My ideal home is a place where we can live in comfort without having to worry overly about structure, keeping flashpoints flash, worrying about it from the viewpoint of keeping up appearances for the sake of keeping up with the Jones and being able to live cleanly and comfortably.

We’ve lived in our present house since 1987. To start with, we rented and then bought from the house and commission. This incurred a huge responsibility of debt, and both of us (my wife and I were both working) determined that we would pay off our house as quickly as possible.

While Housing was cheaper in Darwin in those days, Salaries also reflected the times in which we lived. Fortunately, there was some subsidy on the interest rate and that was a blessing. At the time, interest rates were closing on 15% in Australia.

We worked hard and paid double the rate that we were required to pay under the terms of our mortgage. We added other funds and concentrated on paying the house off – which we did in about 5 1/2 years. Never was any person more rejoicing than I was the day I went into the housing commission to pay the last instalment.

The manager whom I had never met came dancing out, shook hands, and suggested that we would want to go on borrowing for renovations or possibly for a house to use to send investment.

He got a one-word answer of two letters. We had determined that when we came to renovating and approving our house we would have the money to do it before the work commenced. No more debt, no more dead money which flight interest happens to be and that’s the way we went. We’ve done a lot of renovations on our house over the years and it’s a comfortable place in which we live. It’s not flash but it suits our purposes

Importantly, it is a house We can call “home”. Our children are always welcome Our grandchildren are always welcome when they come they treat the place like their own because that’s what it happens to be.

Our house, our home is the place in which we relax and feel comfortable.

What does your ideal home look like?

HOME NOT HOUSE

My ideal home is a place where we can live in comfort without having to worry overly about structure, keeping flashpoints flash, worrying about it from the viewpoint of keeping up appearances for the sake of keeping up with the Jones and being able to live cleanly and comfortably.

We’ve lived in our present house since 1987. To start with, we rented and then bought from the house and commission. This incurred a huge responsibility of debt, and both of us (my wife and I were both working) determined that we would pay off our house as quickly as possible.

While Housing was cheaper in Darwin in those days, Salaries also reflected the times in which we lived. Fortunately, there was some subsidy on the interest rate and that was a blessing. At the time, interest rates were closing on 15% in Australia.

We worked hard and paid double the rate that we were required to pay under the terms of our mortgage. We added other funds and concentrated on paying the house off – which we did in about 5 1/2 years. Never was any person more rejoicing than I was the day I went into the housing commission to pay the last instalment.

The manager whom I had never met came dancing out, shook hands, and suggested that we would want to go on borrowing for renovations or possibly for a house to use to send investment.

He got a one-word answer of two letters. We had determined that when we came to renovating and approving our house we would have the money to do it before the work commenced. No more debt, no more dead money which flight interest happens to be and that’s the way we went. We’ve done a lot of renovations on our house over the years and it’s a comfortable place in which we live. It’s not flash but it suits our purposes

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