Anyhow, we are thinking, thinking, thinking and it's doing my poor head in a bit as you can tell.
So, in the midst of all this - I'm curious - what made you buy your home eg. was it:
1. mostly practical stuff like the location/floorplan/number of bedrooms etc.?
2. how much did your emotional response factor eg. did you fall in love with a particular room or the house in general because it felt homely? Did you start picture yourself living there and did that make you bid/offer a bit more than you'd originally intended because you then couldn't imagine living somewhere else and didn't want to miss out?
We were looking because we had a horrible landlord, but what made us buy this particular house was the size of the block - 1024 sqm for $287k. We've just signed contracts to subdivide and build our own house out the back, and then rent out the one we're currently in.
Also, I fell in love with the deep purple colour on the walls - I know, not very grown up!!
A combination of factors but the biggest "Selling" point for me was the playroom - that alone sold me the house and as soon as I saw it I feel in love with it. It was a big sunny room with a feature wall of bright yellow (sounds horrible but was actually so cheery), looking out over the back garden with white french doors leading into the playroom from the main living area.
It is still my fave room of the house altho now we have painted it a slighly more muted lemony colour. It is right near my kitchen/living area so I can keep an eye on the kids and I love opening all the blinds and looking outside.
In relation to the rest of the house, size wise it worked for us on a good sized block backing onto bushland. Location wasnt our "top" suburb intitially but realistically we couldnt afford that suburb! It is still a great suburb, 20 mins from CBD of Perth, 5 mins from the beaches and 10 mins from Fremantle which we love. Also within 10 mins of all our folks too.
So I suppose in the end it was our ideal location when I look at the above factors!
But in answer to the original question, I fell in love with the playroom first and then the rest of the house.
a) Location ie. 5 minutes walk from the train and b) I have to have a house that "feels" light and bright. I inspected it on a frosty winter morning but it still felt warm and bright. so very much a bit of both.
My reason was price and potential. My house was a deceased estate that needed ALOT of tlc - it only cost me $45000, and is now worth about 5 times that in 7 years. So I am well pleased! It was my first home so suited me as a 'set me up for the future house'. I wasn't fussy about whether it was the biggest or nicest, just a solid home with potential.
The 'feel' of it. My specs were three bedrooms and no work to do- I wanted it ready to move in straight away with no repairs.
This house just felt so peaceful and warm- like a real family home. Having said that, we were'nt planning on having kids straight away like we did, so we are not so fond of the concrete backyard as we were when we bought it (No lawn to mow? Awesome! Scraped knees/hands/head- not so good).
We were mainly practical, we wanted 3 bedrooms and 2 living areas. We only inspected our house for 5 minutes, decided it was too nice for us to be able to afford (we'd been looking at some real "renovator's delights" to suit our budget and this house looked awesome compared to them and in a better location). We went ahead and made an offer we didn't think they would take, walked away and didn't think about it again LOL! We knew we were dreaming and moved our thoughts to an auction we were going to bid on the next day. But we were fortunate that the owner was desperate to sell (the house had already been passed in a month before for $30,000 less than what we offered) and we got a call the next morning saying he would take our offer! Talk about lucky!
We actually had to think about what the house looked like inside, etc LOL. But we've been so happy here and had no regrets .
We bought THIS house because it was about all we could afford in canberra at the time. It is by no means my dream home, but it does the job and has actually been a good investment as property values have now risen significantly in the short time we have actually owned the property (about 25% in two years). It was not an easy decision, I talked DH in and out of buying it several times before we signed contracts.
Actually, when I think about it, I almost didn't even go in to look at the house we bought. I pulled up out the front and my first thought was "Yuck! I'm not living there!! It's purple!" But the purpleness has grown on me and it makes it very easy for people to find
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It is still a great suburb, 20 mins from CBD of Perth, 5 mins from the beaches and 10 mins from Fremantle which we love. Also within 10 mins of all our folks too.
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