compare and contrast, if you will, these 2 properties for me.

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OK so we have seen this house. For dp it was a bit 'meh' but I quite liked it and could see potential.

We are arranging to view this house which is £40K more.

They are in the same road, house B has a garage which dh needs as a workshop. My initial thoughts would be that you could add a shed with power and light to property A for about 5K and also think about an extension/ conservatory/ playroom in the future.
House A is obviously much more affordable but house B is nicer....

Prefer house b. They are totally different styles and periods and40k would do a lot but it still wouldn't be as nice!

I'm surprized at how much weight so many are giving to period features, its hardly a quiant choc box cottage!

I would only let period features swing it for me if the houses were equally functional and equally priced. I think they got it a bit wrong with house Bs extension and made the downstairs a bit awkward! thing is if you were to rectify that you've ALREADY paid for it once and you have to pay again, wheras with A, its livable, has a much nicer dining room than B which may make the kitchen less important to some, and if you wanted to you have the cash to do a MUCH better extension or re-arrange than they did in B.

I'ld rather live for a while in a house that wasn't extended yet, than in one that was but it was done (IMO) WRONG as it would just annoy me!

Still think the paint colour in B is nice, get it for A!

I don't like teh decor in either! Just think once sorted house b would be nicer

I think A too. I can see the attraction of house B, but they both have small third bedrooms so that shouldn't really be a decider. And the extended kitchen isn't that much bigger in house B. House A is slightly less pretty but still 'period' and could be prettied up quite a bit if you wanted to. Could also knock down the wall between the kitchen and dining room and make a lovely big family space for far less than the cost of an extension.

Think house B's dining room would be really dark as almost internal and north facing.

The dinning table they've dressed the dining room in B with is a bit laughable. The room looks really big until you consider that it's a tiny table to seat 2.

The owners of house A should almost certainly get the EA to retake the photos. It's like they're trying to make it look as bad as possible.