Not happy with our house
This is probably a bit of a first world problem, not very important in the grand scheme of things and I maybe sound entitled but I just need to get it off my chest somewhere.
My husband and I bought our house in 2020 when we didn't have any kids. Fast forward to now we have two children, a boy and a girl.
The house has 3 bedrooms but all of them are small. Our bedroom barely fits out double bed. Like the roo. Is basically our bed, two side tables and that's it. There is about 5ft of space at the bottom of the bed and 3ft either side. There is a small built in wardrobe.
I don't like that both kids rooms are at the front of the house where we get most street noise.
My sons room is narrow, but overall fine. He also has a small built in wardrobe.
Our daughters room is a box room, a single bed fills it almost entirely. There is a small box cupboard thing above where the stairs come up, which we need to use for towels and linens as we have nowhere else to store it, so she has barely any room to put anything. I have no idea where we will store her clothes as she grows (currently still a baby and sleeping in our bedroom)
The entirety of upstairs, but particularly my sons room is SO creaky. Like not just a little creak, I mean large, sudden cracks in the floorboards. I've been nagging my husband forever to get someone to look at it but it's never happened. It's so loud.
Our kitchen and bathroom were fitted by the previous owners, themselves, no hired professionals. They look fine at first but when you look closer it's a mess. The wiring in the kitchen was a mess too and my husband had to redo it all. He also had to replace our toilet and replace piping under the shower.
We've had piping under the floorboards burst and leak into our kitchen below, ruining the ceiling.
The extractor fans in the kitchen and bathroom have both stopped working within a year of us living here.
The garden is nice but they installed mono-block all the way round the driveway and front with no drainage, so on particularly bad rain days it pools at the garage door and round the side gate.
We've had issues with the roof, roof tiles coming away and holes being exposed birds nesting in our loft causing an absolute racket and mess.
As first time buyers we were quite naive. We saw a nice house and thought it would just be cosmetic things. But now living here for 6 years I'm just so annoyed by it. There is no space, no storage, constant niggly little problems and I'm starting to regret buying it.
But I feel like if I bring it up to my husband he'll think I'm mad. There's no way he'd consider moving. Plus our son will be starting school nearby in September so it wouldn't make sense to leave the area.
I've secretly been looking though, and researching if it would be possible to port our mortgage and what the costs would be to move. I have no idea about any of this stuff though. I just had to moan because from the outside everyone would think I'm being ridiculous but I'm just sick of feeling like I can't breathe in this house.
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Im in the same exact situation. We cant afford to move unfortunately
Other issues are my husband WFH most days of the week, LGs bedroom was his office but once she moves into there he won't have a workspace (is on calls all the time, so needs somewhere he can close the door and have quiet) our bedroom isn't big enough for even a small desk.
We've had to have plugs replaced as they were sparking??
There's a weird smell occasionally and I cannot source it no matter what I do. Its only sometimes, but I can't figure out what's causing it. I thought it was the fault plugs but they've been fixed. It's not gas. We don't have mould, visibly anyways. I cannot for the life of me figure it out and its stresses me out. It just appears maybe once every week or two, but goes away when I air the house out.
We don't have a full sized fridge. We just have a small under the counter one. God knows why they didn't have one put in when they redid the kitchen.
I don't like my house I bought in 2020 either but I'm happy we bought it because we couldn't afford to live in the current economy if we hadn't. So I'm trying to make it what I like
Also in the exact same position, I fully regret it and we can’t afford to move.
I would have started the process of moving before having children. You can usually picture if your family can fit in the space you have or not. I had my oldest daughter when I met my now spouse and he already bought his 2 bedroom house before we met. It worked for us until we had our 2nd and I tried convincing him we would need a bigger home but he insisted that it would work for a few more years. Once that baby came it sure snapped into him that we needed a upgrade lmao 😂 we moved when my 2nd baby was 5 months old to a 4 bedroom 2 bath bungalow so we had plenty of space to grow and we had our latest child a week shy of living in our house for a year
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