How old is your home?

Question

Do you prefer the character of an old home or the convenience of a new home?

The year is fine for when your home was built.

Thanks!!

Answer 1

Queen bee: We bought our house  new 12 years ago, it has big front porch, and I set out all of fruit trees and shrubbery.  It is not fancy, but it is comfortable and we call it home. We bought the house because we liked the woods and it was not expensive less 100K.  See yard pictures

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Answer 2

I like new homes, I like the designs, but the character of an old home is priceless. I would prefer living in a new home. Our house is about 45 years old. Our old house was about to turn 90.

Answer 3

it will be 10 in October. We built it. Like it still. Like it better because it is 100% paid off. :)  

Answer 4

built in 1893.  Old houses have their "charm", along with a multitude of problems (they don't make that particular fitting anymore, you need 5 adapters to make it fit; that size has to be special ordered...).  The convenience of a new home is nice (like outlets on every wall instead of 1 per room), but I've also known a few new houses to have their problems as well, like leaky roofs and un-square walls.  

Answer 5

my family's house is 172 years old. It was built in 1836.  

Answer 6

Our home was built in the 90's. Totally trashed when we bought it, so we totally gutted it and rebuilt it. We're hoping to flip it, but we're almost to the point that it would be pointless.

However, I would LOVE to have a turn of the century home. They have the most character and beauty.

Answer 7

Our house is about 42 years old. I love our home because it looks unique and not such a cookie cutter as you see now. We really have all the conveniences of new homes, so it fits our needs really well. I think it's built more solid than the newer homes. We had all the window changed and heavy insulation installed to we are up to par there. Our bedrooms are huge, which I love and newer homes have large master bedrooms, but small bedrooms otherwise. Overall, I have never wanted to move. We raised our three kids here, so that really would make it impossible to move anyway, just too many memories (even have growth charts still in the garage)!  So I guess in a LONG round about way I'm saying I love our house, the year it was built is great, and I would never trade it for a newer home.

Answer 8

My apartment is in a building about 20 years old. But I'd like a new home with a back yard 'cause I want a dog and I can't have one here.

Bye

p.s. I live in Brazil (south).