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Do you like where you live?

Kwesi

Kwesi

Sep 19, 2007
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USA; Mitchellville, Maryland
#1
Just wondering how many people on TB actually like their homes? What do you think could be done to make it better, within your means? I like my house fine and it's a junk yard. Nearly every room is trashed. Structurally it's fine but there's crap everywhere and the way the furniture is laid in some rooms is just awful.

My parents were nice enough to let me re-do my room over the summer and they let me call the shots on everything and I'm really happy with it. I'm no interior designer but I feel like there's so much that could be done around the house.
 
#2
My room is very well laid out and I like it. I also like how spacious our living room is and all the storage space in the kitchen. I just wish my roommate would clean up after himself.

As for the town I live in, I can't say I'm a huge fan. Growing up in busy cities all my life this small town thing is driving me insane.
 
#3
Great thread topic!
I just moved to where I'm at a couple of months ago.

Honestly...i still miss my old house. It was smaller, older and needed a huge amount of work and had a million things wrong with it but regardless I think that I fit better there. Where I'm at now is nice, we have a house to be proud of - nice in ground pool, bordered on one side by a huge (in NJ terms) farm field, the house itself is in great condition, the wife keeps it spotless and all, but I still haven't found my place here yet.
 
#4
I moved into my house in July of 1991 and I couldn't be happier. It's a 1000 square foot ranch, 3 bedrooms, basement with no garage but that's okay. Sits on a 50'x150' lot in a well wooded area with a lake a street over. (Lots of lakes in my area). I'd say that 90% of the other houses in my subdivision are equal to mine. People take pride in what they have and yet it's a very casual "come as you are" type of place. But then most lake areas seem to be like that.

It needs a bit of fix up here and there but it's not even close to being called "trashed."

Even if I had enough money so I would never have to work again I'd fix the place up and would stay put until God calls me.
 
#6
I used to live in an old 1900's 3 story house divided 4 into flats, with a huge garden that everyone spent summers gaming/table tennis, guitars, chillin', barbecuing, having a beer well into the hours, it was very neighbourly, nice people.

But in winter, the place was no joke, it was absolutely freezing, my girlfriend and I stuck it out for 4 tears just for the summers, woe betide it was cold no matter what you did.

Since I've moved back to my home town after 15 years in 'The City', I make the most of the scenery here, mtbing, hiking and wild camping now and again (just a sleeping bag). Drop me in a forest with a lighter, knife, fishing gut/hooks, a ball of string and a sleeping bag, and I'll be o.k for a few days.
 
#8
Skitch it! said:
I used to live in an old 1900's 3 story house divided 4 into flats, with a huge garden that everyone spent summers gaming/table tennis, guitars, chillin', barbecuing, having a beer well into the hours, it was very neighbourly, nice people.

But in winter, the place was no joke, it was absolutely freezing, my girlfriend and I stuck it out for 4 tears just for the summers, woe betide it was cold no matter what you did.

Since I've moved back to my home town after 15 years in 'The City', I make the most of the scenery here, mtbing, hiking and wild camping now and again (just a sleeping bag). Drop me in a forest with a lighter, knife, fishing gut/hooks, a ball of string and a sleeping bag, and I'll be o.k for a few days.
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No joke - in 2004, I lived in an apartment that was in a sectioned off mansion that was built in the US colonial era, maybe circa 1760's. Matter of fact, the original owners were relatives of author Clement Clark Moore ("Twas The Night Before Christmas..")
Well, the downstairs was nice but the bedrooms were a floor up and unheated save for a single fireplace. In the dead of winter I used to sleep with a raging fire going..it was actually quite neat. It did get old after a while though
 
#9
MakiSupaStar said:
I'm living in the house I grew up in. It's cool to see my son playing in what was once my room and going to the same school I went to.
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No kidding? That's awesome. A couple of years ago, the house where I grew up was for sale and I had these huge, high hopes to do the same thing - have my kids grow up in the house where I had so many great memories, etc etc. But..my wife talked some sense into me. The house was too small for all of us, the school system went to hell and the neighborhood was starting to get a little rough.. too bad :( It would have been awesome in some ways but she was 100% right.
 
#10
I'm living in 100 square feet here in my parents' house until I can save up the money for a down payment on a real place. Shouldn't be too bad for another year or two.

I'm not loving the close quarters, but it sure beats paying $1200 a month in rent to someone in order to pay their mortgage. I'd rather suck it up for a few years and pay my own mortgage.
 
#11
Relic said:
No joke - in 2004, I lived in an apartment that was in a sectioned off mansion that was built in the US colonial era, maybe circa 1760's. Matter of fact, the original owners were relatives of author Clement Clark Moore ("Twas The Night Before Christmas..")
Well, the downstairs was nice but the bedrooms were a floor up and unheated save for a single fireplace. In the dead of winter I used to sleep with a raging fire going..it was actually quite neat. It did get old after a while though
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It's good for you, for a while anyways, my old place sounds quite similar because of the age of it.

It never had any central heating fitted and the fireplaces were sealed up. We lived on the ground floor, and in the winters, you could literally 'see' your breath for however long the temperatures were down. I wouldn't change that experience though, good times, but v.cold for a few months of every year, brrrrrrrr.
 
#13
MakiSupaStar said:
I'm living in the house I grew up in. It's cool to see my son playing in what was once my room and going to the same school I went to.
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That's great man. A few years ago my brother and I got to meet the kids who currently live in our childhood home, and walk through the place with their mom. Those kids turn out to be musicians, and have some sweet gear in their rec room. It was a spectacular place to grow up, a huge old converted inn a hundred yards from the beach in an old school New England town.

I basically live in a shack now. It was barged up the Columbia when the Bonneville Dam was enlarged and the old dam workers' homes had to be moved due to flooding the old town of North Bonneville. The house and the little mill town we live in are kind of challenging, but I absolutely love the bigger picture here.
 
#15
The location is great, and so is the cost (family-owned.)

The house needs to be burned to the ground. It's an old farmhouse that was added on to and adapted to turn into a duplex. Sounds go to every room, and every room is an awkward size or shape. But good location and cost are much more important than size and noise at the moment.
 
#18
With my house, I didn't mean that it's trashed as in there are holes in the wall and mold growing everywhere, but there's just useless stuff EVERYWHERE. Our dedicated storage areas are too disorganized to actually be used so stuff goes where it can fit. It's kind of upsetting, because we could really have a nice place. Only two out of the four people in the household do any chores inside the house otherwise it would be in much better shape. I want to get my own my own place for the sole reason that I'd be able to call the shots on design, storage and decoration.
 
#19
due to circumstances, I'm living with mom right now, which is not where I wanna be, but I gotta say that living in nor-cal is nice, where ganj is plentiful, girls are beautiful, the Pacific ocean on one side and the magnificent Sierra Nevadas on the other, and we don't get annihilated with snow every winter(at least in my neck of the woods)
 
#20
A 1400s Swiss farm house, with alpine views:
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As for specifics, my room is kinda small, has posters of Star wars, LotR, Churchill, Zeppelin, GTA IV and Concorde, stacks upon stacks of LPs, a desk covered with textbooks and a bed with shelves covered in books, sports awards, CDs, a soviet cap, an Aussie helmet liner ands ome beer bottles.

So yeah, I'm fairly pleased :D
 

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