What are your favourite things about your home?

[Thaimoon]

I just wanted to hear your favourite things about your home for an uplifting thread.

For me it’s the little things like how the bathroom window opens onto the back so I can look at the trees and sky from the bath!

My landing window. When the sun is coming up in the morning through the trees it just looks beautiful and almost like a painting.

There's a corner of my kitchen that makes me smile - it's got all my favourite things on a pair of shelves (nothing fancy, just my grandmother's tea set, for instance) and on the counter underneath there is a lamp and a peace lily in a pretty pot.

The location, seven minutes walk to the beach.

The fact it’s all mine and I don’t have to share with anyone.

The kitchen being at the front so I can nose about my neighbours whilst washing up.

It’s only a small Bungalow, I have great trees to admire from the very private rear garden Oak's,Birch,Sweet Cherries Holly, Maple, laurel, Hawthorn, I also back on to a junior school & love to hear the children at playtimes & often they have outdoor learning under the trees for the very young children, I have lots of flower varieties growing a strawberry Raspberry & Blackberry patch when in season. But no partner to share the enjoyment with😢

I wanted to keep my house for a year when my life imploded as I wanted to provide continuity for my young children. It was a massive struggle to pay for it on my own and juggle everything.
Many years have passed and it’s still our family home. I’ve paid for it and it has provided a welcoming base for my DC and many animals.
I love the rural location, the memories and the chaos when everyone comes home.

The sauna, and the room in the basement, the size of a decent sized bedroom, that's entirely dedicated to storage.
I also like that OH can have his office/music room in the basement but I do regret that he took the basement door off - a little more soundproofing would be nice!

I also really love the rock out in the garden that has pretty flowers growing around it (planted by a previous owner and reappear every summer), and the various berries that grow in the hedges surrounding the garden - late summer provides so much delicious produce.

It has a lovely name!

It has very generously-sized gardens, although they are very much a constant work in progress!

I love the rural location, and the fact that it is safe enough for us to leave our houses unlocked, without worrying that anyone will break in. My neighbours are the top form of security, as any unusual vehicles are noted, and people would be interrogated, as we all like to chat. It is on a single-track lane, and light pollution doesn’t exist here. Also, the house overlooks open farmland, and I really like sheep!

Parking is no problem around here.

It is so close to work that I can walk there every day. This does, however, mean that there are no snow days in winter!

Although it is owned by my employers (it’s a tied cottage), I can do whatever I like to the house, with the exception of knocking it down. Due to it being a tied cottage, the rent is dirt cheap for a family-sized home, which is a major financial perk.

The oversized 1930’s hallway is perfect proportioned for storing vast amounts of shopping or your packed items, ready for going on holiday!

It has some original cottage doors (although, OK, they will never be repainted in a weird pea green, as seen where the paint has chipped off one).

I love my shutters. It means that the house can be dark at the crack of dawn in summer, although I can’t do much about the dawn chorus outside!

It has a pantry, which is enormous for a house of this size!

The downstairs loo does have a downfall in that woodlice have a weird attraction to it, but it is a godsend that it is right by the back door, for those moments where you just can’t hold it in anymore.

The random little room that didn’t really serve a purpose is big enough for my beautiful piano and some of my library.

So... even though it is a money-pit and yet I'll never own it, I love my house!

I love the space and storage, everything has a home and we don’t have stuff piled everywhere.

I love our living room which has 2 Juliette balconies, opening the doors on a warm evening is heavenly. Most of all though, I love that it’s mine and it’s filled with the people I love most in the world.

Big rooms with massive windows. Elevated on the street so passers by can't peer in.
Good sized garden, north facing so lots of shade makes it more usable for us. Not overlooked - this I really love.

Stepping out the front door and seeing the sea.
We have a fisherman's cottage, just big enough for 2 of us. I can't see the point of having rooms we wouldn't use.

My newly decorated bedroom. After living for 16 years, putting everyone before me, my bedroom is my sanctuary! No one is allowed to ruin my peace. Not even a future boyfriend.

Our balcony overlooking the garden and a small, peaceful lake.
DC love the water trampoline (no idea of the real name for it! it's like a rubber ring with a mini trampoline on top)
the built in hoover system - B L I S S

What was my office when wfh is now a 2nd sitting room…sofa, dresser unit with TV, colour drenched in a beautiful green..,it’s my calm space.

This is the whole property but it’s split into 7 apartments now. It’s a storey taller on the other side, which is where we are, so we have our own entrance and outside space. A granite farm house. Surrounding homes will at one time have been outbuildings I think, our opposite neighbours have old stone pigpens in their garden.