Do you love your house?

[Goodnightjohnboy]

Just that really, do you love your house or is it just a roof over your head? Has anything made you change the way you feel about it?

No don’t love it, it’s ok but I would like to move. It’s a not a house though it’s a maisonette and I don’t like having people living above

I love mine. We've been here over 20 years, it still needs quite a lot of work/money spending on it, but it's my sanctuary from the world and we've brought our children up here.

I think picking a room such as your bedroom to focus on making it cosy and lovely helps. I did mine a couple of years ago and it's made a big difference to me. For 40 years before that I'd never spent time or money on our room...it always went on DC or something else. I now sleep much better and love my space.

It's a good house in a very nice area and we've pretty much made it how we want to live in it with an extension/doing up the other rooms, so don't plan on moving but if I won the lottery, I would definitely sell and move to something with more character and a bit more outside space.

Had my dream house but got divorced and the house had to be sold!! Got a nice house now but I miss my beautiful handmade kitchen and gorgeous conservatory !! Don’t miss living with my ex husband though

I love my home, its got my family in it and my pets. I dont love my house its got damp and windows that don't shut properly and big cracks in the plaster that keep coming back and its cost me a fortune in repairs and its still shit.

In the past year, we painted all our internal woodwork - doors, skirting boards, kitchen cupboards, got new carpet, painted the living room and got a new sofa. We went from horrible pine and walnut to bright whites and creams.
It has made a massive difference to how I feel about our home

I love the garden in summer, not so much in winter

Yes I do. I feel safe here, I am proud of it, it’s decorated how I want. It’s clean and tidy and I love it and want to stay here forever. It’s my happy place.

I love mine. Not when we first bought it as it was tiny and ugly but I saw the potential and the area is great. 8 years down the line and a large extension and loft conversion later and it is pretty much perfect. We have worked hard on it and it's unrecognisable from what it was.

I love my house
DH designed it. We have lived here for 12 years. DH is a house developer.
Although DH would probably prefer to live more rural.

I used to hate it. It's a tiny new build three bedroom and there are five of us living in it. I hate new builds really, it's ridiculously small for the amount of people in it and our kids are 2, 4 and 6 so it's always a mess and full of plastic shite.

But somehow, over the past couple of years, I have grown to love it. It's in the right area for us, it's easy to manage financially and maintenance-wise and I feel safe here. I would still move to a bigger house immediately if we could afford it, but I'm happy here.

Yes I do. The bathroom is minuscule and the kitchen needs painting and there are things that drive me mad but we’ve really made it a home and it’s cosy and comfy, light and mostly warm.

I've only ever lived one home. I hated the last one and it's okay here but it's small and I hate people living above me.

Yes, I love it, we are very lucky to have lots of space and it’s flexible so could be our forever home

No I don't love it - but there are plenty of good points about it, spacious, decent drive , good location, but I don't really love it and wouldn't be sad to move. I preferred our previous home - much more storage which I miss.

I love mine. We moved in this year and its perfect for us.

I live in an upstairs flat of a house conversion. I love that we have fully modernised the place and it's all new and top spec. I hate the noise from below and that we have no outside space. I couldn't afford a whole house here though so we make the most of it.

Yes I love my thatched cottage so much, always wanted one since a little girl and my great aunt had one, it is beautiful chocolate box thatched cottage with lovely garden. We all loved in and even the cat did not stop purring as she walked in which lasted about 3 days as she loved all the nooks and crannies. Very safe area, lovely village, surrounded by countryside and wildlife but shop and school walking distance. Birds singing each morning.

I love it although we are really stretched financially. In a few years when money is less tight it will be a dream home.

Yes, LOVE my house. Not crazy on the area so may not be here for decades, but the house itself is perfect, everything we dreamed of and the area suits family life. It's a new build, we bought it last year, could never imagine owning a house like this even 3 years ago. Sociable kitchen diner, office space, two reception rooms so one for the kids to break out into, the bedrooms are large, we have ample parking and lots of space for DH's hobbies. It's the house I could only dream of as a child, we compromised on location for it and have zero regrets.

No I don't. We moved last year to get away from aggressive arsehole neighbours who constantly played dance music through the night to piss us off.
We definitely jumped too soon and the house we bought is riddled with problems we probably can't afford to fix, including structural issues. We also have another dickhead neighbour who loves playing dance music and constant building work (not attached to us so not quite as bad but brings back the constant anxiety I had before we moved).

We knew we were probably making a mistake buying it but just couldn't spend another day having abuse hurled at us for doing absolutely nothing.

Love mine but wish I could pick it up and move it far away

Yes, I love mine - very old, very quirky, very untouched by modernity, cold, draughty, very impractical in many ways, but every time I walk through the door it wraps its arms around me, hugs me and makes me feel welcome and safe. It is watched over by all those who have lived, died, been born or conceived in it, over the years, and I intend to do the same, when my time comes. There are also two gargoyles, (salvaged by a previous owner, from the original Palace of Westminster), inset in a panel in the reception room. They too watch over the house, and me. And I share my home with bats, mice, shrews, spiders, woodlice, violet ground beetles, and, in the spring, sparrows nesting in the roof - all welcome, it is their home too!

Adore it.

Not because it’s perfectly decorated etc, we’re fingers crossed planning to start the long awaited kitchen extension this year.

We’re happy here, happier than we were in any other home and I will always associate this house with those times. It has everything we need and for now I wouldn’t be anywhere else!

Yeah, I think I do. It was our first home nearly a decade ago, and was only supposed to do us for a couple of year, yet here we still are.

We did an extension, which helped, but it's cosy and pretty and in a fantastic location - basically, it just suits us. I don't think we'll move unless we find an equivalent property, but bigger, and still in our price range.

I want to love mine but I don’t. It feels like it’s full of little problems I can’t fix, decisions waiting to be made, compromises, mistakes waiting to happen, jobs needing to be done.
It feels like DH’s home but not exactly mine.