We've recently accepted an offer on our city flat and are looking for a family home in the suberbs. I feel like I've got a pretty good idea of what I want and the area I want to be in. We were in a bidding war for our dream house but lost it (in a different location where very few houses are and even fewer come up for sale so no point waiting on that). So far we've seen 5 other houses and I felt a bit meh about all of them, until last night, when we viewed a 3 bed Victorian terrace on a quiet street and I fell a little bit in love. The thing is, on paper I shouldn't want it at all and I don't know what to do!
Going in to the search I'd said a wanted 3 beds, good sized garden, good sized kitchen, a porch or space to build one, and a driveway or space to put one in. It's got a big kitchen and a porch area but the garden is a small yard-type garden. The 3rd bedroom is small (but guess that's pretty common). The main issue is it's got no driveway and only a little strip of a front garden, so it's all on street parking and I can't parallel park (though obviously used to be able to so guessing i could re-learn). I feel like I really shouldn't want it but I got such a good feeling in it and have been imagining us in it all day today!
I think if I chose this house, I would be very much going with my heart rather than my head, but I feel it should really be more of 50/50 decision shouldn't it? How did you decide which house to buy? Did you buy a house you wouldn't expect to love just because you loved it despite leaving big boxes unticked? Or did you wait it out until something came along that ticked all the boxes? 