oh yes!... always thought we would end up in 1930's semi with high ceilings, cornices, open fireplaces... three floors, with a loft conversion... etc or large edwardian terrace... with bay windows and wooden floors and high ceilings (they featured quite a lot in my minds eye!)... and here we are...
on a road full of houses which i thought we would end up with...in a detached house built in the 1980's, - the only one on the road... with low ceilings, quite boxy... but with the huge garden and large kitchen we were looking for...
basically when we viewed it wasn't what we were looking for but the price and area were right... plus there was loads of scope to turn it into what we wanted... i.e. through an extension and a knocking down of walls here and tehre... we moved into
a house with 3 large bedrooms and a box room, a small bathroom upstairs and a kitchen, garage and living room downstaris... a HUGE garden...
but now is a house with 4 large bedrooms, a larger kitchen (which fits kitchen table), a playroom and a living room... and a just as big garden!!! (much to veggie gardener husbands delight!)
so you have to look at what you can do with what you see... also dh said it's great being in a house where all the walls are straight and plaster doesn't come off in chunks when you dig underneath and there are no damp bits...!