Do you actually love your house?

[getoutofmyhead]

I'm asking because I'm at a crossroads and I'd love to hear real experiences.
Specifically interested in anyone who has moved from a period home or city centre flat into something more practical and suburban. Did you adjust? Did you fall in love with it eventually? Or is there a part of you that never quite settled?
And the flip side, did anyone stay somewhere impractical because they loved it aesthetically and regret not making the sensible move sooner?
I have a feeling most people on here are either completely at peace with their home, making it work for them.
Just curious what the reality of living in a house you chose with your head rather than your heart actually feels like five years in.

I am moving from a flat to a lovely double fronted newbuild, near a river. I fell in love with the location. Moving 250 miles to be able to afford to buy. Hope I love the house as much as I love the pics of it and imagine in my head (and seen it from outside half built).

Im 6 years into living in my ‘head’ house. At first I actually disliked it, because it didn’t feel like home. I feel okay about it now, but I could leave tomorrow and feel no emotional pull whatsoever. I’ve put a lot of work into the garden though so in summer that feels nice and I also live on top of a hill which I quite like.

I do love my house - 1970’s Semi - it’s got big rooms and loads of light

It needs lots of little faffy things sorting now which I can’t due to an arm injury so I’m saving to get them done then selling. I’ll miss it I want to move back home and I don’t need 4 bedrooms any more.

I love my house, even though it needs some work still, to be as I wanted it. The utility room is happening at last and the garden is being done.
I still want a downstairs loo/shower room and a larger closet for coats and boots, plus a different roof on the conservatory and a huge porch on the back door, big enough for plants and things.

I don't know if it will ever be finished, due to money and age (both mine and its ages) but it is full of colour, books and interesting things and is a nice place to be. It's probably too big for us nowadays, but this isn't yet a problem. And I don't think I could go through another house move, it was hell.
The village is good and so is the countryside; I am within easy reach of cities for culture and buzz, and I am near to my coven.
It would be nice to be nearer to the DC, but they are quite mobile and one lot live abroad, anyway, with the other lot considering doing so.

I was glad to move here, as I didn’t love the house before this, or the village. We moved there at the request of the DC, so they could get to town easier and maintain friendships. It was a bit boring and buttoned up. So this is much more us.

This is totally my view too. I've loved all the houses and flats I've lived in, but would happily move on. Home is very much where the heart (and all my crap) is.

Loved my house when I first moved in. But now it's a bit tired, scruffy, worn, damp, too small and messy. We don't have the money to make it how we'd like it. It would cost hundreds of thousands.

Loved the flat we lived in in London....Edwardian maisonette.

We then decided to move to Frome. Initially we lived in a rented 2 bed, 90s build. It was a 'for now' home. Didn't hate it but wouldn't have bought it.

Now we live in a 3 bed period terrace house. Funnily enough there was a thread here recently and the OP hated the idea of living in my house.....on street parking, terrace and looks like Coronation Street. The front door opens to the street and into the living room. But we love it. It's got loads of character and is really quirky. The last owners refurbished it so was ready to move into. Love, love, love it.

No, its practical and meets our needs, but I don’t love it. Our last flat was my perfect home and I don’t think anything will ever be as good. But thats fine, a home doesn’t need to be loved.

I live in a flat first floor as i didnt want to be ground floor no one above me 4 flats in total, and i LOVE IT.
I dont like house`s never have my choice.

My flat was a shit tip when i moved in but i made it a home made it my home.
I also live on a housing estate but i feel like im living in the woods with so many trees.
I just love it and no way am i leaving it.

Sounds like you live in my dream home ❤

I love my house. It's a 1980s barn conversion and part was new built with parts 300 years old. It's got lots of big rooms though downstairs is bigger than upstairs.
Brought our children up here.
If I could pick it up and move it I would. We looked at moving into a bigger village a few years ago to future proof for old age but nothing was nearly as nice.

Do you have kids? We live in a flat with kids too in city centre. I like the place very much but social life standards seems to be pointing out toward house living.

I don’t love my house but that’s mainly because it’s quite run down and I don’t have the time, money or energy to do it up
I do love the location, fab neighbours, quiet, rural but very accessible
It does have everything I need so I won’t be moving anytime soon bar a lottery win

The same for me. It’s practical but I also love it and am gradually making it my own with personal touches. After living in towns and cities and in period properties for most of my life, my favourite thing is the surrounding countryside that I can easily step into with the peace and quiet and nature. I’m also only 40 minutes away from my closest city and 5 minutes from a small town so I’m not completely isolated.

No i dont have kids but if i did no way would i leave my flat.
Not all kids are raise in a house some dont even have a home, its how you raise them that matters.
Love makes a home not the size or price of it.
You could live in a box and raise a family if your kids feel loved and safe when the door is closed, what more can you ask for.

We moved from a beautiful country cottage 4 hours drive from family to be closer as we get older, as the travelling to visit was beginning to get a bit too much. We bought a bungalow in preparation for old age, and 2 1/2 years later I think I'm finally beginning to settle. I quite like the area we live in, but hate living on an estate, albeit it's a nice one, and I don't think I'll ever be as happy as I was in Wales. It's just SO busy here in the South, too many people, too much traffic, if only I weren't getting older and finding doing things more difficult, I'd move back to Wales tomorrow.

I do love the raised decking bit at the top of the garden , there's a great view of the garden and trees beyond .
The house is impractical as in it will become too big, if DC move out, but if I think about moving I'd miss that view.

I live in an ex council semi in a lovely village. I do love my house, although if I could afford a detached with a bit more space around it, I’d love that more! I have great neighbours though, love the village I live in and have a great support network here, so it’s more where I live than the house I’m in I think. I could make a home in any house.

No I don’t love my house, but it’s home and I feel quite fortunate to have it.

We brought it for very practical, sensible reasons but it’s a very boring square brick 1980s box, totally devoid of character.

I always dreamed of living in a cottage in a small village, but we are currently in a city suburb. It made sense at the time with our jobs and young children, but now they are older and we are nearing the ‘empty nest’ stage in our 50s, I wonder if now is a good time to think about moving. Yet it doesn’t seem sensible to be moving anywhere too remote unless we are prepared to move again once we get too old and decrepit!

I love it,

i didn’t love it when I bought it - boiler had a big hole in it, rooms all needed redecorating and a hole in the roof.

fixed the roof and the boiler before I moved in. Got bathrooms redone while still living here.

three years in now and it feels like mine. I have three cats and am working on a garden (was totally paved back yard when I moved in).

I chose it because it was cheap and in the town I wanted to live in.

I do now. We moved here a few years ago, having lived in a house for 15 years that I hated. This one, for many months I pinched myself, it’s not particularly special, but it’s a good size, always looks nice enough to have impromptu guests and just works well for us .

On top of it, I noticed a massive improvement of my MH, which again is weird as it was just a new house! I’m the happiest I’ve been for my entire adult life.

Absolutely love our 104 year-old house in our beautiful little village minutes walk from all the schools that our kids go to, surrounded by my colleagues and friends and our children’s friends and picture postcard beautiful in the Southeast and just half an hour on the train to London. Love the garden, love every fireplace, love the old wood, love walking back home

We moved from a lovely old tenement flat in the city to an 80s bungalow in the suburbs. We put some work into the house and we love it. The garden is a bit of a nightmare to maintain but worth it in the nicer weather. I do occasionally miss my period flat in the heart of things, but the house we’re in suits this stage of life well.

I have been attached to all of mine-I get VERY attached to my 4 walls, but recently downsized from a large 1900 extended semi to a semi rural 2 bed terraced cottage -about 2 miles from where I was - but I can usually 'feel' within minutes whether the house is for me and I felt it as soon as I viewed. Haven't missed the old family home for one, single, second. I'm absolutely loving watching the newly acquired wildlife here - squirrels and bats and foxes galore, - robins and bluetits and weeks; such a change from my old house which only had wood pigeons, magpies and seagulls. The garden is much bigger which I didn't want, but the views.. goodness me I didn't really move for those - but I now have horses at the bottom of the garden and can see all the way up the coast for about 20 miles. I just love it-possibly because I now live alone, with my dogs, plodding round fields, and nobody to please but myself. Pure bliss 😊🐾

Yes love the garden wildlife.
There was a magical moment at the end of a very hot evening last summer when I saw a fox hanging out with a baby deer 🦌..about half way down the garden.