How old were you when you bought your first home?
Tom Flanagan
8 years ago
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Comments (22)I'm in my mid-thirties and on house 25! My partner is a few years older, and on his third. Everyone's experience is different! For me, it has to be my current house. It's smaller than every one of my previous homes, was a total wreck when I bought it, has no parking, drained my life savings, had mice, still has a to do list as long as your arm, and has been a massive pain in the b*tt. HOWEVER: it is the house my partner and I have been doing up together, and through which we bonded and got to know each other's strengths and weaknesses. It is the house where I learned to trust my own taste and honed my bargain hunting skills. It is the first place I lived in all by myself, and bought on my own, and it is where I finally learnt to be myself, be confident in myself and not worry about what other people think. It might not be perfect, it might be teenytiny, but House No.25 is my first real Home....See MoreHow do you make your home stand out?
Comments (28)Yes, but it also take a special kind of arrogance to override an architect's vision for a particular development. For example, my parents' housing estate was designed with no garden walls at the front so that the houses would seem as if they are almost in a park and there would be an expanse of green all the way along the roads. Then a few territorial types took it into their heads to build piddly little garden walls so now the road is a hodge podge of some green with a few silly walls around some gardens. There is no design consensus so the street doesn't look as good as it could look. Anarchy in design doesn't usually work. Usually it looks better when one person makes the design decisions and one, cohesive vision is expressed. For example, would you employ a different interior decorator with wildly different styles for each room in your house? It might work, but there's a greater chance it will look like the hodge-podge that it is. Would you have one dress designer make your whole dress or would you ask for pockets and collar to be cut by someone else? In some cases, a good result can come of an individual resident on a street making their own strong statement with the exterior of their house (we're not talking about subtleties such as colour of doors etc), but they are definitely the exceptions that prove the rule. I can think of many examples of tasteless 'improvements' made by individual residents to their properties (e.g. the one pictured above, frankly) and only a few good ones....See MoreHow old do you think this house is?
Comments (18)Apologies, I meant to say that the land registry information is publicly available and you've got access to it yourself, i.e. It's not only available to solicitors during the house selling process. Anyone can look any property up as long as they've got the address. As to the house' age, I couldn't hazard a guess but can tell you that our house we bought couple of years ago was built in 1923 and it was largely left unchanged (until we got our hands on it ha!), I've attached a photo below for reference x...See MoreIn your opinion, what is the FIRST priority when decorating a new home
Comments (12)I think priorities depend on the property & your situation, e.g, children or not. With our last property (previously owned by 4 single men in their twenties) the bathroom was an absolute priority. There was no way I was going to use that bathroom with shagpile carpet! The kitchen was also a top priority - the cabinet doors had been painted with textured matt paint & I wouldn’t like to guess what was splattered all over them! The oven also went out the door on our first day! In our current house, (we now have children) we’ve completely renovated with rooms being relocated but bathroom (carpet tiles) & kitchen had mini makeovers to keep us going. However, our main priority was our children’s bedrooms. Our own bedroom has never been priority - we’ve always sorted living areas first....See MoreRoxane Romero
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