Do you love your home?

There's nowhere quite as good as home. I downsized to a flat 20 years ago. I've thought about moving to be nearer my DD but I would find it hard to go. I have lovely views from every window and would find that difficult to replace unless I could pay a lot more than I have. All the neighbours moved in together so I know them very well and are there in times of trouble.
My home is a bit shabby and needs a makeover but I'm comfortable so don't do much about it.

We have moved house many times UtbB, I don’t form attachments to the bricks and mortar but always love to come home to the precious and familiar things that make it home wherever that may be.
Warm, cosy, comfortable and memories in our hearts.
🎶wherever I hang my hat that’s my home🎶

I too love my home. We have lived here for 44 years. We have done quite a bit mmit, but it needs more doing which won't be done by us. When we sell it will be stripped bare and renovated. Maybe into 2 small flats as it is a town centre house and offices and houses are being converted into flats.
It has served us very well. I need help with the garden now. It needs decorating, but I still love living here. Its 150 years old. Always feels a welcoming house. No spooks.

I love my home. I downsized to it nearly 8 years ago and every day I am content I made the right decision. It's a small bungalow with an even smaller garden but it's homely and filled with my things.

Yes!

We downsized nearly two years ago and both love the home we have now.

That’s a lovely sentiment, UTBB. ❤️

I love coming home. I don’t love this house as much as our previous one, although I love the current garden more.

Surprisingly to me, I think back very infrequently to our last home of 25 years standing and don’t miss it as such. I knew it was time to move and it would now be a burden to us. I don’t miss fretting about oil prices and power cuts, the lack of services and the difficult, steep garden.

I love going home to our cats, too. We hesitated about getting another after our previous one died, but it truly was the best thing ever. We now have two and they make our house our home. 🏡

Yes, I do. It's been in our family for several generations now and I've never lived anywhere else. If I'm being honest, it's getting a bit too much for us now, especially the garden - which is massive, but I don't know how I'd feel about downsizing. I think I'd have to move to another area, as I genuinely don't think I'd like to see someone else living here.

Yes, I wish I didn't love it so much as OH thinks we should downsize and would like to live nearer our daughter whereas I struggle to even imagine living anywhere else! We sold it subject to contract in 2022 but couldn't find anywhere we both liked so took it off the market and I was so relieved!

Thank you all for your responses.
I feel so good about our mutual feelings.

Yes. Same as you op.

Oddly, I do.
Why oddly? Because there’s nothing special about this house, I’ve lived in character cottages and Edwardian terraces , both styles of architecture I infinitely prefer to late 20th century, but it’s where DH and I spent the last 20 years and I feel it’s “me” - not pretentious, quiet, traditional, quite private, being down a drive set back from the road and just, well, comfortable.
I still watch “Escape to the Country” ( I live in the country) and enjoy poking my nose into Rightmove, but it’s just window shopping now.
It’s good to be contented with what one has. If only more people stopped always striving for bigger, brighter, smarter or trendier!

12 years ago we knew we had to move from a 2 nd floor apartment in a lovely converted Edwardian house.
We had the whole top floor which was once the servants quarters. Views of the Estuary from 2 aspects.
But no lift.
We loved the first bungalow we viewed but we’re out bid.
The second one, same again.
Then this one came along and I absolutely love it❤️
Everything had to be done.
Bathrooms, kitchen, windows, boiler moved from the lounge to the loft: don’t ask 😂
Semi detached so all external walls were insulated.
Fortunately we love doaupper. We ( with a little help from friend) when I couldn’t lift some stuff did it all.
Not only do I love our home but I love our neighbours ❤️

I love my home but it is the contents and the memories that I love. Also the fact that family are all near and it’s a very nice small town.
I would be quite happy to move if I could have all that but with a better view.

Yes I love our home. Not enough space, not enough rooms for visitors, not enough quiet (noisy neighbours and traffic) but it's ours! I am content and happy and love coming home x

I too love my home.

We have lived here for over 20 years, and it’s the first home just DH and I have been in.

When we married nearly 54 years ago, we lived with my mum as she had been recently and suddenly widowed, she would have had to sell up and move somewhere smaller.

It helped us both financially, and by the time we had our two children, both sides were ready to move on.

So we always had the children then.

By the time they had both left home, we then moved into our retirement home (this bungalow) and I love it just being us two, finally.

My house is red brick and was about 6 years old when I bought it mid 90's. I like modern and is "moveinable" but I do not intend to visit the angels just yer.

I would like to be closer to public transport now I am without a car. The front garden preferably to be 3/4 of its size, but I pay to get the grass cut.

I live about 5 miles from Heathrow, not on a flight path and there isn't a sound here, it is like living in the country. I am content.

I’m not attached to the bricks and mortar either and this house (33years old, bought new) has seen some sadness. DD2 had her stroke here and DH died here.
However, it’s a good house, with good neighbours and I can afford to live here, even though it’s far too big for me. Unfortunately, there are no amenities within walking distance and the bus stop is far from convenient, so I’d really like to be able to pick it up, lock-stock, and plonk it down somewhere else.

Me too ViceVersa. I would have to move away. The town has too many memories and I couldnt bear to pass our house belonging to someone else. But while I am here I do lovd it. The sun is pouring into the kitchen through french windows which is a delight.

Yes, UTTBB, I love my little maisonette and am never more content than when I’m home with my things around me.

When we were raising our four children we were lucky enough to live in a lovely villa with seven bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms and a swimming pool overlooking the Med.

When we sold it after 27 years we also sold our restaurant and moved to a more central area on the island.

We had a 500 year old house which was originally a farmhouse that had been renovated. Still spacious but not as big as the villa.

When DH sadly died nearly 11 years ago, I decided I couldn’t bear to rattle around in it on my own. It had a lot of stairs and was a lot of work so I sold it and found my current place which was a new build and took a while to finish as it needed a kitchen and doors amongst other things.

It is small although I still have three bedrooms so room for visitors, all on one level which makes it very easy to keep clean, no garden but enough outdoor space to have some planters to brighten it up a bit and to sit out. Best of all I’m within walking distance of most amenities so don’t need to drive too often.

I still have lovely memories made from our previous homes, we had space when we needed it and now this suits me and I wouldn’t want to move anywhere else.

I do. My house feels as if it has a protective and sympathetic personality. If I were to win a huge prize and be able to buy an ideal house I would hold back because I'd be homesick for my house that has protected me and sheltered me for decades.

Yes I do. We moved here 34 years ago, our girls grew up here. They live near with their families.
It’s an ordinary extended fifties semi, so decent size, garden in a mix of older and newer houses.
Library, supermarket, vet nearby oh yes and bus stop

I love my home. It's in greater London, its small and its mine. It needs things done to it, it's been decorated, kitchen and bathroom, but with everyday living it could do with being done again. I am in no rush its warm, clean and cosy.

Yes, I do. It suits us as it isn’t too big nor too small. The garden is manageable and we are lucky to have amenities nearby, plus a bus stop only yards away.
We are blessed with nice neighbours, too, which is a huge plus.