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Do you love your house?

151 replies

Goodnightjohnboy · 18/12/2021 22:07

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?

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CeibaTree · 19/12/2021 10:28

We moved about a month ago and I love our new house. It needs loads doing to it, but it is liveable and has a really nice feel to it. It has felt like home from the moment we moved in :)

Newmum738 · 19/12/2021 10:40

Yes, I love my house (home). It has everything I want and need. I've loved houses in the last too and had one that I thought was my forever home and was torn when I had to leave it.

tortiecat · 19/12/2021 11:13

Yes. DH and I were renting a place for years whilst we saved hard for a house deposit - it was an old property and spidery and I never felt at home there, so feel incredibly lucky waking up in our home every day now.

Crunchymum · 19/12/2021 11:33

If I could add another bedroom and a bit more outside space (and maybe another toilet!) it would be our forever home.

But alas we cannot extend so we'll have to move at some point.

Echobelly · 19/12/2021 11:42

I don't think I 'love' it, but I do like it a lot now we've redecorated almost all of it. It was our 'second choice' after 1st choice feel through but the only other one we saw with potential to meet our needs.

It's a bit dark (deep terrace), doesn't have off street parking and garden is small, but it's got loads of room and good sized bedrooms for the family. It's also near high street and tube but on a nice road.

We did a lot of building work on downstairs but it took us 6 years to, for example decorate the front room I'm sitting in now, which was a 'junk room' for all that time and is now the loveliest room in the house - DH thinks it's one of the loveliest rooms in anyone's house that he knows!

I think even if you don't 'love' a house, making one seriously, seriously nice room can make a big difference.

CantKeepSecrets · 19/12/2021 11:59

I love mine, we could do with a bigger one as it's really quite small and hope to make that happen in the next 5 years BUT I love our home.

DC are happy here , I close my door at night and just feel so at peace and safe here. My neighbours are lovely. It really is my safe haven and I feel truly at home here will be gutted to move but it's a must really. We worked our arses off to buy it at 19 so just always pinch ourselves that we actually did it!

OnGoldenPond · 19/12/2021 15:35

Love ours because we had it designed and built to exactly suit what we wanted. Just feels great to live in.

FestiveMelts · 19/12/2021 15:39

We moved to our "forever" home this year, and I LOVE it. It's spacious, in a great area, we've totally renovated to our taste. I'm still so happy with it and often think how lucky we are to live here. It feels Iike the One (as houses go!).

Divocohw · 19/12/2021 15:50

I moved last summer from a house that belonged to my Husband when I met him 17 years ago. It was a lovely house but I'd never really asked myself if I loved it or not. We did lots of work to it and extended it, it was very nice. For a couple of years previously I pondered moving to characterful cottage away from suburbia. Eventually we did, and I say out loud how much I love it, every single day. I mean actually in love with it. It is everything that was on my list of reasons why I wanted to move. And I suppose, the first house we have bought together.

35andThriving · 19/12/2021 15:51

No, it doesn't feel big enough.

plominoagain · 19/12/2021 15:55

Yes .

We stretched ourselves to get it , and it's still a work in progress - 16 years and still need to get the bathrooms done ! But all that is important is here - and with the land for the horses surrounded by fields and in the land of the big skies - I can breathe . I walk through the door and I can physically feel my shoulders drop from round my ears .

Iamkmackered1979 · 19/12/2021 16:03

No
It’s temporary accommodation the second properly we’ve been in. Big house as I have 4 kids but not a tile in the house. Cheap paint that’s flaking off, no shower. Plastic mattresses and it’s just stark not homely - not allowed any of my own furniture but have some belongings and touches to make it nicer.
4 years we’ve been in limbo. Anyway I dream of a lovely cozy house of my own - well something where i can at least paint a wall a colour other than cheap magnolia. Have a comfortable couch with a seat for all of us, same re table - 4 seats for couch and a table that literally fell to bits my son ended up on the floor. You’d think they’d buy sturdy furniture but no it’s the cheapest stuff ever. I’m very careful with things and I can’t stand poorly made furniture that doesn’t last. Also would love to not have inspections from housing officers, I’m on my 4th - back to the one I started with. Not keen on the neighbours either. We keep ourselves to ourselves and they like to tell us what to do which is fun.

Bluntness100 · 19/12/2021 16:10

I’ve liked all our houses as they were our home. One was a mistake and was on a main road, I liked it inside but the location I disliked

I love the house I’m in now, it’s semi rural, listed, large garden and chocolate box pretty and we spent a small fortune doing it up over the last eight years, and I genuinely feel very lucky to live here.

ChiefWiggumsBoy · 19/12/2021 16:17

We've only recently moved into ours, and despite a plethora of issues (leaky roof, stinky bathroom, scammed on building works, missing radiators, damp....) I really feel so at home here. The rooms are large and spacious, when the building works are done each child will have their own room, and we have a garden! I remember when we'd not long moved into our last house and feeling so upset, like we'd made a huge mistake. That never really went away, partly because we bought about 6 months before the market crashed

I guess time might tell, but so far I'm really happy to be here.

FelicityBob · 19/12/2021 16:18

Yes I love our house and I say it several times a week. It’s damp and drafty and the decor is dated but it’s my dream house and one day will be lovely! And even before then it makes me really happy

PlanktonsComputerWife · 19/12/2021 16:20

No, it's a bit draughty and we don't have central heating. Some of the windows are about 60 years old and need replacing, too. And there's awful old carpet we are too nervous to lift in case the floorboards aren't intact underneath.

Firesidefox · 19/12/2021 16:23

Yes I aboslutley love our house. We've been here more than a decade, it's quite scruffy, in a fantastic place in London, and we have so many friends all about. We live near everything we want, and I cannot imagine when or how I will ever want to leave.

I feel very lucky.

Firesidefox · 19/12/2021 16:24

*absolutely

frazzledasarock · 19/12/2021 16:30

I loved my previous house too. It was mine.

It was shabby and falling apart and lots of things going wrong. But oh my god I appreciated having my own place. Where I could step through the door and shut the world out.
Where it was just me and my DC muddling through, being together.
Neighbour on one side was mad and deaf the other side were rough and into shady stuff. But we were on smiling nodding terms with everyone and I will forever be grateful I had the independence of my own home.

Teaandcakeordeath83 · 19/12/2021 16:36

I try not to love my house. We rent and I spend a lot of the time worried that we'll get a no fault section 28 notice or the rent will be hiked so we can't afford it or the landlord will sell and we can't afford to throw our hat in the ring. It's a shame. I do love this house- it has a garden which is rare in our suburb and despite it only being a two bed I know if we owned it (total fantasy) we could remodel it to be incredible.

Renting at my age with a young family is absolutely shit. I spend more on rent than a mortgage, can't afford a deposit and will soon be too old to get one anyway. I feel like a total failure and like I've let my children down massively. My eldest has lived in 6 different places- at the age of 7.

mamaduckbone · 19/12/2021 16:39

We moved in September and I'm getting there with it although we haven't lived here long enough to live it yet and there's still a lot of work to do. I really, really loved my old house - we brought our children up there and had lovely neighbours but not enough space so I've no regrets but it will take a long time to feel the same way about this house.

Agadorsparticus · 19/12/2021 16:50

I loved our good sized 3 bed semi in a great location when we moved in as a couple. 2 growing kids later and it became very small. Once we decided to sell I really disliked living there, the busy road noise, difficulty getting in and out of our drive. Now we've moved out we don't miss it.

CrimbleCrumble1 · 19/12/2021 17:05

I love my home, I wouldn’t change anything about it.
It was a new build 9 years ago and we chose everything in it and picked lots of extras.
It’s completely private at the back of the house and we have a drive and double garage. I can walk to some local shops and have lovely neighbours.
We have a solar panel and really low fuel bills and every room is in the right place and the perfect size.
This summer we got new carpets and had about half of it decorated and now I love it even more.

Elphame · 19/12/2021 17:07

Yes - lovely old house with bags of character.

Sadly I don't love our obnoxious new neighbours who will be the reason for us selling up and moving. I just need to find something I love as much with enough land around it for some peace and quiet.

2pinkginsplease · 19/12/2021 17:10

My house is ok , it’s clean , tidy and my dh , kids and I live in it, it’s handy for public transport for teens getting to uni and central to their friends however it’s not where I want to live forever. We moved into it for a minimum 3 years and 20 years later we are still here, so yes it’s our home but I can’t say I love it,