What did you compromise on when you bought your house?

[Tinker]

Street?
Size of rooms?
Aspect of garden?

Nothing? (lucky barstards)

We compromised on a bath. Just a shower room in our house. That ws ok, we didn't really mind. Only when dd got to big for her baby bath did it become a problem. BUT, we sild that house to come to Oz, and this house (although rented) we have evrything we would want.

we compromised on location to gain more space.

Erm, I didn't think I wanted to be in a housing estate. How wrong I was. It is totally marvellous here. In fact I did realise that the minute I walked in; the compromise was actually agreeing to come and see the house, which I had absolutely no intention of liking, but the estate agent asked me as a personal favour to go round. We put in an offer for the full asking price 12 hours later

the only thing we compromised on was character / kerb appeal / period details

its main competitor was cute and Victorian but would have meant a compromise on everything else.

how close is it to the park?

I only ask because my parents lived (when we were kids) in a house where the back fence was next to the park (if that makes sense) and night after night we had footballs in the garden, balls being kicked up the fence, kids climbing over the fence, youths at night drinking and shouting and all in all it was a bit of a nightmare. Coupled with the fact they couldnt sell because it was during the recession

I suppose we could say the garden, but as we live in an early Victorian townhouse it's fact that it will have a small garden. We're not gardeners, so it's compact and bijou size comes is a relief . I love everything about our house tbh.

well, we didn't want to compromise so have ended up renting while holding out for our ideal-ish house.
When/if it comes up, doubtless will still have to compromise on sth - character with no parking v. modern & practical.

batters I hear you have some delightful neighbours too

I can imagine.....I have heard aaalllll about your copuous wine intake

We got:
character
size
location
garden

and compromised on:
decor (lots of 1970's pine, beige, avocado and pink bathroom tiles with sunset scenes ...nice!)
going 50% over our original budget

It took me ages to persuade DH even to see the house but, like Batters, we got as far as the hall and DH whispered to me "We're going to buy this house". We made an offer that day, exchanged within 7 days and, despite the dodgy decor, collapsing conservatory, leaking pipes, slumping roof, wonky garage and byzantine plumbing system, we love it passionately and intend to spend the next 20 years here.

We compromised on size, lost a bedroom and all rooms are smaller. DH has a longer journey to work.

We got: an ensuit shower room
a fantastic local school
an increadibly low crime rate
an enormous garden
a view to kill for
a much much better area
no pollution (dh's asthma dramtically improved)

Still find the size a problem, but convince myself that's just temporary.

Well, the park is quite quiet, with a live-in warden on-site. Never seems busy and teh play area bit is not near the house. Houses on other side of park are smaller than my current house but go for twice teh price so doesn't affect the value of those. Oh god, why is nothing straightforward. Knew with current house that I wanted it even before I viewed it.

Garden. But we have lots of mature trees, are not overlooked, and we're near a fabulous woodsy park and good primary school. I love our house!

to have a pub pool table in the house which we have now - its in the dining room but wanted it in the loft when we get it converted...in about 100 years time!!!! so thinking of selling it and get another one when the loft is done and i have my dining room back

Cost. We went totally over our budget cause I fell in love with it.

garden. have reasonable one but have always wanted a garden you could get lost in. should have held out but was just about to give birth so desperate to buy after having sold other house.

granary...just read your message above....have you thought of moving to Kettering...tis only 1 hour by train to london and houseprices are not as bad as more southern! Or maybe Wellingborough...also a nice town!

Area but then realised that the community school here is much better and walking distance. The area we wanted was so posh we would have had to send the kids to a private school as the community one is so crap.

Because we wanted a certain area and the houses here are 650k!!!!!!!!we decided to buy a maisonette which is huge big rooms big garden and beautiful features plus we have the freehold and the monthly maintenance etc from the flat below and it has a very short lease so we may buy it when she goes!Would love the whole house but had to compromise for location

Its old, and I hate old houses. Oh and a downstairs bathroom but most of the houses round here have that.

But we did get a nice sized garden, 3 bedrooms and the bathroom is brand new.

Ooh Noddy, sounds lovely. Wonder if you'd ever get planning permission to knock it through to make one big house?

We've actually downsized gardenwise, our old one was always too big for us even though my dad hijacked the bottom 4m for an allotment.