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Nice enclosed flowery front garden instead of concrete with bushes for privacy, make the ground floor window full height doors, put the 1st floor window back to the original width (weird btw) and it’ll be great. As long as the space more or less works as is, there is enough light inside for you and you like the immediate and not-so-immediate area it will work out. We live in a classically ugly ex-council house but its pleasant to be in, and an OTT front garden makes up for it IME.
RodSaetan-
The first floor window baffled me - but they've carved up what was formerly a full-width bedroom to allow for a first floor bathroom, and put the stud wall where the window used to be.
The views and light from the back of the house are incredible (south-west facing over allotments, a canal, a floodplain and distant hills), and the (also very ugly, from the outside) renovations make full use of this.
It's hard to think that our big once-in-a-lifetime move out of London could end up with us living in what looks like a council house in my northern hometown, but the location isn't quite the same I suppose.
tbc
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