Are you 'in love' with your home?

MarieAAP

Hummm,

Well i am thinking long term. Our next place will be the inbetween one, and then after the kids are bigger, and my OH is driving, then we can find a place where we have fallen in love with them :P

M

donnaessex

I love my home. We've lived there for 6 months and I honestly cant believe the change in us as a family (we have 2 babies). Our first home was bought as a fixer upper and it never got completely finished - very depressing looking at the same diy artexed ceiling after living there 7 years!

Although our new home isnt quite to our tastes, we will spend time doing things properly as I think we will be there forever - I've even pictured my teenage children doing their homework at the dining table and bringing home their future spouses (I imagine a Waltons type home!)

TallGirl

I live in the same house we bought as our first house 16 years ago. It was a 3 bed new build but I fell in love with the area and the large kitchen. We did not know at the time it was easy to extend over the garage but did that 6 years ago so now have a 3 bed with study (originally just had 2 bedrooms as the master bedroom was so small). We are 2 min from the sea, 2 miles from the motor way handy for commuting, close to family and only 1 1/2 hours from London.

We are now mortgage free and could afford something bigger but I love my neighbours, our new bathroom, wetroom and downstairs loo I really do not see the need to move. Yes its smaller than all my friends and family but we are happy and its just the two of us. As someone said on here how many spare bedrooms do you need I think 2 is plenty. I am planning to buy a holiday cottage in my homeland next.

Good luck with finding the right house my advise is think about the location you might fall in love with that.

bigbigmamamoo

I love my flat, but because of what it means to me, not because of its own inherent properties.

delmar39

I think you do have to be in love with a house and the area around it. I love where I live, I smile everytime I drive home or pull on the drive and just love being there. I smile when I go in the garden and smile when I walk to our village pub (and smile more on the way home!). You've probably not bought because you haven't fallen in love with a place yet. You'll know when you have. You also know when it's time to move - that's just the way it is.

RenovationMan

We absolutely love our new house, it was built circa 1700s and has 0.5m thick stone walls and a decent amount of land and out buildings. We took the gamble that low interest rates were here to stay and purged all of our bank accounts and investments to buy it. I now have a balancing act of renovating / modernising parts of it (insulation & heating system) and overpaying the substantial mortgage.

So far so good, and all the financial news seems to point to sustained low rates over the next 3 or so years, by which time we will have finished the building work and will have made real in-roads into the mortgage.

LittleMissAspie

We viewed about 15-20 houses and I didn't love any of them. They were all just ordinary. I decided I wasn't going to find a perfect house in my FTB budget so we went for one that ticks all the boxes for the right price instead. We've still been checking Rightmove since our offer was accepted and nothing new has come on that's better for us than the one we've got, but I still see it as a fairly ordinary house.

I would love a thatched cottage or a decent size Victorian semi but we won't be able to afford that as first or second buy, maybe third buy we will.

scooter_chick

I've just bought a house that I love.

I viewed it towards the end of a long, hot day of viewings that had also included what felt like hours of traffic jams on the M25. So I was tired & grumpy. When the agent had showed me the ground floor, basement & garden he said 'Shall we go & look at upstairs now?'. I almost said 'No, don't bother, I'm knackered & I want to go home. I've seen enought to know I'm buying this one'. Luckily I regained my composure quickly enough to put my poker face back on, look round nicely & later negotiate a decent price!

beccad

henpecked1 wrote: »

my house could burn down whilst i am at work and it wouldnt bother me. it would sort out the damp issues.

That's how I felt about our flat we sold recently:rotfl:

MarieAAP wrote: »

Hummm,

Well i am thinking long term. Our next place will be the inbetween one, and then after the kids are bigger, and my OH is driving, then we can find a place where we have fallen in love with them :P

M

I think this is what we're going to do.

LittleMissAspie wrote: »

We viewed about 15-20 houses and I didn't love any of them. They were all just ordinary. I decided I wasn't going to find a perfect house in my FTB budget so we went for one that ticks all the boxes for the right price instead. We've still been checking Rightmove since our offer was accepted and nothing new has come on that's better for us than the one we've got, but I still see it as a fairly ordinary house.

I would love a thatched cottage or a decent size Victorian semi but we won't be able to afford that as first or second buy, maybe third buy we will.

We're on our second buy and can't afford it still Not that I need that sort of house, but it would be nice to find something that I feel a bit more than indifference about!

lorne57

The couple who lived in our house went to look at hubby's grandad's bungalow when he died...we decided to move from our bungalow soon afterwards and when we saw this place go up for sale went and had a look....no cental heating, dodgy electrics, awful kitchen....but we wanted it! A friend looked at it before us and decided it was too much work....she was right!!:rotfl:

We bought for £40,000 in 1987 and will not move unless we have to or win the lottery:j

Every room has had the ceiling down or walls re-plastered before we could think of decorating. Central heating involved a trench dug in the dining/study room (I cried that day when I came in from work:o) can't fault the plumbers work though!!!

23 years later and we are doing the rooms again, though just decorating this time around. The front garden is immaculate, the back garden has a small bungalow in it (otherwise known as the garage/hubby's workshop:cool:), the garden at the back has been half finished...the wilderness will be dealt with shortly I hope:).

Do we love it....you bet we do. Yes there are things we would change if we could...it's on a main road and nearer to a business than we would like. We planned to have a two storey extension...have the plans but not the money (had to buy daughter and s-i-law house instead, that's another story:eek:) but would love the conservatory part.

Apart from the bricking/plastering/central heating hubby has done all the work...with labouring from me:T, so all of you taking on projects.....remember it always takes longer and more money than you expect:D