to hate my tiny house with a passion?

[proverbial]

I have a a very very small terrace house with no garden, 2 small boys and another on the way soon. Its my own fault, we bought at the very height of the boom here, thinking we could trade up in a few years, but are now stuck as its worth half what we paid for it.
Its in a nice location, and is a pretty little house, but I feel so trapped here. I feel like the walls are closing in on me and there is nowhere to put anything and its always a mess. I can't imagine where we are going to put any more stuff when the baby comes!

MY OH tells me its disgraceful to complain when half the world is in real poverty in tin shacks and mud huts, and at least our children have warm beds and full stomachs. Does make me a little ashamed of myself, but I can't help obsessing over it. Doesn't help any that I have no money to bring the kids to fun places and no energy to do free things with them like long walks on the beach (this pregnancy is a tough one)

So a YABU and a kick in the arse needed?

'YABU

I will never be well-off enough to own a house. I would kill to be in your position. '

Same here.

Our landlords are coming back in October and we will be homeless as well.

Be careful - one of the best anti-clutter tips I've ever heard is don't pick up a bag or a trolley when you go to Ikea. You'll just end up filling it with tea lights and amazingly cheap vases and all sorts of tat.

That's so true about Ikea - you'll only end up with more clutter of you go there!

Make sure you have an area just for yourself - a desk for example - where only you are allowed and no children.

proverbial - a new kitchen sounds fab go for it. We also have a yukky kitchen very very small big enough for one person to stand in and dark brown 70s units wuth the doors falling off. Lovely eh.

i dont think you can blame Ikea if your home is cluttered one thing in one thing out is my motto

This thread could have been me writing it the way I am feeling today ! We have 3 kids, 1 dog, 1 cat and 2 guinea pigs in our 3 bed house but we do have a reasonable size garden (thankful sigh). I feel ours has just totally got out of control with regards to junk and it is so cluttered it feels an impossible mountain to climb - sorry feeling bit sorry for myself today. Older two are 13 and 11 but unable, it seems, to pick anything up and put it away and downstairs is open plan so is just constantly tramped through and there is no where to hide the mess !. Do you all advocate giving kids biggest bedroom - have thought about this but hubby opposed as ensuite off this and thinks too good for them should be our treat!Wish the space of the ensuite added to smallest room don't think size of house warrants ensuite. Trouble is girls share and big age gap - one 13 other 4 think oldest needs space but tell me that sharing a room isn't long term a hindrance in life please - feel guilty enough she has to share.

YANBU. Of course there are people far worse off all over the world - there always will be - but it doesn't mean we all have to be saints and never have the odd moan!
I'm with you. We have a Victorian two-bed flat so, unlike you, we are lucky to have high ceilings and living space: but our problem is next to no storage space as we have no garage. Our stuff is crammed in all over, which frustrates me no end! We must do a clear-out soon as we also have a baby on the way.
However the fact that we have two bedrooms means when my Mum comes she's insisting on going to a b&b. We have told her over and over gaain that there is no need, that DH will sleep on a camp bed in DS's room, but she says she doesn't wasn't to be an incovenience: which she's obviously not. That's what she says anyway; she probably just wants some space!

We were in a tiny house in a great area and we moved to a giant house in the US. And it sucks. There is nothing to do and nowhere to go and nobody is ever out because they have whole playgrounds in their backyards and every toy imaginable in their giant houses so why would they ever go to the playground?

We are moving back to our tiny house as soon as we possibly can. We've learned our lesson, it is all about location.

YANBU for complaining though, when I was pregnant last year it did feel like the walls were closing in. It will get better when you have the baby and feel like going out again!

I'd also love to own my own home, but probably never will.

I know I am lucky in many ways to have the house I do, as I'm a lone parent on benefits and have a private rental on a decent estate with tons of kids around and school 4 minutes walk away. It backs onto the woods and has a garden and though it's small, there's only two of us in it, and we have a double room each.

However, it's not mine, never will be and it's always in the back of my mind that it could be sold and I'd have to take whatever was offered.

It scares me at times.

I guess there's always someone worse off, and it's hard to see that at times. It sounds like I have the better deal with my home, but yours is secure and mine isn't.

Erm so YANreallyBU, I am still a tad envious of you though.

next time you're in the library/ bookshop look at the books on home design specifically for small spaces for ideas, and on websites for mags like elle deco and living etc. there are some interesting ideas on storage on there.

Proverbial, I think we might be in the same neck of the woods, we are eagerly awaiting the ikea opening too!

A friend of mine is an architect who advises people on how to rearrange their home to make best use of their space. She has a fantastically streamlined house, 2dc and a dog. She might be worth talking to?