Moved In to my house, cant settle - anyone else?

hedgehopper_2

I am fully expecting to feel this sort of "buyers' remorse" when we finally physically move - I think it's probably inevitable. When you think about it, you've spent much longer than two weeks building up to this, so you can't expect to settle in in such a short space of time. I'm sure it will probably help to start a DIY project or other home improvement (if you have any money left from the move!) or even a minor bit of sprucing up that need not be expensive.

How about throwing a housewarming?

Good luck!

Evilm

It took about 3 months to settle into our new home. People do say our new house is noisy from the road noise but a couple of months in we barely noticed it.

Give it time.

sequin123

Hi everyone

I just wanted to thank you for replying, and for going easy on me.

I guess having a broken ankle doesnt help and I know I need to give it more time.

I am just gutted as we saved so hard for this house and if I cant settle then it is enevitable that with house prices forecasted to drop I will have to sell at a loss, such a shame to feel like this 2 weeks in.:(

Anyway I shall keep my chin up but really am touched by those that took the time to reply

Thank you x

greenmoneysaver_2

What pain meds are you on?? Dicolfenac, codeine and tramadol all really affect your moods, esepcially when lots of stuff is going on.

Give it time, being immobile is very depressing in itself, and you are in strange surroundings where you have too much time to think about very small things, that if you were at work/decorating and doing general moving stuff you wouldn't notice.

clg86

Me and my boyfriend have just bought a house and moved in on Monday. We used to live in an apartment in the city centre and now we live in the hills with only 4 other houses and sheep surrounding us.....:o

I have settled in much better than I though I would at this stage, but my boyfriend is missing the city life. Obviously, 5 days is different to your 2 months, but give it time.

You bought this house because you had a good feeling about it when you saw it and viewed it, an dthat feeling will come back i'm sure. We waited 3 months to get the keys and I all the excitment was drained from me because it was so stressful, and I worried that I wouldn't like the house once we moved in, but I know that we have made the right decision.

You will get there...:)

RobertoMoir

sequin123 wrote: »

Hi

I moved in 2 weeks ago into a our new family house, it was our 'we will be here for at least 10 years' house. 2 weeks in and I feel like I have made a terrible mistake

The road noise is loud (how I didnt notice this I dont know) and I had doubts over the garden as it is only about 32ft and now when I look out the window I feel sick. I just want to go back to our old house even though it had less space. It doesnt help that 5 weeks ago I broke my ankle so cant do anything to the house, cant go out and just sit and stew wishing I could turn back the clock.

Has anyone else moved in somewhere and found their was something that they didnt notice when they viewed their house, did you learn to live with it, if not did you sell again soon after?

Thanks

I purchased my parents home after they passed away, the one my brother and I grew up in, so I knew I liked it and you'd think very little of it would surprise me.

But whether it's down to coping with their loss or the house itself, it took quite some time and a fair bit of re-decorating my way before the house started to feel anything like mine.

Maybe you've made a mistake. Maybe you haven't... but you've got to give it a chance and do stuff to try and make it "your home" instead of just "the house you've purchased", if that makes sense, before you can decide for sure.

TBeckett100

sequin123 wrote: »

Hi

I moved in 2 weeks ago into a our new family house, it was our 'we will be here for at least 10 years' house. 2 weeks in and I feel like I have made a terrible mistake

The road noise is loud (how I didnt notice this I dont know) and I had doubts over the garden as it is only about 32ft and now when I look out the window I feel sick. I just want to go back to our old house even though it had less space. It doesnt help that 5 weeks ago I broke my ankle so cant do anything to the house, cant go out and just sit and stew wishing I could turn back the clock.

Has anyone else moved in somewhere and found their was something that they didnt notice when they viewed their house, did you learn to live with it, if not did you sell again soon after?

Thanks

i had to check this wasnt a post i started a year or so back. We moved from a large town into the country and chose a little cottage by the road. The road never crossed my mind until the first night. I sleep with the window open and i used to feel my blood boil when cars would blatently drive at 60mph past the house in a 30mph.

We found out we were having a baby the day after exchange, and immediately had doubts. we were glad to get shot of the flat so carried on. The house has a large open fire and being pregnant, OH could smell that and the damp and used to cry herself to sleep. I layed next to her and I felt like I had done the wrong thing.

We spent thousands on internal renovations which was botched from start to finish and had to be redone. The house is lovely everyone says, except it is prving hard to sell due to the road. However, i have never bonded with the house and if i came home to find it burnt to the ground it wouldnt bother me.

Bermuda_John

think about a new job, school or club ......... it take s along time to settle in. a house is no different, sometimes feels like an anti climax when you finally get in.