We've been thinking of moving on and off for a few years now and actually did almost move to a bungalow about 4 years ago but it fell through in the end and we extended here to add a downstairs bedroom and bathroom for Laura. Recently I've been getting itchy feet again. I'm partly driven by a desire to have our bedroom closer to Laura whereas at the moment we are on different floors and opposite sides of the house, so monitoring her at night is very difficult and if she is iffy, I spend the night sleeping on the floor in her room which is not great.
My ideal would be a plot of land but that is almost impossible where we live and we don't want to move out of the village. Recently we saw a bungalow on the next road, down near the village centre, but it needed a lot of expansion or ideally knocking down and starting again but the plot wasn't really big enough to warrant that.
But now we have seen a house just around the corner, litrally just 2 minutes walk from our house and in a quiet cul-de-sac of just 5 houses. Mick went to see it yesterday and I went today. The plot it is on is AMAZING! It's 1/4 of an acre and on a corner plot so has garden all around it.
The house itself is only 2 bedroomed (with a small study) with them both being upstairs so it would need extending quite a lot for us but there is sooooo much room to extend without making much impact on the garden. The couple who own it have made the garden fabulous, I mean really fabulous. They get 35 different species of birds in the garden including woodpeckers and herons!
So we have told the agents we are interested and they are coming to value ours next week. Of course we need to do lots of de-cluttering and cleaning to get ours ready for the public. Today we did the study and now I can actually see my desk!! Tomorrow will be Laura's rooms. Mick will have to do the upstairs onMonday when I'm at work. Our bedroom is OK as I did it at Easter but Alex's room and study need a lot of work. I think I will have to put lots of Laura's toys in the garage. She doesn't play with many of them but we keep them just in case as from time to time she takes an interest in something different and you never know what it will be!
Of course the housing maket is in crisis at the moment or so they say, and so it's not the best time to sell but we'll see. I suspect we won't get the best price for this but should get £100k above the asking price for the other one, unless that gets into a bidding war which it might with the land, as someone might think it possible to split it like the house next door has done. Mind you that might put some people off as there is a house being built in the garden of the house next door. It doesn't bother me as it's a way off the boundary and can be screened quite easily but the access will be along the boundary. Hopefully it will put some people off!
Don't ask me what we will do until the extension is built as I have yet to figure that one out. The worst case scenario would be that Laura would have to have one of the upstairs bedrooms as there really isn't a room downstairs as it's all open plan, but hey we'll cope! Getting it is the first problem! So watch this space!
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