Do you like your flat / house?

[phildwyer]

Oh Phil, you're so ghetto!

It's more a matter of being stingy really. Also I'm only there about 3 months a year. But I must admit it keeps life interesting.

 

[Sadken]

Pip and Stalker - I'm a black belt in incompetence and have no patience for fiddly stuff. I'd be worried I would kill someone.

 

[internetstalker]

Pip and Stalker - I'm a black belt in incompetence and have no patience for fiddly stuff. I'd be worried I would kill someone.

honestly it's that easy!

 

[moonsi til]

I like my flat but would ideally love to live in a house with a garden.

My flat is in a quiet area overlooking a conservation area and when going to sleep at night it's to the sound of owls tooting which I love. I have also just done my bathroom and painted the walls purple which is making me grin everytime I go in there.

 

[Numbers]

I love our house. Far from massive, small quaint rooms upstairs apart from the bathroom which is massive, proper proper bathroom, prob' the best bathroom in any house I've lived, and we have a lovely front/main room which is 2 knocked into 1, then our kitchen leads to the garden.

Shit area, but once in the house it's brilliant, imo. Not where I'm going to live tho', another 5 years max.

 

[Badgers]

I like your pad too Numbers
So nice I fell asleep, or was that the night before?

 

[Bomber]

I love my house. Its paid for , it has fields front & back, its Old, its cosy .... but ... once my son leaves the nest i will be too big for the two of us and i would love to be near the sea. It would be sad to leave though , we've been here 28 years !!!

 

[Epona]

God, I'm so jealous. By one bedroom standards everything here is big, but I still haven't got room in my kitchen for a table, and I'm pushed for wardrobe space because I insist on a pretty French ting rather than a massive Ikea wardrobe. What I wouldn't give for that box room

I am spoilt for storage here - it's the main redeeming feature of modern (ie within the last 40 years) planned social housing builds over older conversions - plans often incorporated great storage space. I plan to turn that box room into a walk-in wardrobe/dressing room type affair when I get around to it (I could even put a doorway in direct to our bedroom if I wanted), which will mean no need for wardrobe/dresser type furniture in the main bedroom. I'm not short of space in there, but once I've sorted that out I will have room for a small sofa or some seating in the bedroom as a quiet reading space instead of wardrobes and drawers. I was quite tempted for a while to try to turn it into a darkroom, but there's no possibility of ventilation so that was scuppered. Would make a good small study/home office with appropriate lighting though.

 

[tufty79]

aaaaah i've just finished blitzing the kitchen - just the floor to mop tomorrow.
the previous tenant appears to have never even considered cleaning the oven. and there was thick grease all over the stainless steel stuff that's been left for me. i have a juicer

the 'spare' room's shaping up ok too..

i brave the bathroom tomorrow

(forgot to bring sponges, innit? got bleach as a housewarming gift )

 

[teuchter]

I live in a big old ramshackle 3-storey 6 bedroom Victorian terrace. It's falling apart a little and freezing in the winter but it's great and it makes for a happy household. And pretty cheap. And I like our street. I think it's one of the few houses of this size left in Brixton that haven't been subdivided into flats. I find it really sad to see these big old houses split up into poky flats.

After four and a bit years here, our landlord has given us our notice.

He is probably going to divide it into three flats.

Oh well.

 

[Badgers]

It is cluttered but I can't blame the flat for my mess

 

[braindancer]

I loved my flat when I lived in it by myself... but in the last four years it has been invaded... first by my girlfriend and her cat and then by our two twin daughters.

My once one-bedroom bachelor pad struggles with it's new role as family home and the strain of living in such a small space can sometimes get too much.

We need a house! With stairs and bedrooms and shit!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Answer = NO

I missed this thread and just started a new one. Many apologies.

Great minds and all that

 

[feyr]

nope. its pokey and falling apart. no double glazing, rotting window frames and a rubbish tiny boiler means its freezing most of the year. there are 2 old dead boilers hidden in random cupboards which are a bit annoying. rooms are an ok if a little small size but there are big ( 5 inch) gaps at the top of most internal doors so its noisy , with little privacy.at the moment, we've patched them up with cardboard and towels, but really need to sort out something more effective soon. the kitchen is tiny, the living room is small but ok. its 2 semi's knocked through to make one 7 bedroom house, with 1 bathroom (tiny with a ancient bath that is stained and rough), and 1 toilet upstairs, and 1 toilet but no sink downstairs. there is currently a hole in the kitchen ceiling from where water was coming through from the bathroom. mr feyr , the kids and i occupy 4 of the bedrooms ( me and he in 1, feyr jnr and boy twins in 1, feyrette in 1,girl twins and feyror in the last) , a nice lady and her 6 year old occupy 2, and a strange but kind Finnish man is in the last. its rented to us by our employer so rent is cheap for the area but rising steadily. the kids rooms need a lick of paint but are otherwise ok, our room needs a good clean, more storage , like a wardrobe would be good instead of a broken clothes rail and it still looks like a student/teenager bedroom as we have lots of clutter, junk,dvds, cooking bits and bobs etc around

am planning to get rid of some of the clutter by easter, and am taking on lots of extra hours at work to save up to buy a wardrobe and some paint

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Do it. I keep meaning to start a home pics thread

Ok so we are almost done. Just got to hang the book shelves, some pictures and some ceiling lamps.

Sorry for massiveness.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

No photos of the roof terrace, cos it's pissing down dark and cold.

Down the stairs goes straight into the kitchen and there are two bedrooms down there too but they are a right mess currently as the water has been off all weekend and they are full of clothes drying.

 

[Purdie]

I hate it but I love it. Just lived here a year now, it's a 200-year old farmhouse that needs a lot of work doing to it. Drive needs relaying and also the roof needs insulating but the landlord has said he will provide materials if we do the work ourself. It helps that my man is a builder There is no double glazing, place was infested with flies last summer not to mention the mosquitos. None of the walls are straight and there is no window in the bathroom. On the good side ... it's very rural, no traffic buzz in the background and no neighbours to speak of. We've signed a 3-year contract. If we can sit it out for 20 years we can retire to social housing.