[Closed] Dream Home

There's one little cottage in Crummackdale I've coveted for a long time - southwest facing, BW goes past the front door, little garage workshop and walled garden.

Well out of my price range though...

I'd want to redecorate, but this is pretty close;
https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/Single-Family/16984167/230-Mountainview-Drive-Nelson-British-Columbia-V1L0A7

Could probably live with this too;

https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/Single-Family/17217988/4898-Highway-3A-Beasley-British-Columbia-V0G2G2

My OH's family farmhouse in the Goierri, Basque Country. Sadly neglected, none of the siblings or cousins willing to take it on. The land is rented out to sheep farmers but the building is in disrepair. Just need to think of a plan.

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On the side of the Sierra de Aralar
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This in town
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And this in the country
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http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-40181295.html

Now we're talking!

I know somebody who lives in a house like that (the kitchen/utility/boot/boiler room/outhouse is twice the size of my flat) and they end up in a room just by the kitchen with a huge telly in it. The rest of the house is just somewhere you have to heat and only gets used at Christmas when the extended family comes to stay. It's too big unless you fill it with servants and a huge family.

The only house I covet belongs to some clients of mine in Friday Street near Dorking.
They started building it in 1966 but only finished it about 5 years ago. It still has the 60's Scandinavian decor focused on a massive woodburner that originally provided all the heating and hot water. Solar and ground source have now been added.
I got snowed in there one evening and they couldn't get out of London. It was very spooky!
Location is everything though. I'm currently looking for somewhere in the mountains to build a small gaff with a view, with no neighbours but a short ride to civilisation...

The one on the upper right of this photo..

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hammyuk - Member

Stone house - check.
Virtually no neighbours - check.
2 x barns - check.
Stone old cottage/garage/workshop with bread oven - check.
Pottage - check.
Woodland - check.
Lakes nearby - check.
Climbing nearby - check.
Trails nearby - check.

We've got that, just a bit lacking in trails so will have to make our own and no climbing that I'm aware of. The MacGillycuddy's Reeks are about 10-15 minutes away but I think they're more hiking.

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Our's is the one bang in the middle of the photo in the trees.

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I like Edinburgh. I have my own flat in the town centre that's fully paid up so costs me nothing more than utilities to live here. It's nice enough, not gonna get in any design awards websites but I like it.
In a sense, that was my dream - to have somewhere free to live and it worked out.

Fantasy land though... I'd like one of the big houses up the back of Edinburgh near Blackford Hill. Big old mansion houses with gardens and garages etc. Not a lot of space or direct outdoor access at my flat. Or something with a tower or a copper dome. There are some of them in Churchill between Marchmont and Morningside.

This copper roofed one: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Church+Hill,+Edinburgh+EH10+4BQ/ @55.9325749,-3.2052646,3a,75y,98.86h,90.09t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sM68Lpp1NGqT13KWlDQDuUg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DM68Lpp1NGqT13KWlDQDuUg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D137.884%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x4887c70c91875b6d:0xc4c5a5a349ce8bc3!8m2!3d55.9323239!4d-3.2068285

or spin 180 degrees round and this one with the tower. Has a wee chair up there to read in, amazing.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/ @55.9327107,-3.2052384,3a,75y,245.53h,100.07t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sN7mTnmFLjsSLvUbhIje1aA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I'd also quite like something down in Peebles, some kind of eco house thing maybe. Something like that is actually achievable for me though, can't see me ever getting one of the mansions unless I meet a rich lass!

For two hundred years much of the Canadian Shield (and about a third of what is now Canada) was called 'Rupert's Land' and was in effect the personal fiefdom of one corporation- The Hudson's Bay Company. Yes, these guys:

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kilo - only "issue" is its in France so not full time just yet.

Will be.
When the "tax foncierge" is €300 a year with only water and electric to pay (assuming I use the mains anyway and not the well) makes england look a complete ripoff. Which it is in reality.

I'd rather like this house:

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1930's New England-style, set in 17 acres, with its own beach and boat-house:

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It would have to mean a pretty large lottery win to afford it, and that would require the current owner to want to sell it; IIRC, she paid over the odds to acquire it when it came up for sale, at £2.5 million.
The South-west coast path runs right behind the house, although there's a fence all around it, and a very steep path leading down to the beach. It's not that long a walk to East Prawle and The Pig's Nose pub, but it could be interesting after a few beers on a dark and wet winter night...

I have always wanted to live in Fitzrovia. A little mews house would do.

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Rockape63 - Member
> http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-40181295.html

Now we're talking!

I've been drunk in that house.

@CountZero - I've been drunk on that beach.

There's a theme here. 😳

Tony Starks house in Iron Man if MNO
Failing that somewhere on Dartmoor with rocks and water.

Interesting mix of tastes here. I was amused by Drac writing off the 1920s Villa Savoy as horrid. Only arguably the most significant, beautifully conceived and influential house of the 20th century.

The one on the right of the port overlooking the port and the bay.

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Failing that, the one I'm typing from.

Edit. Stuff that, the one I'm tying from has a heated open-air pool a few metres up the road and the trails are better.

The one on the right of the port overlooking the port and the bay.

We stayed in this place in Aus, loved the layout and decided it would be a perfect 'retirement bungalow' for us 🙂
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3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms at the back so just need to find the right location in the UK where you could build something similar