Bought a house with a bad layout
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Just bought our first home, and need help with design please!
Comments (20)Congrats, great potential. I agree that a grey like limed white would be great on the walls. The ceilings look lower than some 60s houses and painting both ceiling and walls in the one colour or 1/4 strength can accentuate the height of the rooms. White trim on the skirts and door frames are not too bland but those windows may look better framed with a darker trim. This colour palate will be a great canvas for you to add colour and texture that you indicated you like in furniture, baskets, throws etc. Suggest sticking to painting pre move in and once you've lived there a while you will know what you/house needs. Enjoy...See MoreHome Layout
Comments (17)I just giggled. Nothing like a brother n law walking through your house in his boxers towards the toilet. In the Netherlands all bedrooms are near eachother and share one full bathroom (our modern houses have 1,5). Ensuites are quite fancy to us. But we do like to be able to walk into the bathroom without crossing the entire house first....See MoreFirst home layout thoughts?
Comments (6)Concentrate on orientation. The link provided by DDarroch is worth exploring. If you adopt those design principles You’ll end up with a much more comfortable house and more natural light in the right places, which will improve your sense of well-being in the house and should reduce your power bills too. If you are custom building then you have the scope to design for your site for a better result. If you are going with a volume builder then find one that will work with you on your plans to get closer to the ideal in terms of orientation. Some of the smaller volume builders are happy to do this. Best of luck. It’s an exciting time....See MorePOLL: Perfect house in a bad location or awful house in a perfect one?
Comments (64)Great to hear that you have had a good experience in an unpopular neighborhood. Our first home was an ex-army house in the extremely unpopular South Auckland of New Zealand. All we could afford then... and we lived there happily for seven of eight years. We loved our home and our initial neighbors, many of whom we are still friends with. But as folk moved on and a rougher element moved in, break-ins began happening, clothes stolen off the clothesline, plants, pots, ornaments, swing sets and even a trampoline! It was no longer safe to leave a door unlocked let alone open. The crunch came when youths began to harass our children walking to and from school simply because they believed it was their right to take what they wanted (uniform and shoes, food) and trying to force them to buy drugs, We moved on. I guess it comes down to; is it just an unpopular demographic area? or is it a rough area, gang related residents, drugs on the street etc? The question does not stipulate why an area may be deemed unpopular. I said above to choose the better area and this is what we did second time around, we live in a preferred area of a demographically unpopular rural town in Otago, NZ and love it here. We have renovated and will be mortgage free in our retirement. However we would never again live in an area unpopular because of the crime rate....See Moreoklouise
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