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Look at this house, how would you live in it?
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Anonymous
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http://www.mouseonhouse.com/property/218/14077/?Branding=0
I think I like this house. It's in a neighborhood we love. It's totally renovated (kitchen a little too modern, and the double pedestal sinks will have to be replaced with vanities) so pretty much move in ready. I'm just not creative enough to figure out what we'd do with the unconventional layout. I'm used to colonials where the layout does the thinking for you. 
There seem to be multiple living spaces everywhere and a lot going on in the basement/lower level. If you had 2 small children, what would you do with these rooms? |
Anonymous
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When you click on "overall" above "living room," what's up with that weird flat column that's jutting out from the kitchen island? Is it load bearing? It looks weird there. The "feng shui" is off.
It's generally a nice place. The living room space would have to be divided up in an aesthetically pleasing way into different "zones" though... it seems very large. But that could be good with small children. |
Anonymous
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OP here, yeah I noticed that. It's like they wanted to open the place up but couldn't get rid of that load bearing column so just cut around it!
I agree it would have to be arranged in the right way, I just don't know how.... |
Anonymous
| The open living/dining/kitchen would be pretty easy to deal with. The odd thing about it is that there is only one bathroom upstairs and 1.5 downstairs. The two rooms downstairs would be easy to divide between a playroom and a home office room. The game room is probably more of a storage room. The bedroom downstairs would likely be a guest room, although when your kids are older they might like it as a bedroom. |
Anonymous
| just noticed that it is actually a split level - so there are 4 distinct levels. We lived in a house very much like that for a while. It actually isn't too bad. We had 2 BRs up and 2 down and we had one kid downstairs. If we had stayed in the house we would have had the kids on one floor and us on another. You could take the downstairs. In a split level the floors don't seem as far apart as in a colonial. |
Anonymous
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The big open area looks pretty great for life with children. But the house seems to lack a guest toilet. The upper level bathroom is very close to the entertaining/living space, but presumably it would be the main bathroom used by the kids, and perhaps therefore hard to keep clean. You'd have to send your guests all the way down to the bathroom off the rec room.
I'd also use the rec room (or even the game room, though that's probably too small) as a guest bedroom. And would you be comfortable having your kids sleeping on a different floor from you? I would be, but that may be just me. If so, you'd have to leave the downstairs master bedroom empty for a few more years. |
Anonymous
| If you have a live in nanny or AP, the bathroom downstairs will be just hers. I would feel weird hanging out downstairs and asking to use her bathroom, since you have to go through her room to use it. |
Anonymous
| This is a classic split level. I didn't grow up in one but a lot of my friends did and I now live in split foyer. I think it's a fabulous house unless, of course, you buy into to upper class notions that parents must have a seperate bathroom from the kids and guests should use family bathrooms. Personally, I don't know what the big deal is. I think it's a great looking house with lots of nice space. The bedrooms will be a bit smaller than what 'new' houses have but certainly typical for middle class. The traffic patterns inside the house are actually much better than many of the newer faux-colonials I've been in. I'd have no reservations about moving into that house. |
Anonymous
| 3 bathrooms? Awesome. Open floor plan--excellent. Master bedroom on a different floor--truly great with older kids. This house is lovely. |
Anonymous
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eh - You could do better.
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Anonymous
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Nicely redone, but there is only one bath on the upper level, so if you make one of those bedrooms the master you'd have to share it with the kids. If that's the master in the basement, it's kind of weird to have the master in the basement - that seems like a better space for a guest room.
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Anonymous
| My feeling is that too much of the living area is below grade. I really prefer a family room on the main level, esp. with kids. |
Anonymous
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Did you notice the floor board heating? Also, notice that you won't have central A/C. Yuck, yuck, yuck.
I grew up in a house like this....almost exactly the same layout. TV was downstairs and upstairs was furniture that was used mostly for mornings and we had a "hifi" system against one wall. It was the 70's. Ours was a eat-in kitchen but we made use of the formal dining table right next to the kitchen, a lot. We had a deck off of our dining room...too bad this one doesn't.
It's a nice property but lacks basic things like guest bath/ powder room and central HVAC. I'd keep looking or wait for another house in the same neighborhood to come up. |
Anonymous
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The 'pole' in the kitchen looks really really really stupid. I'd put the wall back up, then put a pantry window or something if you want it open. Who would take down a load bearing wall and then leave the exposed beam? Stupid.
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Anonymous
| No HVAC??? no way. |