What kind of house do you live in?

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I love thinking about how different we all are and was wondering what your home are like.
I’ll start... I’m in a regional town on the coast in NSW. My house is two storey, 4 bedroom lounge, dining, kitchen all beds upstairs.
Built about 30 years ago so cosmetically dated but extremely comfortable. We rent because we missed the housing boom.

3 bedroom double fronted terrace in an East Midlands market town - very popular due to good rail links to London which means the prices locally have shot up.
Kitchen, utility, downstairs loo and open-plan dining/sitting room downstairs, 2 bedrooms and bathroom upstairs plus loft conversion which we put in 8 years ago.
I love it but we've outgrown it - we're looking to move but we're very fussy.

Late Victorian - lovely high ceilings, fireplaces etc. Bloody freezing in winter.

Do many ppl in the Uk Build their own houses? As in design and get built by a contractor on land you buy or inherited.

We live in a thatched cottage dating from around 1550 in a very pretty village.

1800’s listed cottage. It’s beautiful. Getting small for the four of us though. We live in the Vicar of Dibley village so it can get very busy with tourists.

3 bed semi.
We put in a loft bedroom, an extension on the back and a conservatory on the back.
Built a huge double garage.
Nice front and back garden.

Gorgeous area.
Cost next to nothing 20 years ago.
We have outgrown it really, could do with a downstairs loo and a utility room but do you know, it’s enough for us, any more would be greedy.

Feel like we have won the lottery with this house.

Home counties. Typical victorian mid terrace, built for factory workers. 2 up 2 Down. The only thing that makes mine different to most of the others in the area is that a previous owner moved the bathroom upstairs, meaning my kitchen is longer than most so we can have a folding table in it.no need for a separate dining room means we can have a playroom/3rd bedroom as needed. (Currently changing it from one to the other)

MadamBee A lot of houses are advertised on Rightmove here and usually come with a floorplace which includes overall sq metres. Traditionally its room size in square foot and number of bedrooms and when you search Rightmove its by bedroom number. DH missed this one as its listed as 2 bedrooms on Rightmove but its the size of 3 bedrooms and the old lady living here before us took third bedroom door out to move stairs but we will just add it back in.

4 bed Victorian terrace in Northern English town. All beds doubles, extended kitchen with skylight, living room, dining room, only one bathroom (though big) and a smallish garden. I would love a playroom, utility and a larger garden and definitely another bathroom... we have 2 boys and whilst I grew up in a one bath house it was a massive pain when someone wanted the loo when you were in the bath!!

Detached cottage with 3 huge double bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living room and big kitchen diner. 2.5acres of land and stables. Based in SW.

1800 cottage with wood burner in living room, kitchen with doors onto garden, dining room and downstairs toilet. 3 bedrooms upstairs with a bathroom 😊 so cute and characterful!

East Midlands, 5 bed detached 1930's

Georgian 5/6 bed
Lovely but cold in winter

Four bed semi, South Ribble. Extended, but lots of original features, dual aspect windows and old fireplaces in two bedrooms. Long long driveway, loads of light, fields to four sides with horses in the summer and sheep in the winter. Just us and next door in the vicinity but ten minutes in car to city centre.
Can't ever see us moving.

Two hundred years old renovated cottage on the outskirts of a lovely town with countryside all around.
It has two large double bedrooms and two bathrooms, big hall with lots of storage,
huge kitchen/diner/snug, living room with log burner, small sunroom, downstairs toilet and utility. Separate garage and worksop and large garden overlooking the odd barn conversion and mainly fields/woods where we often walk. Nice country pub serving great food 5 minutes walk and I can walk to work/town in less than 20 minutes.
Just me, dp and a few dogs.

In my view a bog standard 3 bed semi. The kitchen is small but it has a dining and utility room. The garden is huge (a bit too big) but it's in a great catchment area and is close to the beach and open countryside. At home there is DH, two teens and myself so it suits us perfectly.

1950's terrace - 2 bed with a garden.

Thank you @KoalasandRabbit and @GlamGiraffe. Always wondered .

Thatched weatherboarded cottage on steddle stones,

West Midlands, love it. Lots of delivery drivers take their phones out and photograph it, as they've never seen anything like it!!

Great thread! We're in a four bed detached in a large village, in a beautiful rural area, but half an hour to a city. It's also in a conservation area. 20 years old, large hall, two bathrooms, downstairs loo, sitting room, second sitting room and kitchen diner. Small private garden and detached garage. 20 years old so very decent sized rooms. Only moved last year from a pretty cottage with beams, woodburner and huge garden with an orchard. Sold to great people who loved it as much as we did and didn't mess about on price. Feeling much more secure now as once we've tweaked our new to our requirements (minimum decorating and changing the garden) it's much easier for us to maintain for our retirement. And we're now near our adult children.

In a small town in Staffordshire on an old mining estate, 3 bed semi

3 bed 1930's semi on outskirts of major city in South Yorkshire.
Kitchen/diner, lounge, downstairs cloakroom where we keep a condenser drier, 3 beds and large bathroom. Massive garden but front is bigger than back due to being on a bend.

DH lived here alone when I meet him so I moved, I only rented then so made more sense. Would love to move and pick somewhere together but cant afford to now I'm a SAHM to two. Mortgage is low and manageable.

Former convalescent home including seven bathrooms and a grandad flat/annex in East Scotland. Fully refurbished inside so warm and comfortable.

Maintenance is still akin to the Forth Road Bridge, cleaning is all consuming and my daughter thinks it's a waste of space (literally, not metaphorically). I do love it though.

As someone going through a shit time, I can confirm my lovely home does not protect me from that. I think a simpler life makes life easier.

we've just (in summer) bought our first house. it's in a slightly less salubrious area than where we previously lived but in exchange we've got a huge garden that's like our own little piece of woodland, a driveway we could build a second house on, a cellar, an enormous workshop, huge rooms, all the space we could wish for. however it is 110 years old and it's a project but that's perfect for us as DH has excess energy and need occupying.

We have a four bedroom detached house on two acres of land in an exurban area called the Hudson Highlands. The house was built in 1986, so fairly modern. We bought it in 2003. We did have to replace the roof (the whole thing, including the wooden roof deck) last year. Other than that it's been a great place to raise the kids. The grew up seeing turtles, wild turkeys and pheasants in the yard. The winters are hard here though.