New build homes in the UK are a bit depressing

[Glasgoow]

I want to move somewhere with better insulation than my 1930s house. Looked around a few new build places and they are just depressing.

They pretend to be all unique by craming different designed houses all on top of each other but its just a ploy to allow them to pack loads in.

The gardens are tiny and either back onto a road or are overlooked.

Looked at one this morning and for a 4 bedroom house they had crammed in 5 toilets, bathroom and two ensuites. I guess if it was a mansion that would be handy, but it wasn't and the bedrooms were tiny with little wardrobe space. It had its own gauarge but this was as part of a "coach house" where they build 4 garages and then a flat on top for someone else to live in. If I was coming back late at night I wouldn't want to use my garage as someone is living on top of it. Drive space for just one car and parking would probably be a nightmare when people come round. Its just cramming all they can in and presenting it with small beds and tables to make it loom bigger. The pictures were very deceiving, they must of sunk the camera into the wall to make it look as big as they did. The windows were all on the small side too.

Just a shame, I want a new home, but a quality one designed to be good to live in not to just maximise their profits.

I love LOVE my 10 year old Persimmon home. Three decent sized double bedrooms, massive semi-open plan kitchen/dining/living room, huge utility room, single attached garage and more built-in storage space than our old house in the US had.
We viewed dozens of Victorian terraces in this neighborhood before settling on this property last year. Most terraces were 50k more, and smaller scruffier than our home.

Good lord, the decor in that Horsehill Meadows house is shocking. Except the desk, I have that desk.

I also want to reiterate what was said unthread about only the good 1970s houses remaining.

In the 1970s my mum had a friend who lived in a new house on a brand new housing estate.
It was actually nicknamed cardboard city.

Around 20 years ago I went back to the same area and wondered what had happened to all the houses and why I couldnt see them.
Apparently the entire estate had to be knocked down.

I think so. My Mil lives in one and the whole place is yuk to me. The ones here are tiny inside, there is no local pubs or local shops, no real sense of community, you never see kids playing out in the streets and the only thing that could be classed as a playing green has a massive no ball games sign in the middle of it. There's rules and regulations about EVERYTHING! no caravans, no trailers, no horseboxes, no ball games, no fun really. She's trying to sell hers for quite a bit less than she payed for it and it won't budge.