AIBU to hate 1930s semi's?

[boymum9]

I was just hoping for someone to talk me around to 1930's semis...! I don't know what it is but I just find them, for the main part, so ugly! I generally dislike the look, the windows, pebble dash.

We live in an area for mainly 4 story Georgian houses, most turned into flats, we love the area but can't afford to stay here (1-3 million for a house) we have sold our 2 bedroom flat for 600,000 and are struggling to find a house a little further out from here because I hate the 1930s houses and there's a lot of them! (If you want parking, garden and good schools) DH is starting to get annoyed with me! It's not a snobbery thing, I just don't like the look of them and have fallen in love with Georgian and Victorian houses. I also hate new builds!

Can someone gives me all the great things about living in a post war house? I love that they have bigger gardens and love a lot of the original features, I'm just getting sad about looking out my windows and seeing houses I don't like the look of! First world problems I know!

A lot of 1930s houses have parquet flooring and some of the features are delightfully quirky. I have a couple of friends who have one and it pretty much screams for Clarice Cliff pottery, a combination of natural woods, glossy white paint and screaming colour dashes. You could end up having a lot of fun with a 1930s semi.

Maybe a google image search? There must be some Pinterest boards dedicated to the look.

They are in high demand where I live because of the garden and converting mainly into wrap around extension. No pebble dash though and the box rooms are 10ft square. I love my small front room with bay and my large extension at the back and still an 80ft garden.

My 1934 semi has no pebbledash, a huge garden, single sized third bedroom, big driveway, no pebbledash and beautiful original leaded lights in the front windows. It’s also solidly built.

The entire road is 1930s but there are houses of a variety of styles.

Everyone likes different things though. Not all 1930s houses are the same though.

I think the general rule is the houses just outside your budget look so much nicer than the ones just below.

I like them. They're much nicer than new build.

You do realise you can get pebbledash removed and re-rendered?

Happypoobum I mean post war housing as in the houses built after the First World War during the housing boom between the wars!

Thank you for everyone's helpful comments! I'll keep a look out for ones that have retained original features, especially doors and floors, cornice etc. I do love the driveways and gardens, ability to do a loft conversion, hopefully a nice community. I know I'm being silly, it's just difficult to like something you don't like!

Vivienne, we have a ground floor (garden and parking) in a Georgian house, we love it but would love a house rather than a flat

I have a beautiful Art Deco 1930’s semi. It’s my beautiful, beautiful home that I love so much. It’s decorated in a more modern style but still has loads of original features.
I could never say I hate 1930’s houses now!

Very sadly selling it soon if anyone’s interested

We looked at them when we needed another bedroom but it was the tiny third bedroom that put us off as we would have had to do a loft conversion any way so that our DDs weren’t in very different sized bedrooms. Still think we should have gone for it because there was so much potential.

I love my 1930s semi but my husband HATES it! He would kill for a new build.

The space, the bay windows, the character... he hates it all. He would love a tiny concrete block on a pleasant purpose estate. I want high ceilings and features, closer to work (silly me!).

All he talks about is positioning and damp proofing and rendering. So yes, it needs absolutely shite loads of work done to it but argh so pretty! On a pretty road! In a pretty part of town.

But yeh friggin nightmare to fix up! No pebble dash fortunately on ours. Good luck!

I’m sitting in a 1927 three bed semi with bay window! Love it (so far). Only moved in end of Jan and it’s our first house. Sandstone exterior, though. Wtf is pebbledash? I am assuming it’s harling. (Whoever the PP was who asked that - are you from NE Scotland too?)

I know the style OP is talking about and I get the PP about the box rooms in those. Ours is a dormer bungalow, though and all the bedrooms are doubles, although one ha limited headroom and the house as a whole, with its blend of original features and new is definitely on the quirky side.

It is pebbledashed but it's been painted so looks quite seasidey.

I’ve lived in a 1930’s semi for last 15 years.

It’s brick, front door has an arched, open porch & there is the obligatory bay window... it’s not pretty but hardly an eyesore either!

I’ve loved the hall & stairs, wooden floors, high ceilings, bay window & real fire in lounge & master bedroom and the big garden.

I’ve hated the tiny 3rd bedroom & that the kitchen is so separate to everything. We put a big ground floor extension on back.

We are moving in a few weeks to a new build, always used to hate them but there is a lovely lakeside development near us & im excited for a lower maintenance & cheaper to keep property with a gorgeous kitchen diner :)

1930s houses are great for family life. I used to have one, it had huge garden, driveway and big rooms. The new build I’m in now is a Georgian style town house. I prefer the 1930s but the new build is warm, has big rooms and when you try to decorate you don’t discover lots of flaws. In the 1930s house we once took a radiator off and the wall fell down

I love them. Good dimensions, big windows, drives, gardens... ugly and functional.

I'm sat in a 1929 semi - also with a bay window. No pebble dash - nice high ceilings (I have an irrational hatred of low ceilings), large rooms, quite a quirky layout. It does have a ridiculously small box room which is fit for nothing, admittedly - but it's a good, spacious house. They're certainly not all bad.

They're very interesting in terms of social history.

I would be absolutely thrilled if I could buy a 1030s semi...

I sympathise OP. I don't like them either. I live in a 1930s house and wouldn't have another. The build quality can be rubbish due to a lack of materials (eg single brick construction, which can suffer with damp and be cold). Plus they are of an age where a lot of big stuff is going wrong. Plus I find them quite ugly. I was talked into this one and wish I had resisted!

I would never EVER buy a new house unless I'd built it

give me Edwardian or 30's any day

I would be absolutely thrilled if I could buy a 1030s semi...

Same. I do so love a nice castle with ramparts and turrets...

I grew up in an Edwardian villa, and used to hate 1930s houses until I lived in one, and now I love them. Big windows, ceilings high enough to feel spacious, but low enough to be warm, thick sturdy walls, designed for family living, wooden floors, real fires, decent gardens...

Used to dislike them

I would now KILL for one

The space !

@boymum9

Are you SURE you hate 1930s semis ?

They are actually pretty nice. Nice to look at, well-built, roomy, and almost always with big gardens.

www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=isch&q=1930s+semi&chips=q:1930s+semi,g_1:semi+detached&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj7t8_YoMzaAhWImLQKHSELC6kQ4lYIJigA&biw=1242&bih=602&dpr=1.1

Maybe you are thinking of 1950s semis? They are more like you describe in your OP.

They are more likely to be pebble dashed too!

www.google.co.uk/search?q=1950s+pebble+dash+semi&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj546byoMzaAhXJbVAKHQNfDrgQ_AUICigB&biw=1242&bih=602