to think SOME people that live in period houses are pretentious twats

[carriedababi]

i find it weird how people in small victorian terraces are snobby about new builds, someone i know who lives in a really small 2 bedroom victorian terrace,

complains [frequently] that new builds are built too close together, and have small gardens..

when their victorian terrace has no garden only a yard, and its in a row of about 20!
they couldn't have packed in more houses!

the stairs are really narrow and steep
theres no where to park,so its parking wars with the neighbours, everyone has wheelie bins in the front, well, yard bit that about 2-3ft deep.
so the whole street looks scruffy all you can see is bins everywhere

so, i can't really see how someone can complain new builds have small gardens and are built too close together when they have no garden and the house are built 20 plus in a row!

i can understand people that live in fabulous detachted georgian house etc being a bit snobby, but it seems to me the ones in the small terraces that are most pretentious

Horses for courses. We're in a victorian terrace. We appreciate the brick walls, we appreciate the odd little period detail (though we don't have many - had to refit the fireplace in the living room), we (more accurately, I) don't appreciate the amount of work that we've had to put into the house for vaious reasons.

So, we have looked around for a good uality new-build, as this would be ideal. But....

...we couldn't find any! They're all built out of spit and paper. The properly built new-builds are out of our price bracket.

I'd take a 70s council flat over poky period house any day - just moved out of one and THAT was a solid house! Concrete walls, absolutely huge windows. Compare to some of the very small Victorian terraces I have lived in as as a student, the build quality was fab. Solidly built, big rooms, high ceilings. Have just moved to a much bigger period house and although I love it the windows feel very small compare to the flat. Wouldn't go for a newbuild though, I just don't think you get the same quality these days!

We could have bought an older house but it was a moneypit. With our new build we will pay off our mortgage in a few years. There is something to be said for that.

Planning regulations have changed so now new build can squeeze more onto the same plots as a few years ago.

I'm sure some new builds are OK but in general you get what you pay for - at the lower end of the big estates the build quality / finish isn't going to be that good.

Having said that main part of our current house was built late Georgian but its not as grand as it sounds. Bit of a money pit but its totally unique and since we sorted out the botch jobs of the previous owners is now looking quite smart again. I mean who puts in a 1970s stone type fireplace across the whole of a lounge !

Would consider a new build if we could design it and have it custom built.

MOCK TUDOR

Now, this is a house in need of some Bupcakes lovin'.

I've driven past this, looking at it longingly, imagining the interior to be something spesh. It's a bit, well, nineties though.

I used to live in a period house which was pretty enough but identical to all the other houses for miles around. Some rooms were a decent size but the small bedroom and the kitchen were miniture. There was only one bathroom and no downstairs wc. It was cold and damp which I didn't notice too much when I lived there, I just thought that was how much heating bills were.

My newbuild is much nicer and easier to live in. The dcs have equal sized bedrooms, I can fit a sideboard and a big table in the kitchen whereas before you couldn't even fit a dishwasher or more than one person at a time. I have 2 bathrooms and a downstairs wc. Its lovely and light as almost the whole of the back is windows, the garden is a lovely size, its cheap to run and maintain, I can fit 3 cars on the drive as opposed to street parking in the old house, its detached so I don't hear my neighbours shagging or pissing, there is a better mix of house types/sizes. We only moved 3 miles but because of the snobbery keeping period houses expensive we didn't pay much more for the newbuild.

I would rather have a million pound georgian vicarage next to a stream but I really don't get the 'its got no character' arguement at all wrt mass produced Victorian/Edwardian identical dining room window the size of a postage stamp with view of the side return houses.

we rented a new build a few years ago. From our bedroom, you could hear if anyone was using any one of the three toilets.

Period all the way from then on.