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 mine. It’s not perfect but it felt like home from the moment we first saw it. We have loads of space to spread out and have made the downstairs especially really beautiful. I would like a slightly bigger garden but it was worth the trade off for everything else we have.

I never loved our last house though. It was fine and fulfilled a function but that was all. I never felt like it was particularly home, it was always a stepping stone.

Love our house. It has such a happy and cosy feel about it, and the DC can barely remember our first home, so I'm really glad they have that continuity.

Lovely neighbours, loads to do, peaceful area of London, and I honestly don't ever want to leave. I grew up in the country and loved it but am so happy here I can't imagine ever wanting to leave.

I love mine, it’s big, old, cold and quirky but I love it! I felt comfortable here the moment stepped in it.

I love our house! We moved earlier this year for more space but I like so much more than this. It's got bigger bedrooms so no fighting for the "best" room from the DS, there are enough bathrooms, the heating keeps us warm, the kitchen/living is open plan and is just idea, the oven/hob is amazing (double oven - my first!), I could go on. Really pleased we moved although it was a big step. :)

I love my house. It will be a little large when last D.C. has flown the nest. It was awful when we bought it and needed renovating, I loved it when it was finished. 20 years has passed so refurbing it again. It’s a 4 bed townhouse.

Sloped floors you can run a marble down, odd floorplan design. Nope.

I love it. If I won the lottery I would still want to live in my 3 bed terrace.

I love it. It's detached and isn't overlooked at the rear. It's generally quiet.
If it was just on the entrance to a culdesac rather than a main road with a bus route, it would be perfect. Plus it's on a school road so school runs are a mare.

I've just moved into a new house after I split with my ex-partner. The house I shared with him was the house I have most hated in my life. It was a detached bungalow with a large living room, but the bedrooms were pokey. It had a 1980s kitchen (which was replaced 6 months before we split) and all of the doors were those horrid 80s dark crappy fake wood. The location was great, neighbours were nice and it had a fairly manageable garden, but that was it on the positives. As I had moved into a house he was already living in, I was very limited in what I could do decor wise. Also there was furniture he was reluctant to replace as it belonged to his grandmother. I was hoping over the years that we would move into something together to make things more equal, but it didn't happen as he was very stubborn.

Now we have split, I've moved into something that is more 'me'. A small mid-terraced house with lots of character. I actually have more floor space. And a cellar! The kitchen is smaller and the garden isn't very big, but I'm fine with that. I've felt more at home here in 10 days than I did in the 8 years I lived in the old place.

@shepherdspieisminging - to answer your question...I found it very hard, but lived in (false) hope my (ex) partner would get off his arse and want to move so we would have an equal footing in the next house. I tried my best to instill my own touches to make the house feel like 'home' - I was 'allowed' to decorate my DD's bedroom, but that was it. Looking back, I don't know how I put up with it for so long.

We just moved four months ago. I hadn't even seen the house! A relative viewed it for me and I know the neighbourhood and had seen a similar house next door but one. I didn't' like it much when we moved in on a very wet day. I was looking for a light house with birds and fields etc. This house is dark, mostly North facing , near a flight path! The fields are being built on and the traffic is terrible. However we are adjusting and I am beginning to feel more settled. I am hoping in the Summer it will all feel a lot better.

*Hate it!

DH wanted to move to this particular street (though God knows why!)

It is okay, the neighbours are lovely etc, but the house - I don't know, I just hate it and feel it hates me.

I've even stood and spoken to it and asked it to call a truce, but the very walls seep looting.

It doesn't help that we are a semi with the laziest bloody arses in the history of Christendom.

The woman is my age (mid-sixties) and a hoarder. Her adult son (mid-forties) moved back in with her when his marriage broke up. Neither of them do ANYTHING to too property. The upper windows are practically falling out they are so rotten. The downstairs living room window id UPVC because when we got a new one in we offered her our old one, and DH and her son-in-law put it in for them. The "porch" is quite literally falling off the wall!

DH and I have cleared their garden three times - not doing it again!

It's really a shame - the property lowers the tone of the entire street and especially our house because we are joined on*

In other ways they are good neighbours - always friendly, happy to take in parcels, don't make a noise, the grandchildren have always been a joy from being tiny - lovely, polite, well-mannered kids.

I think she has a MH problem, but he's just a lazy arse.

*I wonder if this is why our house hates me - maybe thinks I should set fire to next door the next time they are out shopping?

Mostly love it. Moved in eight months ago from our previous home where we lived for twelve years (and also loved) which was feeling very cramped. Our house now is over three times bigger. It's a beautiful Victorian terrace with box bay windows over three floors. We've gone from three bedrooms one bathroom to five bedrooms two bathrooms. It's quirky, no floors or walls are even but modernised enough to be comfortable. It has a warm, homely atmosphere, five minutes from the beach and has a view of a church and rectory from the back garden (no overlooking neighbours). The downside is it's on a busier road with moderate traffic and some neighbours can be a little noisy at times. Overall really happy.

I love ours. It is Victorian, 1884, big, five bedrooms plus one converted into my en suite bathroom. Dining room, sitting room, study, snug (small sitting room called 'Library' on the original ) , big conservatory, kitchen, utility room, pantry, boiler room, two bathrooms, shower room, downstairs cloakroom, former servants' bedroom only accessible via an outside staircase, now DH's gym, cellar.

We bought it just as younger son was leaving home,, so it is large for just the two of us, but my mum had died and left me lots of lovely old furniture and our previous house could not accommodate it. It is brilliant when the family come to stay, plenty of room for everyone and we use the lot of it even when on our own.

We live near a river overlooking what passes for a castle in our town, by a fairly busy road, but five minutes walk to the town centre with Wilkos, Boots M&S, TKMax, Lidl. Absolutely perfect!

When we moved in everything was tastefully magnolia. We have cheered everything up and were featured in a 'home' magazine.

The only things I would change are the garden ,wish it were bigger, and the astronomical heating bills.

Some of these posts are making me so jealous! I could have had a really lovely house in another area, but the area we are in is expensive. However, there are a lot of benefits in terms of things to do, etc.

I absolutely LOVE it
4 bed council house. Lovely big garden. Rooms all big, lovely neighbours.
It’s a little bit untidy at the moment but I couldn’t be happier with it feel so lucky

I love mine. It’s not perfect and there is loads that I would change but it’s ours. Through hard work and living frugally (no holidays, new cars, second hand clothes etc) we have nearly paid the mortgage off. It will be paid off by the time I am 38. A year away.

We £1500 worth of debt which will be paid off in January and then the rest can go on the mortgage.

We have thought about moving but the freedom and security of being mortgage free is too much.

It’s complicated.

Hated it the day we moved in, hit a wall of depression, grieved, literally grieved for my old home and life for years. Not helped by DH realising he had bitten off more than he could chew DIY-wise and funds did not stretch to ‘Getting People In’, so it took years to get beyond the deconstruction stage.

Now faced with downsizing I realise we have finally bonded. I won’t say I love it, but it’s a big part of me.

The idea of moving is actually quite unnerving.

Always lived in shitty little flats, either flatshares or housing association estates. never a garden. never any freedom, or room to move about or be outside (is how I see it).

Your situation sounds ideal OP, in a slight backwater. for me the size of it would not be relevant. I'd just want some space away from people etc.

I do make my home nice inside as much as I can, so am happy with that. But thats kinda all.

Love mine. DH and I have spent so much time (and money ) getting it exactly how we want it. Makes up for my time at uni living in a shitty flat with mouldy ceilings.

I love it.
I was heavily pregnant when we bought it and needed a bigger house - we brought it as a '10 year house' or possible forever home.

When we divorced I got it in the settlement. He wanted it sold and really did not want me to have it -a case of I love it too and if I can't have it neither can you -but we hadn't sold our old house -so he went back to that and got to stay there.

It is huge, and huge gardens -but the house is new. Eco friendly. -Bills are nothing, it's warm and toasty in winter and well ventilated in summer. Long corridors, lots of bedrooms, separate bits to each corner of the house, two lounges etc. It's down a long gravel drive way so far, far,far from the main road -with lots and lots of fields. Perfect for the dogs as the entire lot is fenced in and had mature hedges round the edge all secure.

Despite it being new, and eco friendly it has log burners and lots of nice features. The outside looks old -and very traditional and then you step in and there is a huge hallway which is bright and airy -lots of velux windows spilling light into every corner of the house. It's like a tardis. Neighbours's house are similar -new build but looks old and nice and friendly.

The kids have got huge bedrooms each and the house is so big -I can go down the other end of the house and not hear any screaming kids and read my book quietly.

The drive is gorgeous -able to park literally tens of cars without any problem at all -all off road. Detached huge garage. Yet, if needed I could walk to the nearest town 2 miles -30 mins in the snow if needed for a food shop. Full of animals here and so are all the neighbours- pigs etc

I appreciate it every day and so look forward to coming home and often sigh and realise how lucky I am to live here.

It was sold and never listed -but the potential buyer's house fell through and the estate agent emailed me the details and I viewed it the next day of a 'potential listing' (it had no floors, windows or a staircase) and then it was off the market as we brought it on the condition it was pulled off the market and internet there and then.

It's my home.

I do love it and it was a good investment as a recent valuation showed it had increased 100% in value in the last 7 years recently. The builder really really needed the money as it was all held up in the houses. Ex is spitting bricks.

We are in a 2 bedroom flat with 5 month of DD. It's lovely, but we don't have a lot of space. We'd love a house, but it's just so so expensive. I look at people our age with 4 bedroom houses and wonder how on earth they can afford it! We both have decent enough jobs, but have to really watch the finances, especially now I'm on SMP. That said, I feel lucky to have a roof over our heads. Being homeless must be awful.

Love it, and I’m thankful for it every single day. We’ve been here 2 years but it feels like much longer (in a good way). Loads still to do, including at least 2 big projects, but it’s still such a great place to be I just love spending time at home.

It’s a big 6-bed Victorian semi in an area of London that’s nothing flash but which has a great community, good schools, great transport, enough nice things for us to do locally, and is in between fancier areas. 2 huge big living rooms and a study, smallish kitchen but workable (the openplan dream is one of the projects...), 4 bathrooms (one is also the utility room), and the arrangement includes 2 bedrooms and a bathroom on the top floor which are great for guests. My downstairs study also has a bed in and is en-suite to the lootility so we call it the room of requirement - it’s whatever you need it to be. Long garden and playing fields behind so we’re not overlooked and when you’re out the back it feels like you’re in the countryside.

We’re slowly doing it up bit by bit and I’m sure it’ll never be completely finished but isn’t that always the way. It’s a brilliant house for kids parties, family sleepovers etc. When I look around at it I can’t quite believe it. We do work hard for it but I know we are very fortunate. I can’t imagine leaving unless it gets too much for us when we’re old. If that happens, I want a snazzy little flat in the city!

Secondsop your home sounds fab.

Bertielab your house sounds amazing too.