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House move regret

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SilverDoublet · 24/11/2025 22:44

We've recently moved house and I can't stop thinking it's been a huge mistake.

I'm completely unsettled in the new house and miss my old house. New house has a lot more space but feels too big and I'm completely overwhelmed at all the work we need to do to the place - new kitchen, electrics, heating system, flooring, painting, roof, garden. We also need to buy more furniture but we never have time between working and kids.

I miss my nice kitchen in the old house and how low maintenance it all was.
Has anyone else felt the same after up sizing. Does it get better... I'm afraid to talk to my husband about it as I was the one who thought we needed to upsize. He would have stayed in our old house.

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caringcarer · Yesterday 21:46

I think it helps if you make your bedroom nice. So at the end of the day you go to your bedroom and escape the rest of the house. YouTube is your friend. They have excellent DIY videos that break the jobs down. I've learned how to tile and grout, fill in a hole in a wall, than plaster over it and so many other little jobs. I leave bigger jobs to dh who enjoys doing manual jobs even though he takes ages to do them. He has learned how to lay laminate and wooden floors, wall paper around hard areas, fit a kitchen. He has now fitted about 8 kitchens and can use a jig to make neat diagonal corner joins.

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