We have moved more often than we’ve wanted to in the past, and this next house has to be the last before we downsize (if we ever need to).
I can’t decide if this house is the one for us or not. Character properties are few and far between, where we live. This one has high ceilings, big big room sizes and can easily be extended to a four bed with a small double storey extension at the front as the neighbours have done (even five if we convert the loft). If we can get it at the right price, it is comfortably affordable which is important to me as I want to pay off the mortgage before I’m 55.
However, the garden and rear aspect would be a compromise and can’t decide if it’s one too far. Garden faces north, is on two levels and is overlooked. My parents are keen gardeners and their advice is that clever planting will give us privacy up to the height of a garage, and even though we would be overlooked by first floor bedroom windows, this won’t be a massive issue as bedrooms aren’t occupied as often as living spaces.
I cannot decide if for a ‘forever house’ these are things we should compromise on or we should hold out. I just want to be settled and fed up of life being on hold with so little coming on the market
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