I live in a house share with a lot of other people who are all Polish. I guess so long as it's not my mom's and it's with my girlfriend I can survive it.

The house used to be a family home and has a stylish kitchen and lounge but bedrooms and the bathroom leave something to be desired. Our room is quite cramped because we have full fitted wardrobes (1 mans wardrobe with shelves at bottom, 1 womans wardrobe without shelves at bottom and 1 linen closet which is actually my corner for my books and dvds ect) Alongside these huge wardrobes we've got a full width of room dressing table which acts as a desk, place to put my 360, ps2 and tv and whatever else is needed. This dresser has 2 chests of drawers in it. Add a double bed and even the biggest of the bedrooms in the house is a little cramped for space.

This problem is typical amongst early 20th century housing built before or around the time of world war 2. Add to it that it's in the heavily bombed parts of East London and you can understand when I say that the houses here are very cramped. It's also terraced meaning theres neighbours either side of the house.

I want to move in to a single bedroom flat not a studio apartment or a bedsit (bedsits are similar to what I am in now after all) a 1 bedroom flat. In Whetstone where I used to live with my mom, these come at around £180 a week excluding all bills. Whetstone is a nice part of town and known for it's expensive housing so I'm hoping to pay no more than £200pw for a place exclusive of bills. To be very honest the block where my ex lived, although not exactly attractive was a nicely sized block of flats including 1 and 2 bedroom ones of fair size I wouldn't mind renting one there if I could. I'm also looking at the cost of a boat house to rent though most of these will be taken I feel.

Ultimate place to live if I get the money together? In London? Probably would like to have a docklands penthouse apartment since they're really nice and stylish and also generally come fully furnished to a very stylish quality. If I had plenty of money however I'd love to have a house somewhere down in the west country near the coast. Something quite isolated but not completely cut off and with it's own land so I could expand and do what I like with the ground (within reason and with planning permission for structural changes) Maybe on the edge of a small village/town. What I'd do is have an indoor heated swimming pool built and make sure the house is both stylish and modern but still very natural it'd be the kind of place you see featured on Grand Designs.