What do you love most about your house?

Workshop members have been recently sharing things that annoy them about their house.

Now it's time to focus on the positives.

What do you love most about your house?

Jason

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I'll kick off. I love our kitchen and family room, which we renovated about 10 years ago. It's a really functional space but I especially love it when friends and family come over that people just naturally gravitate to hanging around the island bench, sharing food and stories.

Besides our fantastic location...

> I love the size/space - its 300sqm of living area (single storey.
> My double shower as in the size and the adjustable shower heads at each end are definitely a winner.
> Can't go past the pool.
> Fake grass for aesthetics as well as no maintenance and water savings.

I'm looking forward to the kitchen, laundry, bathroom renos.

The view and the established garden.

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We loved our kitchen bench @Jason for the reason. We didn't have a sink in ours, so it was amazing for entertaining (nice picture by the way)

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Many thanks @2Belindas.

Let me also extend a very warm welcome to Workshop. It's great to have you as part of the community. Looking forward to you posting about your projects.

Jason

I'm really looking forward to having a new apartment. I'm really excited about having a new bathroom and a new kitchen.

I love our cathedral ceiling in our living room!

Was basically what sold the house for me.

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We have converted half of our garage into a mini cinema and gaming room.

With the help of the list below you forget where you are quickly!

- White paint to match the interior of the house paint straight onto brick

- Floating timber floor sitting straight onto the concrete

- A couple of hanging pendant lights with warm light globes

- Comfy couches and loud speakers

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@Simon - do you have any photos to share? Sounds great!

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We love our whole home, we built in '75 when prices were skyrocketing, so we had to be careful. Before we took the plunge, I did what's being done here, I asked as many people as I could what they loved about their home, or what would they'd change if they built again.
Mum & Dad were very conservative, & good advice was to keep the building/roofline/floorplan simple to save on cost & mantenance. So we went with rectangular. Keep the interior neutral coloured, & dress up with accessories was Mum's suggestion, & she mentioned that passageway carpets are the first to wear out first. As luck would have it, tiled entrances were the go, so we took the radical move of extended it down the passageway too. Virtually constant temperature year round.
High on the list of other pluses, was north facing windows, which we were able to accomodate & it's glorious in winter.
Someone else said if there's something that you'd like, but it's awkward with the budget, do it, it will cost much more to replace your compromise feature later.
A workmate lived in the hills, & he dreaded his raked ceilings, all the heat stayed overhead, & another gripe was that their brick feature wall was a dust collector.
We decided on a build, but made it smaller, & modernised the exterior to our liking.
What rounds it all off, is that we use every room, & anyone new to our home feels comfortable & relaxed.
The only thing we'd change, is fit a cavity door to the en-suite, they didn't exist back then, & it's only a very minor thing, so we haven't bothered.

I love everything,

The fact that it was built in the 40's and comes with and awesome warmth.

The view of my tellie tubby hills while having breakfast

The high ceilings and 40's sorta latice effect

The cellar

That the front and back door are opposite so I get a brilliant cool breeze when warm

The roof to sit on and view all around me

That it sit near the top of 3/4 of acre and I have a part garden in front, and different levels on land

The wood cooker in kitchen and the ancient wood heater in lounge

But most of all the solid hardwood structure that holds it up, will outlast me and my grandhcildren.

I love having an open kitchen and entertaining area for when friends and family visit.

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It's more my location at the moment..High up overlooking the River Murray..
Further down the track it will be my Home Cinema that's currently being built..

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Just stumbled across this old discussion @ProjectPete. What do you love most about your new house?

Jason

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After a day thinking about it, bakerlight switches that have remained are my highlight beating out the ceramic taps.

Although todays job was changing a tap washer because DIY is beyond some people.

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Hard to pick any one thing TBH.

- I love the style: raw, industrial feel. Lots of timber, polished concrete floors, blacks/whites/greys.

- Our pool area!

- Cacti/succulent features.

- Freestanding bath.

Overall I've out a huge amount of work into doing all this work so I'm pretty connected to it all haha.

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