What kind of houses are your favourite?

[Officedepot]

What kind of houses do you like best?

Old or new?

Flat or house?

Old fashioned / cottage or modern?

Quiet location or main road?

I love the house I live in now.

A small millers cottage.

I do like Georgia houses too but not unless my little family increases in size which I very much doubt

Something like this it is literally 5 minutes away from my current pokey end terrace...I LOVE the stained glass doors!

Georgian houses have the most wonderful proportions, to my eye. I love them. Or a long low cottage with a big stone fireplace, to go the other way, but with that I'd need a big sky.

I don't think I could be happy in a new build ? even a postwar build ? the low ceilings and boxy little rooms are just so depressing and confining. Like being caged for the night! And the colour of the bricks is always harsh, and all the plastic clicky clacky ticky tacky crappiness of it all just makes me know despair.

I live in a tiny tiny little terraced house but it has some height to the ceilings, some breadth to the windows; it has a sense of space and light and a comforting solidity that you just can't get in a new build (of even vaguely comparative cost).

Yes fussychica and yuleheart - Wowhaus is just brilliant and is my no.1 site for property porn and the Modern House (estate agent) has some beauties too.

Also love a bit of Deco and v.keen on Arts & Crafts like others - was suffused with awe and envy when I visited Blackwell in the Lakes a couple of years back.

If I had the funds and the time to design and build my own house, it would definitely be some sort of cross between Bauhaus and contemporary Arts & Crafts (especially beautiful wood work and stained glass) - although I would happily settle for a Span house in the meantime

"Queen Anne Rectory with a walled garden please. "
you'll have to fight me for it

Christmas don't get me started on the snide and stingy proportions of most new builds and definitely don't get me started about living rooms with kitchens in them - the RIBA has an ongoing campaign to improve space standards in new developments, but I can't see them gaining much traction on this given the current market and parlous state of development finance.

Oeufs you are leading us astray!

We go for garden/land/space as the first priority. Google Earth and Streetview are my allies!

Christmas love the description "clicky clacky ticky tacky crappiness"

Actually, I like the description to its conclusion "and all the plastic clicky clacky ticky tacky crappiness of it all just makes me know despair."

Hahaha, with my Span houses I am really spoiling you yuleheart

But to get back on track - thanks for starting this thread Officedepot - what sort of house do you live in OP? And what's your heart's desire in terms of accommodation?

Georgian for me - double-fronted ideally, detached. I like the townhouses but not their narrowness or all that running up and down stairs.

Alternatively, the Mies van der Rohe pavilion (and it's not even a house) - preferably somewhere on the Catalan coast.

Art Deco houses are my fave. But I also love stone period houses, traditional red brick, 60's/70's open plan big window type houses also.

Really dislike 80's housing though.

I quite like the span and wowhouse houses!

If money was no object I would love to live in a converted factory / warehouse or modernist house made of concrete or exposed brick, steel and glass.

Like this

or this

or this

(these are just ones that my google has turned up - I've got loads of better examples but can't be arsed to dig through Elle Decoration )

I dream of having to walk through several 'spaces' from the kitchen to the front door. And of my voice echoing... And of proper art hanging from the walls.

Don't know where DS's lego will go though.