I desperately miss my brick floors. I only got to enjoy them for around 6 months.

When we build in a few years, I'll do them again.

::sigh::

I will miss the location the most. Mine isn't for sale yet, but will be in the coming months most likely. Probably just in time for work to be only 5 minutes away and then I will have a really long commute when we build our house.

The plus is my DH and I will be living together during the week and can enjoy our weekends at home instead of travelling from one city to another.

I miss all the natural woodwork I killed millions of brain cells striping and refinishing.

I'm with you masonmumm, we built a new home and I really miss our mature trees. Especially since the people behind us have built a house with a huuuuge roof that is now dominating what used to be a nice view.

A basement!
Kathy G in MI

I will miss the neighbor with the dog that barks 24/7, the lady behind me that refuses to mow her 3 ft tall grass until I call the codes approx. 10 times every summer. I will also miss the couple next to her that put a huge hot tub on their tiny deck and then put wood planks up on the deck to "hide" it- I guess thats why they put up year round blue christmas lights- geez so many things i'm going to miss.

The 1920s charm. I've had three 1920s homes (this one's a mediterranean revival) in a row and we're now moving to a post-and-beam mid-century modern! I'm psyched about the MCM, all the glass, and the three-acre lot. But I know I'll miss my hardwoods, crystal doorknobs and beautiful wood trim.

Upward and onward!

I'm going to miss the charm of my 100 year old house. Also, the great curb appeal, and my kitchen, which is only six years old. I'm also going to miss my nice-sized bathrooms, all with windows. But, I'm looking forward to our new home. Sometimes you just need a change. Our new home is about 30 years old, so it will be a huge change from our present home. Change is good.

I'll miss walking into my kids bedrooms and remembering all their young years on through high school and college. I'll miss the sound of the electric garage door opening when my husband is home from work (our new home has a converted garage and carport).

I'll miss seeing ALL those reminders and so many more. The memories tug at my heart, so many, many treasured little things. It is very bitter sweet. The years go by too quickly! It was a wonderful, happy home! How blest my husband and I are!

The biggie is the first-floor master suite I put over a year of blood, sweat, tears and faaaaar too much money into... especially the wonderful deep clawfoot tub and warm floors in the beautiful (if I may say so myself) bathroom.

The private wooded lot (but less private since a house was built next door and they made a mess of the treeline between the two houses).

My natural gas heat, hot water, and cooking stove; almost none of the houses on our "might consider it" list are on the natural gas lines.

My current place is an apartment and I'll miss the light, sunsets and views. It has western exposure overlooking NY Harbor and we rarely turn on an electric light until the evening.

My own 8'x6' walk in closet, huge master w/sitting room, and an upgraded kitchen and (public sewer). We are on an open lot..so I won't miss that.

New house we are moving to is standard everything( something to work on), but a private lot with mature trees,on a cul-de-sac, great schools, nice and quiet... Sure I'll miss this house, BUT so looking forward to the next house becoming our home.

NOW I just have to sell this one!

It is human nature to miss things, sometimes even if they were not that pleasant to begin with. (LOL groomingal, not really talking about your post, which was funny).

Each time I have moved I deeply missed the old place. Different reasons each time, but miss I did. But gradually would realize that the reasons I moved outweighed the reasons to stay, which is of course why I moved. In addition, those reasons to stay (or miss) became less entrenched and finally dissipated.

I have got to believe there is some of that 'youth' thing going on... you miss your younger years BECAUSE you were younger, and sometimes that's all it is. After all, each of us is closer to the grave today than we were yesterday, so in looking back, yesterday is valuable if for that reason alone.

Sorry for being damp. Have often thought about this and related subjects and wondering who else might agree.

Herus, I so totally agree with you!

The pool and probably the floors (brazilian cherry) we had done.
I won't miss all the crazy drivers that refuse to stop at stop signs and fly thru going 40 in a gated neighborhood w/tons of kids.

The only things that I am going to miss is the extra large laundry room with lots of counter space and cabinets, a large, deep bath tub since the new house has a large shallow one and a large kitchen with walk in pantry that had room for my 300+ cook books and all the specialized cooking equipment.

BUT I am really looking forward to re-doing the bathrooms, etc to make the house mine.

I'm with justmeinsd. I'm in SD also, and CA homes in general have small laundry rooms or worse yet, are out in the garage. Mine starts out under a stairway, where i've added shelves and also keep the litter pan, and stretches out to 9' and is about 6' wide.

I'll also miss the beautiful porcelain tile I had installed in the foyer, and the wood in the LR, kitchen/eating area, and sitting room, but that's something I can 're-create' in a new home.

What I WON'T miss is the HOA! ;o)

patty_cakes

My first house where I lived two years before meeting my husband: My solid oak floors! I had wanted wood floors for so long and finally got them.

My husband's house where I lived for 9 months before we bought a house together: I might miss a neighbor or two, but I don't miss anything about the house. It was small and cramped.

We might put wood floors in our new house in a few years. It's on my "wish list" but there are many other things ahead of them. In the meantime, there is much to love about our new house...a deck, first-floor laundry room, fireplace, two bathrooms (I no longer have to share a bathroom with teenage boys!), nice, thick, quality carpet, nicely landscaped yard, and much more.

I must not be very sentimental or maybe it's just that we've moved too much. Thanks to the US Army we moved 18 times in 22 years, so the thing I miss the most is always my neighbors and friends. Well, maybe there is one thing...the lack of spiders. We just moved onto the lake and yikes, the spiders are bad. My 18 y/o son opened the cabana door this morning to put pool equipment away and I heard him scream from in the house. Biggest wolf spider either of us had ever seen. LOL!

The location and the yoshino cherry and sugar maple trees we planted 10 years ago. Last year was the first year the maples showed off their colors. Someone is going to have a pretty yard as these trees continue to mature.

I don't like the "drive under" garage/basement. You get tired of carrying bags of groceries up those steps.

We haven't sold our home yet, but we placed an offer on another house yesterday, one with NO steps and a kitchen level garage.

See, even though the stairs can definitely be a drag (I have severe fibromyalgia and climbing stairs can be very difficult) I've liked my "tuck-under" garage because you can't SEE the stupid thing. I think garages are ugly and I absolutely hate to see a "garage with a house attached". Especially if the house is small, a good-sized garage can really overwhelm the house - a typical two-car garage would have been almost as big as our house! I go through the self-checkout lanes at the grocery store so I can bag things myself in the proper order; that way I can bring only the frozen and refrigerated items upstairs and leave the pantry/dry-goods items in the car or at the bottom of the stairs for DH to bring up at his convenience. A dumbwaiter was on our "maybe someday" list.

A single-floor house would be very nice but there just aren't many in our price range that aren't either mobile/manufactured homes (too many people I know are having terrible problems with theirs for me to consider them), in bad locations, or in terrible condition. They must be in more demand right now, perhaps by aging baby boomers? They're also just plain less common here, there aren't as many to go around. There's a 1970s ranch that's just come on the market recently that we like the looks of, but it's at the very top of our price range and needs a lot of work. We would have to lowball it pretty hard to be able to afford those repairs, or cross our fingers that it sits long enough for a price drop.

This is actually going to be the first place I've lived where I will really miss anything. :-) (OK, there were a couple of great original 1920s and 1930s bathrooms that everyone but me hated...) Pretty much everywhere I've lived up until now has been "just a place to live", rather than somewhere that I've put much of myself into, and most of them I don't remember that much about. I'm not a terribly sentimental person either, to the point where some people think I'm a bit callous.

patty_cakes, we passed up one otherwise extremely nice little house because of there being an HOA (and a rather aggressive-sounding one at that)! I've tangled with HOAs before and I'd rather not go there again. When the lady at the open house started to enumerate all the things we couldn't do with the property we would be paying a stiff (for us anyway) price for, we decided that it didn't matter how charming the house was, we were not going to live there.

I will be missing the cedar-lined large sunroom overlooking our (gorgeous) yard and pond. It was great to sit out there in wintertime-didn't seem to get cabin fever at that house.

What I will NOT be missing are our toxic next door neighbors and the busy street.

The lake view....we're on a large inland lake in Northern Michigan and it's gorgeous, but the house is tiny (1500 sq. feet). There's absolutely NO storage, so we're looking forward to our new house which is 4 times larger than this place, but no lake view. Sigh......

I knew I would miss the original home I was brought up in so I photographed every room from the sitting positions with a wide angle lens as if I were still sitting there. I also took outdoor photos during the summer months and used these photos as wallpaper on my computer. The house was just a shell after my mom passed away so selling the house wasn't traumatic especially since the neighborhood was full of strangers.

My second home had a beautiful 100 year old Oak that I treasured. The tree was maintained by professional arborists. That tree was one of the main reasons I bought the home in the first place. It kept the home cool during the hot summer months and provided abundant shade over my deck and lowered my air conditioning bills quite a bit.

Shortly after I sold the house the new owners cut the tree down. (leaves made a mess they claimed) I would have paid $20,000 to move that oak to my new residence.

I'll miss having Christmas at my house, my parents came down the last few years to watch the kids open gifts. Too bad my dad only had 1 Christmas living 7 blocks from me, we started Christmas at my house, then went to theirs to cook and have dinner. I'm a sentimental person, so putting this house up for sale was a hard decision after making so many memories here with my dad.

I'll miss walking in my garden every day to see what's blooming. I actually miss this already as most of my roses / lilies are now in pots. With "just" 40 roses left, it was still nice, and I'm still able to enjoy the humming birds, butterflies & praying mantis. I love watching the birds cool off in the birdbath while we have dinner. Watching the finches eating seed from my Zinnias & cone flowers.

I'll miss the neighborhood. I love driving in and seeing the various lakes with ducks / geese. As much as I dislike the geese walking on the road, they are cute when walking with their babies.

Most of all, I will miss my one neighbor that I adopted as my grandfather. I never had a grandfather, but if I did, it would be him. He comes over for coffee almost every day.

I'll miss my little mortgage payment! Our current house and neighborhood has been a wonderful place to raise a family but its time for a change. Memories are the easiest thing to pack and take with you.

I'll miss our very bright and cheery Cape Cod home which we've decked out south Florida-style with lots of colorful plants and light green paint with white trim. Our house makes us SO happy when we're inside but alas it doesn't so much when we look around and see that we're the only ones keeping up our house. Walks around the neighborhood have become so much of a downer.

Our new house is a 20-minute walk to the white sand beaches of the Gulf and the neighborhood is so quiet you could hear a pin drop. It's a tiny old beach house and it's just itching for our cottage touches. I can't wait to see what we'll do with it, so I'll miss our house but look forward to trying out some new landscaping!

Jane

it's so funny... we can't stand this split level, laundry room in the basement , etc. etc. house. But now we are leaving. We've worked so hard to make it sellable, it looks beautiful!!!!! Our daughter wants to buy it!!! (She can't afford it) This is the first home our grandchildren have ever known. All the more reason to get out while we can! They are small they will remember another place. It will be even more beautiful. But still I remember.........

The curb appeal of this house. All our neighbors stop and tell us how beautiful it is (we restored the facade).

We spent a year renovating; only just finished, and feel sad to have to move without enjoying it longer.

It's by far the best looking house we have ever lived in and we did it all ourselves! The kitchen is to die for - we will probably do a very similar kitchen wherever we move to.

We haven't found a new home yet, hopefully we'll find something we like as much, but I doubt it! : (

2 years after moving from my old home (a low end home in an extremely expensive area to a high end home in an extremely INexpensive area)... this is what I miss:

My old neighbors!
The intimacy of a smaller and managable space.
The danish design highly efficient wood burning stove we put in (now we have a fake and inefficient gas fireplace)
The relaxed feel of a more casual and unpretentious house.
A detached guest cottage.
More direct sunlight.

Although our new house is MUCH better in most ways, the other one had its charms.

At the moment I feel like I won't miss anything! If I really think about it though I think I will miss the open feeling of the large rooms, the his and her baths (which are really hallway baths but that is how we have them set up) and that we have enough room that I have a room to myself to get ready in and keep my clothes, ironing board etc set up in.

I really just can't wait to move though! Such a long journey to sell a house makes you tired of it by the end!

I miss my old neighborhood--no HOA but well-maintained houses, big lots--and having a basement. Couldn't find that in my new location.

The mature trees providing the shade, the oak leaf hydrangeas & Indian Hawthornes we planted not even a year ago, the houseful of solid oak floors, the large screened in back porch.

I won't miss the new neighbors who are 4 college age kids who have no idea how to mow the grass, the ever increasing traffic, the yard we had to mow that was on a large hill, the small bedrooms.

My good neighbors. Not my bad neighbors.
Like above poster, the memories associated with my kids room's, their play room, etc.

I will really, truly miss my recently remodeled kitchen (1 1/2 years ago). I did a pretty good job planning it, such as moving doorways and turning a one-wall kitchen into an L-shaped kitchen. After 15 years in rentals and 7 years with a decaying 1948 kitchen, it's been great to have a pleasant kitchen with lots of nice materials sach as granite, ceramic, glass tile. I definitely over-improved - Oops. Everyone is telling me that my wonderful kitchen will sell my little 2BR/2BA house. Hope so.

Here is a link that might be useful: my kitchen