Unexpected nice thing you realised about your house after moving in

[JustJam4Tea]

In the middle of a town very close to where we used to live, but the back garden is at such an angle from streetlights that’s it’s like a little dark sky area. The stars are great.

Fantastic draw on the chimney.

The water pressure is amazing.

Lovely neighbours all round, however lovely a house is if you have the neighbours from hell you life will not be good

These are lovely!
I love the geese flying over, around 7am and7pm. I wait for them😊
Also, there is nothing at the back, just trees and then a golf course so the darkness and the starlight is beautiful. I also didn’t notice how big the window openers are, so lots of fresh air and ventilation.

@DaisyWaldron

Are walls not normally brick? I've only ever lived in older terraces, and they've always had internal brick walls, apart from a couple of badly converted student houses. If that's unusual, maybe it explains why some people on MN are so insistent that terraced houses are a nightmare, whereas I've always found them quieter than a lot of new builds.

That one reason I won't buy new build. I like properly solid walls. Yes, oolder houses mean maintenance but they have their upsides.

Childfree neighbours in every house but one on our street, it's blissfully quiet. All thirties and older so very few wild parties either.

I’ve never lived in a cul-di-sac and luckily the neighbours are all lovely, a real community feel. We’re in a high spot, the garden isn’t overlooked and the sunrises and skies are amazing. Flocks of geese regularly fly over and we have herons land on the trees. I can see deer out the front. It’s a village with no streetlight / dark skies policy so the stars are amazing. I can see the church and hear the bells. People play tennis down the end of the road so you hear a constant thunk.

For my house:
What a friendly and welcoming village it turned out to be (was completely new to the area).

How completely private the garden is.

It was supposed to be a temporary move, but nearly 20 years on, it's still home.

That trees are different almost every day. You literally turn your back on them and they pop out a branch or a leaf or a blossom or an apple - an apple! - or a bird starts building a nest.

I mean, obviously I knew trees did stuff but I've never lived with a garden. I can see three wee apple trees from my couch and I look at them every morning.

And it's really hard to feel lonely when you can hear trains!

@MsSquiz
The unexpected cherry tree and your late mother's promise - that is so lovely.

What a lovely thread!

I also have the best neighbours ever, there when you need them but not in your face.
Beautiful soil in the garden.
Foxes visiting and bringing their cubs.
Deer in the woods behind.
Owls hooting at night.

@Manzana am so envious of you having slow worms in your garden, we had them in our previous garden but sadly not in this one.

Absolutely nothing.

The birdsong. The owls hooting at night. The red kites wheeling around. The huge amount of sky we can see - we're at the top of a hill.

I knew it was a leafy suburb on the edge of large town, but I never expected quite so much nature, and peace and quiet. I love it!

The fridge freezer the last people left us isn't a beaten up dirty old thing as I'd thought it would be, but a brilliant huge thing with ice maker and water filter that we love. The whole kitchen in fact is much more high end than I would ever go for usually and it's great.

@MsSquiz That's so lovely. Similar story for us - we didn't realise it was a cherry, but then had the joy of seeing those beautiful pink blooms on bare branches in March.

Our lovely neighbours, after horrible ones at our old house.
Beautiful, light rooms
Fantastic lvt floors
Having a dressing room
Lovely old sandstone walled garden
The most high quality kitchen I've ever had

How big the utility room is and it has a Sheila maid ceiling pulley airer thingy.
The utility room has been a godsend.

My house was an absolute hovel when I moved in. 5 bed town house and it was filled with rubbish, had poo smeared on the walls, missing floor boards, over flowing buckets that had been used as ash trays, walls were sticky with running nicotine and the gutters where blocked with beer cans (?).

But under Neath am that was a big solid house. I've got a roof terrace on the top floor and in summer we often drag the mattress out there and sleep outside watching the stars. I love my house.

I knew the house backed onto woods, but later found out that the woodland is former mining land and unsuitable for building on, so there is no risk of it being sold for development.

The garden. It's about 80ft long but narrow, but over the years we've shaped it into zones and collected very cheap yet comfortable garden furniture. There's still lots to do but i can't think of anywhere id rather be on a warm summer evening watching the bats swooping around. (It's only a small suburban terrace so the bats were a wonderful surprise too.)

@MsSquiz that is lovely I love a cherry blossom tree

I didn't love my house initially, had to move to a new build in a slightly crappy area following my divorce. However, it is amazingly soundproofed I never hear my neighbours ( who are lovely). It's always warm in winter and costs half of what I used to pay. Slightly crappy area seems to be on the up in terms of investment in housing.
I can walk from my house and in minutes be right in some walking areas and parks.
Getting into the city centre takes about 20 minutes on public transport. I've grown to like my house even if I don't love it.

We have deer at the back. Great neighbours. Beautiful sunsets. Views of every firework display for 20 miles due to elevation. Great snow, again due to elevation. Can get 7 cars on our drive (unusual for a 4 bed semi!)

How much of a sun trap our north facing garden is. When we bought this house, we decided to compromise on the garden as we loved the house and location, plus we’re not overlooked and have views for miles from the back garden. In the summer we get the sun first thing, then from about 1pm until sunset. The bottom of the garden gets so much heat on a nice day I can’t sit in it for long! It’s lovely watching the sun go down from my seat in the back garden, across the fields and trees.

The view. We saw that there was a decent view when we looked round, but moving in on a clear day we saw the mountain range in all its glory. I stand and look at it every single day (assuming it's not obscured by cloud of course). It's exciting getting up in the morning to see how the light has changed, or whether there's snow on the tops.

How fertile our garden soil is- yes it's shady and wet but poke rake in the ground and I swear it'll start grow.

@UnexpectedItemInShaggingArea we have tiny sea views but only in winter - in the spring/summer it’s blocked by the leaves on the trees between the houses 😂 wasn’t listed as a feature when we purchased and we moved in during the summer!

• The way the sun hits the back of the house so even on sunny winter days, it heats up beautifully
• similarly in the summer, the way the patio and back wall bakes and feels like Cyprus!
• the way the garden wraps round us so we have no neighbours on one side
• it backs on to fields and I love taking my daughter down the garden to chat to the sheep.
• that I can see mountains through every window
• the Victorian tiles - not rare but they make me so excited that they are mine!
• how different (and beautiful) the views are through the seasons.

@MsSquiz That's so lovely!

Mine is a tree one too - a beautiful elder in the alleyway behind the house that hangs over into our garden. It is so pretty in the spring!