What a stylish cottage!

[beaglesaresweet]

if anyone wants inspiration for an old cottage...perfect all the way imo.

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-43668119.html?premiumA=true

[StripyPenguin]

Gorgeous.

[kitsmummy]

Meh...it's nice enough but nothing about it would get me too excited

[oldboiler]

Pretty from the outside but very dated inside. It's not 1996 anymore.

[MrsBucketxx]

Lovely but only 2 beds.

1996 eh?

[Lunaballoon]

Not keen here either. I love period properties but not ones that are dark and full of exposed beams.

[mumblechum1]

I hate it. Can't stand dark beams and little windows. And I'd hate to be right on the street like that with no proper garden.

[LaurieFairyCake]

Too much yellow.

Needs to be Annie Sloaned.

[MarshaBrady]

Too much going on, makes me feel claustrophobic. I need more light and airiness.

[TheArticFunky]

I don't like it. I prefer lighter colours and I think that it is about 15 years out of date.

[ShatnersBassoon]

It looks pretty uninspiring to me. What is it that makes you think it's interesting op? I must be missing something.

[SantasLittleMonkeyButler]

It looks a little claustrophobic for me. It's nice, but not something I would want to live in.

What do you like so much about it?

[Methe]

I like it. It looks like its owners have a bit of imagination.

[vestandknickers]

I hate places like that - all beams and dark colours. Makes me feel claustrophobic just looking at it.

[BaaHumbug]

It's cute enough, but I wouldn't like to have my front windows directly on the pavement. The garden is very sweet. Is that a marmalade cat sitting on the beam in the bedroom? I wonder if it comes with the cottage.

[tethersend]

Really? It looks totally run of the mill to me...

[ComtesseDeSpair]

Not my taste. Too much going on, it distracts from the "cottagey" style.

Personally, and I'm sure others feel differently, I think that if you have an 'interesting' old historical property with lots going on in the way of structure, beams, fireplaces, nooks and crannies and higgeldy doors then you ought to have neutral/white walls, fabric that complements wood/stonework/whatever and minimal clutter so that the actual features can be appreciated. Owner of white-emulsioned minimalist church conversion here

[ComtesseDeSpair]

The garden is lovely, though. I do like a shrub.

[HarrietSchulenberg]

It looks like a tourist's idea of an olde-worlde-chocolate-box cottage.

Bet those beams have woodworm.