Showhome opens

We visited the first show home at the Wixams development yesterday. Had an interesting conversation with the person who showed us round, and the house was an interesting design too.

First off it's a three storey house, as are many on this particular site according to the brochure. The master bedroom is at the top, complete with an en-suite shower room. There is a study, for home working, but if you want anything more than a desk and waste paper bin, you'd be pushing the space to capacity. Not designed for someone like me who works from home using lots of books and resources.

What also caught my attention was the lack of a dining room. When  I was growing up, we had a large kitchen in which we had the dining table and a separate lounge. But the last three main homes we've had all had separate dining rooms and it felt strange to be in a four bedroomed house without one.

Still, this is the first housebuilder on site and it will be interesting to see what others build. Strange to think that it wasn't that long ago that Sovereign Park, the newer part of Shortstown, was built and most of the four bedroom houses were detached and had dining rooms and maybe even utility rooms too.