would you live in a converted church?

[Abelia]

specifically, would you live here?

Surely this is just like living in a church with some partitions added in ?? Check out the fireplace / altar. You'd be expecting a priest to pop up any minute with some bread and wine!

No, no, no. It's a beautiful building and done to a really high standard but I just couldn't live in anything converted.

When I was house-hunting, I viewed a converted shop and had nightmares about it for weeks.

Barn conversions similarly give me the creeps.

I don't have a problem with a lot of conversions but churches are really hard to get right - never seen one that completely worked, the scale is all wrong for a home and the tall windows normally get cut in half by sticking in a first floor. Domestic furniture always seems a bit cowed in those surroundings.

Never.

Oh, I love it BUT I have a very low 'creep' factor and I wouldn't last one night there by myself!

I think that conversion doesn't work at all - and I don't think it's a particularly intersting / attractive building anyway. I would have expected better from Basil Champneys (who was the architect, according to the voice over)

I can't work out why it would have 'creep' factor, though

Yes indeed...it's beautiful, and as someone who doesn't believe in the supernatural at all, it wouldn't creep me at all.

No, don't like that. the fireplace / altar thing is just weird, and it looks to big and cold.

not that one. It's a church with curtains and a bath. Some church conversions are lovely though.

I quite like it. Yeah, I'd live there. Wouldn't spook me at all. I've always found churches very peaceful places, so to live in one would be nice!

Don't like that conversion at all. Not exactly homely!

But I would be quite happy to live in a nicely done church conversion.

Unless there were headstones in the garden.....

I don't like it. I am a huge fan of barn conversions and have seen some very successful church and chapel conversions. But this one is too cold, too churchy and has no cosy feel.
Nothing creepy about it as such, but it is just not cosy.

I would worry about what was in the cemetary garden!

I stayed in a converted church on holiday once and it was lovely - very light and airy. But I don't really like the way they've done this particular one (bathroom is yerch). I would also imagine you'd have to budget ££££££ for curtains and ££££££££££££££££ for heating!

The only thing I found creepy was the bizarre presentation with the woman's voiceover! Is this standard procedure in your part of the country? What's wrong with a grubby photocopy of a typed up description like everywhere else?

I had to turn off the sound in order to be able to sit through the pics. Put me right off my stride.

I would love to live in a church conversion, but not that one!

We viewed a church conversion when we were househunting.
It had lost of lovely features - the font was part of the sink setup and it had a belltower which had been converted into a fab room.

Soundproofing was poor because the upstairs lounge and downstairs bedrooms shared the windows and that would have been an issue

What put us off the most were the legalities - with the one we viewed you owned the church and 1m of land around it, but you were responsible for the upkeep of the garden/graveyard but could not do anything to it, even put up a small shed or washingline where there were no graves

It looks like everything has been done to a very high standard. Those bedroom curtains will have cost a fortune! It does not matter about anyone else, could you live in it? Do you love it? If not, then leave well alone as it is not a standard building.

I?d consider it, creep factor wouldn?t bother me in the least (would it put night time burglars off?).

I quite like open-ish plan non conventional buildings though. The only thing that would trouble me would be the lack of normal windows, the ones that let you see who is passing in the road or what the DC?s are up to in the garden.

Are you worried about re-sale issues if ever you come to move / need to sell?

Crikey I wouldn't even visit anyone living there. Are there graves in the garden?

my friend used to live in a church, and it wasn't really 'converted' to that extent

the bell tower end was partitioned off and was like a maisonette, basic floors/ceilings with one room on each floor!

we bbq'd in the central aisle once for a fab party

Yes, but not that one. Not really converted enough - and it would be a nightmare to heat.
There are some fabulous converted chapels.

No - there is just a creep factor to it and even the 'architect' has been unable to disguise the fact that it is a converted church.

Many years ago I visited someone who was living in a converted church somewhere in Scotalnd. It was all done very nicely, I think the guy was an architect, they had a little boy and it worked well for them.

It wasn't spooky at all from what I remember, all very white and quite bare, i think not quite finished yet at the time.