Your old house. Your new house.

remembermee

I was just thinking about how a lot of us love looking on property websites at houses. I do it all the time. I also love how people get excited when moving and I was thinking maybe it would be nice to have a thread where people can share a link of their old house photos and a link with their new house photos.

What do you think?

LEJC

Lovely idea...however on a forum where you are reminded to protect your privacy would you really want to publish pics of your home contents...or indeed let everyone know you have moved from one place to another...potentially even incriminating your sellers/buyers etc.

I love looking at houses too online but I wouldnt want a link being put up without my permission to show a property that I now or have previously lived in.

occasionally people post links when they want advice about selling etc but thats their decision to do that.

Remember what you post here is not exclusive and can now be read the internet wide...you are not just sharing the details with a few select friends akin to a facebook group but a whole wide blackhole of users who may have more sinister intentions than looking at your curtains or commenting on your wallpaper

G_M

We could also add details such as which house we are now occupying, which if any is empty, and whether it is furnished (esp with high value items).

remembermee

LEJC wrote: »

Lovely idea...however on a forum where you are reminded to protect your privacy would you really want to publish pics of your home contents...or indeed let everyone know you have moved from one place to another...potentially even incriminating your sellers/buyers etc.

I love looking at houses too online but I wouldnt want a link being put up without my permission to show a property that I now or have previously lived in.

occasionally people post links when they want advice about selling etc but thats their decision to do that.

Remember what you post here is not exclusive and can now be read the internet wide...

Ah yes, I do agree with that. However, it is possible to link to photos on a website photo hosting website rather than posting links that details where your precise house, road, postcode and number and along with that, like you say, the contents of your previous house which one would assume is now in your new house!

But fair enough if people are not comfortable doing that. Maybe people could describe what it was that made them move to their new house?

For us it was the views that did it. It overlooks farmland which we just love. We can't afford our country idyll so this is the next best thing - on the edge of a city but overlooking the country.

Davesnave

OK.

Old house: 4 bed semi on 1/4 acre in small, trendy city. It was a great place to bring up children, but we needed a new challenge on retirement.

New house: a 4 bed bungalow on 5.5 acres, a mile equidistant from a very small town and a village. It was overgrown, dilapidated and weird, but 6 years on we're about 2/3 of the way through sorting it all...I think!

At the old house it could take 1/2 an hour to get home from Sainsburys, half a mile away. In the present house it always takes1/2 an hour to get home from Sainsburys, but that's because it's 18 miles away! :rotfl:

Why did we do this? I'm not sure now. Something to do with the 'good life' and getting plenty of exercise. There was mention of alpacas too, but the reality is suicidal sheep in the field and a couple of dozen hens, which are currently off-lay. At least the bit about exercise was accurate!

remembermee

Davesnave, that sounds amazing and yet hard work all at once! I can quite see how the dream doesn't necessarily transpire the way you think it will. But it sounds like you're enjoying it and improving the property and land must be very rewarding.
I would love a larger garden as I have really got the gardening bug. But that was one of our compromises on buying this house.

Davesnave

People do all sorts of things on retirement, like go on world tours, or try to walk the entire coastal path around England & Wales, but we weren't adventurous enough for those.

We're gardeners, and we thought having land on a larger scale would be interesting, especially rescuing a place that had gone downhill. We didn't realise quite how much work we'd let ourselves in for, though!

We had particular good luck in picking the right location. Not every village is as welcoming as ours, nor did we know that a long time family friend with building skills would relocate nearby. Without those elements of good fortune, our attempt change our everyday life would have failed. Nobody goes it alone.

ali-t

Why did we do this? I'm not sure now. Something to do with the 'good life' and getting plenty of exercise. There was mention of alpacas too, but the reality is suicidal sheep in the field and a couple of dozen hens, which are currently off-lay. At least the bit about exercise was accurate! [/QUOTE]

wow, alpacas are on my next house list. Old house on a housing scheme, current house is living the rural dream but not quite enough land for alpacas.

Waterlily24

Old house 3 bed bungalow/2 reception rooms with about 2/3 of an acre. No near neighbours surrounded by countryside.

New house was small three bed bungalow with 1 reception room with just over an acre. It's now a 4 bed with 3 reception rooms and 3 bathrooms. Unfortunately we weren't allowed to extend and keep it as a bungalow so it's got an upstairs now lol. Again it's rural with no near neighbours.

seven-day-weekend

Old house - mid terrace Victorian house in the outer inner-city . Decent garden for this type of house. No parking.

New house - two bedroom semi detached bungalow with large garden on the outer edge of the city. Near shops and other facilities but also within walking distance of countryside. Drive for two cars.

charliewocka

Old house (rental) - three bed terrace, no off-street parking, small garden with no lawn only flower beds. On flight path for major airport so always noisy.


New house - three bed detached dorma bungalow, third of an acre, lareg kitchen and huge reception room. Parking for 6 cars and it's next to the in-laws In the country on a restricted access lane, it's quiet and has two local pubs a few minutes walk away. Forest is behind us which keeps the dogs happy. The house is a project (BUG project!) but the opportunity was too good to miss when it came on the market.