what would your house ideally be overlooking?

[BrickPoet]

the sea

We overlook fields and mountains. I could watch the view all day.

@MooseBeTimeForSnow thanks what a beautiful pic. And pine forests are the best forests. I love that earthy smell mixed with pines.

I read this as pythons 😂

Any form of water ....sea river stream !
Second would be woodlands

Some trees, a road, anywhere I can see nature or people tbh. Not other houses.

we have ravens nesting on pylons near me

Either the Mediterranean or rolling countryside.

The Atlantic Ocean anywhere along the eastern seaboard.

Pythons would give an estate agent a bit of a challenge if it was on the wish list...
"...a downstairs loo, kitchen diner and I definitely want to see pythons from the living room window"... (looks wistfully into the distance) 😂

The Thames, please, with Tower Bridge within eyesight.

Mine overlooks the sea but it's been pissing down for days so can barely see it. 😂

A preserved rural steam railway!

I love the sight, smells and general ambience of them. A reminder of the gentler times, especially rural ones. My favourite TV programmes are Heartbeat and Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small (original series), which often feature the Yorkshire countryside and sometimes the rural steam railways.

We've managed to find a few holiday cottages to stay in which are at old railway stations, or carriages next to a railway, or the latest was a converted engine shed alongside a preserved steam railway line.

Hillside in the distance with densely packed trees with some that change their colours in autumn, reds, golds, bronzes and some that remain green. A river at the bottom that changes from slow moving in summer to fast in spring with ice melting run off. Wildlife but nothing that could kill me ie bears, so more deer like creatures. Flowers and shrubs that denote the seasons, I like to feel the seasons. I absolutely loved New England in the US. I watched way too much House on the Prairie, The Wilderness Family and now living off grid folk on youtube. Oh and a house with a wrap around porch and a rocking chair for me to sit in watching the world go by.

Lake Maggiore

Regent’s Park

Green open country side with trees, hills or a valley with a river. Ideally no other houses

Sea or a nice river surrounded by greenery. A lake would do too.

I don’t mind seeing other houses but no roads or cars.

A village green. Ideally a beautiful Cotswolds village. There are trees and a duck pond. I can hear the shouts of children at the village school, I can see the village pub, shop and church. I can watch the trees change with the seasons and see people going about their business.

A gorgeous place!

Pendle Hill.

We look over a park and the sea.

We've lived here for over two decades and the plan was always to eventually move inland to the countryside.

We started house hunting this year but realised we just can't do it now - I would miss it so much.

We live next to a farm in a village and our current view from the kitchen window has ewes and lambs, a nanny and two kids and three donkeys - that'll do me!

Notre Dame - edited to say in my head I pictured it pre-fire

Maybe I'll go for Montmartre now and move later.

The sea and a busy street, or the river Thames on a nice buzzy stretch. The sea no 1 though. Maybe with a fishing port. I love watching boats

From the back of our house we partly look over a well known hill, so I'd say a better view of that from lounge and garden.