What kind of houses do you like?

[Camomila]

I like airy European 'ikea' style flats.

Fairly traditional 'English' living rooms with wooden floors and lots of book shelves and rugs.

Modern Italian houses with really snazzy furniture.

(Makes a change from talking about house things we don't like!)

I love open plan, lots of big windows and walls of glass.
Not very practical but I love them.

I hate open plan with a passion.

I like bay windows.

I like Victorian and Edwardian houses decorated inside in-keeping with the time period - Morris wallpaper and fabrics, cast iron radiators, cast iron fireplaces, coving, picture rails, dado rails, mosaic hall floors etc.

Weirdly though I don't like a lot of clutter. I couldn't cope with lots of bookshelves.

I like really clean minimalist kitchens with nothing on the surfaces.

Old houses with single pane glass windows and lots of natural textures (stone, wood, slate, wool, etc). I like either very high air ceilings and light rooms and low ceilings and cosy dark rooms (or both together). I like older furniture styles (so frames made of wood/iron with cushions on top as applicable).

I like tiny little cottages. I have a fantasy where I live by myself in one. There's some in our town and they are so bloody cute. I have an alternative fantasy where I live in a serviced apartment block in a city centre and all I have is a telly, a tablet/laptop, a coffee table with a small vase for one flower and a few matching cups. No clutter or mess.

For a family home I like Georgian, Victoria, Edwardian terraced with fireplaces.
I live in a 13 year old house on an estate with no fireplaces

I like a home to have loads of bookshelves - either in a blonde wood, vast glass windows minimalist house or an English country mansion style with big window seats and lead light casements. Log fires or wood burning stoves. I like big even-sized rooms with lots of light and space.

Houses that are good for hide and seek, with wee nooks and crannies and unexpected extra rooms.

Big, airy uncluttered kitchens with room for everyone. Stainless steel worktops and lot of drawers. No wall cupboards and no handles!

Lovely cosy living rooms with dark walls and lots of different textures.

Appreciate these don't all necessarily go together!

60s and 70s builds. Like the big rooms and large windows.

Also love the decor from those eras. Big fan of lava lamps and macrame plant hangers.

I like modern interiors or 1960s especially futuristic designs during that era.

www.kaodim.sg/blog/inspired-groovy-interiors-60s-70s/

We live in a rented flat and have 1.5 small DC so our 'style' is practical/ikea/things we got for free.

But if/when we ever buy a house I forsee arguments as I'll go for traditional Victorian living room (most houses here are Victorian terraces) and DH likes black shiny furniture a' la Manhatten penthouse.

The trick is obviously to buy stuff when he's not there.

I like many styles, but the ones I favour most, that I gravitate towards are period properties, unique houses that have all the original features left, floor boards, beams, fireplaces, but that have been maintained properly and decorated and furnished tastefully and comfortably in keeping with the property.

Georgian and Regency houses, appropriately furnished (or even modern furniture if it's done with a reasonably minimalist touch). Modern movement houses with lots of space and light. Also - if money was no object - Frank Lloyd Wright or Charles Rennie MacKintosh.

I once stayed in an English Heritage holiday let which had a two story oval library with gallery round one side - I want that house.

@Camomila
DH likes black shiny furniture a' la Manhatten penthouse.

LTB

Roomy Georgian houses with really big windows. Kitchen extension with crittal doors out to the garden and an 8 seater table and room for a comfy sofa and kitchen island.

Period Edwardian houses with high ceilings - we’re a tall family. Lots of nooks and smaller rooms/snugs but with a large kitchen dinner. Pretty cottage garden.

It's okay Bound he may like it, but he's never been pro-active enough to buy anything before I've carefully researched 3 or 4 within budget tasteful options to choose from.

I like square house rather than rectangular. I like there to be a hallway with stairs leading upstairs and then rest of the rooms leading off that hallway. Carpet throughout except kitchen and bathroom. Porch at the front is ideal to save the carpets 😁😁

Victorian and Edwardian terraces that have been modernised, so keeping sash windows and wood floors, but paint not wallpaper, and fairly minimal interiors, and mostly midcentury furniture (I love Danish style furniture). Bit of a MC cliche style, but I find it easy to live with and it suits me.

Berliner 'Altbau' style - again, period properties that have been restored and modernised, in quite a minimal style that emphasises the property's got 'good bones' - parquet floors, big windows, lots of light.

Low-rise 1960's estates, like Cressingham Gardens in Brixton - not huge tower blocks, but sensitively designed estates at a human scale, with airy, light interiors.

I love old houses with secret rooms, odd shaped rooms and little nooks and crannies. Completely impractical but as a little girl I read far too many books set in old mansions! I visit a customer who has a large house with many little corridors, I’d love to have a look round but would never dare ask haha!

I’d love to have the patience and space for beautiful, landscaped gardens as well as a walled garden but me attaining that is even less likely than me affording my mansion- especially in South East England!

Quirky ones. Present house is Arts & Crafts. Inglenook fireplace, stained glass. Tucked well away and built into a bit of a hollow. Cross between the Burrow and a Hobbit House. We have redeveloped it so the extension is artfully modern and the rest is not.

The transportable ones.
I used to like character property but selling ours as we are hardly there these days.

@CrispMornings - your house sounds beautiful. I'd love a bit of stained glass.

My ideal house would be a rambling 18th century rectory in the West Country. I love big windows, interesting chimneys, and spacious rooms with original fireplaces. I'd also love a huge garden. Unfortunately, I live in a 1980s house with no interesting features at all.

I think I may have descended from vampires, as I love dark houses. Floor to ceiling windows, especially when combined with white walls, make me want to scream! I literally could not live in a house like that. Way too much light for me. I like Victorian but not all modernised. I’m a big fan of wood too. A luxury cabin in the woods would be nice. Roaring fire and big fluffy blankets. And no neighbours!

Georgian - big, square light and airy rooms, big windows

Or modern (type found on modern house site) with big panes of glass