Is this what you’d consider to be a ‘middle class’ style house?

You’re a real charmer aren’t you.

It's a footstool or pouffee.

OP a new build will bring out the snobs. Whether it’s to someone’s taste or not they would clearly subconsciously know the owners were middle class, not exactly going to have a member of the Stonem family from Skins living in it is it?

But it would generate a fan pointing directly at a wall (pic 23) and a 'home office' with an implausible number of monitors overlapping in ways that would give Escher a headache (pic 24). Several pics also have that weird flatness of CGI. It may not all be AI, but some of it very definitely is.

@Inburess i love how the sink in one of thr bathrooms is being propped up by green boxes.

nice ish house yes middle class but very generic

What did its parents do for a living? That's crucial. If they were manual workers it remains Proudly Working Class whatever exists now.

Depends how you are defining class. Could be classed as upper working/lower middle financially. Culturally, working class.

It's on an estate, vero overlooked I would say not middleclass. Expensive but not value for money

When I was a child (different era, another life) these would have been aspirant lower middle or middle class, I think. They were pretty common but house prices weren't so loony. For my taste, this one has been over done. Vast sterile kitchen and the wallpaper is a bit much. Nice house, lacks warmth. (These are just my opinions).
Just seen it's AI. Oh. Anyway, lower middle to middle.

That's a generic disclaimer and doesn't look to have been used on this listing though. AI wouldn't generate crumpled beds and Liverpool FC signs

Sounds like you lack in confidence? Are you competing with someone? Your sibling or a close friend? Why would anyone care what others think of your house? Just choose what you like.

Someone new could add those things, Lucia, I wouldn't be bothered about that if I wanted a house of that size. I could fill it with my books and bric a brac, no problem. It would become a mess in no time as well, knowing me, 'lived in'.

So when they uncluttered their house, did that involve replacing all their real plants with plastic ones? And taking down any interesting art or prints and replacing them with shit from the Range? Why didn't they unclutter the room with all the computer monitors and plastic crates?

I think usage of "realtor" rather than estate agent tells us all we need to know about who's stupid here. I imagine I've touched a nerve because you have no books in your house. Books aren't clutter and don't need to be removed for marketing photos 😂

Not middle class to me. It's a decent size

It’s also meaningless because the inside has been altered by AI

Well, I don’t think I would want to be introduced to you all the same. I don’t really do female lines , I find them a bit ordinary. I wouldn’t mind meeting some of your titled relations however, so would be obliged if you could just provide contact details and I’ll take it from there. I’ll say I’m a friend of yours. 🤣

No. It looks a bit bland and tasteless. No books, prints, proper paintings, inherited furniture, things from travels etc. Everything looks too new. But, it is a nice, spacious, house. Lovely to raise a family in, I should think. Why does the class of the vendors matter?

Are you for real? Or is your estate so large you don’t bother to leave it often as the drive to the gate takes James the chauffeur too long?

Anyone with eyes in their head can see that this is not an average size house. Upthread someone posted the square footage of this and by comparison the average square footage of a house in the UK. This is significantly bigger.

four bed detached like this or smaller used to be sold as ‘executive homes’ in the 80s. Executive meaning higher than average in terms of rooms, value etc.

what I will say about property in the UK is that there are a range of factors that can blur the relationship between class and who lives where/size of house. I work for a large multinational where very senior leaders on triple my salary live in smaller houses. It’s a mixture of things; they may be younger, they may have had numerous career moves meaning they rented and didn’t buy, they may have lost funds on properties they have moved round for work as relocation packages aren’t what they used to be. Meanwhile, quite junior staff might have had good inheritances, stayed in one area with more control
over when to make a move.

With property I always say that you can’t buy what isn’t there. I moved from a city with very old, housing stock to a house like this in a
village. City friends were staggered we could
afford something so large. We could afford it as homes like that are more common in the area I live and it drives the price down. Even where I live though, this is still a big house.

I’d say the top end of middle class. It’s lovely too.

The decor is working class

what is middle class decor?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/174009908#/?channel=RES_BUY

can't see a book here either!

I wouldn’t think anything about the owner’s class, just think that they wanted / needed a big house and have taken the compromise of living in the middle of nowhere to achieve it.

My mother and brothers are listed in the peerage. I am not because... girl from maternal line.

So, yes, arguable. I am no less 'aristocracy' than my brothers. I don't actually give a shit about it and only mentioned it in the context of snobbery about hot tubs.

Initially I was going to say no because that house would be well over £1m where I live (in Manchester, not the SE)! But after seeing the price then I’d say yes, it is a middle class house.

The fact that it’s £650k and has 4 bedrooms tells you the house is middle class. Inside is a different matter. The decor is working class.

This thread seems to set an unrealistically narrow standard for what counts as “middle class

Mns always conflates UMC with MC