Bricks & Mortar

Where do you start compromising when you’re looking for a house? We can’t compromise on price, that’s definite. We need three bedrooms. We want a garden and off road parking and a study (so that I can “work from home” as much as possible). Do we lose out on room size in order to get the kitchen we want or swap a garden for a fantastic location? (And the garden has to face the right direction to get the best of what little sun we get up here). Should we be looking at cheaper and then doing some work to get what we want? I have also realised that privacy is an issue since the neighbours have built an extension – they are now perfectly positioned to gawp into our kitchen (where the wife now has to tell me to leave her alone as we have an audience - it is however their own fault however if they get an eye full of me in the shower, that’ll teach them to be looking).

Yesterday we saw a fantastic house, lovely location, had everything we need including the most amazing bedroom and en-suite (complete with the bed the wife’s planning on buying anyway) but the living room and study were tiny. It’s just so frustrating, especially as we are nearly in a position to be able to put in an offer on our dream home. We also need to find somewhere we are both happy with and fast because I keep driving past my current favourite and having a good look at it – I could soon be arrested for stalking!