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Do you like your flat / house?

I like it in my flat.
It's very modest, but that's fine.

I like it because of what I look out on to.
A tiny patch of ancient woodland with 2 trees 600+yr old.

I love the birds songs, they are beautiful and soothing.

I love the smell of the woodland.

I love the effect that looking, at the green lush grass has on my eyes.
I like the fact I get a nature fix, just outside my door.

Like I say, by no means des-res, estates got a bad rep in fact, but I love lifving here for the reasons above. No plans to move, and if they were, it would have to be right beside nature, in one of its forms, sea, woodland, river, etc. Even if its modest like this.
 
I love my house. Could probably do with another bedroom and I'd love a kitchen big enough to put a table in but it's warm, cosy and we are very happy here. :)
 
Oooh trashy, that sounds awful. And so much extra work for you too. I hope you can get that damp sorted soon. When I first lived in Brixton we were in a really damp flat and my eldest had constant ENT infections and tended to get one chest infection after another.

She became so much healthier, and quickly too, as soon as we moved into a place where the only mould was a tiny bit in the bathroom that took ages to grow back if you wiped it with bleach once in a blue moon....and the only heating that place had for years was a gas fire in the living room! Cold is actually OK to deal with compared to damp.
 
Mrs Magpie said:
Oooh trashy, that sounds awful. And so much extra work for you too. I hope you can get that damp sorted soon. When I first lived in Brixton we were in a really damp flat and my eldest had constant ENT infections and tended to get one chest infection after another.

She became so much healthier, and quickly too, as soon as we moved into a place where the only mould was a tiny bit in the bathroom that took ages to grow back if you wiped it with bleach once in a blue moon....and the only heating that place had for years was a gas fire in the living room! Cold is actually OK to deal with compared to damp.
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I need to get it sorted but it's a massive job which means basically pulling off the inside wall of my bedroom and one wall of the kitchen. And so that means a whole new kitchen which means we'd have to move out probably while it's being done and I don't know where we'd go. Also the cost of the damp is a building cost rather than just mine so it gets shared among the four flats. On the one hand, that's good as I can't afford it but on the other they don't want to pay for it as it only benefits me so I have to push and I hate doing that. And of course my crim neighbour doesn't think he should have to contribute so it's just a huge headache.

Luckily the foal's bedroom is at the back of the house so he is fine. But I really need to gird my loins and sort it out
 
I love it, but the marina rental has gone up by £300 each year we've been here, meaning what was once £2000 a year is now £3000 a year. Ok, that's still cheap for London (some places in London are £10,000 a year), but I have mortgage as well. I love the location though, it's a dream come true, 10 mins to cycle to Tottenham Hale tube, close to lots of major supermarkets, retail parks and Ikea and Walthamstow market, but feels like the middle of nowhere and is full of wildlife and plants. My neighbours rock - we are all very close and I love the community here. I am very, very lucky.
 
pinkmonkey said:
I love it, but the marina rental has gone up by £300 each year we've been here, meaning what was once £2000 a year is now £3000 a year. Ok, that's still cheap for London (some places in London are £10,000 a year), but I have mortgage as well. I love the location though, it's a dream come true, 10 mins to cycle to Tottenham Hale tube, close to lots of major supermarkets, retail parks and Ikea and Walthamstow market, but feels like the middle of nowhere and is full of wildlife and plants. My neighbours rock - we are all very close and I love the community here. I am very, very lucky.
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I am really envious - I am also really pleased that it's all worked out so well for you :)
 
Mixed feelings about this place -
I like the amount of natural light, the view, the double glazing, the high sloping ceiling, the size of the balcony, the way the bedroom stays warm in winter because of the lower ceiling, the placing of the windows making airing & cooling the flat v easy, and the security gate.

I don't much like the smallness of the kitchen, the current lot of neighbours (although they seem to be gradually improving), the way the area gets police helicopter flights at night, the lack of real garden, and the fact that although this is supposed to be a flat suitable for disabled people it's up a flight of steps!:mad:
 
The location is excellent. Everything works, and the whole flat was new when we moved in. However, my kitchen is too small. There's not enough stuff on the walls. I want a garden and some stairs. It's very neutral.

I like it because it's ours, but we don't intend to stay here more than a few years. It's not big enough for children.
 
When we moved here, I was 7 months pregnant and it was a do or die move before the baby. I dont like the area and didnt like the house.

Over the 6 years it has grown on me. I am pretty lucky to have a roof over my head, and despite damp and needing a new kitchen, and decorating all round (Mr V is a decorator so has no energy left for our place at weekends) I have grown to love my home.

Yeah, another reception room, shower, utility, garage, bigger garden, paved drive would be nice. But I am grateful for what I have..
 
It's OK. The location's excellent, it's a pretty old redbrick building with big sash windows, ground floor, the rooms are decent sizes, it doesn't get too cold or too hot too easily, the living room's an interesting shape, my neighbours are fine and the rent's cheap for this area - though it has gone up by 50% in the last five years. But the electrics are messed up (no overhead lighting in three of the rooms), it only has two bedrooms, the bathroom is proving impossible to decorate and I can't afford to replace all the flooring, and, importantly, it has no garden. :(
 
I do yes. We rent this house from a friend and have been here nearly 2 1/2 years.

It's in a really good area which we would never be able to afford to buy in.

I get a good feeling in this house and it feels really warm and friendly (my mate grew up here so maybe that helps). We've got a separate dining room which I really like, 2 double bedrooms and I know this might sound a bit odd but I like the hall and landing. In our old house there was a tiny square between the 2 bedrooms and the bathroom and a narrow closed in staircase so it all felt really cramped. Here we've got a big landing and a proper staircase and a hallway downstairs.

I absolutely love our bedroom. We decorated it last year and it's all pale pink and cream. Very pretty and also really calming.

There are things I don't like about the house but can't really change as we don't own it. The bathroom is big and could easily fit a shower which I would love.

The kitchen is quite small and I've not got much worktop space but it would be a lot better if I had a separate utility. It is nice though and I have a separate larder which I love.

The garden is crap as it's really sloped and uneven so feels quite unsafe and needs some serious money spent on it. Next door have done this and much as I hate their smug middle class guts their garden is lovely.

All in all I love our little house and feel quite content here. :cool:
 
I love my flat back home. I've lived in two places as an adult that really felt like home. Can't describe how or why, they just had a really good vibe and I felt they were "home".

If I could change anything, then it would be nice to have a bigger kitchen that you could sit in, as it's a tiny galley kitchen, although I figure that when I renovate the kitchen, if I plan cleverly and rejig things then I can make better use of the space and have at least a breakfast bar. It does lead out on to a south facing balcony, which unfortunately looks right down the road and at all the parked cars when if it was on the other side of the building, off the sitting room, it would overlook the park. But it's still nice for breakfast, or it was until the pigeons crapped all over my lloyd loom chairs and table.

In an ideal world, the bathroom would be a bit bigger as well, but it's small and functional and it's not something that I think I have to move house because I need a bigger bathroom or kitchen.

And while it would be good to have a garden, the fact that it's a second floor walk up means it's more secure, as some of the ground floor flats in particular have been broken into.

The kitchen is the main bugbear, but it's functional enough, it's not so bad.

Overall it's got a good vibe, I love it, it's home.
 
I love my house!

It also shows how far i have come in my life...once I was on the homeless register ...now I own my own home, complete with a garden, conservatory and my sweat and tears from numerous diys :) it could do with a hallway overhaul etc but it's all mine :cool:
 
It's okay but if i could afford it I'd move to somewhere with a private garden. it could be a tiny garden or even a roof terrace.

I did quite a lot of work on this place. It needed GCH and rewiring and complete modernisation but now things are breaking and going rubbish and needing redecorating and I can't be bothered. I'd like to do up a new place though.
 
I'm thinking about moving - not least because my twat of an upstairs neightbour is singing out of tune and banging on the living room ceiling at the moment, to 'Personal Jesus' by Depeche Mode.

Ideally I'd like a two-bedroom place nearer to town as this flat feels really cramped. That could be because I've got a flat-and-a-half's worth of stuff in it at the moment though.
 
Yes. It has been pointed out (by more than one person) that I'm never satisfied and always want more - a bigger kitchen, a proper balcony, more storage - but actually my flat's beautiful, and more than I deserve.
 
sparklefish said:
I have a separate larder which I love.
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You lucky thing! One thing I didn't mention about my lovely little house is that it has the best cupboard space ever! Also upstairs all the bedrooms have sloping ceilings which go up to about 12 feet and even higher in the bathroom (not that big) which seems really airy and spacious. There's natural light in there too which is perfect for the plants I grow in there. We also have a loft which although tiny is really useful.
 
MY FLAT IS INCREDIBLE.

i have skylights.
fire escapes.
balconies.
a brilliant kitchen
a serving hatch
finery
cushions
LOADS OF STORAGE

AND OH JESSUS I'VE JUST NOTICED THAT MY BEDROOM DOOR HAS A CAT FLAP IN IT. (not a euphemism)

a huge mahoosive spare room which i need a flatmate for in the next month.
unless i get lucky and win t'lottery. or something.

:)
 
I fucking hate the flat in stokey. Spose it's not paid for with housing benefit though, I'd hate that more.
 
I love it. Plush and cosy and, possibly, the first place I've lived where I don't get the heebyjeebies ever, even after watching horror films. It's an art deco flat on the fourth (top) floor, built around a messy, 'sub tropical' (according to the estate agents) courtyard garden with strange camp things like a gnome garden dedicated to the garden lady's late husband, and a bust of Princess Diana next to a model of a dinosaur. I love that when washing up, I can see other people in their kitchens. And people are friendly and cool.

My mum says it suits me because it's a bit odd. :confused: :hmm:

I love it so much that I often dance in the hallway and squeak with excitement. But then it has only been two and a half months.

Would be slightly better if Boy hadn't burnt a hole in my carpet. :mad::rolleyes:
 
tribal_princess said:
I fucking hate the flat in stokey. Spose it's not paid for with housing benefit though, I'd hate that more.
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Why would that be bad? Surely you're eligible?

milly molly said:
I love it. Plush and cosy and, possibly, the first place I've lived where I don't get the heebyjeebies ever, even after watching horror films. It's an art deco flat on the fourth (top) floor, built around a messy, 'sub tropical' (according to the estate agents) courtyard garden with strange camp things like a gnome garden dedicated to the garden lady's late husband, and a bust of Princess Diana next to a model of a dinosaur. I love that when washing up, I can see other people in their kitchens. And people are friendly and cool.
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That sounds mental :eek:
I can't really imagine it, but what I can imagine is good :cool:
 
I must say I did like my mams old flat in southend, that was rented though because it was only a temporary arrangement I would have taken over the contract, but circumstances were not permitting, the house she has now is plush, the other house that my brothers live in would be ok if they weren't blokes and bothered to keep it nice.
 
Pip said:
Why would that be bad? Surely you're eligible?



That sounds mental :eek:
I can't really imagine it, but what I can imagine is good :cool:
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It is!! I think people just add bits of tutt that they find on their travels. And some of the older people here seem to be slightly eccentric. One has wooden men with flowerpot hats stuck around their door and another has a Terracotta Army type chap solemnly guarding hers. I wish I could post pictures but my computer is rubbish. Or I am rubbish. I don't know.
 
My one-bed flat in a Victorian conversion is okay, and the rent is on the cheap side for this part of SE London. It's technically a ground floor flat, but there's a basement flat below it and since the house is built on a slope it's effectively first-floor. It's a good size, with a nice living room and bedroom, a large kitchen and a really nice bathroom with a big, comfy corner bath and a superb shower. On the other hand it can be rather airless in summer, the hallway is narrow and goes round a 180-degree bend, which makes getting big things in and out a nuisance, and it's a bit short on nooks and crannies.

It's in good condition internally - newly decorated before I moved in three years ago - but the building itself is in a dreadful state. The bedroom and bathroom windows will fall out before too long since the frames are rotten, there's a huge crack in the porch over the front door and the whole building slopes slightly downhill.

I like my flat, but I can't see myself shedding tears over leaving it, which I certainly did over my old place.
 
I felt at home here from day one, which was unexpected as I lived in my previous place for over 20 years.

We looked at about 15 houses before buying this one, and I was really disappointed when we were gazumped etc. on some of them - now I think it was for the best.

It wasn't our first choice of area (that was Crystal Palace) but this area is great and I know the Palace all too well - hence it's more of an adventure living here, as I didn't know it all that well before.
 
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