Are you happy living in your house?

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I'm not.

I'm very grateful to have somewhere to live but I'm just not happy here.

It just doesn't feel homely.
There's so many problems and worries with the house and it just gets me down.

I've lived her 5 years and never been happy.

Anyone else felt like this and managed to make things better and enjoy being in your home?

No. It’s not mine and it won’t ever be mine yet I’m expected to pay for all the replacements of the various 30+ year old fixtures or put up with leaking bathrooms, threadbare carpets and a kitchen that has drawers which only half open.

I would if it wasn’t for my neighbours

I love our current house and could see us being here forever, unless adventures call.

I felt the same way you do about our previous one, which we left last year. It was our first house purchase, we thought it was perfect. On paper it was everything we wanted, but i found it an incredibly stressful place to be. It was Edwardian and I worried about all its quirks and problems constantly, despite being well used to living in period houses.

There was a lot else going on in our lives and without that I daresay it would have been fine, but as it is the house is haunted to me.

No not really. It's got to the stage where all the jobs we did when we moved in now need doing again, and I just can't be arsed tbh. Plus we might move out in a couple of years so don't want to spend 1000s on stuff that potential buyers might just rip out anyway.

Yes I do - it was crap when we moved in but we spent a lot of time/money and hard work making it what it is now - it's probably twice the size and nicely decorated in almost every room (only 2 left to go!). Garden is getting there too. I like the area - neighbours are ok (if a bit annoying so that's the only downside).

Yes I love it but im sad I didn’t buy the adjacent plot of land for £6k
I’d have had a big garden with an orchard
Sobs

Love my house, just wish there was more outside space. We have a small terrace [not safe for young kids] and tiny front garden, which is very overlooked. We debated on the garden issue before moving in. As a resident we get access to a community garden (plus our own plot) literally 45 seconds from the front door and we also live a ten minute walk from my folks who have a massive garden and house all the kids garden stuff. We are also less than a minute from two parks. We decided the lack of our own garden was fine given we had such good alternatives!! Never did we envisage having access to none of the outside space we have on our doorstep.

Could cry for not giving house with a garden higher priority.

Oops, that was 40 years ago
Seemed a big stretch then
Now..peanuts

I like my house but I don't love how small it is, hardly any storage and a tiny bathroom
and no garden. Nevertheless it's a great home for myself and my daughter, it's in a nice part of time with access to parks.

Yes very.
It's not mine , it's on a busy main road , no garden and the windows are appalling so it's often colder inside than out but I love the central location and my landlady's an absolute diamond.
I'm dreading the day I can no longer live here !

I love my house, it’s comfortable and I have styled it to my taste.

I don’t really like the area though, and lock down has reinforced what selfish arseholes most of my neighbours are😊.

I love our place as it's utterly private and quiet with an enormous view of the London skyline and river. I'm so lucky.

No, we’re currently occupying a family property and renting out our flat so it’s not home.

We’re trying for another baby soon and have no idea how we’ll all survive when we go back to the flat - two bedrooms but only a small double and a box room.

We’d love to sell the flat and buy a house, and we have a hefty deposit to do this. However, we need to stay in our village or the next door village for childcare purposes and to get DD into the school I teach in (next door village primary). Three bedroom houses go for around half a million here and the bank simply won’t lend us enough.

Yes. It's a new build which I know are not liked on mn but I always wanted one, bought one after my divorce and it hasn't disappointed. I love the freshness and newness and the blank canvas. It makes me feel so light. Yes there are snags but they'll get sorted when the builders are allowed back in.

Yes I love our current house - it is a real home and felt that way from the moment we moved in. The house we lived in 2 houses ago was the same, but the one in the middle, even though it was the first house we bought, where our dc were born etc only ever felt like a house to me. Rationally it worked very well for us space wise and we improved it a lot but I never had that ‘home’ feeling with it and never really think of it now.

Yes, I absolutely love it. I felt like you OP in our old house, really hated it and just couldn't settle. We lived there 5 years, I'm so happy here, it's the house, not you!

I love my home, my neighbours and the location. There’s still things that need doing to it and the garden but we are very happy here and I feel incredibly lucky.

I also don't feel very homely in my house. We have a mortgage but I can't see us every being able to afford anything better. It's a small 2 bed which doesn't bother me, what I don't like is how it feels so exposed being by a main road. Obviously we knew this before buying but if we had more money I would definitely pick somewhere else.

Our house purchase fell through in March, so we’re in a very temporary, very tiny rental in the country, but I love it. We’re in a hollow by the sea, surrounded by an orchard, the view from every window is beautiful, and there’s a cove in which I’ve never seen another person (but occasional seals) three minutes walk down our lane.

I love my house. It’s a new build and although it’s a 2 bed the rooms are generous in size, it’s clean and cheerful, with a decent enough sized garden and nothing to change or fix. It has parking for 2 cars on the driveway in front, and near to my work too. I just bought a corner sofa, I’ve always wanted one and I love I can stretch out. All in all I feel incredibly lucky. The main downside though it’s shared ownership.

Yes! I absolutely love it!! We are off the beaten track on a private road. Our garden backs on to a forest and we have trees out the front looking onto a field which has protected status. I wake up listening to the birds tweet and go to sleep to the owls calling. But, we are also 20 minutes into town so my elder children can have some freedom. I’ve just had a new kitchen fitted which is just perfect. We have enough (if not too much) space to meet our needs and a beautiful garden. I feel very lucky and privileged. After a fairly nomadic lifestyle I feel like this is my “home.” I felt like you op about my last home. It just had no soul. It always felt cold and empty.

Yes I absolutely love my home, moved around a lot growing up and over the last few years and this is the place I have most felt at home. Bought it last year, as soon as we stepped foot inside I knew it was the one (cliche but true, just had 'the feeling') previously to that we had bought a house which we had been living in for around 4 years but it was never quite right, the overall layout, proportions were odd, location wasn't quite right... we shouldn't have bought it really but one thing it did have was fantastic views and that was what sold it. After a while the novelty of that wore off and the actual house just wasn't right. We could have done lots of work to it and it still just wouldn't have been our 'forever home' despite buying it with that in mind. In the end decided just to sell up and move on and it was the best decision ever.

Yes, very happy in mine. The moment I walked through the door, when I first viewed it, it wrapped itself around me, hugged me and made me feel welcome - it still does this every time I come through the door!
It is not everybody's cup of tea, very old (c1600), very rural, nothing around but open space, fields, no neighbours and miles from the nearest town. Very quirky, low ceilings, beams, stone floors throughout downstairs, a well under the downstairs bathroom floor, tiny doorways ( must have been built for hobbits!), expensive to heat, gradually working my way through 'improvements' without removing any of the features or quirks and may be complete by the time I retire in ten years!

Absolutely love it and love sharing it with the bats which live in the roof space, sparrows nesting in the thatch, the shrew which lives in my kitchen, the violet beetles, woodlice, spiders and bishybees (ladybirds) which reside with me - it is their home too!

Never would I want to live anywhere else so, yes, I am very happy here.

Comfortable not happy

New build, been in it 2 years. Too small. No soul to the house. Don't regret it as it was the best option financially at the time.
I see this house as fulfilling its purpose, roof over head, close to work and can save a good amount for next house whilst in it.

Ask me again in 2 years when I'm sat in my cottage