From 0% to 100% how ideal is your current home?

[BrickPoet]

About 85%

I like this idea of a post! Ideal in terms of rooms etc 100%. We have me, DS (3) & DP and 3 bedrooms one is my office. As well as a living room, kitchen diner and sun room with a nice garden and driveway. In terms of how we feel with the house I'd say about 70%! We moved in last May so we are still decorating some of the rooms and need to find correct storage solutions for all our junk! . We saved for 4 years to move here and on current salaries won't be moving anywhere larger in the next 10 years. This could be our forever home.

70%

If I focus purely on the house, I'd say 90%. We've extended and now have everything we want. However, after living here a while, the location is getting me down. It's just too far to walk everywhere. I wish we were nearer the town centre. So I'm going with 75%.

40%.ideal location. Size is okay. Needs major renovation and garden doing though which is going to take years as life is already expensive with baby

Overall, I think I'm going to say 80%. It did check everything on the list I had when we were looking but what I overlooked was how small the utility is. We seem to have clothes drying all over the house during the winter and I would LOVE to be able to put them in a room, close the door and just not see them. That's going to take a bit of an extension which I secretly have my heart set on (but haven't started talking about yet!). It's actually a biggie for me. Other than that, I'm happy.

I have only lived here for 2 weeks so I hope I don't live to regret this opinion, but 90%. I can't believe this is my house!

If I'm being very critical, I'd like a drive and a slightly bigger garden. But neither are dealbreakers.

30%. Horrible location. Horrible neighbour. Tad too small. No garage. Dark rooms. Shady garden. No views. (Ex council house though so it's sturdy).

90%. I love the house, but it's a large terraced with no driveway or garage. The on-street parking is my only gripe.

About 40%

no choice in the matter really- can’t afford to move

positives - it has a roof , central heating and a private parking space.

I'd say 90%. A big utility and being detached would make it 100%. The size and location are great.

50%. Size, most of the decor, garden and practical location are perfect for us.
But the other 50%-style and age of house, boring but necessary work that will be expensive and still needs to be done, the town we live near which is horrible and the neighbours who veer between irritating and concerning-are not so good.

Basically I want to live in bigger version of my old house which was a small but very pretty, quaint 16th century cottage in a very nice old village. And I can't due to the number of us, and other practical reasons, and I've got the hump about it is the long and short!

And yes to @StephanieSuperpowers re the damn washing. Even though this is the biggest house I've ever lived in and we have a (tiny) utility room we still have no where to hang washing and it does my head in.

Moved here last year and I'm giving it 95%. The only thing I would change is location it's 1.2 mile a from our town whereas I was 0.5 miles in my last house. The house would be about 100k more though so not within my price range.

95%
would prefer slightly southern facing garden and the house at the end of the vegetable garden to disappear.

Otehrwise very happy. Nice neighbours. Good location. Plenty of space. Parking. Garage.

we are very lucky with what we have and hope be here a long long time.

Its the best possible house we can afford so in that way 100%. The location and outdoor space are perfect. The feel of the house is great too.

When i look at other houses, I'd have to spend so much more to get anything better for us. Like double the mortgage more. We couldn't borrow that and the stress of paying it would ruin any joy.

But it would be lovely if each room was 20% bigger, there was an entry hall for coats and shoes and a utility room and an upstairs bathroom. So in perfect worldid say ourvhouse is about 67.4% right.

I love our house, it’s beautiful and in a great location here.

If it was back in my home country it would be 100% perfect. I’m not sure what percent to take off for location as I miss home so much. 😢

For people with limited drying space, I have one of these in my little utility area- https://www.lakeland.co.uk/53405/lakeland-extendable-ceiling-airer?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw_LOwBhBFEiwAmSEQAcLesx8yMQZteTtfV5x5DJ4kH0sVMgXe9Z8ywR7Ctbil57nM9btdsRoCML0QAvD_BwE#product-details-accordion

@sweetpickle2 I've been thinking of one of these or something similar. How heavy are they to hang? And do they hold much laundry?

99%. I’m taking 1% off because we have a big kitchen with hardly any surface space which is a pain if you’re doing a lot of cooking.

The main thing I wanted was a utility room, which we have but the other best bits are that we have enough bedrooms for a spare room, DS to have a 2nd room and a ‘gym’ (only a spare room with exercise equipment in). There’s also an office downstairs for DH and enough toilets that no one has to wait 😂. Oh and the best part is tons of built in wardrobes for storage!

DH would probably take a few more %s off though as he wants a double garage instead of a single 🙄.

@piscofrisco Its not too heavy, I got a handyman to come and do it as I'm useless but it's very sleek once up- extends up and down with a pulley and lever system. Wouldn't hold a full load I don't think, but I put most stuff on the line outside- you can buy bigger ones though, I've stayed in an airbnb that had an enormous one all across one ceiling once!

@sweetpickle2 we still have the original pulley from our house in our kitchen!

I’d say about 90%, we have an inbuilt outside store attached to the house, but its very small, the plot just wouldn’t suit a garage or a shed. There also isn’t a loft, so big items are a bit tricky to store. Its a bit like the one in the photo and like many houses here it has a fully exposed basement, rather than the one on that house with small windows.

Hmmm. We've just had a new kitchen, log burner and windows downstairs - all of these things still make me smile. I have a loft conversion covering the whole top floor, DC have a double room each. I love my furniture, mostly had it when we first moved. I love the sunroom which is currently where I work, so spend 50+ hours a week. I love the garden. It is manageable rather than huge - which was my criteria after seeing my parents use all their weekends gardening - has a lovely pergola area and isn’t overlooked. I happily spend all summer out there.

I want a new bathroom and this will then lead to decorating the hall because it will trash it and I want the artex to diiiie. The drive is old black paving and a resin one would make me smile. I'd like a porch way as the hall is quite small.

So the things I don't like are fixable and are just because they are old and worn after 20 years here so I'm going to go for 90%.

90%. We’d love a bigger garden but living in a city that’s fairly unachievable.

We'd like slightly bigger rooms, more storage, more land, more barns, another loo and shower, but we must like it as we've been here almost 30 years!