5 years ago dh and I were looking at buying a house and there was one that I fell in love with but dh hated. It was a 300 year old fisherman’s cottage with low ceilings, really thick walls and cosy fireplaces. Basically my dream house as I’ve always wanted a period property and there were so many beautiful features like the old beams and tiled floors etc.
Anyway 6’2” dh talked sense into me as he’d have to spend the whole time ducking from beams and we instead went for a detached new build with a nice big garden on a completely bland estate. All very practical and boring.
Dh and I have now split up and the original cottage I loved is up for sale again and I can afford it. But, the owners that have had it for the last few years have completely gutted it - lowered the floors on the ground floor so the ceiling doesn’t seem so low, boxed in the beams, all the lovely, wonky walls have been boxed in and plastered flat and painted grey. Open fireplace replaced with a bloody ugly wood burner. Aga replaced with an enormous spaceship looking oven.
I could afford to fix it all again but it seems such a waste of resources to basically undo something that someone has spent the last few years doing. It would also probably involve dc and I living elsewhere for at least a few months while work was being done. But it is (or was) so bloody gorgeous.
Cottages like this come up so rarely and are normally snapped up as second homes within hours. I’m guessing it’s the fact that this has been so horribly renovated that people have been out off.
Wwyd?