What did you compromise on when you bought your house?

[Tinker]

Street?
Size of rooms?
Aspect of garden?

Nothing? (lucky barstards)

just having neighbours in general - oh for splendid isolation or at least a gate i could bolt

having to have a new house
on a new estate
no utility room.
Bloody dh
I wanted the converted chapel
Men pah
garages pah
no pubs in the village pah

The chapel had soul I tell you SOUL

An extra bedroom was sacrificed for a bigger garden.

a 20 mile trip to and from school

on our existing house - nothing but we are about to move again and knew we'd have to compromise on something. Settled on moving to a slightly busier road than where we are (but its not that busy) so we can get the size of house and garden we want and we also managed to get a detached house which we wouldn't have done in our ideal location.

Oh, can relate to the pain of having neighbours.

Oh, piffle, how could you forgive him?

Yes, big garden = better than a spare bedroom. But 20 mile round trip to school - eek.

v small garden to get a nicer area closer to school

Off street parking - we have none - it's on the road outside (but very close as we're terraced houses with tiny front 'gardens' (if you can call them that LOL).

Garden size - still an ok size - but it doesn't matter as park is only 1 minute walk.

Oh god. The garage, the workshop. All more important than anything else for dh.

none at the time because we went from no-garden flat to house with garden

but if I was to say what my compromise was now it would have to be the size of the garden .. typical London size (ie small) .. but big rooms make up for it

the fact that it needs gutting and we will be living in amongst brick dust for at least a couple of years. i didn't want to take on quite such a big project.

but its in the middle of a group of really nice neighbours all with kids same age, large house, big rooms, big garden facing south, good schools. we will be here for a very long time

Small garden for nicer area in general.

I also wanted an extra bedroom but that wasn't with our budget

What about location is not quite right but seems ok ish. Is living opposite a park a good or bad thing? I know, unanswerable really.

Proximity to a main road, but we have excellent ORP and the house is set back and and up, IYSWIM. So passers-by can't gawk into my living room.

Last time it was area. Still looking btw ...

we have a smaller garden than I would have liked, but all teh other boxes were ticked ( and I moved from a flat with half a garden, so a small garden was an improvement)

ORP?

Same here Liz.

When do you stop looking and just decide that these are the houses available, which is the best of the bunch?

Off Road Parking

Sorry for Eatate Agent speak. I spent so much time in their company trying to find this house that I appear to be morphing into one of them

style of house. This is a nasty 1970 Wimpey house, with a smaller garden than I wanted. But the location is fab - very popular small town and neighbourhood is one of the most 'desirable' in estate agent terms, in the catchment area of a good school, walking distance to shops and station.

we compromised on size of kitchen - not too small, but smaller than last house, and room layout. The kitchen leads into the lounge and stairs, then the dining room is off the lounge. Crazy really.
the idea is to knock through into our garage which we don't use and create large kitchen diner.

In return we have 4 bedrooms plus an office tyoe room, and a wonderful location.
Out of the front window is our road, then a field and the woods. Out past our back garden is paddocks followed by fiekds.

Garden. We decided we'd rather have more room in the house and a smaller garden. Though I wouldn't consider not having a garden at all (we did look at a gorgeous house but its only 'garden' was a teeny space outside the bay window/French doors).

I would like a bigger garden now - ds1 is football mad and is just too big now fot the space.

Size of bathroom - it was diddy. All decor was stuck in the 1970's as well and the walls were nicotine stained. We have since built an extension and the bathroom size has improved.

The fact that it needed complete redecoration (Which we still haven't finished).

Now I wish we had some off street parking as parking round here is a nightmare, but at the time we didn't have a car so wasn't really an issue - like HRH we have a terrace with a tiny front garden.

Also now (though at time not issue as no ds and no plans for one) we would like a bigger garden as we have small concrete back yard - but better than nothing.

What we did get though was decent sized rooms, a good layout, and nice storage cupboards. Also in the area we wanted it in. And no major structural problems, although old (victorian) house.

On a road that can be busy at times but in a good area, good size rooms, 4beds and a south-facing garden that is big enough for dp to keep tidy . Oh, I really don't like the family bathroom and this will need some radical changes to it next year but dp soesn't know this yet .

Me too NdP, me too. Can't see the wood for the trees for looking.

Did everyone just "know" when they saw it or did they have to let the idea bed in a bit? I did with current house but so far haven't just "known" about any we've looked at.