If you found a house that ticked all your boxes but was ugly, would you buy it?

[headfairy]

I mean, really ugly. But going on the assumption that when you're inside it you can't see what it looks like on the outside, would you ignore the ugly outside and revel in the perfect inside?

"afterwards"? otherwise

Our house is ugly as fuck from the front. It is better from the back. But most importantly, it is our perfect house inside, the location is spot on and the garden will be fabulous once we have it under control

I fell in love with it the first time I saw it on Rightmove (or whatever) and still haven't fallen out of love with it - problems and all!

...First impressions Count.What about the day in the future that you decide to
Sell it.Remember how it looked to You? Ugly...and like it should have an apology sign outside in the dooryard.Think of how it will present itself to a
potential buyer in the future.Hubby says,"Negatory on that one".

Oh yes. I could bond with ugly.

Just depends on what you mean by ugly tbh. I've had two houses that were pretty uninspiring, but were easily improved. A concrete prefab is harder

Look at this. I adore it. So, so ugly.

Sadly not in the right location for my DH's commute to his new job.

wow Bran there's some impressive transformations on that website! I guess going by Kirstie's theory of buying the worst house on the best street you can do a lot to make an ugly duckling grow in to a swan.

I'm not actually talking about a house we've seen, it was more a theoretical debate dh and I were having.

Is it in a good area? Are the houses around it attractive or is it an ugly estate/road? Can it be improved? I.e. nice gardens, new driveway, porch, etc.
What about the inside do you like? How difficult is it to buy in the area?
Our house is. 1960's wimpey special, great big rooms but boring on the outside, never my dream home but it was by far the best choice as I wasn't willing to pay an extra £100k to look pretty and have big rooms!

EBD I like their living room, but then we have something similar in our play room - one wall full of books with the tv in the middle.

EBD - something missing on that house, can't quite figure out what

Wallace it looks like Marvin the Paranoid Android to me and I just want to cheer him up!

(plus I love the kitchen..)

if it ticked all the important boxes AND it was possible to improve it's appearance (a terraced or attached property is tricky) AND i don't have to look at a whole gaggle of other ugly neighbouring similar properties that i cannot influence - then yes i would buy an ugly house!!

I don't like how our house looks much. It's an 8 year old new build on a twee little miller estate. Up till now we always owned pretty period properties.

But sadly I developed extensive mobility issues very suddenly and needed an easy to heat, accessible house with a downstairs loo, small kitchen, en-suite, shower cubicle with either room to extend in future for a downstairs bedroom or wide enough stairs for a stair lift, oh and doors wide enough to take the future wheelchair.

At a price we could afford, swift entry, no need to sell our property which was rented out and still is. We were renting at the time.

So much as I know people like my kind of house, I think it's boring verging on ugly but it ticks every box and it has vastly improved my quality of life!

Had this conversation with a friend only last week. We concluded we'd buy it, then have it clad in New England Style.

I did buy an ugly house. It was a compromise I was prepared to make, given that I had very little choice with my budget in the area I wanted to live in. It's not actually ugly on the inside, though not beautiful either - rooms quite small, ceilings quite low, uPVC windows - but it is also light and sunny. On the outside, though, it is not a thing of beauty and can't compete with its rather handsome Victorian neighbours.

What did I get in return? A house that was at least £100k cheaper than its handsome equivalents, in a lovely area, with fantastic schools and the nicest neighbours in the world. Hell yes, I'd do it again.

By the time I put the offer in on this house I'd not actually seen it in daylight (days before interweb)
Previous house we put the offer in without having set foot in it.
Good call both times.

I wouldn't . How a house looks inside and out would matter to me

I would much rather sit in an ugly house looking out over a pretty neighbouring house than sit in a pretty house looking at an ugly one.

I would. Our house is one of the nicest looking (thirties houses) on our street, but it looks at two hideous pebbledashed/plastic windowed monstrositites. I would rather be in one of the ugly ones looking at our house tbh

Just to add, of the ugly houses, other people have taken them and made them look really lovely, by painting them cream, replacing the windows, putting creepers up them. There is tons you can do to improve the look of a house, just our immediate neighbours aren't of the new wave of gentrification where we live

For me the local area matters more than the house.

I really wouldn't want to live in acres and acres of ugly housing, I'd find that depressing But I'd be happy to live in an ugly house in a nice area. That's more important IMO.

We're buying an ugly house 50s at the moment. (I've even been calling it the ugly house!) But it's in an area we like, and ticks almost all of our boxes. Our other options were beautiful but shoebox-sized Victorian houses with minuscule gardens.

We chose ugly-with-space over tiny-but-pretty.
As soon as we can afford it, I want to move to pretty-with-space though!

Yes, before we moved to this house we lived in a lovely big Victorian house on a street full of other houses, but I HATED the area

I agree, aufaniae. Our ugly house is in a street of nice Victorian ones. We look out over green playing fields, fringed by a row of copper beeches with green parakeets nest . The area is lovely. Of COURSE I'd rather live in a handsome house - it matters to me, too - but with house prices as they are it is often a choice between handsome and everyone having their own bedroom, or indeed handsome and having a house at all.

I would, probably. You live inside, not outside.