ALWAYS AND FOREVER
How many times have you walked into a potential property and thought, ‘this is where I could grow old’? Well, it’s probably more than you might think. A recent survey by Hillarys.co.uk revealed that one in eight of us will actually purchase three ‘forever’ homes during our lifetime. So, what makes it a forever home? When (or why) does it flip into a ‘home for now’? And what makes us move on from a dream property when we have found one?
Natalie Gascoigne-Smith (@countrybrumkin) is a serial mover and has changed address nine times in 17 years, but believes she’s found her forever home… well at). When we bought the plot in the Surrey countryside, it came with an old farmhouse. As much as it was characterful, it was structurally unsound, so it made more financial sense to start again.’ Natalie’s self-build home now has five bedrooms and plenty of space for her two boys to, ‘run wild’. She’s also chosen every fixture and fitting, every paint colour and fabric herself. ‘Working on the house with two small children has been a challenge though,’ she admits.
