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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.
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Hmmm, or now even. I’ve lived in a pretty good range of houses from Chocolate box 17th Century haunted ones to new build with some 2 up, 2 down, Victorian terrace, Warehouse conversion and Architect designed TMH fodder in between. We picked our ex-LA house for this move as a long term (20 years) bet as the layout works, they are pretty light, it had a decent sized garden, and crucially it was in a good area with a nice local school. All else being equal, I’d take this objectively ugly house over the stone floors/no insulation/shoddy workmanship/dark corridors/over-looked narrow garden/listing restrictions previous homes have offered. You can make anything look pretty good anyway.
RodSaetan
Has anyone bought an extremely ugly house in a nice area?
Can you learn to love one in time?
There's a house in an area we like, within our budget, with some really nice features, but it's really ugly (also needs a fair bit of work).
Grow some wisteria up it and it will all be fine? Or hold out for something that actually stirs the loins?