
I don’t need a playroom either, I dislike children.
I also don’t require any additional storage space.
In summary: No matter how I look at it, the house is too big and will likely remain so due to historic preservation regulations. So currently, I am considering something smaller.
@Elina:
But it should be common sense not to take photos during a house tour and then post them online. Or would you be okay with everyone here commenting on your messy bedroom with your lingerie scattered in the background?
Whether a bathroom is ugly or nice, long or square, it’s still a bathroom that isn’t needed.
The 40sqm (430 sq ft) utility room has two small windows and a ceiling height of 2m (6 ft 7 in).
And even an artist doesn’t have to know everything.
I plan to have my hobby workshop on the ground floor. The 40sqm (430 sq ft) utility room is located on the upper floor. I find that quite impractical for a workshop. I would have to carry everything all the way through the house.
I don’t need a hobby room.
Nor an office.
Nor an ironing room, I have never ironed.
I don’t need a playroom either, I dislike children.
I also don’t require any additional storage space.
In summary: No matter how I look at it, the house is too big and will likely remain so due to historic preservation regulations. So currently, I am considering something smaller.
@Elina:
But it should be common sense not to take photos during a house tour and then post them online. Or would you be okay with everyone here commenting on your messy bedroom with your lingerie scattered in the background?
Whether a bathroom is ugly or nice, long or square, it’s still a bathroom that isn’t needed.
The 40sqm (430 sq ft) utility room has two small windows and a ceiling height of 2m (6 ft 7 in).
And even an artist doesn’t have to know everything.
AngelusNoctis schrieb:
I don’t need a playroom either; I hate kids.You were little once yourself; I hope your parents didn’t hate you. 😉 I don’t have a playroom in my house now either—that was something my brothers and I had when we were children.AngelusNoctis schrieb:
Conclusion: No matter how I look at it, the house is too big and will probably stay that way because of its listed building status. So for now, I’m looking for something smaller.Good plan. In my case, I was able to buy the house cheaply within the family. I’m not interested in having tenants in my own home, so I have a bit more space than I need, but I manage. And if that ever changes, I can still sell or rent it out. Maybe one day a parent might be left alone and move in, but they already live nearby in their own detached house.
AngelusNoctis schrieb:
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It should be obvious that taking photos during a house viewing and then posting them online is not appropriate. Would you be okay if everyone here was talking about your messy bedroom, with your lingerie scattered in the background?
But if there are pictures and they are publicly available, why wouldn’t you look at them? The house is empty anyway. At least it was mentioned earlier that this is the house in question, and my comment referred to that.
I also don’t quite understand the issue—if you already know you need very little space, why search for large houses? When we searched, we entered our minimum requirements into the search filters, so anything that didn’t meet those criteria simply didn’t show up. It’s true that this limits the options, but that’s just the downside of having quite specific needs.
Hm – I hadn’t checked this thread again over the past few days.
I’m surprised at how it has developed.
Users are trying to get as complete a picture as possible to give @AngelusNoctis reasonable advice, and then they get attacked. Of course, since the users don’t know @AngelusNoctis, they couldn’t have known that she dislikes children, so the suggestions went in a direction she didn’t like.
Well, it seems this wasn’t the house she was really looking for, although all the details provided here matched. It must be a semi-detached house currently for sale in the same area at a similar price, in case she ever needs it.
By the way – if I consider the following quote carefully:
Dilapidated houses in the middle of nowhere – @AngelusNoctis is currently considering purchasing a building from the 18th century in the same county (=middle of nowhere), which is in about the same condition as the link she posted (= dilapidated house, according to her).
For me, this discussion is clearly drifting toward "troll posting" – a term I 1. do not like to see and 2. even less like to use. But it seems appropriate here.
She now seems to have realized that this property is not the right one after all – so we should just let it go. I, for one, will be leaving this thread now.
I’m surprised at how it has developed.
Users are trying to get as complete a picture as possible to give @AngelusNoctis reasonable advice, and then they get attacked. Of course, since the users don’t know @AngelusNoctis, they couldn’t have known that she dislikes children, so the suggestions went in a direction she didn’t like.
Well, it seems this wasn’t the house she was really looking for, although all the details provided here matched. It must be a semi-detached house currently for sale in the same area at a similar price, in case she ever needs it.
By the way – if I consider the following quote carefully:
AngelusNoctis schrieb:
@sascha:
And what does Google tell you to do with 2 extra bathrooms, 3 extra rooms, and 40 sqm (430 sq ft) of usable space?
What kind of pictures are you looking at on Google? Don’t you have any idea what a bathroom or a 40 sqm (430 sq ft) room looks like?
Musketier writes nonsense, and it is nonsense when users here answer my questions by googling or send me links to dilapidated houses in the middle of nowhere that I absolutely have to buy. I could do that myself. I just want to hear personal opinions from people who also face the problem of too much living space. Like the suggestions for a gym, for example.
Dilapidated houses in the middle of nowhere – @AngelusNoctis is currently considering purchasing a building from the 18th century in the same county (=middle of nowhere), which is in about the same condition as the link she posted (= dilapidated house, according to her).
For me, this discussion is clearly drifting toward "troll posting" – a term I 1. do not like to see and 2. even less like to use. But it seems appropriate here.
She now seems to have realized that this property is not the right one after all – so we should just let it go. I, for one, will be leaving this thread now.
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AngelusNoctis13 Jun 2016 16:52@FrankH:
So just because I was once small, I’m supposed to set up a playroom now??
@Elina:
I don’t see where there should be any pictures of the house that are also publicly accessible. How do you come to that conclusion? Sure, the property is listed on the realtor’s site with 4 photos. But none of those show the 2 unnecessary bathrooms or the 40m² (430ft²) utility room. And how do you know the house is vacant? It’s still fully occupied.
How likely do you think it is that I’d find a small house of 70–80m² (750–860ft²)? I’d say the chances are close to zero. Just as an example: On the property portal I’m using, I currently find 97 houses in the area I’m searching. Of those, exactly 0 houses are smaller than 85m² (915ft²).
So I think you don’t need to look for something that doesn’t exist.
@86bibo:
I don’t know what I would do with a gallery. I’m not someone who likes or creates paintings. My art is made on the computer, and my study is enough for that.
So just because I was once small, I’m supposed to set up a playroom now??
@Elina:
I don’t see where there should be any pictures of the house that are also publicly accessible. How do you come to that conclusion? Sure, the property is listed on the realtor’s site with 4 photos. But none of those show the 2 unnecessary bathrooms or the 40m² (430ft²) utility room. And how do you know the house is vacant? It’s still fully occupied.
How likely do you think it is that I’d find a small house of 70–80m² (750–860ft²)? I’d say the chances are close to zero. Just as an example: On the property portal I’m using, I currently find 97 houses in the area I’m searching. Of those, exactly 0 houses are smaller than 85m² (915ft²).
So I think you don’t need to look for something that doesn’t exist.
@86bibo:
I don’t know what I would do with a gallery. I’m not someone who likes or creates paintings. My art is made on the computer, and my study is enough for that.
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