julicorn's journey 2 - Moving Up

beanielou

I LOVE everything about it.
It's actually very me.
Love the colours & the light.
The telephone box in the garden 

Sistergold

@beanielou, please don’t feed @julicorn’s imagination with regards to that house! She needs to keep an open mind. It’s really nicely done for sure, just on the tight side! Even without the children a guest bedroom and a dressing room for now might be nice so 3 bedrooms at least? Kitchen with loads of kitchen units? I know @julicorn loves to bake bread? I am now curious how many bedrooms you will get @julicorn! 🥳

powerspowers

Aww I love it!! I lived in a terrace of a similar size (nowhere near as nice) and it worked for me. It wouldn’t work for me now with a family though. 

Well done on the offer! 

julicorn

beanielou said:

I LOVE everything about it.
It's actually very me.
Love the colours & the light.
The telephone box in the garden 

If we end up getting it, you're definitely invited to the house warming ❤

julicorn

Sistergold said:

@beanielou, please don’t feed @julicorn’s imagination with regards to that house! She needs to keep an open mind. It’s really nicely done for sure, just on the tight side! Even without the children a guest bedroom and a dressing room for now might be nice so 3 bedrooms at least? Kitchen with loads of kitchen units? I know @julicorn loves to bake bread? I am now curious how many bedrooms you will get @julicorn! 🥳

Haha, I need all the different opinions, not just the voice of reason 😂 I do love making bread that's true, but you should see our current kitchen (it's genuinely about half the size, and my bread is still pretty fantastic). I wouldn't turn down a dressing room though. 

julicorn

powerspowers said:

Aww I love it!! I lived in a terrace of a similar size (nowhere near as nice) and it worked for me. It wouldn’t work for me now with a family though. 

Well done on the offer! 

Thank you! And was it just you on your own when you were living in a house that size? 😊

Karmacat

julicorn said:

beanielou said:

I LOVE everything about it.
It's actually very me.
Love the colours & the light.
The telephone box in the garden 

If we end up getting it, you're definitely invited to the house warming ❤

Me me me!  I want to come   

There is one other practical question - you won't get any traffic noise, of course but how are you on neighbour noise?  What are the party walls like?  In my current house, the walls between each room are nice and solid, but the party wall (its semi-detached) might as well be made of tissue paper 

julicorn

Karmacat said:

julicorn said:

beanielou said:

I LOVE everything about it.
It's actually very me.
Love the colours & the light.
The telephone box in the garden 

If we end up getting it, you're definitely invited to the house warming ❤

Me me me!  I want to come   

There is one other practical question - you won't get any traffic noise, of course but how are you on neighbour noise?  What are the party walls like?  In my current house, the walls between each room are nice and solid, but the party wall (its semi-detached) might as well be made of tissue paper 

You are definitely also invited! We'll have to have an MSE MFW get-together, but it will need to be on a sunny day because the garden is the only real entertaining space, haha!

Also, keep the practical questions coming, it's super useful! As a couple we've only ever lived in flats in terraced houses, so had lots of neighbours of varying noise levels basically. We tend to not mind hearing our neighbours aside from if they're having parties every weekend... It might also be that we've been pretty lucky with our neighbours so far - it's always been older properties with 0 noise proofing, but the type of noise they've made (listening to music, some fairly off key singing, walking around) hasn't bothered us. Quite hard to tell when you're only viewing a house for quarter of an hour I bet. We always make a bit of a point of trying to meet the neighbours before we move somewhere though, they should hopefully know what it's like. 

julicorn

I do wonder what the deal is with planning permission for building a garden room in a conservation area, when it's not a back garden... And also getting permission to run some sort of electrics from the house under a public footpath might be a bit of a challenge. Hard to tell! If anyone has experiences in that area, please shout  

Sistergold

Being in a Conservation area is the bane of my existence too. The only good thing is you kind of know that all of you are held back in what you can do so neighbour will not be able to suddenly do something outrageous without getting some go ahead first. I think a “shed/garden room ” is allowed without permission is what I have gathered. I am hoping to build a brick storage shed to replace the wooden one that’s there at the moment. Asked neighbours if I need permission before doing it they said no need.🤷‍♀️ One neighbor still did an application to add a shed he said he was being cautious. One neighbor has done an office/garden room and not applied for permission, 🤫. 

I think if it’s not in the back garden then there is higher chance of it being tricky as it might stand out. Them planners seem to not mind if it will not change the outlook of the street. Check if there is precedence? If no precedence and it’s front garden then take it, it might not be allowed and so if it’s critical to for you to do it then don’t buy that particular house?