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What happened to your old family home?

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MissCromwellatKingscote · 14/01/2019 11:00

My mum still lives in mine, but a few friends have had the sad job in recent years of having to sell the house they grew up in.

I'm just wondering what happened to your old family home? Has it been sold on a few times? Has it been changed drastically from how your parents used to have it etc.

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DonDrapersOldFashioned · 14/01/2019 11:03

I didn’t live in one single family home for all of my childhood, we moved a lot. My mother no longer lives in the city (or country) where I grew up. So I never have that experience of ‘going home’ when I visit.

easyandy101 · 14/01/2019 11:03

What is consider to be our family home is still there but it had a horrific remodel that turned it from a lovely north shore red brick into some weird American/south African looking compound thing that looks like a drug lord might live there

Was pretty sad to see, although I haven't lived there for 30+ years

Maelstrop · 14/01/2019 11:03

My parents still live in it. I am not looking forward to having to clear it when they go. It's hours from me and full of stuff!

thenightsky · 14/01/2019 11:04

It was sold so my mum could buy a nice flat in an upmarket sheltered housing complex. Last time I drove past it looked like it had been done up massively, with a window in the loft etc.

Mashedpotatobutty · 14/01/2019 11:05

My parents still live in it. They’ve made a few changes but I still feel very much at home there

ApolloandDaphne · 14/01/2019 11:05

My parents still live in it and hopefully will do for a while yet.

My FIL still lives in DH's family home but he needs to move into a care home soon. The house will be sold to fund this.

Sparklingbrook · 14/01/2019 11:05

Still there. Not been past it for at least ten years but it looked exactly the same last time I did.

I have no feelings about it at all, my parents moved out of it in 1993, and I did in 1990.

HoraceCope · 14/01/2019 11:06

it has been totallly done up and now worth an absolute Fortune!
they did however get rid of all the daffodils in the front garden, which my dm thought was a shame, and no, they didnt let us in to look

HoraceCope · 14/01/2019 11:07

oh and the house has had a name change to

FadedRed · 14/01/2019 11:07

The house I was born and brought up in was demolished over thirty years ago. No loss.

IWannaBeYourFordCortina · 14/01/2019 11:07

My friend lives in our old family home from when my parents were still together.

The house I lived in with my DM is now owned by another friend.

We live in a small place!

NorthEndGal · 14/01/2019 11:08

My mum still lives there, it's a little log cabin she and my dad built, on a 100 acre plot . Someday it will be passed on, but hopefully not for a long time

rememberatime · 14/01/2019 11:08

Mine was destroyed in an earthquake and had to be demolished. The day I looked on Google and noticed it was now an empty plot (along with the entire neighbourhood) was devastating. It was always somewhere I would look at when feeling nostalgic - now I don't even have the chance to do a Google driveby...

CrispbuttyNo1 · 14/01/2019 11:09

Sadly I had to sell after my mum died. I still drive past occasionally when I go to visit an aunt and its been extended and modernised beyond recognition. It was really upsetting to see they had ripped out all the gardens including lovely trees and rose bushes that my parents had grown over the 50 years they lived there. One of my biggest regrets is not taking cuttings or taking some of the rose bushes with me before I sold it.

wanderingaround · 14/01/2019 11:11

My parents moved back to their old village in 1988 after we had grown up and left home and my dad took early retirement. The house (a 1960s style semi -d) was sold to a young couple with a baby. It was put up for sale again about 10 years later and another young couple bought it and have raised their family there and still live there. My mum is still friendly with her old next door neighbour. Apparently the family are very nice, but the house has been changed a lot inside. The dining room and the kitchen have been knocked into one and an extra bedroom and ensuite built over the garage.

IggyAce · 14/01/2019 11:11

The first house I lived in til 11 is still there I haven’t driven past it in years. The second house we moved to my parents still live there. My dps have done it up over the last few years so it no longer feels like the childhood home I grew up in.

noraclavicle · 14/01/2019 11:11

Mine was on sale recently and beyond the facade it was altered beyond all recognition. I shouldn’t have looked at the pictures! When I was younger, my parents went to look at their own childhood homes. Dad’s was a pile of rubble, Mum’s was derelict. As Dad said sadly, ‘you just can’t go back.’

QuestionableMouse · 14/01/2019 11:12

My parents still own it.

User5trillion · 14/01/2019 11:13

My parents have the family home on the market and its quite weird. I haven't lived there in over 20 yrs but I am still sad.

My mother has always moved around a lot but I am used to that.

austenozzy · 14/01/2019 11:13

Mine is going to be demolished soon as part of a huge regeneration project. I have mixed emotions as my parents are still there and I lived there from birth to early twenties. But it really needs to be done (the whole area is pretty grim) and the compulsory purchase will make a very tidy addition to their retirement nest egg for them.

Summaryofmylife · 14/01/2019 11:18

I lived in the one house up until I was 25 years old. My parents still live there and many of my dreams still occur there. Because it's quite big it was very much the centre of activity for our friendship group - so many brilliant memories of parties and long chats in the driveway into the night, and of my ex sneaking into my bedroom Blush My parents bought it when my mum was pregnant with me to give them more space for the new arrival, so it always held the significance of being 'my' house.

I will be absolutely devastated when they sell it, which is on the horizon.

Bumblebee39 · 14/01/2019 11:19

We lived in a few different houses, some of which I don't remember or have never seen (from when I was really little)
There are a couple which I look at on Rightmove occasionally to see what people have done with them since. They seem to have been bought and sold a lot.

ToEarlyForDecorations · 14/01/2019 11:20

Old family home got sold last year. Mum died some years ago. Dad just neglected it until it was sold as renovation project Sad. He lives elsewhere with his lady friend.

I'm curious to see the end result of the makeover, but on the other hand don't really want to.

The next door neighbours house was done up some years ago. OK, it looks quite swish, but it's not the comfortable family home I remember. I would say the same of other people's homes too. I've had a nosey on property websites using addresses of past friends that I can remember.

Those once cosy family homes have had huge makeovers. OK, they look properly modern and are worth a fortune but they are not the cosy family homes I would have visited whilst being brought up in my own one.

Sitranced · 14/01/2019 11:20

Someone has added an extension and solar panels by the looks of google earth.

tiggerkid · 14/01/2019 11:22

Parents sold ours; decided to downsize.

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