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I am starting to hate my house

12 May, 2009 at 13:04 Posted on Off Topic Posts 0 6

Has anyone else fallen out of love with their house?

Our house needed a lot of work doing to it when we bought it and for that reason we got it for a good price, otherwise we could never have afforded to buy in such a nice area. We have put floors down, installed central heating, fireplace, windows, put in bog standard kitchen and bathroom, plastered walls and ceilings and basic decoration.

Fast forward and 2 babies and a drop in salary later, we can't afford to do any more to it at the moment. I don't regret buying it, but am fed up of not having a nice, finished house. It is also now getting too small for the 4 of us and I am desperate to move in to something more ideal, but it will take a lot more money to get it ready to sell and we won't be able to do that for a good few years yet. Grr. It seems like I have a never ending to do list.

I think our project house is not suited to our new lifestyle and there is not much we can do about it at the mo...it gets me down though!

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Latest activity by Max, 3 February, 2026 at 16:41
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    Beginner September 2004
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    I sympathise hugely - I'm currently living in a third-finished house - we have heating, hot water, a useable unfinished bathroom, only a couple of internal walls and one internal door. We sleep in a tent on the ground floor (not as daft as it sounds - it keeps the dust and dogs off our bed). We are in the process of rebuilding the house (it wasn't bought as a project but it turned into one after more investigative work) - the major rebuild part is done but we're going the rest ourselves, (un)paid work has taken my husband away from the DIY so there's been little progress. I do what I can but I need to be supervised ?

    I look at it this way - at least I'm warm and dry - until January this year we were living in a summer static caravan in the garden which was incredibly cold and misery-inducing! If you'd like to see some pics which will probably make you feel better, let me know ?

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    Beginner September 2008
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    I know exactly how you feel. We had been planning on buying another house, offer accepted etc. Two days before we were due to complete she took it off the market and there were no houses for sale where we wanted and we had moved out of our former house.

    We lived with H's cousin and his family for a couple of months, this house come on the market, eight doors away from the house that fell through and we just bought it because I wanted to be in my own house. Nothing had been done to it in years. The kitchen, which is really important to me was 6' x 4'8" and only had room for sink, fridge and cooker. There was 1 electric socket in the whole of upstairs.

    We built an extension, rewired, pulled down walls, skimmed everywhere etc. There isn't one thing that didn't need done. Five years later all the big things are done but due to salary all the little things aren't getting done. I would say the kitchen is the only completely finished room. Sometimes it really gets me down and to me it's just a house it will never be a home to me, which is really sad. It's just the fact that by the time X gets done Y already looks tatty.

    I think your amazing because I don't think I could have coped with two babies as well. We have been TTC I would say the house related stress hasn't helped.

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