Your wife will have many considerations when looking for a new flat to buy. She will want the kitchen to be spacious with enough room for storage. The living room layout must allow their existing furniture to fit nicely and have adequate light and ventilation. Other important factors are a separate washing area, a spacious master bedroom and wardrobes, a designated pooja room, safe socket placement, good water quality, and quality wood furnishings. She will also check who the future neighbors might be.
2. Buying a flat after a tough research is one such activity
where you would end up having memorable squabbles with
your wife. While you would look for value for money,
your wife will push you to the ideal flat where she can
fulfill her dream.
3. Let us take a close look at 10 things your wife would
want in an apartment before she gives you a go ahead to
buy it.
6. In the Indian context, women spends large amount of
her time in the kitchen(!) and kitchen is the first thing
she looks in any flat. She would want a spacious &
ventilated kitchen which has enough space to stack all
the kitchen utensils and items.
9. Your flat might be 5 years away in possession, but your
wife’s imaginative mind will start planning and visualizing
how she would do the Living Room and how can she
impress upon the guests. If she doesn’t like the Living
room layout, you can be sure that the house is a reject.
What she would typically look is the overall size, number
of doors/balconies and ventilation. Most importantly,
how your existing furniture would fit in beautifully in
the Living Room.
12. Your wife will certainly be looking at whether the flat,
chosen from the big list of flats for sale in Chennai, has
a separate washing area, or a bathroom can be used for
home laundry. Be prepared to see here look at
bathrooms and visualize how a washing machine will fit in
there and how can the bathroom be expanded to have
the washing done easily.
15. Be prepared for a close look at the Master bedroom
plan. She would not only look for spacious room, where an
extra wardrobe can fit, but will also be visualizing the
area she can demarcate for dressing. She would also
look for master bedroom to standout from other rooms
in terms of fittings, flooring and lighting.
18. Your wife would definitely be looking for extra spaces in
all rooms to accommodate additional wardrobes as you
would need them when you have kids. Your attempts of
convincing her with the end result of
apartments for sale in Chennai on focusing on current
requirement might not help, as your wife is looking at
the house the abode for next 20 years.
21. If the apartment does not have a separate Pooja Room,
your wife would look at where she can create the space
for Pooja. She would either be looking for a place in
Guest room or kitchen where the area can be created.
24. You would be surprised that your wife would go to
details to check where the sockets would be placed.
She would avoid the apartments for sale in Chennai
where the sockets are low lying as your child might
touch them.
27. Quality of water in your apartment will be an important
consideration for your wife. If it is ready-to-move
house, you can watch her check scaling on the bathroom
fittings to be doubly sure that the water is not hard &
saline.
30. You would be surprised to know, how much your wife
knows about the furnishings & interior. She would check
the grade of plywood, the brand of channels used and
polish finish.
33. Your wife will also check on who the neighbors are going
to be. She would inquire whether they have kids to give
company to your kid, and the region they belong to.