Did you fall in love with your house when you viewed it?

[Candlewiff]

We’ve seen a house that fits our brief exactly (rural, land, commuting distance), however it is at the top of our budget and the layout is crazy so we would have to do some renovations long term, for example bathroom is downstairs and kitchen is too small.
Just trying to figure out if it’s worth it, as the renovations would have to happen over time, plus there are a few 2’s on the home report for damp we need to get looked at.
Do we need to love it to get over all of this?
Has anyone moved into somewhere that was perfect on paper but in reality wasn’t?

We've been in our current house only a few weeks and from the first viewing I knew I loved it. I haven't been able to explain it before but reading here now I realise it was definitely the coming home feeling. The house is very dated and lived in by an elderly couple so we weren't wooed by lovely decor or someone else's nice furniture, it was just a feeling of home. The 2 previous properties we've owned never had that feeling but we were perfectly happy in them!

Fell in line with mine at first viewing and moved in a month ago. What I love most about it is that it’s been painstakingly renovated from the joists upwards so hopefully I’ll have very little need to have ANYTHING TO DO WITH BUILDERS over the next few years. Utterly traumatised by my last house renovation and hope never to have to do it again. Spent the first weekend marvelling at the finish and little bits of attention to detail that I hadn’t spotted during viewings.

No, we didn't love our house at all when we saw it but it was in the night location and had potential. It took 3 years before we could even move in and is still on the ugly side outside but inside is just how we wanted it. Was it worth all the effort & expense? Probably not but I'd possibly do the same all over again!