ClaireG Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Do any of you live in an upside down house? Because of my ill health, we are looking to move. We have found a lovely rental property It's half of an old shop and is an upside down house. I just wonderd if there are any negatives of upside down living. I'm ringing the agents in the morning in the hope they can send us all the forms etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Not sure how upsidedown you need it, but my Dad used to have an upsidedown house - kitchen/diner, 2 bedrooms and shower room downstairs, lounge, bathroom and master and small bedroom upstairs. It was a lovely house. Most time was spent in the kitchen/diner, then we retired upstairs to the lounge in the evening. And years ago, we lived 'over the shop' of my Mums nursing home, so our lounge and bedrooms were on the top floor. We did have a small kitchenette as well, but the main kitchen was still downstairs. We had a huge balcony off the lounge as well, which was very nice on summer evenings! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachelk Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 My grandparents lived in an upside house in Exeter. The living/dining room, kitchen and loo were upstairs, and the bedrooms and bathroom were downstairs. I remember it being quite a novelty! The bedrooms had patio doors into the garden, which was lovely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaireG Posted January 9, 2011 Author Share Posted January 9, 2011 This has no garden but a block paved area for parking etc. Downstairs are the bedrooms, ensuite and family bathroom and a large understairs cupboard. Upstairs is a small storage cupboard and a cloakroom as well as a large open plan living room/kitchen I was mainly wondering about noise if people are are upstairs when someone else is in bed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I suppose it's no different than trying to sleep whilst whoever is in the lounge below you still has the TV on full blast May depend on whether the upstairs floor is carpeted and how much walking about goes on at night! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaireG Posted January 9, 2011 Author Share Posted January 9, 2011 That's what i thought. Upstairs is wooden flooring. Will have to make sure no one (hubby) clomps about at night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 That's what i thought. Upstairs is wooden flooring. Will have to make sure no one (hubby) clomps about at night. Make sure it's Crocs only upstairs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoid Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I had visions of a house like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poachedegg Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 @ Fred! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaireG Posted January 9, 2011 Author Share Posted January 9, 2011 Fred. I might like odd things, but ............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tutti Frutti Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 (edited) We lived in an upside down house for years (bedrooms/ensuite downstairs, lounge, kitchen, bathroom upstairs), we loved it and its uniqueness so much! We rarely heard the neighbours (when they were upstairs, we were down and vice versa!). We used to watch glorious sunsets through our upstairs lounge windows, such a suntrap. And we were snug upstairs in winter evenings (hot air rises etc). A couple of tiny downers - lugging the weekly shop up to the kitchen and being upstairs from the chickens and garden meant lugging food/drink downstairs when we BBQd (sometimes it felt like I was up and down the stairs all day... talking of which, vaccuming the stairs was my biggest chore! They got lots of traffic ) Go for it, I'd do it again. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did Edited January 9, 2011 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrie Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Our hoiday house is upside down, kitchen/diner, bathrooms and bedrooms downstairs and the living room upstairs. I love it we tend to live downstairs until the evening due to it having a kitchen diner and we can enjoy the beautiful views upstairs. It has wooden or vinyl flooring downstairs and carpets up so it's really easy to keep clean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplemaniacs Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 A friend used to, she found it difficult to supervise the children the young one (3) learnt to unlock the door and let herself out without Mum knowing until older brother said why is * riding her bike on the road, quite a busy road in the rush hour They moved shortly afterwards Other than that the only moan she had was the carrying of shopping and rubbish from the kitchen up and down stairs. Chrissie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaireG Posted January 10, 2011 Author Share Posted January 10, 2011 Luckily, no littlies to worry about. Mine are 11 and 14 The shopping and taking out of rubbish had crossed my mind I've spoken to the agent, he has a property nr us to value later today, so is coming to fill in forms with me etc If everything is ok then we are looking at a moving date of start to mid Feb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jess1merlin Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 We lived in an upside down house many years ago and I would say it has good and bad points really. Carrying the shopping etc up the stairs is a bit of a pain and when we had a new washing machine delivered it was not popular with the delivery men (caused quite a lot of puffing and blowing I seem to remember). On the plus side, we did have a really good view out of our lounge windows and when the door bell rang you could look out from upstairs without being seen, handy when it cold callers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tutti Frutti Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 washing machine... cold callers Oh yes, two really good ones :clap: !! The washing machine was a nightmare to move in - and out again (glad we don't have to do that again) and spying was handy soon learnt to do that to save my legs from running up and downstairs for cold callers (remember to get a sticker for your front door!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaireG Posted January 10, 2011 Author Share Posted January 10, 2011 The washing machine is already in as the kitchen comes with all appliances So DH won't have to worry about that. Good point about being able to see who is at the front door. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
