Owning your own home

Yep! You spend most of your time inside it anyway, and you can make it home. Plus all of our ideas of ugly / beauty change over time - that house isn’t intrinsically ugly, and in X years’ time it will be considered quaint or cool or desirable*

*see mid-century / 1970s / the third coming of flared jeans

Depends how much it is really. I assume it's not a cheap house given where you are looking? Personally I couldn't do it because from an architectural standpoint it's not a looker, but I'm a raging snob.

Looks just fine

Our house is hideous and makes me sad every time I look at it, but it’s in the right place and if it were any better it would have been financially beyond us. So in that regard ugly is a plus! Worst house in a good place is better than a good house in a bad place and all that.

Everything is redeemable with time and money, and having somewhere to live is quite handy. Getting angry at all the irrational choices of previous owners is a fun game to pass the time too, helps break up the crushing misery of it all.

I quite like that. Red brick generally looks pretty nice I'd say.

Is that the front of the house? It’s gopping

But if you are in it you don’t have to look at it I guess

I don't like houses with side-facing front doors. But perhaps you could add a simple porch between you and the neighbours so the front door faces forward and you'd have a more secure back garden. Otherwise, apart from the reduced width window it's ok. Planted front garden would do a lot.

Yes! We are in a 1930s-1950s terrace with cream render on the upper storey - on the other side of the street are beautiful old stone houses. We have a great view. And everything has its charm. At least it's got decent sized windows!

Has anyone bought an extremely ugly house in a nice area?

May be worth pointing out that every generation or so, we considered building ugly but now acceptable or even embrace them.

Victorian terraced houses with two tiny front windows and zero front garden were deemed a horrorshow, especially the back to back terraced by the Victorian/Edwardian.

Nowadays, they gone for silly money like 500k right opposite our flat.

Point being, the LA council flats are ugly, but in 50 years time, our view may changed.