What kind of house do you live in?

[Aldilogue]

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.

The oldest part of the house is mid 18th century the newest part is 20 years old. So is a higgledy piggledy 3 bedroom cottage. On 3/4 acre plot also has large garden and out houses

Two years ago we bought a large 70’s bungalow and stripped it back to nothing. Small dead end village through the woods and down a very quiet side road. None of the house are even slightly the same. Our is L shaped, we changed the concrete roof for a slate one and had it rendered with green/grey windows. It looks more like a barn conversion due to the shape. No trace of seventies bungalow inside. Boot room, hall, lounge, bathroom, three double bedroom and a large kitchen diner on the back, all glass looking out to the garden. 1.5 acres with an orchard. The house is now finished but the garden needs many many years of hard work. It’s our dream house.

A four bedroom detached house at the end of a private drive shared with one other property. It’s surrounded by old oak trees and is very peaceful and private.

Army house in the North.

3 decent sized bedrooms, downstairs loo.

It's a magnolia box behind the wire so it is very quite and safe.

Very cheap rent.

We will buy when DH eventually leaves the army.

Wooden house on stilts in a NZ city. Built in the 70s by an architect for his family to grow up in. 3 bedrooms open plan kitchen, lounge and dining room with huge windows and high pitched roof. Also with one bedroom annex under the garage which is also on poles. In the middle of native forest, 5 minutes from the beach. I pinch myself a lot as can’t believe I am so lucky!

A stone built cottage built in 1870, lots of original features including a twisty staircase (had to pulley an edwardian wardrobe through the bedroom window as the damn thing wouldn't fit up the stairs even after taking it apart), very long garden backing onto woodland. Would love to pick it up and move it to york (home area) as the town it's in is very economically depressed (nw).

Small three bed Victorian terrace which would be £400k in London but I don’t live in London so it’s....not

Third bed is a box room and according to many on MN ‘not suitable as a bedroom’.

Old fisherman’s cottage in a costal village in ne Scotland. Been converted and extended, big thick walls and deep windowsills in the original rooms. No storage, some outdoor space but concrete. I love it as it’s got loads of character but having 2 small children we are rapidly outgrowing it.

2 bed central London apartment

A modestly sized three bedroom barn conversion on the edge of a very nice village in Leicestershire. We have a small garden, but lovely countryside views.

We could afford a much larger detached house on a suburban estate, but we prefer our little cottage.

great thread. I'm in the northeastern US. We what they call a colonial built more than 100 years ago. Shingled house with 3 stories over a finished basement and a back stairs from the kitchen. We have a big front porch and a back deck and lots of original features like stained glass, wood etc. I love it.

1950s detached bungalow with a loft conversion. Three rooms upstairs , bathroom downstairs. Some original features. Kitchen diner into a smallish garden and a big lounge with two bedrooms downstairs. One of the best things is the garden , the last people here made it bloom all year round and it's a fab bee habitat . Outskirts of big southern town .

1930’s 4 bedroom semi with garage. North London.

Rural Gloucestershire. Late 80s 4 bed detached, large rooms and bathrooms with very large garden, drive and double detached garage.

We've gutted the place over 20 years - and it's now on the market. We want an old cottage or barn conversion, this house is all a bit too "square" for us.

Georgian, double fronted, listed, detached in a desirable village in southern England. Four bedrooms plus converted barn. Full of period features and very pretty but I’m hankering after a new-build Grand Designs-style house!

300 year old draughty house in the East of England. 5 bedrooms, lots of dust and uneven floors.

4 bed detached about 20 years old.
We have reconfigured downstairs to make a big open plan kitchen diner which I love.
Live close to a main road though so can be noisy, would love to live somewhere more peaceful. It’s very handy for work and travel though

South East. 2 up 2 down semi detached house. 1920 build and lots of character. One kitchen one living room 2 bedrooms and a bathroom. Little garden, just me !

Hoping one day for a slightly bigger place, would love a separate dining room or at least a living area big enough for a table. Currently have a fold up that the chairs get stored in the middle of and have to use it in the kitchen generally.

But it’s mine and I love my home 😀

Hampshire village, 4 bedroom detached new build house. Has flint on the front so looks a bit more characterful than the average brick new build.

Downstairs is lounge, study, kitchen/diner, utility and WC.

Upstairs are 2 double bedrooms, 2 single bedrooms, en suite and family bathroom.

It's just me & DH at the moment (planning TTC this year) so the single rooms are a man cave and craft room at the mo.

2 bed converted bungalow in a fairly 'naice' part of the Home Counties. Lounge, play room, dining room, utility and large gardens with fruit trees front and back. It's not a big house, but we love it.

Phil Spencer lives in the next village. Mum was furious that his dog won 'prettiest bitch' at the village fete

@katmandoo Amazing! I'm currently reading a book about day-to-day life for people in Tudor England including people like the Yeoman that would have lived in your property.

Amazing to think of how different the house and life in it would have been then...

Five bed bungalow in the home counties, 80's built but with a huge garden in a fab rural location. We have lived here 20 years and love it.

North west Greater London - think John Betjeman!
3 bed detached very close to green belt and ancient woodlands but can get to central london by train in 20 mins
Lived here over 20 years but need to do a lot to it - put all our money into it and didn't have money to tart up but now have inheritance so need to replace boiler rads etc, replace windows - all of them! Rip up carpets, paint and decorate
New porch would be nice as well as rear extension
Have great patio and big garden south facing so we'll see!! In 60s now so tempted to just live in it and love it 🤷‍♀️

2 bed flat in a very sought after part of Gloucestershire.

LOVE it. Bought nearly 2 years ago and will be paying the mortgage til we retire but it's ours.

We have our own decent size garden and off road parking and the flat has its own entrance. 4 of us living in a small (ish) space but it's quite spacious and doesn't feel cramped.

@deluminator

We must live really close to each other!