Do you love, or hate your house?

[OnTheporch]

I've hated every house I've lived in apart from my current house which I love.

It's set back away from the street via a drive, and then another private drive to access the house so we're nowhere near any proper roads. To the side of us is green land. It's detached so no neighbours to fall out with.

Inside it's all corridors and rooms, no open plan nonsense so it's easy to hide away from people. I love it. I can't imagine a better house and I've never felt so settled.

It's 4 bedroomed and the kids are slowly starting to leave - soon we'll only have one here and they're 17 so might fly the nest soon also.

Would I be unreasonable to stay here forever even though it's much surplus to requirements?

Do you love or hate your house and why?

I love my house.

Private but not isolated
Huge windows, so lots of light
Nice size
Large utility room for junk
Great neighbours
Lovely area with community feel
Useful small grocery shops nearby
Quirky independent shops too
Can walk to train station to get to city
Cultural & sporting activities locally
Huge Waitrose, Sainsbury's and Tesco within 10 minute drive

It's not perfect of course, but the house ticks a lot of things on the wish list.

Have loved all my homes with current DP. O it first was a studio but even that was a lovely little place for us.

My first ever house was horrid. Me and Ex private rented for a discounted rate (we had a proper tenency agreement etc) and we really did get what we paid for. Was grim. I only lasted a year there.

Love, love, love my home. It's a bungalow in a gorgeous village. I moved this year so still has previous owners stamp but I'm just about to have a new kitchen and boiler put in then decorate all through. It will feel like mine then. I've already done quite a bit here like electrics etc but after my last house in a city this house is beyond bliss. I have off street parking for two cars and the village shop is very close. I know I am very, very lucky.

It's ok. Love the location and the lifestyle it gives us (nothing special, very suburban but DH can walk to work and DCs to school, catchment for Outstanding secondary, 3 parks within a 15 minute walk, buses every 7 mins). We lived in a a smaller house in the same area - we had about 15 streets that we would consider - and the house was the best we could get. I'm glad we moved when we did as nothing better has come up, and having moved earlier meant we could enjoy the space while kids were preschool age.

I love our house. Country views, all double beds, room for the family to stay as and when, and I’m slowly taming the garden BUT this is my (realistic) dream house...

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I love my house.

But I realise I am in a very fortunate position.

I hate it. It's in a town I didn't want to live in, I disliked it the moment I first saw it, it's decorated in a style which I dislike but can't afford to change and it's got no storage.

Loved my first home, detached, big garden, tons of parking. Unfortunately didn't love my ex as much. Divorced, and bought outright a terrace ex council house which I liked ok, it was in a good area and convenient for work and transport.

When I met my now dh we knew we'd eventually be together so only maintained my home and didn't do the new kitchen/bathroom stuff etc. As kids grew and some left home we moved in together. Initially I only temporarily moved into his home while we considered selling both homes and buying one together but as time went on his home became our home.
Friends thought I was mad as it was his matrimonial home but it worked out great.
I had free range to make it my home and did just that. His kids loved it and were at the stage of leaving home anyway.

The only thing id now prefer would be slightly bigger rooms but to move to an ideal house would use up our savings. Don't want another mortgage etc as we are retired.. It's a small market town with ten minutes walk to fields and cows, patio and bark chip shrub beds so no grass to cut.
And any decor of first wife of ex is totally erradicated , colours and furniture completely different, two spare bedrooms that manage to squeeze in family and dgc on visits.

I really really like it, almost love it, love it enough to not be desperate to move 😛

I hated living in my last house, even though it was a beautiful house, the location was all wrong and I was really unhappy there, and as a result spent as little time there as I could, and lost all motivation to work on the house or garden.

I love our current house, and it is definitely our forever home, where we will raise our new DD, despite being small (approx 75m2). It is a cosy little cottage, and I'm doing loads of work on the garden. The location is incredible, really rural but convenient for the main roads and we can see across the sea to Ireland when the weather is clear.

I would absolutley stay in your position!

I love our house. We bought it in almost derelict condition and completely refurbished the inside ourselves, and restored loads of the original Victorian features. Me and DH spent the first few years of married life doing this together so I think we’re both too attached to it to ever leave now!

It’s on a lovely road, Wandsworth common is a stones throw away and we’re well connected to the rest of london on the tube yet it feels peaceful and safe. Growing up we moved around a lot so I never really had a childhood home, but I want this to be the home my DD’s look back on with fond memories.

It’s totally impractical- because it’s a period property, heating costs a fortune, because it’s in London our garden is nowhere near as big as I’d like (I’m very into gardening) and our kids are never going to have the den-building, outdoorsy countryside childhood that I wanted for them. But I love it and hope to stay here forever

Indescribably love love love

Love my house, it is pretty as a picture and in a lovely village location.

That said, my last home was an ugly flat in a rowdy area with a drug dealing neighbour and I loved that too. Home is home I guess! 🤷🏻‍♀️

When I retired i decided to leave London and chose a town which was about 50 miles out. Viewing property, I took one foot inside where I now live and knew I had to buy it and made an offer immediately. It's not fancy, 1970s I think, ground floor 2 bed maisonette with masses of storage space both inside and out, large rooms, patio doors out to secluded garden, also front garden and no houses opposite, just a large grassed area.

Having said all that, I am disappointed with the town - terrible architecture (planners over the years must have been either blind, drunk or bribed) and lacking lots of things which can be found in smaller towns, eg not many antique shops or an auction house, which I used to go to regularly to buy and sell, etc. and I really miss London.

When I win the lottery jackpot I shall move back to London but won't sell this property and will stay here sometimes.

I loved it when we bought it, but there are elements that I now hate. The garden is gorgeous, set over three levels, buy compleyely impractical for a toddler. The biggest thing that botherd me though, the the people over the road who have raucous parties every weekend over the summer. The music is so loud that we cant hear our tv with the windows and doors shut. I hate them so much.

My house is not a dream home and not exactly what I would buy if i were to be buying a house again.We bought it when the kids were small due to its suitability for young kids .ie surrounded by playgrounds all other families with young kids and traffic restrictions between the houses which made it safe for little uns.It's bright a cheery and modern whereas I prefer older houses.we won't be moving because its paid off completely and my now teenage kids love their home which is the most important reason to stay.on top of that our neighbours are our friends and its a real community which I love.

We love ours. Sold ours and moved across country into a grade II listed 1700s cottage in a village. Rented as could never afford this in a million years but it's beautiful, beams, character, huge cottage garden with ample off road parking. Decided that we want to stay here rather than pay more on another mortgage for a house that can never match this.

I love my house but even when I lived in army quarters I loved them too as it's where my family were. But this house is mine. All mine, no march outs, no magnolia bloody paint. Wallpaper every where 6 bedrooms, huge garden, I can put picture up and not worry about getting billed, we've had a new kitchen where everything is built in. No over March out to pass. Love it!!!!!

Might out myself... But this is why I love our house.

I love my house, an 18th century farmhouse set 500m off the lane.

As we drove down the pot holed lane on our first visit, my dh and I looked at each other and agreed we liked it already. Before we'd even seen the house.

The house was an absolute mess and sucked up 30k of our savings making it warm, water tight and electrically safe.

3 years down the line, we are still on concrete floors as we have not been able to afford to make it anything but habitable but we still love it and can't see ourselves ever leaving.

I really like my house, it ticks all our boxes and is detached, good neighbours, on a nice quiet street. I don't like the garden but it's liveable with.
What I don't like is my actual town. Run down market town, I've never felt settled here and not made many friends. I'd like to live near the sea ideally and somewhere nicer so that overshadows the house.

Hate my house. It's the first house I've lived in that I really don't like (have moved over 20 times!)
It's dark, the rooms are a decent size but low ceilings so it feels so poky. It's the only modernish house I've ever lived in (it's 1970s, everything else was Victorian)
The only blessings are it's in a v good area and it's detached (because I have two children with asd and they are VERY noisy

But I want something old, I yearn for the sea, and I ache for light. [sigh]

Eryri- are those Welsh hills or Scottish? Looks gorgeous

Eryri you must be near me

There's a difference between loving your house and loving where you live.
I love my house. I've lived here 30 years, it's huge and has lots of big rooms and a lovely garden.
I'd like to pick it up and move it though. We are in a tiny village with farmland all around. It was idyllic when DC were little but the novelty wore off years ago. I want to live in a nice little market town with shops and amenities.

Oops, could be England too, couldn't it? Sorry!