Thursday, May 8, 2025, 01:03
Buying a home is one of the most important decisions of our life, since it entails a great economic disbursement in addition to being the space in which we will spend most of our life. That is why you have to study the different alternatives well and make sure that it is really what you are looking for.
If what you want is to acquire a second -hand house and then reform it to taste, since it does not find new construction house or is too expensive, you have to take into account some inconveniences that can harm us. This is warned by the architect Edu Saz in his YouTube account, where he has shared a video that has titled ‘3 types of floor that you should never buy’.
“Today I am going to talk about three types of housing that I do not recommend, at all, no one to buy second -hand if what is raised is to reform the house,” begins the expert in his video and then reveal what it is about:
1.- Housing that is accessed by a corner
This is the first example on which Saz warns, “especially if they are quite elongated housing.” In this type of distribution, the expert finds “several” problems. “In this house in question, we have a median wall with another house or another building and therefore we only have windows to one side and this is already a bit problematic,” he says. “But, in addition to accessing a corner, we will assume that we have a large corridor to get to the other point of the house, whatever, we, to solve this problem, what we are going to do is bring the day area (living room, dining room, kitchen) at the beginning of the house and thus shorten the corridor only to the night area,” he explains. However, this has a problem: «This type of housing occurs in very old buildings where the area in which the windows are is the passage area and the area that overlooks the street is always in the end.”
For the expert, “this is the worst stage because there, yes, we will have to place the rooms at the beginning (next to the entrance) and therefore we will need a corridor that connects us to the end of the house (where natural light enters) which is where the day area should be.” “Reforming this means completely modifying the logic of circulation and distribution,” he says.
2.- Small homes with intermediate load wall (central)
The housing of the second example “is a fairly reduced floor, it is probably a corrala -type house that is accessed by a corridor of an inner courtyard.” The architect focuses his attention on the “Great Load Wall in the Center” that, he explains, “he will make us never share the space of rooms that are already another side of him.” «In exceptional cases, if the investment justifies it, you can consider opening holes with loaders and visas technical projects. But in small homes, this is usually unfeasible and the reform is very expensive without guaranteeing good results, ”he added.
3.- Housing “tube”
Homes “tube”, he explains, are those that “when we access between two medians” between two buildings. That is why, he says, that there is no window on the sides of the house. “In addition, it is a fairly narrow space where we are going to be forced to place a kitchen that will give an inner courtyard and a blind bath,” he explains. “We have the entrance to a site and the living room on the other side, and in the middle the rooms with a very long hall,” he explains. “This distribution would play a lot against us if what we want is to make a much more current, more diaphanous reform, with less compartmentalized spaces and where the functions are less defined in each space,” he adds.
When making a reform in this type of housing, according to the expert, “only the fact of having to go against the main structure of the house will make the reform look more more expensive.”
Type of housing that the expert would buy
It is an elongated house «but, as you see, we enter it in the middle of the plane. This is very good at the distribution level because with a hall-distributor, if we do it well and do not share the house much, we will be able to distribute the day and night area.
“Another of the things that I like enough of this house is that although there are windows in a single side when making chaflán the house we really are taking advantage of the different orientations,” he says.
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