Items Tagged With decorating

I've got to be honest and say that I write much of this with tongue firmly in cheek as our house was a bungalow that had four extra bedrooms, an extra bathoom, large conservatory and very extensive garden works, all done before we moved in 15 years ago. It is certainly not in the best of areas.

However, it is the house that my father built with his own hands for my grandfather, I was born literally across the road in a nursing home and my great-grandfather had a house at the bottom of the road that was probably the best for miles around (it was subsequently torn down by hungry developers for the land). I also have no long term intentions of moving

There are many reasons why we choose a particular house to be our new home. Some are practical, but in truth it is the emotional ones that have an overriding influence:

• A new job requires a move to a new area
  
  
• Your relations, or your partner's relations, live in a particular area
  
  
• One area has better job prospects than another
  
  
• You need to move to cope with a growing family
  
  
• You want to "trade up" (or "trade down") to a different house, or area
  
  
• You want to retire
  
  
• You want a change