pow
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If you want 2 kids 
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ash_corsa
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Location: Shrewsbury
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Not keen on all the hard floors, looks like only one room has carpet.
Amazing difference in price between areas aswell.
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dannymccann
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Registered: 9th Aug 06
Location: Doddington, Lincolnshire
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Yea that Darlo house is a lot of space for the price! Mine is only 3 beds and isnt finished to that standard and was £137k last March, got yourself a bargain there, although cant see what the area is like, any good??
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
If you want 2 kids
they can stay upstairs in the bedroom together 
and yes, carpet is only on the stairs/1 room but i don't like carpet anyway. we have it in our house at the moment and the cats just rip it up all the time.
decoration wise, we're not bothered as we can do all that. mostly garden space, driveway and interior layout is all that we look for.
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fiestakidda
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Area is fine not ultra posh but not mega rub down. Has good schools in the area and the house has off street parking round the back leading onto our garden. Couldn't have asked for more really.
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Jules S
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I was sat waiting for something earlier, and I thought what a crap plan ben had posted.
Why would you want the kitchen on the first floor? Why compromise all of the accommodation in terms of room size and shape?
Looking at it again, it clear to be what I thought all along. Towns houses (generally) are thin/deep and all the ones I've been in are compromised by the staircase making the rooms either the wrong shape, size or on the wrong floor.
It's complicated why bens house is laid out like it is, and i don't doubt given or
Orning or so I could make it betterbut it would cost more.... And I guess that's why they don't work in my eyes
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Jules S
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Sorry iPhone format and I really cba to correct the paragraphing lol
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Colin
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Theres some smart ones near me ive looked at before, they have some cracking features like balcony, 1st floor deck/car-port & open plan mid floor!! I'd have one if it was well designed with a few trick features. That said the draw of a detached house for less won over trick balconys.
Nice idea though!!
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dannymccann
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Registered: 9th Aug 06
Location: Doddington, Lincolnshire
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Mine is a normal layout jules...
Ground floor - kitchen/diner and lounge, bog
First - spare bedroom 1 and 2, family bathroom,
Second - master, unsuited and small loftspace, which means our bedroom is a similar size to the whole of the ground floor 
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Ben G
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every town house in this area has a first floor kitchen and living room as the ground floor has a garage and bedroom/shower room.
i prefer the living area being in the middle myself, but some people would prefer them on the ground floor.
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Fro
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Quite like that Ben
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Cavey
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quote:
Originally posted by dannymccann
Mine is a normal layout jules...
Ground floor - kitchen/diner and lounge, bog
First - spare bedroom 1 and 2, family bathroom,
Second - master, unsuited and small loftspace, which means our bedroom is a similar size to the whole of the ground floor
Think you got yours at roughly the same time as us. That's out layout as well, and I much prefer it to the middle floor living, especially as we've got a cat, we can sit in the living room, open the french windows and let the cat run around the garden, and even, in the summer, we can use the living room and garden and still be social instead of having to climb a flight of stairs all the time.
Also, the main bedroom we've got on the middle floor has "jack and jill" doors into the family bathroom so if we've got guests, can lock 1 door and makes it essentially an en suite. Still got a third bedroom and a study on the middle floor as well.
Also have a seperate garage so that free'd up a lot of space obviously.
There were townhouses here with the built in garage and same living plan as Bens, but a) they were £20k more than ours, and b) I don't really like the layout as much as what we ended up with.
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whitter45
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tend to find ground floor dining room or bedroom is a wste as its cold and people dont like sleeping under the lounge and upstairs - mentality thing
I went to look at one a couple weeks ago that was a 3 storey house but basically the top fllor was master and ensuite
Then had a study and 2 double bed sized rooms and bathroom on first floor with Liunge dining room and kitchen on ground
Felt much more like a traditonal house but with added space of the extra fllor
Town houses with dining or bedroom on ground floor for me dont work and is a waste of a floor
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