The Doozer Family Self Build

PasturesNew

I just want to have a nosey

I've never used Instagram... that's full of flashy images of smart things and lots of bums of "models" who want to marry well. I'm assuming yours will just have flashy images of smart things and your butt won't be sticking out in photos

I'd not feel comfortable buying a house from somebody who was building out the back.... that's too "close" for me as some can be a bit "pushy" and make it so it never feels like your house, but that they've kindly lent it to you. I'd feel forever monitored/judged and gossiped about, even if I weren't clipping the hedge as often as they'd have done, or to the "correct" height I'd fear they'd be forever popping round to give me "advice".... with that patronising Mrs Bucket nod/grimace.

I once knew somebody whose family moved several doors along a road, he had a special needs brother. The brother never quite got the hang of "we've moved" and would turn up at the old house, pressing his nose against the windows when the new family were enjoying their tea and banging on the window to be let in.

Doozergirl

ashe wrote: »

Imgur.com is an excellent image host that allows remote linking - you can embed those pictures into posts on mse as I did so recently for some plastering advice 👍🏼

Okay. I have imgur, I will have to try harder to embed images! I imagine I'll post more images on insta to save hogging the board here and I can include my real life friends too!

Doozergirl

knightstyle wrote: »

Hi DG, we built our house in France from scratch, we bought an ex-seaside rental mobile home and lived in it for a year. All OK except the water pipes under it being frozen each morning, we soon learnt to fill the kettle before going to bed.
It was to our own design but we had to have the drawings done professionally to get planning.

It's nice to know who's done it before. You and snowcat should post some pictures too!

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I just want to have a nosey

I've never used Instagram... that's full of flashy images of smart things and lots of bums of "models" who want to marry well. I'm assuming yours will just have flashy images of smart things and your butt won't be sticking out in photos

I'd not feel comfortable buying a house from somebody who was building out the back.... that's too "close" for me as some can be a bit "pushy" and make it so it never feels like your house, but that they've kindly lent it to you. I'd feel forever monitored/judged and gossiped about, even if I weren't clipping the hedge as often as they'd have done, or to the "correct" height I'd fear they'd be forever popping round to give me "advice".... with that patronising Mrs Bucket nod/grimace.

I once knew somebody whose family moved several doors along a road, he had a special needs brother. The brother never quite got the hang of "we've moved" and would turn up at the old house, pressing his nose against the windows when the new family were enjoying their tea and banging on the window to be let in.

There will be an awful lot of pictures of mud, wood and builders for the foreseeable future! Instagram isn't all flash, there are communities like there are on these forums. I'm not likely to get my bum out. My husband's more likely to do that.

I appreciate that some people won't like a house behind them, but the plot was free and so we're prepared to take a hit on the value at the front. There's only one window of the original house that you can look at the new one from.

We had a landlady (whilst we were renovating) that made us feel exactly like you describe when their new house was only a few doors down. I'd not be like that. The drives are separated by a decent fence, the garden decent fence and wall and I prefer to keep a respectful distance from the neighbours until we accidentally get drunk together.

SuperMoose

Look what I found
https://www.instagram.com/theoldscrapyard/

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

We had a landlady (whilst we were renovating) that made us feel exactly like you describe when their new house was only a few doors down. I'd not be like that.

I seem to attract them. Over-bearing busy-bodies whose sole purpose is to point out that I'm wrong, it's wrong, I've done it wrong.... nobody ever tells you what's right, nor does anybody ever listen to any different viewpoint ... I've just spent my entire life being "wrong"

Even when I'm right (which is always, of course).



I'd end up putting my bins where they put their bins, where they "suggested" I put my bins, because it makes for a simpler life, one fewer set of interactions with them.... I couldn't do it.

One I recently viewed, that I wasn't keen on, had the final nail put into it. "He's moving round the corner to a house he's always wanted; his mother lives a couple of doors up from here still". Bye bye! I suspect his mother chose the awful hallway wallpaper that'd have been the first job that needed stripping out ... one day she'd find an excuse to "be passing" ... "... oooh, you took that lovely wallpaper down... my late husband and I chose that together..." BYE!

Waterlily24

We lived in a mobile home on site. Ours wasn't a new build but a big extension where the whole roof had to come off. I didn't mind living in the mobile home at all. Middle of winter too, think we moved back in just before Christmas. It was a really bad winter too. The worst one we've had since we've been up here.


I'm really interested too. Good luck.

snowcat75

Doozergirl wrote: »

It's nice to know who's done it before. You and snowcat should post some pictures too!

Mines on here, in condensed version..... Didn't like to jump in with the size 20s and the O look at me in someone else's thread;)…..

My first build was before the days of digital wish id taken some pictures of that have only got about 2.

Doozergirl

snowcat75 wrote: »

Mines on here, in condensed version..... Didn't like to jump in with the size 20s and the O look at me in someone else's thread;)…..

My first build was before the days of digital wish id taken some pictures of that have only got about 2.

It's beautiful, well done!

I love the clock in the window

We've just finished a really similar project for work. Some of those early inside pics could be of the same building!

Doozergirl

Waterlily24 wrote: »

We lived in a mobile home on site. Ours wasn't a new build but a big extension where the whole roof had to come off. I didn't mind living in the mobile home at all. Middle of winter too, think we moved back in just before Christmas. It was a really bad winter too. The worst one we've had since we've been up here.


I'm really interested too. Good luck.

Brave!

You haven't heard my husband snore. Our daughter would murder him within days. She even moved in with our friends on holiday instead of staying with us!