When you’ve lived in one house for many years, it can be v easy to just get complacent and not bother about updating or modernising it. We tend to live in our own little bubble and only make change when something substantial happens to shake us up. This has happened at my end of things. Instead of just staying in situ I realised I needed to look around for a smaller and more compact home. This one I have has been my castle for over twenty years and is now rather too spacious and luxurious for my needs. It also has stairs, which we must applaud, but they are now inconvenient and I would like to live in an apartment or a bungalow. That decision was easy but getting it to the next stage is not. I have a very attractive house at the moment and I wish to be able to carry on owning an attractive home but all the bungalows and smaller sized properties are nowhere near as nice to look at. This is such a dilemma and is the one thing holding me back from that downsizing exercise I really should be getting on with.
My ideal property would be a 1930s style bungalow with a gabled front, large brick or wooden porch with a pitched pan-tiled roof offering room for standing in front of the beautiful oak door . . . . The windows will be all lead paned, rectangular in pattern. I’m not asking much but obviously a lot more than is on offer around here! Everyone who has such a beauty is hanging on to it. So now what about an apartment in a manor house, how’s that search going. . . .
