My owners have been messing around with some house designs lately - for another project apparently - and I can't help looking over their shoulder. They're designing a five bed house 3 bathrooms, with lots of solid oak joinery and contemporary finishes, all looks very lovely and practical but unbelievably small for a house - it stands on a footprint of just 7m x 7m.
They say it's what Housing Ministers want these days, people have to live in tall narrow houses on small footprints so they can fit lots of them all together and squeeze more bedrooms and more people in. The ceilings are low so you can stack the rooms on top of each other and cram a third floor into the roof. Looks like you'd get neck ache trying to walk around the bed in the top floor rooms! They'd probably need oxygen masks half way through the night as they'll have breathed all the air out of the place.
The shocking bit is that this house will cost someone over £300,000. That's just under half the price of this spacious and stylish Devon Barn Conversion. I stand on a footprint of approximately 30m x 7m - that's more than four times the footprint of the house they're designing!
If someone buys me they get approximately four times the house for approximately twice the price of this cut down version of a home. Not to mention over an acre of their own piece of rural Devon countryside compared to a postage stamp courtyard garden overlooked by twelve other miniature houses.
No competition in my view, but I would say that wouldn't I? So come and have a look if you don't believe me - tell me what you think.
And while we're at it Mr Shapps, let's hear where you'd prefer to live - spacious Barn Conversion with land for £650k or claustrophobic miniature house with overlooked courtyard for £300k?
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