What kind of houses are your favourite?

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What kind of houses do you like best?

Old or new?

Flat or house?

Old fashioned / cottage or modern?

Quiet location or main road?

If I could have any house it would be a georgian townhouse. Never going to happen though unless we win the lottery!

If they built new houses with the space of a Georgian or Victorian house then I'd like a new one.

But they don't, so detached Victorian ones for me!

victorian terrace just like the one I live in :)

Queen Anne Rectory with a walled garden please.

Period are my favourite, but more around the Georgian period than Medieval. I also love cosy cottages but more of a holiday place than to live.

Modern can be nice too though, if done to high specs. I think a blend of modern & period is good.

For me a quiet location in the countryside is my priority.

I think what it really comes down too is the " feel " of a house. Some houses just have a cosy, welcoming feel and others you just want to leave. I think the "feel" overrules the houses age.

I love solid, redbrick, Victorian houses.

Personally, I like large 1950s or 60s ones. The ones that were 'architect designed' or some other crazy phrase - but the ones where all the houses on the street are all different and when you step inside, you have no idea what the house will be like.

The houses I hate - Victorian / Edwardian Terraces. No individuality or character (in the true sense of the term) to them. I particularly hate the uniform ones round me with living room in front, dining room behind and kitchen behind that. Especially when they're all decorated in beige.

I live in neither type of house

Forgot to say, I prefer rural locations and curvy roads. Hate straight streets of houses. Especially when they look the same.... Hmm, beginning to think I have a thing about uniformity now!!

I'd like a nice barn conversion with a massive kitchen/family room.

I like period houses - we used to live in a lovely Edwardian semi BUT neither DH or I enjoy any form of DIY so unless we could afford to pay for every little bit of maintenance it would be totally impractical; our current and last homes were new build, quite large, individually designed, very nice (if a bit bland).

Large Victorian detached with a decent sized garden, and off street parking for two cars, close to shops, but on a quiet road road.

Or, if I were single a large apartment with views over a city.

I like town houses. My dream house would be a Georgian town house with massive rooms.

I love Edwardian detached houses, they're a bit less formal than georgian or Victorian but are still solid, well built and traditional usually with larger rooms and gardens than modern houses.

I'm with LadyLetch on this one - I dream of a 1950s/60s/70s house (currently living in an 1860s terrace) and spend far too much time looking at Wowhaus.

I would like a 1930s Art Deco house with stained glass windows and square rooms. Big lawns and trees. Crunchy gravel carriage driveway. In deepest darkest leafy suburbia.

I would like an architect designed modern house (1950s onwards). I prefer Edwardian to Victorian - it is virtually all Victorian terraces around here and I hate the narrow hallway as you go in, plus the slightly redundant "back parlour" and the drop in levels between the main house and the back addition.

It would have to be a bungalow, not bothered if its old or new, but absolutely MUST be a 'non estate location', prefereably reached by its own road/track and set in an acre of land with no immediate/nearby neighbours.

I've always admired a slightly odd looking 1930s house nearby, it has a tower and I have wanted a house with a tower since childhood.
Also quite fancy an Edwardian townhouse since winning a dining table on Ebay and the seller had one, had a sneaky look round when I collected it. Never realised there was so much space in what appeared to be a narrow house!
Currently renting a really ugly 1970s semi. It serves its purpose and is easy to heat etc, but the kitchen is tiny and the third bedroom is nothing more than a box.

I like anything with character, doesn't matter if it's old or new... but different and quirky ticks my box. I grew up in a 15th century former gatehouse and coaching inn, priest holes and graveyards in the garden were normal for us. But I do love more modern houses too, I love the amount of light this place gets but I do think with a lot of those types of property the location is essential. A stark 1950s design looks great on a sunny Californian beachside location, a bit less attractive in a rainy midlands setting (nothing against the midlands by the way :o) Ditto all those lovely 1930s art deco places you see on the south west coast. Looks great on Sandbanks, not so great in Bromley IMO.

Oeufs isn't the Wowhaus site great? Saw it for the first time the other day and was able to indulge in Art Deco property porn.

Unfortunately am currently the owner of a 1970s property - needs must.

I'm also quite a fan of 1930s arts and crafts style houses too this is just gorgeous

Oeufs I'm loving the Wowhaus site!

dreaming over the house in Lymm and the one in Liverpool - quirky, bungalowy, split level, floor to ceiling windows - sigh -

Headfairy loving it!! esp the garden grounds

Old victorian terraces

Love 70s but very hard to find one (wasted years)