Do you own your dream home?

[Mad4Mickey]

Pretty darn cclose We bought this house 2 years ago and although we love it after I bought it I see things I wish we could have had different. I love my kitchen but wish we had done the double oven . My Dh loves his media room but does wish we had bought one with a bigger media room and skipped the big family room

 

[cepmom]

nope...still in our starter home. We bought 14 years ago and always thought we'd move up by now, but the mortgage is very reasonable and we are able to travel, pay for DD's college without going into debt. I am much happier this way than having our dream home but not being able to travel etc. We decided we'll stay here until the DD's are grown and done with college then we'll sell and move to a condo somewhere.

 

[Buckalew11]

Not yet, when DD graduates from highschool (6 more years) we are going to build a new house. I have a binder and as I find things I like the layout, I take a picture and stick it in the binder. One day...

This is what I did too.

We built in 2009 and moved in last October. I just got out all the clippings I had and was amazed at how true I stayed to all I love. Some of these I had forgotten about. I guess I'm consistent!

I feel like I do have my dream house (except I'm not at the beach, I'm in the mountains) but I do love living in East TN so that's all good.

I've always loved old houses but often with old houses come old problems so I knew we needed to build more of an "old" looking new house. I knew exactly the type of house I wanted and just had to make the plans work for the layout we needed and the woods in the back of our property. No easy task, but we did a good job, imo.

While this is my "dream house", it is actually too big for us and DD will be moving out in 2 + years. It is just a lot bigger than planned because we didn't do vaulted ceilings, trey ceilings so we gained a lot of space upstairs--like 500+ sq. ft. lol

The one thing I've learned after having this home is as wonderful and pretty as it is, it is just a house and dream houses alone don't make a family happy. Like Pakey said, it is just a building. Please don't think I'm saying we're not happy or that I thought this house would bring happiness, as I already knew better than that. It just re-enforced what I already knew.

 

[ChristmasElf]

We have our dream mortgage payment

House is smaller than most of the people on here own, but we have done all sorts of upgrades over the years and it's on 2 acres of land. I love our house, I think it's very pretty. It's not my dream home, but we are very happy here. $417 payment and only 14 years to go. Plus our daughters are going to be graduating high school in a couple of years, so we don't really want to upgrade or move. It's safe and quiet and we have a beautiful view of the foothills of NC. SO pretty in the fall.

Now, my dream home would be a brownstone in Manhattan. That ain't gonna ever happen.

$417 per month? I would LOVE your payment! We pay $6018 a month and have no end in sight for at least 11 more years!

 

[castleview]

Close enough. It had all I wanted but the wrap around porch. But we made up for it with a second floor laundry room (only wanted a main floor) and a walkout basement (didn't realize how good those are). The land is far from level and the driveway is long and hilly, but it has the woods and privacy we wanted.

As much as I wanted a "dream home", I've come to realize that a practical house is all I needed to make a nice family home. I've gotten very good at discarding unnecessary clutter and don't need a bigger house just so I'd have room for all my stuff.

 

[CaliforniaDreamin]

$417 per month? I would LOVE your payment! We pay $6018 a month and have no end in sight for at least 11 more years!

OMG, you are rich! I can't imagine that. I bet your house is a mansion, seriously. We have a small ranch with only one bathroom. And the cost of living is very low where we live. We bought our house for 50k. I think it's worth 80k now. It's a modest house, but it's charming and we are very happy in it. There used to be a thread on here where people posted pictures of their homes and I didn't post ours because it's probably the size of people's guest houses. But that was a neat thread.

 

[VALDAN]

No, but our jobs are here and my "dream house" is too expensive in New York. The only dream I have is too hopefully move from Long Island when we retire.

 

[superme80]

Nope. First we need to own a home! I am hoping in another 5-10 years we will have what we want.

 

[VALDAN]

OMG, you are rich! I can't imagine that. I bet your house is a mansion, seriously. We have a small ranch with only one bathroom. And the cost of living is very low where we live. We bought our house for 50k. I think it's worth 80k now. It's a modest house, but it's charming and we are very happy in it. There used to be a thread on here where people posted pictures of their homes and I didn't post ours because it's probably the size of people's guest houses. But that was a neat thread.

I think the same thing when I see the pictures.
We live in an expanded cape cod at the cost of about $375K and sky high taxes. Long Island stinks for housing and the middle class.. if there is one anymore??

 

[The Moonk's Mom]

I say yes because I never in my life thought I would on such a house. I wish it was in a different place, but really I do love my home. The day we moved in I sat with DH in the living room and started crying because we had such a home. It's nothing too fancy, just more than I thought I would ever have.

 

[Mary•Poppins]

We "like" our current home ... but it is a fixer-upper and as unique as it is, we are getting tired of working on it. At the time, we LOVED it and we still do, but we also like to do other things than work on the house. So my opinion of our dream house is changing.

We have a small cabin that we are in the process of building (we now have heat ... yahoo!). This will probably turn into our permanent residence someday as we plan to travel and rent a place for a few months at a time as we explore the areas.

So, I think my idea of a dream house has changed over the years.

 

[luvmy3]

No, not even close to my dream home. When I moved here, I always had the plan of moving into my dream home but after being here 10 years, I have realized that I don't want to move. I love our sub-division and while I hate my style of house, I try to make it into something I love.
We are planning on purchasing land in the mountains and build a cabin on it, it won't be a permanent residence but it will be our dream "home".

 

[Colleen27]

We will, when it is finished. We bought my dream home in the rough last summer - an 1880 Victorian farmhouse in a cute little town - but it still needs a lot of restoration to match the picture in my head!

It is something I've dreamed of as long as I can remember, even as a kid - there was a vacant old Victorian we passed every year when we went apple picking and to cut a Christmas tree, and every year I'd tell my mom that when I grew up I wanted a house just like that one and fix up myself. The one we bought is in somewhat better shape than that one was, good enough to live in comfortably while we tackle renovations room-by-room, and thanks to the housing crash we own it free & clear and have all the time in the world to make it into our dream.

 

[debranator]

$417 per month? I would LOVE your payment! We pay $6018 a month and have no end in sight for at least 11 more years!

OMG!Your mortgage is..my night mare...
and..I love how the other poster stated that you are rich...not anymore..with that mortgage.
Wow! I am in the area also..where do you live...Islesworth?
So..that Is why I could never afford to live there.
I am now in my dream home.....
it is what I always wanted...except...it is not in New York.
but,I never could have afforded to have this house..and..no mortgage..
in NY.

 

[Nik's Mom]

Yes, I consider this our dream home. We are very happy here. We never thought we would move from California, but we are so glad that we did.

The home we bought here was move-in ready. We did not have to change a single thing. It was perfect for our family. It may not be someone else's dream home. But it is ours. We are so happy here.

I think the only thing that bothers me about living here is the lack of privacy fences in Kansas. Everyone has those small picket fences that only go waist high. We miss our 6 ft tall privacy fence from California. Oh, and of course the weather!

 

[samshane]

No - but it's the *perfect* home for our situation right now. We have younger kids and live right next to a park so the kids just love it here. The house fits us and is affordable.

But one day both Dh and I want to live in a house overlooking the ocean where we can walk on the beach every morning... after the kids grow up we hope to make it a reality.

 

[Mrs. Darcy]

We don't even own a home yet lol and since DH is in the military I don't see us owning for a long time. But this thread has got me thinking, when we retire I'd love to live in San Francisco near the water. My dream home would be really modern in style with floor to ceiling glass walls that go opaque with a touch of a button.

 

[Jason@dvcstore]

I don't live in my dream home and probably never will. Every time I go to somebody's house I have never been I find something I like better about their house. If I build my dream house I am sure after a few months I will want something new in it or find something I wish I would have done differently.

I do like my home though but not for the reasons that have to do with the actually home. I like it because close to elementary school (2 of them-one .9 miles away and one 1.8 miles away), close to two baseball fields, dog park, basketball courts, sand volleyball courts, tennis courts, soccer fields, Publix, Ale House, Tijuana Flats and not too far from Typhoon Lagoon.

Jason

 

[acejka]

Nope because right now dhs job can transfer him at will, and I don't want to deal with renters or selling at a time like this.

We don't even know where we would want our dreamhouse at this point in our lives.

 

[KCK]

Yes, pretty much and we are in the process of trying to sell it for a cross-country move for family reasons. The new place is far more expensive than where we are now and to duplicate this home and setting will cost 4 to 5x as much. Oh well.