Ideas for house renovation- the path to take...

[Gravitygirl]

We moved into our new home last week, we bought an moved in with a view to live as long as possible in the house and save up.. It has become apparent to us, that we are going to have to do things sooner rather than later, electrics are dangerous, kitchen falling apart amongst things.
I always considered myself quite good at knowing how to style and design our homes, but for once I am stumped. We have a terraced 1900's victorian town house, retaining little to no period features. I had originally thought I wanted to restore and make it victorian esque , but now Im not so sure and want all the mod cons and quite a funky interior. I guess what i'm asking , is , is this even possible? would it look all wrong , having a ultra modern interior in an old house? Has anyone done similar, or can point me in the direction of some inspiration?

Thanks...

I think that most people nowadays do go for the modern look inside the old exterior, so it shouldn't be difficult at all to find inspiration.

There's a website called Houzz that's generally quite useful, but it's all American so may not help your specific query. How about a bit of Downton Abbey inspiration, though?

www.houzz.com/ideabooks/1161914/list/Add-a-Dash-of-Downton-Abbey-Style

Hi Gravity. Our house is 1893 and a Victorian terrace. Sounds like yours (stripped of all features, even banisters ) when we moved in and it's taken us 6 years to do the kitchen!!!! (We did do the electrics, some skimming of plaster and replaced the windows before that). We've sort of gone for both modern and 'restored' look, as I like the mixed feel, but feel like it has to be 'ultra modern' with proper antiques IYSWIM. I got lots of antique stuff from my grandmother and I love it, but also love Habitat/ Heals/ Ikea. For example, our new kitchen...I have white gloss and copper cupboards, very modern lighting, stainless steel cooker, very modern handmade glass splashback and an old pine farmhouse table (1913!) plus stripped pine dresser. I think they look great together but probably wouldn't have looked good with say a 'modern' shaker style kitchen as too close in style.