The House of your dreams

Nightsky we were tempted by a fisherman's cottage at Padstow over 50 years ago (really cheap then) but were saving up for a sensible house near where we worked and couldn't afford both!

If I knew then what I know now .....

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GagaJo

I love very futuristic houses with huge windows and angular square lines.

I grew up in a house with huge windows and have always loved a house with a lot of natural light. With a family of artists behind me, I'm drawn to minimalism and clean lines. Can't bear clutter!

Me too.

Well I do love hugh windows and natural light but clutter.......I’m not the tidiest of people and I actually do like a bit of clutter.

On one level with a view of the sea but not near an eroding cliff.

And large, self-cleaning windows.

GagaJo

I love very futuristic houses with huge windows and angular square lines.

I grew up in a house with huge windows and have always loved a house with a lot of natural light. With a family of artists behind me, I'm drawn to minimalism and clean lines. Can't bear clutter!

Me too.

I love very futuristic houses with huge windows and angular square lines.

I grew up in a house with huge windows and have always loved a house with a lot of natural light. With a family of artists behind me, I'm drawn to minimalism and clean lines. Can't bear clutter!

We’ve got a nice beach house we share with one of our daughters and her family. It has lovely sea views and is a 2 minute walk from a pretty (usually deserted) beach. I couldn’t live there permanently though because it is pretty isolated and the shops are 20 minutes away by car. A few people are permanents but there is no hospital anywhere near and the medical services are non existent. Fine when you are young but as you get older you have to think of these things. We have the odd visitor

henetha

A bungalow with a sea view in Babbacombe, Torquay.
Just a small courtyard garden with complete privacy.
And a small holiday home in France please..

We don't quite match that, but DW Ashcombe has a nice flat in Babbacombe, 5 mins from the sea view, and I have a ramshackle 1850 cottage, set in an acre, in rural France. And prior to Covid we spent most of the year together in one or other property!

I know exactly what I would like and where. I would like to build and design my own house on a plot of land overlooking Polzeath beach. I wish we had done that 16 years ago when it was possible instead we bought a house further up the road with no sea views which we sold 2 years ago.

The wonderful walks from Polzeath to Daymer Bay and from Daymer Bay to Rock where Gorden Ramsey has that house.

Then get on the ferry over to Padstow where we would sit and enjoy a delicious Cornish Pasty with the dogs. Those were the days, sadly we can’t do that kind of walking any more but I love being around people so would just love to sit and watch the surfers from my lovely new house. I’m going to start drawing it now!. There would of course be a swimming pool.

I have never really had a dream house but have especially loved a couple of our houses.

I had to work hard to get dh to look at this house but we have lived here 30 years and have no intention of ever leaving. It was the village Board School, built in 1872! It is quirky with all sorts of inconveniences but we all love it. Coincidentally, 2 of our 'in-laws' came to school here.

The house is big enough for however many people descend but not too big for the 2 of us on our own.

Our village, while not pretty, is quite big but friendly, lively and interesting.

Love it!

It is lovely where you are Glamm. It's nice to sit in your back garden listening to the birds because of the trees you have there.
I'll be popping along when it's permissible and we have the decent weather to sit out.

We're lucky having the beach on the doorstep and the park of course and getting there is fine----but it's a bit steep coming back

I love architecture (not that I know anything about it!) especially Georgian. So would love a huge detached manor house, set in large manicured gardens, with the sea nearby (don't want much do I?!). Other than that, there is a beautiful manor house in my Mum's small, rural Italian village. It's surrounded by a sandstone wall and huge wrought iron gates. As a small child, I used to gaze through the gates at it with wonder, as I had never seen such a large house ? Would love to see the interior.

Urmstongran and fellow gang members
That will suit me fine, my needs are fairly basic these days, looking forward to it already.

The bungalow I live in now is the best move we have ever made it is beautiful,easy walking distance to the beach transport and independent shops at the top of a cul-de-sac of just 8 bungalows all with their own gardens,just one bedroom which suits me fine as I dont have room to have people staying overnight,not that I'm adverse to visitors but I feel after 30+ years of living in a big family house I can now say sorry there is no room at the inn.

Yes, you can join our gang of beach bums Sarah1954. We shan’t have many standards - certainly no dressing for dinner. Just pretty pink pedicures and lots of scented moisturiser in an evening.

PS forgot to say that of course if I could walk to a beach as I did when I was a child and stayed with my Aunt and Uncle then something modern I think, for a change.
My BIL had a straw bale home, took ages to get a mortgage on it and was a nightmare to sell, mostly due to Mortgage restrictions. Bit they lived in a hot climate and it was always cold inside, they had to have a fire in the evenings and in the Winter.

fatgran I will see what I can do, but I haven't done photos before and today is chaos for a varety of reasons, but I will do my best,

A modern open plan bungalow right on the beach as they have in Australia!

Urmstongran and others
Absolute paradise, may I come and live there as well, I can’t swim, but I enjoy a paddle.

We’ve had so many varied homes, semis, huge detatched where we didn’t know where any one was at any time, 400 yr old thatched with the roses around the door and now a downsized bungalow, if I could see the sea even from a distance I probably wouldn’t have moved so many times. Took me a long time to realise it was the County that was the problem not the homes.
So if we can’t move closer to the coast we still stay here, as DH loves it and DD has moved back from Devon ‘to be near us’......

We are building it in Cornwall !

The bungalow I have now but with a bit of land for chickens. Oh and I’d love a utility room ?

I've also, since about 1976, been hankering after a straw bale house. I've got lots of info but not enough space to even build a straw-bale garage here...

We were "talked out" of a house if exactly that value by my father in law too fiorentina51.

It would have been perfect.

My parents built their own house as it was (in those days) much cheaper than renting or buying a built house. It was their home for nearly their lifetime.

It depends where it it.

A beautiful masseria with a fabulous pool and lots of (maintained) garden so I can enjoy the warmth of the evening sun without thinking I need to be gardening. This would need to be in the Apulian countryside, south of Lecce.

A contemporary, architect designed ecologically built home on the Galway coast. This needs big picture windows looking out West.

The beautifully converted watermill deep in a wooded valley with a large workshop. The sort of mill you might find in Wales.

Then there's the city pied a terre. Nicely appointed with a little private garden. I expect I'd need several of these!!

...And then I'd need the means to get to them all in a sort-of "beam me up Scotty" kind of way. I can't quite believe I'm saying all this as I'm actually very pro green homes and anti flying.

Aah well. Dreams are just dreams.

I realised I went a bit off track, still half asleep.
My dream home would be the one my OH nearly bought before FIL made his offer.
It was a 2 up 2 down 18th century cottage set in 4 acres with a large pond and an orchard at the front. Built in a small clearing in the Wyre Forest in Worcestershire. House needed work but the location was stunning. Between us, we had saved just enough to buy it outright, selling for £3500.
Saw it recently and it was almost unrecognisable as it had a serious makeover and the land had been tamed. The orchard had been removed and a swimming pool installed.