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ailbhe... and Rob could be persuaded to agree TOO...
... and we looked around...
What we'd want is this house, with bigger rooms, one more bedroom, and another loo.
Mid-terrace, 4-bed, 2-bath, enough space in the front to park 6 cycles and 2 wheelie bins, enough space in the back for the playhouse, swingset, cold frame, greenhouse, waterbutts, storage cupboards. Neither space big enough to require WORK. Double glazing, central heating. Very, very close to where we are now so we don't lose any community.
I don't see it happening, really. Because this is our house.
... and we looked around...
What we'd want is this house, with bigger rooms, one more bedroom, and another loo.
Mid-terrace, 4-bed, 2-bath, enough space in the front to park 6 cycles and 2 wheelie bins, enough space in the back for the playhouse, swingset, cold frame, greenhouse, waterbutts, storage cupboards. Neither space big enough to require WORK. Double glazing, central heating. Very, very close to where we are now so we don't lose any community.
I don't see it happening, really. Because this is our house.
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Date: 2012-07-01 05:29 pm (UTC)Would it be possible to add a bedroom and a toilet (harder to envisage making rooms bigger)? Would that be more or less traumatic/costly than moving?
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Date: 2012-07-03 06:04 pm (UTC)And it's funny how people's ideal houses vary. Mine (and Tom's, handily) is a large 4-bed detached house in a 1/4 acre plot somewhere outside Reading, with a separate dining room and a separate utility room and an en suite off the main bedroom, and preferably a study or library. And a garage and shed outside. I doubt very much whether we'll be able to afford all of that, though!
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Date: 2012-07-03 06:11 pm (UTC)I have about six different ideal houses, but one of them is this one! Several of the ones I imagine are not compatible with each other anyway, like being close to the middle of a city and out in the countryside at the same time.
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Date: 2012-07-03 05:11 pm (UTC)I know what you mean about neighbours. I love that we can talk to our neighbours across the garden fences - actually, that the children can, really - and I'd hate to live in an apartment block where most of the interaction with neighbours would be through walls or under direct adult supervision. We've only had one neighbour we heard from inside their house anyway (and his music could be heard all the way up and down the street before he was evicted), so either we've had quiet tenants in both next-doors for ten years or the walls aren't as thin as they might be.
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Date: 2012-07-01 06:44 pm (UTC)I'd like to investigate making our current house more open-plan, though.
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Date: 2012-07-01 07:24 pm (UTC)We had a removal lorry, because it was the only practical way to move furniture, but this felt very silly!
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Date: 2012-07-14 05:37 pm (UTC)I love our flat, but it would be hard to impossible with teens.