What house will you buy?
Apr 23rd 2005, 11:45 am
#46
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Re: What house will you buy?
Originally Posted by MrsDagboy
I absolutely love the house we have now, even though its not totally original (some of it is reproduction).
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Apr 23rd 2005, 12:00 pm
#47
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Re: What house will you buy?
Originally Posted by hevs
Ours is about 30 years old and hasn't been updated at all. The extention is weatherboard and is freezing in winter and boiling in summer, but its got huge potential and has a beatiful outlook. (except the hideous kitchen and vile ensuite, i just squint when i go in there)
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. Ours is turn of the century (no, not this century, early 1900s
) , not quite as grand as the pics I posted 
, but still nice. I actually have a working bathroom downstairs now & an ensuite thats gone from an empty room to being ready to tile, am I a happy bunny or what? 
Apr 23rd 2005, 2:01 pm
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Re: What house will you buy?
Originally Posted by hevs
Old for me everytime. I would hate to be stuck on a sterile new estate in my very own mc mansion :scared:
We have a 1927 Californian bungalow, with cedar panelling, dinky little built-in cupboards, stained glass windows and fancy ceilings - more character than you can poke a stick at. Bit creaky in places but we love it.
Apr 23rd 2005, 6:08 pm
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Re: What house will you buy?
Originally Posted by nickyc
Couldn't agree more! I'd hate to live in one those '4bedrooms rumpus room pool and all mod cons much like everyone else'.
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There's no doubting that you can get an awful lot (spacewise) for your money if you buy a mansion a la macca's. But when we were looking around them, none of them felt 'homely'. We couldn't imagine actually living in any of them.
The build of the houses together with the estates that they build just somehow remind me of the feeling of the film 'Pleasantville' - nice, but souless and characterless....
Apr 23rd 2005, 6:39 pm
#50
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Re: What house will you buy?
All a matter of taste I suppose.
I want a new 4 bedder with pool.
Don't like old properties and the problems they bring.
Don't like antiques.
Don't give much of a fig for historical items.
In fact not into history much.
Guess I'm new age or new world.
Bring on my big mac.
I'll leave the DIY to you good folks.
I want a new 4 bedder with pool.
Don't like old properties and the problems they bring.
Don't like antiques.
Don't give much of a fig for historical items.
In fact not into history much.
Guess I'm new age or new world.
Bring on my big mac.
I'll leave the DIY to you good folks.
Apr 23rd 2005, 6:53 pm
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Re: What house will you buy?
Originally Posted by Bix
All a matter of taste I suppose.
I want a new 4 bedder with pool.
Don't like old properties and the problems they bring.
Don't like antiques.
Don't give much of a fig for historical items.
In fact not into history much.
Guess I'm new age or new world.
Bring on my big mac.
I'll leave the DIY to you good folks.
I want a new 4 bedder with pool.
Don't like old properties and the problems they bring.
Don't like antiques.
Don't give much of a fig for historical items.
In fact not into history much.
Guess I'm new age or new world.
Bring on my big mac.
I'll leave the DIY to you good folks.
Mine isn't exactly a McMansion though.
Apr 23rd 2005, 7:18 pm
#52
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Re: What house will you buy?
Originally Posted by Bix
Don't like antiques.
(Sorry BDB, the line was too good to pass up ) .BTW Bix, was gonna offer you a bed for the night, wouldnt want you to have to sleep in an old house though
.ABC errrrrrr *cough* depends on your definition of exactly
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Apr 23rd 2005, 9:15 pm
#53
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Re: What house will you buy?
Apr 23rd 2005, 9:56 pm
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Re: What house will you buy?
'Older' is defo better.
Ours was built 20 years ago - just after the Ash Wednesday fires.
It is at the end of a winding tree-lined avenue, from the township, with 2-3 acre properties on other side. At the last bend, it opens out in a valley and we are at the end opposite an agistment area.
It is a modest 3 bed, 2 bathroom home on 1 acre, with a pool and a good sized deck - we need to reno the pergola roof over this. There is a back yard, and a paddock and then the same amount of land again going down a slope which is covered in trees.
We probably need to reclaim some of the deck and build a 4th bedroom/study in ten years time or build up; we could build an ensuite/bedroom/reading getaway area upstairs with a veranda looking over the valley to Harkaway. If I get a telescope I might even get Hevs in the shower...
Out front we have a front garden, with room for 5 cars to park.
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Ours was built 20 years ago - just after the Ash Wednesday fires.
It is at the end of a winding tree-lined avenue, from the township, with 2-3 acre properties on other side. At the last bend, it opens out in a valley and we are at the end opposite an agistment area.
It is a modest 3 bed, 2 bathroom home on 1 acre, with a pool and a good sized deck - we need to reno the pergola roof over this. There is a back yard, and a paddock and then the same amount of land again going down a slope which is covered in trees.
We probably need to reclaim some of the deck and build a 4th bedroom/study in ten years time or build up; we could build an ensuite/bedroom/reading getaway area upstairs with a veranda looking over the valley to Harkaway. If I get a telescope I might even get Hevs in the shower...
Out front we have a front garden, with room for 5 cars to park.
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Apr 23rd 2005, 10:07 pm
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Re: What house will you buy?
Originally Posted by Grayling
At least we're consistent in our likes and dislikes.
Apr 24th 2005, 2:10 am
#56
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Re: What house will you buy?
Originally Posted by nickyc
I had feeling of deja vu as I was reading this one, knew it had all been said before.
At least we're consistent in our likes and dislikes.
At least we're consistent in our likes and dislikes.
Probably only G remembered that thread but as you say Nicky we are consistent
Apr 24th 2005, 2:35 am
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Re: What house will you buy?
Originally Posted by MrsDagboy
Errrrrr, why would you think that? Don't you like old houses? 
Apr 24th 2005, 2:40 am
#58
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Re: What house will you buy?
Good excuse
You don't work for Wrigglies by any chance ?
You don't work for Wrigglies by any chance ?
Apr 24th 2005, 2:52 am
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Re: What house will you buy?
Originally Posted by Bix
Good excuse
You don't work for Wrigglies by any chance ?
You don't work for Wrigglies by any chance ?
Apr 24th 2005, 4:12 am
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Re: What house will you buy?
Depends on who in the family you ask!!! lol
Me- 4/5 bedroom with pool and garden
Hubby 3 bedroom cheap as poss!
daughters- something big enough to have a horse or2 !!! oh and a big trampoline!
youngest son big enough to have a footie pitch!!
hoping to win the lottery before we go!! lol
...seriously hoping to have 4 bedroom to house my kids and a pool pref but will have to see when we get there!
Chris
Me- 4/5 bedroom with pool and garden
Hubby 3 bedroom cheap as poss!
daughters- something big enough to have a horse or2 !!! oh and a big trampoline!
youngest son big enough to have a footie pitch!!
hoping to win the lottery before we go!! lol
...seriously hoping to have 4 bedroom to house my kids and a pool pref but will have to see when we get there!
Chris
