To hate the removing of character from old houses?

[Mushrooms0up]

I probably am being unreasonable as it doesn’t actually have anything to do with me. But there is a gorgeous house near where I live on a private road which came up for sale a while ago. It needed a bit of TLC but looked like a lovely, lived in family house.

It’s just come back on market for a lot more money, and I’m so sad at what’s been done. The marble tiled flooring just doesn’t match the house and the character and it just seems so sterile :(
If you like that kind of look why buy a period property? What do you all think?

Here’s the before:

www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=73256386&sale=91032045&country=england

And after: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/118542002#/?channel=RES_BUY

The original looks like a place I could see a family living, lots of books, comfy, squishy sofas etc., I find it hard to visualise a family living in the second one.

But books and squishy sofas are completely irrelevant! The people selling the house would've taken their books and furniture them. You need to look at the bare bones of the house.

And it's all subjective too. I can easily visualise a family living in the second one. I can 100% imagine kids playing or sitting in that little sofa/carpet patch off of the kitchen whilst a parent cooks. And a whole family sitting together in the big living room with the L sofa to watch a film together. Or teens being able to have friends over to hang out because there's the second living room as well. I am also not a big fan of AstroTurf but for some busy families there simply isn't time to maintain a garden and if you let it get overgrown neighbours complain so I can see the practicality.

Honestly property is a weird thing where other people feel they have a right to criticise others choices and cry what a 'shame' it is when people do something different. If you criticised how others dressed to the same extent that some people criticise how others decorate their house you'd rightly be told to mind your own business or get a hobby. Why do people feel so entitled to bemoan how other people have their homes to their own tastes.