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?

Really like it but half way through stuff and so much to do

• curtains, painting, lighting, garden, carpet and furniture nearly all done
• extension, bathrooms, kitchen, garden studio and windows yet to go

Not sure if easier just to move but we’ve done some so may as well keep going

Best thing is that it has West facing garden which makes me happy

I love our house. I'd be quite happy if we never moved again.

Plenty of space and lots of useful storage downstairs, large bedrooms and a nice sized garden. DH has a study so I don't get annoyed by his stuff being everywhere. Huge windows so feels very light and airy. We also love the area. It feels very safe, easy walking distance to DC school, nice parks, library etc but our street is quiet and all the neighbors are lovely. Garage and double drive so parking not an issue. My favourite thing about it is that it's detached and on a corner plot so feels very private.

We used to live in a very pokey terraced house where the walls were so thin we could hear our neighbors coughing, hoovering, stomping about etc. Parking was a nightmare, the kitchen was tiny and there was no storage. No separate workspace for DH so had to cram a desk and filing cabinet into the tiny living room.
We were there for 10 years so I feel very, very thankful to be where we are now.

I love it. I knew within seconds of walking through the front door it was the house for us. Big airy rooms, especially on the top 2 floors with sea views. Quirky terraced garden at the back with a sitting area in the sun to look at the sea, room to expand the living space in terms of a garage/outbuildings attached to the house. Hadn't been decorated since the 60s which was reflected in the price and which we're slowly fixing. Quiet village with a pub, shop and a sea food restaurant which also does takeout. Came with it's own creepy huge garden gnome, what's not to love.

I hate our house. It’s got damp, it’s too small, too dark, no driveway, no garage and the neighbours are horrendous. Do have good schools but can’t wait to move

I love ours at this time of year, but it can be cold but I wouldn't swap the high ceilings or sweeping staircase and it's London Zone 2, but it's shabby in a peeling paint, old rugs seagrass matting way. Some friends are genuinely horrified but I love it, there's lots of space.

The garden is ok but I wish there were more trees at the back. It's one minute from a bus stop and corner shop, two from a park and five from shops which is great as I hate to be isolated. However, I always hear birdsong which is lovely.

I like my current house-it's a pretty standard 3 bed detached but what really makes it work is the outside space, as it's a corner site so we have a large garage for storing crap in, double driveway and wraparound garden so in the summer it feels way more spacious.

However, I absolutely adored my first house-a tiny terraced house with no garden, no parking and just 2 rooms downstairs, and 3 upstairs. The instant we moved in it felt like home and I was so sad to leave but we just outgrew it. We actually still own it and rent it out and I do dream of moving back there some day!!

I Hated it when we moved in 4 years ago but am warming to it now. We are making some improvements but I can’t see it being our ‘final’ home - but weirdly it will suit us better when the kids move out so who knows... There wasn’t much on market and our old house sold quickly so we didn’t have much choice at the time. I would never have chosen it. Area is fine but a bit too far - 15 mins walk - to station/shops. I drive to work But if I had to use public transport it wouldn’t be convenient

I like my (rented) house for the most part. The bedrooms are a good size, the kitchen is huge, the living room is cluttered with DD's stuff but big enough to contain it. The third bedroom is going to be DS' when he arrives in July, and it's quite a bit smaller than DD's but big enough if we're creative with storage.

I hate the bathroom, which is split into two rooms - the toilet room is okay on its own but the main bathroom is tiny as a result. Where we live there's a pretty standard house design, and a lot of them have had the bathrooms made into one which gives SO much more space.

I would like the garden if it was flat but it's horrible and lumpy, I'm forever falling down little holes. If we had a guarantee that we could live here for 10+ years we'd get it sorted, but you never know with rentals.

Love my house. Have got great neighbours and love the feeling of coming home every day. But I do think home is where the heart is andesigned my family have grown up there.

I love my house. I wouldn't say it's my dream house - built mid century for the council, and not much outside space, but it's big enough for us and it's right by the sea. I put in an open fire and an Aga, so it's very cosy and bright. Loudest sounds coming in the always open windows are the birds and the sea

Love my house, the only thing that could make it better would be a nice beach nearby.

My house was probably nice in 1902 which is when it was built.. 😁

I love our Victorian 3 bed semi, we've put so much work into it to make it a home and extend it. We're now selling it and I'm dreading any negative feedback, wish we could detach it and take it with us when we move

Love mine. First house purchase and it's our forever home. Just me and my fiance at the moment in a 5 bed house. Theres loada of lught, rooms are large so luch wardrobe space. The bathrooms have been done up by previous owners to a high standard as has the kitchen. Large garden....peaceful In a small village. Love it and feel really lucky!

yes I love my house - I have done lots of work to it to get it how I want it - I love my huge sunny kitchen dinner most of all :)

I love my messy, imperfect, ordinary house. It's always felt like a kind, welcoming house.

I love our house. It'll be embarrassingly big when DCs are no longer around (6 bed, 7 bath / toilets) but even then I can imagine staying here for big family Christmases. It's on the outskirts of a nice village with a great school a couple of miles away. 20 mins drive for DH and my commute ... I'm lucky to say that money couldn't buy us a better home.

Love my house although it's not perfect. Hate the street, it's been slowly ruined by buy to let's and HMO's.

We're in the process of buying a new house, it's in a nicer area but the house isn't one I love. We'll make it nice on the inside, it's huge and it has an amazing garden, but it's a newer house with no features.
DH thinks it will be our forever home, but it's way too big. Once the kids leave home I'll be looking to downsize.

Absolutely adore mine and it's my forever home. Thoroughly ate up my inheritance to hang on to it when I was made redundant and am now taking out a mortgage to finish the unfinished renovations - building in things like decent-looking railings and grab rails for when my arthritis is worse as a pensioner. It's all one level too. Master bedroom, spare room, study, sewing room, bathroom, sitting room, conservatory, kitchen/dining room and utility/laundry.

Old 19th century farm cottage with 20th century extension and my own additions, on outskirts of a peaceful village, within ten miles of a town, motorway and rail connections. Got my own small river round the garden and an old wooden stable at the bottom of the garden! The house and garden look horrendous in their half-finished state but I keep muttering "next year it will be over....".

Love my home. Been here since the property was built 10 years ago. Lovely cul de sac location and close to all shops, station, GP and the sea.
Garden is beautiful and I love the interior, all fresh and bright. Garage and off road parking for 2 cars. I have an en suite - bliss!
Only downside is my neighbours. We are a semi and they retired from a large detached house next to me. She wears the trousers and would do well on the neighbours from hell tv show. He just does what she says!
I’ve paid off my mortgage and I’m staying here forever, shame about the people I’m joined to as the rest of the cul de sac are lovely

Love mine!
large & airy semi, 150ft garden, nice quiet road, nice quiet neighbours too which helps!

Hated my last house. Too small & hated the layout.
Liking where you live is very important to your overall happiness.

I love my house
But hate the kitchen and bathroom and am unlikely to be able to afford to do anything about them for another 10 years
There’s also a few other pressing jobs need doing such as rewire and leaky roof which will come first but take another 5 years to save up for

Honeylulu you could be describing my house, apart from our lack of cellar. I very much like mine (not sure about love), although it has its downsides. It's probably much smaller than many on this thread, and on a busy road but we have lovely neighbours on either side, and we're less than 10 mins walk to school and the station, with lots nearby.

It wouldn't be most people's forever house but we're so settled here that I wouldn't put myself in lots more debt for anything else. Of course when that big lottery win comes in, I'm off!

We have a good sized shed at the bottom of the garden which I'm planning on converting jnto an office / studio when the DCs are a bit bigger, as they'll probably want separate rooms eventually.

I don't hate my flat but I don't love it as I really really want a garden. We have a communual garden but it's not the same. And our neighbours are a bit funny about it when we take our toddler out to play. We end up going to my mum's or the park to play outside.

We won't be able to afford a house down here. They are just too expensive. About 70k more for a 3 bed house than a 2 bed flat. Out flat is big though. So we have the indoor space just not any outdoors.

I love my house. It's light, airy and a bit unusual layout-wise - kind of open plan in parts and split-level. It also has views across Morecambe Bay to the Lakeland fells. We are slowly re-decorating room by room (bought it nearly 4 years ago). My only regret is that we can't afford to do it up in style. In particular would have loved real wood flooring, but laminate will have to do. First world problem, I know.