Fuck this fucking house

[FeathersOarBlades]

DH and I bought a beautiful old cottage 1.5yrs ago, have been blissfully happy since we moved in. Everyone comments on what a lovely place it is, we love rurally, in a gorgeous AONB.

Now to get the point. I am the least woo person you will meet, but even I was a bit WTF when DH made his first trip up in the loft and then came back and showed me this.. taken from an old door stored up there. Do let me have your thoughts, woo and non woo!

It might freak someone out in 50 years when they decide to renovate the house again.

This is exactly how I felt as a teenager living in an old, cold, pokey house

Well we bought a beautiful old house... that needs a lot of money spent on it. You describing your time there as blissfully happy, rather than spending the last 1.5 years why the fuck you bought this house as it’s just sucked all your money, means that the previous owner has probably ploughed some serious cash into the house. I imagine, the previous owner wrote this when they’d measured four times and yet the fucking door still didn’t fit. Or they thought it was just adding a new door that could be bought from B&Q but it actually turned into realising that the door needed to be custom made, a new door frame needed adding and the old frame was padded with tissues and secured with cable ties. Both of which have happened in my beautiful old cottage. We try not to start anything on the house now because it usually ends up with both of us saying ‘fuck this fucking house’.

I'm more amazed that you took that long to go into the loft! I would not have resisted that long. I have an old cottage where the loft area is split in two by the chimney, one area is accessible with a hatch and one not. It is sealed. I often wonder what is in it. After seeing this it bugs me even more......

@LaChatte

Yeah no sorry, should have added that I wrote it in frustration while putting in said beam.

You put in your own beams? How nouveau riche of you

Just wrote underneath it

Yes but we love this house fuck you

Job done

I think maybe nearly all of us who live in an old house have wanted to write that at some point. You break your back to get it nice, it's fine for a little while, then something else falls off or disintegrates or needs doing. It's pretty endless and it gets wearing. Some days I love my house and some days I absolutely hate the wonky walls, beams, pointy bits etc and all the crap that constantly needs doing.

@Flubber88

I'm more amazed that you took that long to go into the loft! I would not have resisted that long. I have an old cottage where the loft area is split in two by the chimney, one area is accessible with a hatch and one not. It is sealed. I often wonder what is in it. After seeing this it bugs me even more......

We had no reason to go up there! DH only went up today to store an old rug.

@Crumbwell

This is exactly how I felt as a teenager living in an old, cold, pokey house

House is neither pokey or cold [shrug]

It’s not near any bars or clubs or things teenagers might like so I’m going with disgruntled teenager in any case.

Someone's been grounded.

@nancybotwinbloom

Just wrote underneath it

Yes but we love this house fuck you

Job done

I just might do that

Ooh I see....I'm one of those bloody nosey parkas from childhood - always have to look in the loft, the cellar etc ! Fascinated! Ha ha

@RaspAsYouChokeOnTheToupee

Well we bought a beautiful old house... that needs a lot of money spent on it. You describing your time there as blissfully happy, rather than spending the last 1.5 years why the fuck you bought this house as it’s just sucked all your money, means that the previous owner has probably ploughed some serious cash into the house. I imagine, the previous owner wrote this when they’d measured four times and yet the fucking door still didn’t fit. Or they thought it was just adding a new door that could be bought from B&Q but it actually turned into realising that the door needed to be custom made, a new door frame needed adding and the old frame was padded with tissues and secured with cable ties. Both of which have happened in my beautiful old cottage. We try not to start anything on the house now because it usually ends up with both of us saying ‘fuck this fucking house’.

I think you may have nailed it

We're in the process of selling a 'beautiful old cottage' and it will make a lovely home for the buyer, but at the moment I could write this in foot high letters on every wall.

We just spent a year renovating, and there were several moments when either we or the builders (or both) said ‘argh bloody house’. Mostly because everything we set out to do was twice as awkward/complex as it should have been

Maybe a grumpy teen locked in the loft 🤔🤷‍♀️🙈

It was mostly said in affection for the old place, or out of bemusement, but there were several issues

@Flamingolingo

It was mostly said in affection for the old place, or out of bemusement, but there were several issues

‘Fuck this fucking house’ not the most affectionate phrase ever muttered!

It’s the ghost of a frustrated DIYer

I literally don’t get the point of this thread. It’s 4 words written in a sharpie. You couldn’t get any less woo. Hiding thread.

We replaced the whole bloody floor, beams, joists, insulation, wiring, floorboards, the lot. Not so much nouveaux riches as nouveaux pauvres because we couldn't afford to pay someone else to do it fo us!

What do ghosts usually write in? A quill dipped in ink I guess ..
Unless they died later than quills were in use. Maybe 1.7 years ago...

Who did you say you bought it from?

We ripped our staircase out and it had EFC (Everton football club) on the wall in paint.

My dad was horrified.

@MereDintofPandiculation

When we moved into our first house, we started by decorating the living room. We removed about 20 layers of paint from the window sill, and burned into the wood thus revealed were our two initials.

Now that is really woo!! That would totally have freaked me out. Did any other weirdness happen?

@Twofurrycatsagain

Non woo. I'm in the middle of a renovation and could happily write that on every surface.

This, we spent a few years renovating a cottage I could have written it everywhere too at times.