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.

Some intriguing and fascinating homes mentioned here. Mine isn’t either of those things particularly, but I love it anyway. Four bed detached villa in Central Scotland. I like the peace and quiet and space and there are great dog walks nearby, but it’s a short journey into central Edinburgh.

We have a 5 bedroom house with two bathrooms.
Which sounds very magnificent and I love saying it!

In reality it's a 3 bedroom house with an annex which contains two box rooms and a wet room.

I absolutely love it though.

Suburban 3 bedroom semi detached 1930s Dutch bungalow.

@CharlotteMD your home would be my ds's dream and mine too he's autistic and obsessed with trains.

I live in a first floor conversion of a Victorian three storey house in West London, which is around 150 years old. It's worth a huge amount of money but we are HA tenants. Could never afford to live here otherwise. I get a lot of looking down the nose from family for living in a flat but it's very spacious and the floor square footage is more than the terraces some of my family live in. Absolutely freezing in the winter.

Bloody hell, some of these houses sound amazing !

Rented 2 bed flat in a nice bit of Brighton.
All my friends say how nice and big our living room and main bedroom are, also we have lots of inbuilt cupboards. Not a new build! I think the building is from the 60s or 70s - our kitchen cupboards I think are the originals and are too small for our big plates.

We're saving up to buy atm but Brighton is so expensive it'd either be a flat where we are now or a house much further out...my dream is that a really cheap house comes up! (eg, because the owner has lived there for 50 years and it needs lots of cosmetic stuff doing)

I love houses and most of yours sound idyllic.
Lovely thread btw.
I live in a very ordinary Extended 4 bed bungalow in a very ordinary ne coastal town.
I have no view which I would love but I do love my home, it’s all white, light and airy.ive been here over 40 years and I’m busy decluttering the cupboards again for the umpteenth time.
I also have been very fortunate in my lifetime to have had several holiday homes at the same time eventhough I’ve never been rich or well off. These have ranged from a small two berth touring caravan to a sprawling florida villa that my bungalow would have probably fitted in 2.5 times.
What I’m saying is, I might not love where I live, although I do sort of as it’s cheap here and lots of spare money to enjoy, I have been Able to switch things around with our countryside ‘homes’
I’m now onto my 4 th caravan, another static and half the week from Feb to the end of November, I get to wake up and look across green fields...so win win.

Fruity..I love the sound of your barge..was something I was going to try myself.
Tried just about everything else from caravans, villa, country cottage, chalet in France but nothing on water.....yet lol

I have lived just outside the West side of Edinburgh since May last year.

It’s a 6 flat stair that’s 3 storeys high and I’m on the top floor, it’s a new build and it has been here since 2017/2018.

My flat is a 2 bed but very small and the kitchen is in the living room which I hate!

My stair is carpeted and has air fresheners plugged into the wall.

It’s roasting in the summer even with the windows open (most new builds these days are roasting) and freezing in the summer.

I find this area far too quiet and so I’m moving back to Edinburgh as soon as I possibly can.

Freezing in winter

South East commuter town near London

A Victorian end of terrace long house. Formerly 3 bed but now converted to 2 bed with one bathroom upstairs.
(Otherwise bathroom would be through the kitchen)

Francienolan
Good luck with your move..and enjoy your space.
You won’t know you’re born 👍

Small town on the north wales coast. 2 bed bungalow, lounge, kitchen & bathroom. It's not very big, but we are going to extend in the near future. We're lucky to have a large garden and garage also.

Can anyone enlighten me? Have seen a lot of British house buying TV and I'm wondering.

I'm Scandi, when we look for houses it's by the square meter not by the count of rooms. (If it's flats, you count the living room into the number of rooms). But we never go by the room count for houses. The question... How do you know how big a property is until you have seen it?

Me, in a Scandi style bungalow, 250 square meters, with a basement. Floor to ceiling windows in living rooms. White walls all over . A carpet under the dining table (I know this makes foreigner wonder). 2 bathrooms and a toilet.

Tiny 2 bedroom weavers cottage built in 1680 on a quiet unadopted road. Far too small for us but I love it. Can see the sea in the far distance at the front and hills behind Unusually for a little terrace we have a big drive, massive garage and I have had an art studio built at the end of the garden. Would'nt swap, easy to clean and maintain, small mortgage and are lucky with all the outside space.

4 bed, detached with a double garage and lovely garden. 5 years old.

I absolutely love it

4 bed semi (extended in the 80's) built in 1972

done a LOT of work on it so it's now got a lovely big kitchen diner - conservatory on the back, two reception rooms (one is my study) 2 double bedrooms, 2 reasonable singles - only one bathroom (and 3 teenagers!) but we cope! I love it it's very bright - but not especially pretty on the outside

we are in the Midlands

I'm Scandi, when we look for houses it's by the square meter not by the count of rooms. (If it's flats, you count the living room into the number of rooms

Yes, and in my opinion, it's a stupid way of doing it. It encourages developers to cram as many rooms as possible into the smallest possible space. Giving the total area as well as the number of rooms would be much more sensible.

@PhoneLock
That's my point, rooms could mean cupboards effectively. I know that uk in general live on much less space and from house buying shows, what they show is sometimes minuscule. But how do you know until seeing it?

@madambee

I’ve no idea why we don’t market properties by overall square feet / metres... we just don’t. when you look at house particulars there will usually be a floor plan with the measurements on it though. I tend to look at the measurements of key rooms like the reception rooms and bedrooms. Certain period houses tend to have a similar footprint as well. I have no idea of the overall square footage of my own place though and your measurements mean nothing to me. .

Thanks @divebar, that makes sense re. the floor plan. No one here would know how many rooms they had in total (without counting silently) .

It's weird isn't it @madambee mines about 1800 sq f. I've never thought of it before but it makes sense

madambee I always look at the floor plan first which gives square foot/metre as I agree: ooh 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms and then on visiting you find it's actually all crammed into 70 sq metres!

@madambee I only know our size because we built and designed it. It’s 1945sq ft

But how do you know until seeing it?

The individual room sizes are usually given in the sales info. However, I have looked at new show homes where the developer has removed all the doors and used special small furniture to make the rooms appear bigger.