I was watching some random television tonight and suddenly this UK show about people looking for a new house was on. They were looking for something 'roomy', but I thought the house they were showing was far from that. It seems they were amazed by a 5 x 3 meter living room, a 2 x 2 bathroom, 2 x 2 bedrooms and something like 3 x 3 kitchen but one that was full of appliances and only had like a meter wide stroke to move in. Mind that this was in a rural area, with no other house in a few hundred meters vicinity. It came out at £380,000 and they thought it was a steal!
I live in mainland Europe and my foster parents house seems a tad small compared to what many of my friends have, but even we have a 8 x 4 living room, a 4 x 4 kitchen, a 3 x 3 bathroom and bedrooms and some storage rooms, in addition to a liveable attic and basement. I think it comes out at around 120 m² in total. Our house would probably sell for a shamble 180,000. Some of those friends' houses are more in the 180-230 m² range and would probably fetch around 300,000-400,000 which is still less than that UK house.
After some research I've done, it turns out the UK does have this small house thing going on. Our country is somewhat leaning to the more roomy sized, but it seems like Australia and the Scandinavian countries have a lot more larger houses. I was a bit intrigued by how we come to expect very different things for our room sizes. 3 x 3 may seem like a large bedroom for some, for others it's rather small.
I thought maybe we could talk about the size of our rooms, to put things more into perspective. Please put it in some context, for cities have smaller appartments compared to the rural houses. Don't want to think about what an appartment fetches in NYC that's as big as our living room. Also, what are your expecations for room sizes? Are you comfortable with how your house is now? I know for sure that once I graduate and get my engineering job, I will build a larger house than ours now (especially with larger bedrooms) but nothing all too crazy. But I deem a house one of the most personal things you can own in your life and also the most tangible and useful so I would want a place where I can really feel comfortable.
I live in mainland Europe and my foster parents house seems a tad small compared to what many of my friends have, but even we have a 8 x 4 living room, a 4 x 4 kitchen, a 3 x 3 bathroom and bedrooms and some storage rooms, in addition to a liveable attic and basement. I think it comes out at around 120 m² in total. Our house would probably sell for a shamble 180,000. Some of those friends' houses are more in the 180-230 m² range and would probably fetch around 300,000-400,000 which is still less than that UK house.
After some research I've done, it turns out the UK does have this small house thing going on. Our country is somewhat leaning to the more roomy sized, but it seems like Australia and the Scandinavian countries have a lot more larger houses. I was a bit intrigued by how we come to expect very different things for our room sizes. 3 x 3 may seem like a large bedroom for some, for others it's rather small.
I thought maybe we could talk about the size of our rooms, to put things more into perspective. Please put it in some context, for cities have smaller appartments compared to the rural houses. Don't want to think about what an appartment fetches in NYC that's as big as our living room. Also, what are your expecations for room sizes? Are you comfortable with how your house is now? I know for sure that once I graduate and get my engineering job, I will build a larger house than ours now (especially with larger bedrooms) but nothing all too crazy. But I deem a house one of the most personal things you can own in your life and also the most tangible and useful so I would want a place where I can really feel comfortable.
