You have to make me HATE this dream house!

[Thandeka]

In a couple of weeks we are moving from our poky 2bed flat into my F-i-L's (he lives overseas but rents out his house) while we look for a place to buy near DH's new work. His house is a stunning huge detatched 5 bed, 2 en-suite, 1 family bathroom, downstairs loo, Larder, futitily room, study and is all round awesome. I LOVE it, I always have and would happily live there forever. Cept is a bit too far for DH to commute to his new work and so we HAVE to buy a house near new work, cept of course we can never afford anything like that but I just know this house will "spoil" us and then nothing else will come close when looking for a much more modest 3/4 bedroom house probably terrace.

So help me hate it. Somehow.
Sigh.

thnk how long it'd take to clean

I recently stayed with my parents in their quite large house, and found the children much more troublesome than they are in our flat. They kept wanting me to climb stairs to help them with things. Or I would have to follow them upstairs/downstairs to come and have lunch/get ready for bed.

Was nice when they disappeared down the bottom of the garden though.

Your dream house sounds like a potential money pit.

gah I hate it already! And it backs onto tescos, and the M-i-l and S-i_l would be too close (I love em but will need a modicum of distance from em). So finding a better house will be easy.

4 toilets to clean.

Need I say more?

DD is 6 months- is lovely having the bedroom on the same floor as the kitchen so I can go and have my breastfeeding hunger midnight feasts. F-I-L's house the kitchen is miles from the master bedroom- so I will defo hate that. (since we are not planning on buying a bungalow will probably have to be in same situ with new house but no matter- this is about hating this house!)

Who needs 2 en-suites?

Think how much new carpets would cost

Well there are 5 double bedrooms- the 2 biggest bedrooms have en-suites, the master bedrooms en-suite is bigger than our current second bedroom!

Yeah WAY too many toilets to clean!

Wouldn't need new carpets, kitchen, bathroom or anything doing to it though- was done up beautifully before F-i-L left- massive garden- garage, patio doors onto a lovely patio area some of it under an overhang of the house for shelter.

Sigh its really horrid isnt it.

and maamruby where did you eventually end up? and if new place did you fall in love with it more than the family place?

If you have a house which is larger than you need, you run the risk of putting down a plate of food in a room you rarely use, and only discovering it when it's covered in mould. [Very bad housesitter]

Seriously, big houses cost a fortune to heat, you're always cleaning, the council tax eats up most of your income, just dragging the vacuum cleaner around to where you need it is a nightmare, you don't have enough furniture to go round...

Oh that makes me feel better maamruby!

HAHA grendelsmum that is soooo something I would do (or leave DD in a room we hardly use and wonder where she is )

The house is going to look sooo empty with the contents of our 2bed and we have already freecycle most of the shit furniture, and DH is keeping me on a complete ban of buying anymore til we have a house.

Our house is that size.

It never gets cleaned properly as I lose the will to live half way round; it's never tidy as there are always hidden toys somewhere; and it's a never ending list of jobs - it's like painting the Forth Bridge. I keep forgetting to clean the ensuite as I never use it (ooops). We have an upstairs and a downstairs vacuum cleaner cos I can't be having with lugging one up and down the stairs all the time...!

The garden is a picture of neglect - the previous owners clearly had no idea what to do with it either....

Its Haunted :)

Did that help?

sorry........

The futility room sounds depressing (was that deliberate or a genius typo?)

Sorry, its called the futility room because thats where the ghosts live

We have a tilly room quite like futility though

Love futility room!!

We have seven loos in our house and it's a PITA.

We have similar size house and the cleaning is never ending! Sometimes wish we bought smaller just for that reason!

Ohh and one more reason not to live in big house is- people expect to stay over (more cleaning)and for some strange reason we always seem to be the host for get togethers...

is all helping- ta!

"futility room" isn't a name I can claim credit for - think I read it on here. I like it though