What Do You Like About Your House?

[BrandyandBabycham]

We downsized a few years ago & although I miss the space, our current house feels so much more like home. DH & I should never have bought our previous property. We didn’t have DD then so there was no way we needed a 4 bedroom house with a big lounge, separate dining room & no less than 3 loos! Now we’re in a 3 bedroom house with one loo! I particularly like the cottagey feel, even though it’s a modern property. I love the kitchen/diner as it has French doors leading out to the garden. And putting the actual place aside, I love the fact that gangs of kids aren’t calling for DD all the time & sometimes tramping through the house & garden. We’re in a very small Close now, although our house is one of two on the main road ( not very busy). The back garden is enclosed & quite spacious. Wish we had flowers & a veg patch etc but our rabbits take up most of the room. DD is going to have a den in the summerhouse & I love that too. DH has painted it & we need to buy a 2nd chair, cube storage & bunting.

How sunny and bright the kitchen is.
How big the garden is
That it's deatached
That you only go down my road if you're visiting someone or getting a delivery, it's peacful
My neighbours, they're lovely!

I love that it’s detached and Victorian and in the mountains. I love that it’s got a big garden with views and an orchard. I love that it’s got original features like Victorian ceiling roses and Victorian hallway tiles. I love that it is a work in progress and I’m always working to improve it and tweak things.

Despite that, my kitchen and bathroom are currently old, cranky and inherited from the previous owners and I’m sorely tempted to take a hammer to them! 😂

I love that it's mine and I have clung onto it through divorce, and unemployment, and all that life has thrown at me.

It's only a small flat on a main road, but it's my home and my security.

I am grateful for a garden and a roof over our heads but apart from that nothing. My house is tiny and the floors slope so badly (think there may be subsidence and heaving going on), my neighbours smoke weed and it penetrates my house, other neighbours are effing and jeffing so loudly on a regular basis, I have a leaking roof (into the attached outbuilding/shed) that is causing damp in my bathroom. Hate it.

The location in a perfect village, that it's end of terrace, the period fireplaces, the garden and patio which is a bit of a suntrap, all 3 bedrooms are a good size and the biggest one is an extension so it's not attached to a neighbour.

This is probably at odds with most people’s preferences but I actually like the fact my house is quite dark. Too much sunlight leaves me feeling drained and unwell, and gives me a headache. My place is Victorian with a lot of original features and nice high ceilings. I’m in London and have a lovely garden, so that’s a bonus, especially as it’s so much quieter than you’d expect. Also the house stays so much cooler in summer than new builds (I hate heat as well as light!).

The fact that it was built in an infill site, off the road. So as well as being in a good area with good state schools on the doorstep it’s secluded and has no passing traffic either on foot or by car. The garden could be bigger but as I’ve got older I appreciate the a courtyard garden with lovely landscaping and raised beds that isn’t overlooked by anyone.

Lots of things:

-The neighbours
-Close proximity to where we both work
-The high ceilings and huge windows
-The original stained glass windows and wooden panelling in the hall

• The layout, we have a large open plan kitchen diner and a separate living room, it works a lot better than the last house we lived in which was all open plan, the smells from cooking got into the furniture and it was a nightmare to keep warm
• The street is really nice, no trouble at all
• How much it cost (we got it for a bargain price because of Brexit)

It's paid for.

I've lived here years. Bought it as a doer-upper, and I've never liked it all that much - the expectation was to renovate and sell after a couple of years, but circumstances etc got in the way and I'm still here.

Not all that far off retiring now, so unless I win the lottery I guess that's it, I'm stuck here.

Bearing in mind this is an old Army house, earmarked for demolition in the next few years so they patch problems rather than fix them, and is very dated...

I like the size of rooms. It was be better without the wall between the kitchen and utility, but the kitchen isn't a bad size. I like the seperate dining room and living room. I like being detached so I don't have to worry the children are bit heavy footed or talk a little loudly. I like the serving hatch between the dining room and kitchen.

3 houses ago we had a toilet just off the utility room, which led out into the garden. Perfect for young children who get muddy in the garden!

We live in a typical 1930s semi - except that there is a massive basement conversion that most houses of that period don't have. Everyone is very surprised when they see we have a huge lounge downstairs with shower room and utility area.

Plus it opens out with French doors onto our lovely garden which is very private by virtue of being below street level.

I absolutely love the location of our home, a 5 minute walk to the city centre. We haven't needed to own a car for almost 10 years. It's also a newish build terrace with attached garage, utility room and built-in wardrobes. Features impossible to find in Victorian terraces.

Literally the only thing I don’t like about it is the orientation. The garden is easy facing on the eastern side of a hill so we don’t get any evening sun after about 6.30.

Other than that I’ve loved it since the first moment of the first viewing.

Oh, and the woodburner. There's not many 80s terraces have them, but the last owner extended, and he did some amazing improvements. Except for the B&Q kitchen, which you can tell was designed by someone who doesn't cook.

I love that we are so rural, and I love our garden. The house isn't that smart but it feels very "us".

I like that ours is crooked end of terrace and the back is about 3m wider than the front. All the rooms have one wall at an odd angle and I love that. It has a small L-shaped yard which is filled with plants and feels quite private. It's cheap so only a small mortgage, and cheaper than renting. And the 2 upstairs bedrooms have views over hills which I'll move into once dd's have left. It's my first ever owned home and everything I do here is for my benefit, not any landlord's.

We only moved here 9 weeks ago but it is my perfect home. I loved it from the moment I stepped inside on the first viewing. It is a quirky house, beautiful but needs some work. The rural location has been a blessing during lockdown, we are situated in beautiful countryside with stunning views. I truly love it a bit more each day.

The thing I love most is we’re completely private. We have neighbours but don’t often see them for months on end! It has a lovely, big mature garden and is on a quiet road. I don’t think I could live in an attached house/noisy area. We also have a enough space for everyone to do their own thing - which I know we have been very lucky to have during lockdown.

This house is my divorce house. I bought it as a complete wreck 3 years ago and overhauled it completely. It’s beautiful, huge 120ft south west facing garden which I adore, large rooms (1930s) and wonderful neighbours. The dc and I have been so happy here. Selling up next year though to relocate 40 miles away, will be gutted to leave this place.

I like the fact that I am very private here, not overlooked (the fence has collapsed on one side but that will be fixed); it's fairly quiet, nobody bothers anyone else but people are pleasant.

The neighbours, it’s detached and at the moment the large garden which I have moaned about in the past but am using lots at the moment

My main thing I love is that it's bright but the sun doesnt shine directly into the living room until mid afternoon. This means that even when it's really hot out we are cool for much of the day.

We are mid terrace but the walls are also quite thick so we rarely hear our neighbours

I love being detached having a downstairs toilet and being able to access my garage from within my house oh and my kitchen is amazing with a massive island! When it comes to downsizing which we will have to do when older I think I will struggle...we have been truly spoilt with this house!!!

250+ old
Wonky walls
No stairs
Incredible inglenook
Cosy
Ample parking
Rural
On the foot of a mountain
No direct neighbours

The size and space. And the big mature garden that keeps surprising me. My neighbours are lovely. The views across fields. The wildlife.

Internally, I have a utility room that is a good size. Features like coving and ceiling roses although not original, fit in with the house.

Mostly I like knowing I can take my time with it. It is our forever home (unless circumstances really change)