how the home hunting is going is that it's not

[ironymaiden]

here's the kind of listing that's in our price range today:
[a galley kitchen with bar seating, with a sofa against the opposite wall facing the bar. they are one somewhat cramped room.]

everything is a new townhouse that is basically one room per floor, 3-4 stories, rooftop deck optional. i just want enough room for a full-sized table, and a couch across from a place where we can put a television. preferably not INSIDE the kitchen. i'm not kidding about inside the kitchen - this one is pretty typical, but there is a version where the bar doesn't exist, the kitchen stuff is all along the length of the living area, just sort of running beside the couch. sometimes there are enough floors that you could have kitchen and table on one floor, and a den on another, but you still end up climbing minimum two floors to get to bed.

i know there will be more listings as the weather warms up, but it's been a depressing couple of weeks.

Comments

[sartorias]

Wow that is cramped, and designed to be impossible to arrange better.

[yourlibrarian]

I can't even imagine living in a 3-4 story place. It's so completely impractical, difficult to maintain a decent temperature, and inaccessible to older people (and risky for small children).

A relative is setting up knee surgery. Some years back she lived in a 3 story house and thus the problems began. Whatever you needed to do or retrieve was inevitably on a different floor.

[ironymaiden]

I welcome the exercise of stairs but the thought of being sick or injured in one of these places is terrible

[varina8]

Wow, that looks more crowded than my main room (living room, kitchen and dinning area)!

My sympathies on the hunt. Like you, I keep wondering on what the townhouse owners will do as people have small children or age. The stairs are just not practical over the long haul.

Sometimes I fantasize about moving but I suspect it is far more likely I will paint and possibly re-do the floors instead.

[ironymaiden]

Did you see that Sherwin-Williams tool? Really fun to try on different paint schemes in real rooms

[varina8]

I did! The first room will likely be the bedroom so I can see how I feel about doing it myself.

[varina8]

I have! I think you were the one who turned me on to it.