The Dwelling You Call Home

JupiterKid · 26-09-2015 07:28PM #1

Given the recent talk of a new housing crisis emerging, what type of abode do you call home? A grand manor or a shoebox bedsit?

Do you share with others or live alone? Still live with your parents?

Are you happy where you are? Plan on moving soon?

I myself live in a 2 bedroom ground floor apartment built in the 1970s in the inner suburbs of Dublin. I live alone. I'm pretty happy here. Plan on moving to a 2 or 3 bed terraced house in the next couple of years.

fuerte1976 · 26-09-2015 07:33PM

Live with the wifey & our 2 precious (sometimes challenging) children in a semi detached on verge of dingle peninsula. Not far from town for her, not far from beach for me. It's not too much off what we wanted..

** oh and the Mongrel..

Dial Hard · 26-09-2015 07:37PM

Rent a 3-bed detatched house in Firhouse with my sister.

I actually bought around the corner from my folks with my other sister when I was 23. She bought me out when I moved in with my ex. Spent six years commuting from Tullow to Dublin daily, then left him in our house when we split. 33 now and can't see myself ever being in a position to buy again. Not sure I'd even want to, tbh. Happy enough now, apart from the fact that I always seem to do about 90% of the housework.

hairyslug · 26-09-2015 07:38PM

With the wife and 3 kids, currently in my parents old house, our house is just to small for us (2 bed bungalow) so we are in the process of moving out to a more "rural" area where we can get so much more for our money

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 26-09-2015 07:39PM

In a new house in a new estate, sharing with one other person.

Tis' grand.

junospider · 26-09-2015 07:42PM

Live with wife,kids and dogs,house was built in 1800.
Cool in summer,cooler in winter.

Ruu · 26-09-2015 07:46PM

Want to downsize, just two of us, no kids and no plans for any. Looking into building a tiny house or some other living.

Medusa22 · 26-09-2015 07:47PM

Live in a 2 bed ground floor apartment with my OH in Cork, the apartment is about ten years old. I like the apartment and it's grand except for the kids staring in the windows at me all the time, they drive me mad, can't just get out of the shower and walk around in the nip without showing my arse to half the neighbourhood. It's ok though, I send my cat to spy on their parents when they're having sex

26-09-2015 07:54PM

In a bungalow near Athlone with wife and kids, started building it 10 years ago and moved in 9 years ago and finished the house next year.

LoonyLovegood · 26-09-2015 07:56PM

Share a semi detached house with a nurse. It's grand, but I can't see myself staying here forever. Hopefully I'll be able to rent something better in a couple of years, but I don't ever want to leave Galway or the surrounds.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 26-09-2015 07:57PM

4 bedroom bungalow on a couple of acres. Built myself in 1970. Just my wife and I left now, as the kids are all grown up. But plenty of sleepovers by grandchildren. Perfectly happy here; it has always been a happy home.
It's not a big house but it has served us well.

No intentions of moving.

Badly Drunk Boy · 26-09-2015 07:58PM

I live in the house I grew up in, which is about 2 years older than me. When I was 24 (eighteen years ago), my parents decided to move, so rather than moving my stuff out, I bought the house. I've been living here by myself all that time, with 2 years left on my mortgage.

No plans on ever moving...

fuerte1976 · 26-09-2015 08:05PM

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I live in the house I grew up in, which is about 2 years older than me. When I was 24 (eighteen years ago), my parents decided to move, so rather than moving my stuff out, I bought the house. I've been living here by myself all that time, with 2 years left on my mortgage.

No plans on ever moving...

You couldn't move….

the dark phantom · 26-09-2015 08:09PM

3 story new build Living on my own, Teenage son and step son stay over.

Badly Drunk Boy · 26-09-2015 08:10PM

I could have moved but I wanted a place of my own, and the way I did it was handy. Plus no new neighbours to get used to...

Sir Osis of Liver. · 26-09-2015 08:18PM

4 bed semi built in 1976.
Just got a new condenser gas boiler installed and the walls pumped.

Winter eh...bring it on.

Subcomandante Marcos · 26-09-2015 08:20PM

I live by myself in a 2 bed, 2nd floor apartment built in the earl 00's. My spare room is well used between visiting family and friends, I enjoy living alone but having guests now and then.

26-09-2015 08:26PM

Tiny second storey 1 bed apartment, suits me perfectly and is a perk of my job. I stroll the 5 minutes to work across landscaped gardens populated with squirrels. Sadly, I have to move on soon.

JTL · 26-09-2015 08:29PM

Dublin city centre apartment.

Share with one other guy.. Don't want to but necessary due to cost.

Hoping to get on the property ladder in next few years but Dublin house prices are very off putting.

The Backwards Man · 26-09-2015 08:36PM

I live in a renovated 1940s farmhouse, five bedrooms, three ensuite, main bathroom and bathroom at back door, living room, kitchen/dining area and the milkroom serves as a laundry room. Also have a large garage, two large turf sheds, a barn which is converted to a recreations area, large vegetable garden, small orchard (four apple trees, three pear trees and a few gooseberry and blackcurrant bushes), three lawns and room for a pony. Just me and the dog here.

26-09-2015 08:37PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I live in a renovated 1940s farmhouse, five bedrooms, three ensuite, main bathroom and bathroom at back door, living room, kitchen/dining area and the milkroom serves as a laundry room. Also have a large garage, two large turf sheds, a barn which is converted to a recreations area, large vegetable garden, small orchard, three lawns and room for a pony. Just me and the dog here.

So, so, so jealous.

Supercell · 26-09-2015 08:38PM

3 bed bungalow, 10 minute walk to work. Grew up nearby so family live close. House built in the 80's so not properly insulated, but apart from that happy enough. Wife and two kiddies here and another one the way in a few weeks..can see us needing to move a bit further out to get a bigger place in a few years.

knucklehead6 · 26-09-2015 08:38PM

4 bed semi d. I rent out one of the rooms to a lad who's never here at the weekend.

Then it's just me and my two mutts.

I'll be carried out of here on my back, either in a stretcher or a box

The Backwards Man · 26-09-2015 08:40PM

Candie wrote: »

So, so, so jealous.

Don't be, it's grand to look at and all, but you have to be working at things all the time to keep them halfway in shape.

26-09-2015 08:41PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Don't be, it's grand to look at and all, but you have to be working at things all the time to keep them halfway in shape.

I suppose the upside of my tiny place is being able to clean it from top to bottom in little more than an hour.

fits · 26-09-2015 08:43PM

Rent two properties. A renovated farmhouse in ireland. Wake up looking out at stone walls and cows. Its a lovely house. A 1950s two bed apartment in finland with a sauna and bike/ski/furniture storage and laundry room in the basement.

Gonna build a small energy efficient house shortly.

Toots · 26-09-2015 09:28PM

1 bed apartment in south Dublin with my husband, our 4 year old son and our 2 dogs. Obviously we need something bigger, but seeing as we bought in 2006 the negative equity is eye watering so buying another place is out. Also I'd say we'd have difficulty renting with a kid and 2 mad hounds! It's not ideal, what with the 3 of us sharing a room, but we've laid out our furniture to maximise the space, and it works for us. We're 10 mins away from both our families, so we love the area. It'll be a long time before we'll be in a position to move, so we just embrace what we have.

The_Valeyard · 26-09-2015 09:33PM

I live in a blue box. But it's bigger on the inside.

Liam McPoyle · 26-09-2015 09:38PM

2 bed, 2 stoey duplex that my wife owns in west county Dublin.

Nice area, no kids as yet but all going well that will change in the next 12 months or so.

Would love to have a bigger place, ideally detached with a nice garden but prices in the areas we like are massively prohibitive.

My parents own a farm so I could get a site and build the dream house for a fraction of what it would cost to buy but its about 90 minutes from Dublin and with both of our jobs it would likely mean commuting.

No major panic on us yet though.

Grueller · 26-09-2015 10:15PM

Me the wife two kids one dog in a four bed on an acre three miles from our nearest town where both my wife and I work. Kids in local primary school a mile down the road. We built the house in 2004/5 and moved in just after getting married in late 05. We came home from honeymoon to here, the kids were brought home to here along with a million other small but very personal memories.
So yeah, really happy here but like with any house it is only a house and it is the people within that make it a home so I would never rule out selling and moving on.

LETHAL LADY · 26-09-2015 10:22PM

For some reason, even though I own my own house for over 16 years, I always call my Mam and Dads house home. I'm oddly sentimental about it I suppose.

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