buy an old house with wood floors

New houses are icky. Unless, of course, they are truly new and innovative…lots of windows, woodwork, high ceilings. But most houses fall into the built-as-fast-as-possible-to-save-money category and are dreadful. Give me the 1920s house: big rooms, wood floors that creak, high windows that stick when you open them, sunrooms, old heating grates in the floors, scary basements. I feel so comfortable in those houses.