Things you were really glad about in your new home

cloo

We have a lot of threads about anxiety and regret after moving house... how about things you were really glad about?


When my future husband and I first moved in together, he was working in Surrey, so I let my house in NE London and we rented together in SW London. It was an OK but expensive and slightly damp flat and it did have a problem with a lot of slugs coming inside, which was a bit gross. When we bought together just before our wedding, we just kept saying to one another 'Do you know what I see?... No slugs!'


After many delays when we finally moved to a family house with two young kids from the two-bed flat, a house that needed an awful lot of work and was dark and outdated, I remember sitting in my bedroom reading a book, and the kids playing downstairs and just thinking 'I'm at home and in a totally different place from the kids!' :T Our flat was pretty spacious, but there was just the one lounge and you couldn't 'get away' from one another much.

RelievedSheff

We sat down with a beer after spending the day moving in our belongings and both enjoyed the silence of a detached house. No more noisy inconsiderate neighbours. We do still sometimes find ourselves talking to each other in hushed voices as though next door will hear us

Just recently we have been enjoying the vastly superior insulation qualities of our new build home.

Soundgirlrocks

Space & Time - I went from a large shared house with 11 other people to a two bed flat just me and the other half. The joy of having more than one cupboard in the kitchen, one draw in the freezer and a whole fridge! I could take as long as I wanted in the bathroom - Bliss!

lincroft1710

Not my house, but my parent's second house, so happy to have an inside toilet, proper bathroom, proper kitchen and front garden as well as a drive and garage (previous house just had garage)

diggingdude

You can't beat fitting a new toilet seat and then taking some time to enjoy your new throne

SallyDucati

Having moved to my new place last year a few things!

After living in flats for 20 years - going upstairs to bed!!:rotfl:
And not having another flat above me.
Having my own garden.
Not having to contend with ******* useless leasehold management agents..

It's also an hour commute rather than 20 minutes - but so much more peaceful I don't regret it for a second.

laptop80

Conservatory.


Not something I've ever had any desire to have, never thought I'd make use of one and heard so many negative things about them and what a waste of time they are, but the house that ticked all the other boxes came with one. Turns out having a light, bright room with no TV in that you can just sit and decompress in is very nice.

epinjy

1. Moving to a much nicer, peaceful area to live in
2. Going from having no parking to a driveway for 3 cars
3. My mortgage payments being almost half what the rent would be to get a similar place

dan958

It is my first place since moving out of my parents. Purcahsed the flat about 6 months ago.

It is nice having the place to myself. I'm on the top floor, and my neighbour (2 flats per floor) I barely ever hear (and thats even with a young child)

AlexMac

The discomfort and surprise on the part of the the Estate Agent when, having kept us waiting til about 4pm before ringing me to say we could pop into their ofice to collect the keys which they'd now deign to finally give us on the day of completion (despite my solicitor swearing they'd transferred the cash before 11am...) I said..

" don't bother"...

as we'd broken in at noon and changed the locks, rather than keeping the removal van full of our stuff idling on the doorstep for several hours.

That and one of the new neighbours popping in with a hot casserole of dinner that evening!

phoebe1989seb

Half an acre garden (plus woodland) that was a virtual blank canvas as the previous owners had only cultivated ground elder and brambles, meaning that we could let loose our inner Monty Don, lol!

Also, having a partly walled garden, the walls being 400 year old stone with tons of character.

Almost twenty months on and we've spent a small fortune - barely scratching the surface - creating a stunning (imho ) outdoor space. My limbs feel exhausted but it's sooo worth it!

It also more than made up for the hideous house (actually a 400 year old cottage with bags of potential) we purchased - no running water/flushing loo for several months, awful kitchen and bathroom, extension with a tarpaulin for a roof and generally appalling decorating schemes - the joys of buying a repossession :eek: