What would be your perfect house?

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just read another thread about perfect houses and wondered what yours would be?

Mine would not be huge. 3 bedrooms would be fine. An office for DH to work and chill out in. A big kitchen where we could eat. A playroom for the boys and a lounge where no kids are allowed. A fabulous bathroom with a huge bath and shower for 2. And a utility room

And a garden that looks after itself!

If I am on about a perfect house I may as well have some staff as well. I would like an au pair, a housekeeper and a cleaner who are all live out and dont charge much!

I would be able to lunch out and get my nails done and SLEEP!

5 bedrooms, (one for each of the kids, one for me and dh and one spare room for me when dh is coughing away.)

a large kitchen with room for a breakfast table. must have loads of cabinet space and a huge lockable cupboard for meds.

Large lounge

a study/games room for the adults

play room for the kids

dining room

and a large garden wioth some sports equipment for dh to build upo his strength.

must all be on one level though.

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Reasonably happy with my house atm but to make it utterly dreamy I'd like:
a laundry fairy to sort, iron and put away ALL the clean washing for everybody;
just for tonight, well OK every weekend when my oldest 3 are not at school all day, a discreet but talented cook/willing pair of hands who will rustle up endless nourishing and tasty meals and snacks for all of us, keep the dishwasher going, pick up ds3's food dropped from the highchair, etc.
Dream on I say!

Just debating whether we can afford our perfect house - saw it yesterday then today! Total bombsite but will be AMAZING when completed (probably in about 5 years' time as we'll be so poor!). Got a headache from all the emotional stress of seeing it and falling in love with it then worrying that we may not be able to afford it... and think i might cry for a week if we don't get it!

Untouched farmhouse which requires complete renovation, attached stone barns, new farm buildings, about 70 acres of decent land, romantic river with stone bridges, a ruin, woods, all surrounded by open fell land, all within 20 mins of the office.

Just been outbid on this house

Gosh, will probably leave something out, but here goes.

There are 7 of us so I would want 8 bedrooms. I know, I'm trying not to be greedy. I would love a cellar that was a playroom/games room/messy art room (with a tiny corner for the blimming playstation/Xbox). I would like a lovely wide hall (the amount of kids I have just getting through the door I need the space). I would want 2/3 reception rooms. One to chill out in, one for the kids to lounge in and trash and one for my mother. She would want me to have a "best" room but I would use it as a study/library. lol.

I would have a large open plan kitchen/diner. I would live in that kitchen. It would have an aga, some comfy chairs and one of those flip down tvs. The kitchen would lead onto a utility room where the w/machine, drier etc would live with the muddy boots. There would be a side entrance from the front or back of the house so that wet things wouldn't have to come into my dream home.

My bedroom would be at the top of the house and it would be full of windows cos I love light. It would be en suite. I would need at 3 bathrooms of which one would be boys only, cos of the smell factor. There would be a downstairs toilet by the utility room for those I've been in the muddy garden and need a wee moments.

The garden would be large, enough space for footie and rugby as well as chunky outdoor toys, a treehouse and a wendy house. I would have a veg patch in the corner and lots of gorgeous flowers by the pergola (sp). There would be space for a barbeque. On the side of the house a gorgeous Virginia creeper would be growing and on the back of the house Wisteria would grow. I think that's it. Would be blimming expensive and something I could only dream about.

I also like Pruni's house. I forgot all about the pantry. I have a tiny pantry now and I love it!

My ideal house would be a detached house and would have...

4 or 5 bedrooms, the master bedroom being en-suite with a dressing room
A huge living room, for special occasions
A dining room
A big kitchen
A Family room, for every day use
A utility room
A downstairs loo
A nice big family bathroom
Maybe a floored loft/attic although not essential but it could be used as a study.
A big garden with space for swing sets etc and a patio area so I can have a table and chairs and maybe even a barbeque.

This has to be over two floors not a bungalow I want to live in a house with an upstairs. I've lived in flats my entire life and it's one of my ambitions to live in a house with an upstairs. I know I'm sad and everyone says no you don't want to have stairs, but I Do I don't care that I'll have to carry things up and then forget something and have to go back at least I'll get fitter walking up and down those stairs all day, lol

I check my local property guide every week and make a little list(in my head) of houses that I would like to buy if I happen to win the lottery that week. I found a house in my city which pretty much sums up most of the above a snip at offers over £320,000. So, who knows if I win the lottery tomorrow...

Me too Linnet. I've always lived in a flat. I dream of an upstairs.

My dream house would be one of those underground eco houses that are set into a hillside with a grass roof. I'd like to have several acres with it so I could have my own nature reserve. It'd have a large kitchen, a living room looking out on the view, a play room and five bedrooms, plus two bathrooms. Solar panels, reedbed sewage treatment systems and a wind turbine.

But for reality, I'd just love three bedrooms instead of two.