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

Awful

Presumably they bought a job lot of the cold, grey tiles because they are in every bathroom/toilet as well as the hall & kitchen. Brrrr!

in reality people are only prepared to stump up the cash for the 'after' product

I doubt this is true at all, otherwise no period properties with original features would sell! There are thousands of period properties with original features on the market, some for insane prices like this:

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/118135886#/?channel=RES_BUY

Could have guessed it would be all grey inside 🙄

The before is awful with the parquet flooring that looks like a school assembly hall or a community centre. Yuck!

I think the new owners are a bit in slave tot the TV! There's one in every room and at the end of a child's bed, how sad.

Previous owners seems to prefer books- says it all about taste really.

The new kitchen is hideous but probably very practical, especially with kids. I assume they were marketing it at families due to the size and strategically placed toys in the photos.

The biggest loss is the library, but do young families have that many books nowadays?

@5128gap

To be honest, other than the fireplaces I don't really see any fabulous original features in the first pictures. It just looks a bit tired. I don't care for the marble either, but its just today's upgrade, just as the first pictures were an upgrade done 20 or so years ago.

Agree with this, I think the refurb is not my style but it’s a bog standard Victorian semi not a grade 2 listed building or characterful cottage, it’s was nothing overly special in the first place, they have kept the picture and dado rails and I suspect the fireplace is boarded up so it could be reinstated.

I can't see the before photos.

But I actually quite like the after pics.

I would be interested to see the original!

It's grim

It's horrible now. Every modern day interior faux pas seems to have been committed here in a scrolling gallery of horror show pictures. Capped off by a black Range Rover type thing at the end

So sad

@neatlittlerows

Could have guessed it would be all grey inside 🙄

I don't think anyone keeps the houses like that, do they? I thought it was just a sales tactic to paint everything white so the rooms look bigger.

Well it’s certainly not to my taste. I’m most sad about the AstroTurf…zero consideration given to the wildlife in their area.

I can't believe the family photos and number plate haven't been blurred out. Shoddy estate agent work !

If you can't see the before pics, you're probably viewing through the app. Have a look via the safari browser or desktop version.

It looks like a new build, if they wanted that look why not buy a new build?!

It's Didsbury chic, innit?
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/107722268#/?channel=RES_BUY
Other South Manchester suburbs are available.

Every single fucking house will look like a Hinch new build soon.

How depressing.

It’s horrible! What have they done to all those beautiful floors.

Is it just me who can't see the house in that first link? It just takes me to Rightmove to search for a house...

@PurpleRainlnTheSky

Well, they can hardly replace everything, and keep it looking 150 years old inside can they? They both look OK to me, and the first one looks lovely.

So YABU (IMO.)

They are the same property. The first one you think looks lovely was the before set of pictures so that does kind of prove the OP's point.

Wow, that’s brutal. They’ve made it a soulless box.

We heard the buyers for my DGM’s house ripped out the wood panelling to “modernise” it. Yes, they bought it and it was theirs now, but why buy an old house at all if you don’t like the features?!

It was a small consolation that they pissed off so many workmen that we were told that people were refusing their jobs because of the reputation they gave themselves…

Ugh, it’s horrible.
I really loathe the grey, black, white thing.
Tacky and tasteless IMO.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/117491339#/?channel=RES_BUY
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/118325330#/?channel=RES_BUY

I mean, I actually really like the house interior! Not everyone wants a "lived in" "family" looking house, I think there's obviously a market for what they've done.

Bought for £712500; on the market for (in excess of) £875000. I'd say you're correct!

How much would the renovations have cost?