Bungalows...thoughts?

Floor out the loft. Problem solved.

And I too live in a bungalow. It's very nice. I do occasionally miss stairs though, and it seems to have an effect as I quite often trip up them at work. Other than that...big gardens, quiet neighbours, long driveway (space for 4 cars).

What's not to like!?
 
Bungalow is featured over 50 times in this thread and bungalow is now the best word ever! I can't stop thinking about it, it bounces through my mind.

Shame I like stairs, they are fun, you can slide down them and being up high makes my home feel like a castle or a fort! Forts are much better than living in a trench, takes more to storm a trench but when you do, you'll never want to live there again.
 
You could always add a dorma in the future and then get an extra two rooms.

Lots of young couples live in bungalows around here. They have nice sized gardens for the kids and no stairs for them to fall down. Plus its much less likely to have chavs speeding up and down in their Corsas. Most of the areas I work on that have bungalows are nice, quiet areas.
 
The benefits of bungalow is that they tend to be fully detached. Most of the houses where i grew up are single story, they don't even call them bungalows. They are just called houses. They call houses with two floors, double story houses. I would normally moan about the lack of concrete and interior brick walls in house construction in the uk. It depends on what the alternatives are like. IF you have to chose between a bungalow that is fully detached with a nice back garden and a flat or even a fully attached duplex. I would pick a bungalow as you could always knock it all down and build a double story house.
 
I'm looking at the moment for a place and living coastal means there are lots of bungalows in the area.
Personally I'm not keen but still have an open mind so I will look at them if they come up in the area i'm looking.

Negatives
For me are the lack of separation between living space and sleeping space which is a problem when you have kids.
The ones that have been converted to have more rooms have flat roofs in pretty much all cases. (there are two sorts of roof, pitched roofs and roofs that leak).
The bedrooms are scattered in an often illogical pattern.
Windows in the summer, I want my bedroom window open at night which would be a worry in a bungalow.
Often more expensive because they occupy more land.
Often need modernisation and insulation.

Plus points
Ones with a good conversion are normally damn good.
They come with more land.

So more negatives for me than positives :)
 
groen said:
The benefits of bungalow is that they tend to be fully detached. Most of the houses where i grew up are single story, they don't even call them bungalows. They are just called houses. They call houses with two floors, double story houses. I would normally moan about the lack of concrete and interior brick walls in house construction in the uk. It depends on what the alternatives are like. IF you have to chose between a bungalow that is fully detached with a nice back garden and a flat or even a fully attached duplex. I would pick a bungalow as you could always knock it all down and build a double story house.
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Yeah what's with these Brits calling single storey houses "bungalows"? I thought a bungalow was some wooden beach hut thing. It's a house, and if it has 2 levels then it's a double storey house.

In South Africa there is so much land, almost all houses are single storey with big gardens. I wouldn't buy one here though since they seem to be looked down on and I wouldn't want to limit my resale options. I wouldn't be keen on doing any kind of major extensions either.
 
I moved from a 3 storey house to a bungalow in november, purely as having a baby in a 3 storey house was a nightmare.

Its nice having all the rooms at roughly the same temperature, in the other house it was freezing downstairs even with the heating on.

The bungalow is smaller but feels bigger as all the rooms are 'usable' during the day if that makes sense.

Old people like them because old people are smarter than young people.
 
I bought a car that my gf didn't really like, but she agreed to let me choose it. Now she really hates it (too big for little northern roads), and I would've preferred to have let her have it her way and suffer driving around in a Yaris or 206 than have a car I like and have her getting angry at it (and by default me) all the time.

Lesson: if she doesn't like it now, she may hate it later and you will get the blame. Whether or not it's good is irrelevant.
 
We lived in a massive bungalow for a year which we rented for us so we could live with my elderly nanna. It was fun at first but the novelty soon wore off. The things which started to annoy me boiled down to:

- Going to bed early was a pain as you could hear the television from the living room really loud in the bedrooms.

- It isn't nice walking out of the shower straight past the living room door to get to your bedroom.

- No privacy when having a **** unless you have a bungalow with a toilet hidden away in the corner of the house.
 
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