Every home needs a lake

When looking for a new home, I suppose that I'm like everyone else when compiling my checklist. Bedroom, check. Kitchen, check. View of something that isn't a neighbours wall, check. However, after browsing the Lavish Locations website again today (drooling over these incredible homes is something of an addiction for me, I can easily lose hours over it), I've added something else to the list. A lake. Mr Lisbonite would prefer a river with fishing rights but I want somewhere to go boating and hold floating platform barbecues. My latest house-crush is now on this quirky place in Surrey, complete with lake, double height kitchen ceilings (who doesn't want a mezzanine floor in the kitchen?) and THE most amazingly understated four-seater dining table in a huge hall. A little more traditional than most places I like but this place has charm. And a lake, obviously.