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Every so often, when I am particularly pleased with my life or my house, I remember the NCT coffee morning in my front room, where everyone lamented having to go back to work, and when I said "It's one reason we bought such a small house, we wanted to be able to manage on one salary." The response? It would be lovely, but they couldn't cope with the drop in standard of living.

I've often wondered whether they'd have said it if we'd been in one of their houses, which were all slightly more than twice the size of mine, and considerably more, um, groomed, whatever the grooming equivalent for houses is.

But then I go and sit in the garden and eat bagels again. So that's ok.

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ailbhe

House-with-garden was on my list of must-haves when we first discussed buying. Also, house-within-walking-distance-of-everything.

I'd like another room, which disappeared when we weren't using it so's it didn't get filled with clutter, just to have a big room with more space for the rare occasions when the rooms we have feel too small. But that's not the kind of house ambition we can actually work towards.

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1ngi.livejournal.com

How big is the garden? There were some amazing ideas in a book I saw call Shed Chic about turning the shed into an extra room.

If I had a garden big enough I'd have a yurt at the bottom of it and sleep in it in summer :)

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cangetmad.livejournal.com

I'd like another room, which disappeared when we weren't using it so's it didn't get filled with clutter, just to have a big room with more space for the rare occasions when the rooms we have feel too small.

Which is pretty much what a garden is, on a good day.

I have a lovely house. It's not that big, but it's in the city, it holds the four of us comfortably and has not-to-squashed space to take in a stepchild when necessary. What's the point of more?

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the-changeling.livejournal.com

Well this place is now so big, I have that. And I have to say, I love it. Most people need a Room of Requirement, and the only problem with The great Hall is it isn't really a Room of Requirement, it's a real room, and so it clutters and takes epic amount of work to keep clear.

An old fashioned parlour, is what we all want, I reckon. Somewhere clean and neat and tidy, for using at odd times. But living is too stuff filled now. The houses that had such, had little else in them! :-)

It's interesting, the connection between space, living space and poverty. That we're heading to Hong Kong levels of lived-in space cramp, as our housing is so expensive now.

When we have so much land.

Council houses, damn it! We need council houses!