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!

1930's!!!

I like 1930's Semi's. The layout, the gardens, how warm they are etc.

I hated the cost of plastering in my Victorian House. The having to patch up etc. Having a house is very different to a flat.

What infuriated me about 1930 semis when I was looking for a house for me and 2 teenage dcs is the typically teeny tiny third bedroom that is no more than a cupboard. As this is usually at the front of the house, there is not many options to extend and make this room larger. The housing stock where I was looking is majority 3 bed 1930 semis with bay windows and I soon found I had to rule this style of house out because of this feature. Apparently in the '30s people only had two or three outfits that they hung on the back of the door so no need for wardrobes!

I'm in a newish house and my dd has a bedroom that is like a broom cupboard.

Lucky me though I have an absolutely massive garden. Shame she can't sleep out there!

I didn't used to like older houses but really do now. They are solidly built and have actual features.

I can relate to this as I'm very picky about property and have dreamed from early on about living in a Victorian house. Had we not been able to afford one I would have happily settled for a 1930s semi- I have seen some absolutley gorgeous ones! As with any home, there's always a way of making it look prettier from the outside like this one

However I do understand there are some things you just can't look past. I absolutely despise with a passion 60s/70s builds and don't think I could ever bring myself to buy one no matter how much it offered or how nice it was inside. I just hate how they look

Do you really feel a bit sad when you look at the other houses around you?

I do, a bit. But where we lived before was ridiculously pretty. So I try to focus on the birdsong and the lovely plants in people’s front gardens here. And the fact that our neighbours are a damned sight friendlier than in the old area. It’s a bit bittersweet but, taken overall, I don’t regret the move.

Oh, and I don’t find our actual house ugly at all. It’s some of the others on the road, where people have gone UPVC-crazy, overextended and paved over their beautiful front gardens to fit more Audis on, that I find depressing.

I think you're being unreasonable to write them all off. Start looking at them more closely too see if they offer what you need, both inside and out. I like the look of them, personally, it's just the kitchens that are usually a bit small.

We sold our 1930’s house. Beautiful stained glass windows (paid a shed load of cash to renovate the leaded lights and triple glaze them), wood panelled hall, coving to die for, original fireplaces, large rooms, enormous gardens, substantial driveway, lofts that could be converted to take another 4 rooms!
However - every repair was expensive, heating builds huge and upkeep of ornate garden time consuming.
Moved to modern house, managed to get one with lovely wood burner, easy but large south facing garden, huge windows and double garage and driveway for 4 cars in very small village development.
Never looked back - heating and water bills tiny, no renovation or repair costs, no lost hours in maintenance.........love it, love it.

Choose what you like - we’ve roadtested just about every type of property in the market. Decide how you want to spend your time and money and what is important to you. Be happy 😀😀

Where I live 1930s semis are worth above 1 million pounds, and everyone wants one. Most are mix brick and pebble dash. Don't care, they are fab houses inside and pebble dash can be taken off. You don't look at it when you're in your home and yes you are a snob.

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-64383316.html

I have realised I have linked to an Edwardian house!!!!

Well you can't afford a period house, so you'd better get used to them!!

Perhaps do a little research into architecture of the time, look at furniture and interior design trends and contemporary items influenced by that sort of design. How about looking at the glamorous 1930s movies and seeing what those interiors were like. Look at adverts for when the houses were new and seen as very desirable influenced by the garden villages.

My house is a 1950s semi and I've grown to love it, it's perfect for us. Now I look at Victorian / Edwardian houses and I think 'there's no driveway', 'they're so narrow and dark', 'i'd hate stairs up to my front door' etc etc.

Just buy one and cover it in ivy. They aren't great but at least they don't look as bad as 60's houses.

I don’t like them either. We lived in a beautiful, ground floor Georgian flat but it was cold, noisy and eventually rats got in!!!!! We left the UK and now live in a 100 year old home that again is beautiful but impractical. Tons of rooms but also tons of stairs and poor insulation and no air conditioning. We’re moving to a 1960’s house which is less beautiful but the lay out is much better. We’ll have a main floor laundry, Bathroom, garage, double reception etc. Sometimes you need to look past the looks and consider the practicalities.

I feel your pain. Yet we had to buy one as it's all we could afford (and even that was hideously expensive). Disadvantages: they're plain, ugly, boring, look like all the other 1930s semis around them. Advantages (i.e. why we bought ours): very, very spacious, light, big garden, parking, scope to make them nice on the inside, if not on the outside. Still love the Victorian house we used to live in, in another city, though. Sigh.

Doesn’t everyone that owns one just build out over the garage and turn the box room into an office?

In London yeah.

Generally they put on a large ground floor extension all the way across the back and extend the first floor slightly above it.