Do you live in your "perfect" house?

[JustAnotherCountryPumpkin]

Not the dream house you'd buy if you won the lottery, but the most ideal house you can afford. I'd say mine is an 8/10. I keep thinking of moving, but realistically I think I would only be trading one thing for another. For example, my perfect house is detached, but I could only afford one of those if it was somewhere less pretty than my current street. Living somewhere less pretty than this would not be ideal to me. I really need to stop browsing Rightmove

Mine isn't perfect but it has the space to extend & it's a fantastic location with good schools. I'd only move now for a small holding in the Cotswolds

No. I live in a flat in the SE. Would love to move to a house but don't think it's worth an extra £100k when it doesn't come with any more space.

Yes we all totally love our house and the village. Always dreamed of owning a thatched cottage since a child when my aunt had one with a beautiful garden and I thought she had the most perfect house and garden in the world. Now we have the same and we all love it. Only issue is I've turned out to be allergic to the thatch but I'm so in love there's no way I would move. Walking distance of good shops, good school, supermarket, doctor, air cadets for DD etc, bakers and cafes so most things we need are 5 mins walk away.

I absolutely love my flat, even if it is a shithole at the moment because we are renovating it. DH is less enamoured and wants to move to the country in the middle of nowhere. I can’t think of anything worse - we’re in zone 1 in London and there is always so much going on.

Yes. 17th century rambling old farmhouse. Utterly perfect.

Currently going round in circles in my head whether to do things up or move!

9.5 out of ten here. So happy. And fingers crossed it stays that way. Trying not to tempt fate!

It is a 60 yr old terrace, but has an accessible lane at the back for access to a parking stand and a BIG shed. Handy for getting stuff delivered or work done.

Looks over the park toward the hills, not overlooked. Neighbours great, close to town but has a rural feel because of the open aspect at the back.

I bought it when I was in my late twenties, and am still there now.

Pretty much. I went through a period of having itchy feet last year, which I’ve not had before, but having been here 20 years we didn’t want to make any rash decisions, it was right to stay put

For us budget isn’t much of an issue but it’s still completely impossible to get the sort of house I’d like in the location I’d like as they don’t exist.

9/10 - we have extended as much as possible but still need a little more room. The house is lovely and exactly to our spec. So moving is now really difficult!

Mine’s 9.5 out of 10. The only downside is we’re about a kilometre from a motorway and when the wind comes from the south (as it is today) the noise irritates me. It’s not even that loud, but I’m very noise sensitive.

I’m planning some noise abatement tricks to lessen it - water fountain, hedging, wall etc. Our position means I can’t completely block it, but I hope I can reduce it to the point where it doesn’t bother me so much.

Everything else is perfect.

Just moved into our perfect house.

It's 360sq m. with seven bedrooms and way too oversized for what we need now. But we plan to have more children so when it came on the market we jumped on it. We moved in two weeks ago and I'm madly in love with it. We figure this way we never have to move again.

Yes, pretty much. If the garden was a little bit bigger it would be spot on.

Absolutely not! The immediate surroundings and the size/shape are wrong. But we never get round to doing anything and it is very convenient, with great neighbours.

Yes, love the house and location though ir wouldn't be for everyone. Wouldn't like to live in a detached house as I like the proximity of neighbours ( as long as they are good ones- thankfully ours are!).

*it wouldn't

(In Ireland)
We are just about to start building our ideal house, we designed it last year and it has everything we want in it. The site will be transferred early next week, then we can make a start.
We're not rich, but we work hard and are very fortunate that we have been able to get planning permission and a mortgage to do this.

I’m about a 7. We’re about to do work that will take it to an 8 or 9.

My perfect house is detached and perhaps a little closer to the sea front (about a mile inland right now). But I’m not sure it’s worth the doubling of the mortgage that it would require.

Oh and I browse Rightmove every day. Just in case the 10/10 house that’s super cheap happens to come up 😂

Moved into my new home a month ago in bexleyheath after selling my house in Grove Park. I was looking for space. Luckily I found this house, 153sqm total which is huge. I now have more space than I need

I think mine’s a 6. I like the area, but the house itself is too big and something always needs doing- either a repair or the endless grind of cleaning. Ideally I’d like a flat or a small house
(max. two bedrooms) with just a few nice pieces of furniture in it. I don’t like lots of stuff...and we always seem to have too much!

It’s the best house we can have for the area I have to live in currently for work reasons, the housing stock in my town is what I would describe as ‘meh’ either full of new builds or swathes of non descript characterless houses and bungalows. The only character properties (nice large Victorian ones, my ideal) are in the armpit area of the town and are mainly run down HMO’s. Can’t wait to move to an area that has good housing stock, roll on retirement and freedom to live where I want and not where I have to.

I’d need to build a house for it to be perfect.

However I like my house a lot. We have done a lot of work on it. Bargain buy.

I say we’re a 9/10.

I love our flat, I had been wanting to buy one in this building for a long time (Ciara Porters flat in Strike is one of the flats in our building for any Cormoran Strike fans). The flat is spacious for the area, we’re in the Clerkenwell Islington Shoreditch triangle. Its an ex industrial building with really nice original features such as flooring, beams/girders, pillars etc and they have been very nicely renovated.