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.

2 bed third floor apartment overlooking the sea in Portrush Northern Ireland.

In house that's on an island off the coast of the US. DH built it 13 years ago. It's at the end of a long dirt road in a little hollow. Looks small upstairs but it's got three bedrooms. Also has a full basement which is a games room.

@wheresmymojo ooh maybe!

4 bedroom large detached house in the centre of a beautiful and stunning village. Very 'Mid Summer Night Murders!'

South a East England semi rural and 6 bed Victorian. 1.5 acres garden. Moved in just before Christmas and this is my forever home

4 bedroom 1970s semi detached house, beautiful location on a hill overlooking the sea. Utility room, dining room, sitting room. Two bathrooms.

Just a shame that it’s military married quarters! Our own two flats (rented out currently) are so much nicer.

@redcarvoue Your island house is perfect (and I know who you are .

Here's mine taken a few winters ago. The house looks small from the front but the street view shows that it's built into the side of a hill and that it's actually two stories. The driveway is about 120 feet long, which is a lot to clear when it snows, but provides lots of parking for company.

There's also a second story deck that goes down the whole back of the house. That's where the cats hang out when the weather is nice. That way they can keep on eye on the forest without worrying about the coyotes.

palliisers..yours sounds fab and I would love a wrap around veranda/porch.
We live in a non standard cinstruction council house. Off the road and big back garden with a fab cherry tree. W massive bedrooms and a small one. Dining toom,kitchen,sitting room and 2 outhouses and outside loo. We feel very very lucky. East Midlands and rural.

Construction and 2 big bedrooms I meant

We live in the middle of nowhere rurally, in a big dormer, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, sitting room, utility, big kitchen/diner. It's detached, on an acre, surrounded by fields, down a little laneway. Nearest neighbour is a big field away. Built about 20 years ago. We bought it in June. Heaven.

3 bed 1920's semi in the Midlands but on the edge of the countryside.

Two receptions, 2 bathrooms, conservatory and a reasonably big garden. My favourite feature is the walk in pantry, which I managed to get trapped in once when the door handle broke on the inside!

I live in a small village in South East but very affluent with good rail and road networks.
I live in a 2 bed bungalow with driveway and garden with 2 DD 9 years apart in age.
Would love to move to 3 bed but unaffordable as working part time (30 hours)

House isn't large by anyone's standards but I'm paying for the area with excellent schools and lots of jobs rather than the house

3 bed chalet bungalow in a village in Surrey. We converted it from a bungalow. Looks tiny from the front but is huge inside - massive kitchen diner. large lounge, utility room etc. I love it. Mainly because we put so much work into it.

I didn’t realise so many MNers were from the US and Australia

This is the first time I’ve had a pantry! I guess they were must haves for an officers wife in the 1970s. Along with the serving hatch to the dining room!

I didn’t realise so many MNers were from the US and Australia

We Yanks have learned to keep a low profile here.

A double fronted detached 4 bed with 4 bathrooms (1 is the downstairs loo) in the South West was only 4 years old when we bought it but needed a lot of work. We are now at the stage of almost completion after extension and garden overhaul plus new kitchen and bifold doors and new bathrooms!

The plan is to downsize and get something older

4 bed detached in a really nice suburb of an East Midlands city. Two ensuites and family bathroom. Drive and nice garden. So far away from my upbringing and my son's early years I can hardly believe this is my life. Love my house!

A farmhouse on the edge of the Penines built in the late 1700's. Set in 5 acres with no near neighbours.

1950s detached house outside San Francisco. Three beds, three baths. Nice big living room and dining room. Airy and light, bay windows with lovely bay view. Watching the sky and water change color is amazing.

Small terraced garden, mostly planted with pink roses. Best bit is storage room in the garage, all kitted out with shelving. And big downstairs family room and office.

Only been here two years so still feels new. Ish.

Three bedroom terrace in SW London, built in 1960 and the exterior is the sort of place you'd see on The Modern House. Built in a horseshoe shape around a big common lawn, but with its own back garden too, so it's ideal for children as there's no traffic. Our house has almost no original features, sadly, and they're too rare and / or expensive and / or incompatible with small children to restore right now.

Downstairs has a porch, study, playroom, sitting room, kitchen diner and utility with a loo and shower. Upstairs has a family bathroom, three bedrooms and some huge storage cupboards.

If we had only had DS, we'd stay here forever but DD will eventually need her own room (she's tiny so in with us for the moment) and I don't want to give up a spare room so we'll probably move one day, but the community feel and freedom for the kids to roam is so special here that I want her to have that experience like DS has.

300 year old stone 3 bed farmhouse in the Pennines. Lovely views. 20 acres. Half finished renovating house, I dispair that we ever will.

4 Bed detached New England style house we had build 15 years ago in a Scottish village with lovely views. Master bedroom on ground floor with large ensuite and walk in wardrobe. Open plan dinning hall with steps down the a sunken lounge with wood burner. Love it.

Ours is hard to describe, but it's incredibly practical and living in it has convinced me that I never want to live in anything other than a modern house ever again.

It's hidden away down a long drive off a quiet road, surrounded by trees, and we're regularly visited by all sorts of wildlife - deer, turkeys, coyotes, foxes, fishers, and probably bear. Yet we can walk to schools and shops easily.

Our idea of gardening mostly involves managing the nearly 1 acre of woodland surrounding the house. Right now we have about 10 trees of varying sizes in there that need chopping down/cutting up for firewood/taking to the dump. We're due an ice storm tomorrow so I imagine we'll have a few more to deal with by Monday.

I love it - the house, the town, the people, the location. But I'd like a house by a lake even more.

@HoldMyLobster not looking forward to this fucking ice storm. The wind has picked up here already and I'd be surprised if we don't lose power soon.