what will be the original features of the houses being built today?

[DiaDuit]

apart from magnolia paint.

I'm watching LLL and they are talking about how a house has had the original features removed, cornicing, fireplaces, ceiling roses etc. I know lots of people restore houses and put back the features that have been removed over the years and I'm wondering what original features they will talk about in 100 years when referring to houses being built now.

any ideas? new houses all seem very bland and samey to me. I cant pinpoint anything that would be considered 'of it's time' (now) in 100 or even 50 years.

replica satellite dishes

plastic doors and windows (yuk)

Maybe even... a Saniflow (for display purposes only, same as now)

Lol at replica satellite dishes.
Me and DH were talking about this the other day.
I can see people building partition walls back into open plan houses when their kids (and their families) are still living at home as they can't afford to move. And I'm convinced coloured bathroom suites will come back. I personally love the Light blue ones you see in old people's houses on rightmove

those glass brick walls

towel ladder radiators

Is anyone else reading this with a sense of doom?
Log burner
Kitchen island
Free standing bath
Bi fold doors
and we've put them in a period property.

My brother has finally got rid of his avocado bathroom suite this week and I've told him they'll probably be all the rage in a few years!

"Onesleeptillwembley.
The hideous seventies stuff that was around in my childhood has very quickly come back. "

I'm trying to figure out what stuff this is! Please share, anyone who knows. Having lived thru the 70's, I'm
Intrigued!

Rain showers.

Decking and timber/plastic cladding of walls

Chrome and glass balustrades

Garden fences stained blue.

70s - avocado or sun king(yellow) bathroom
green, brown, gold beige, purple
swirly prints
dralon and fringes on sofas
velvet curtains
orange kitchen
everything a bit garish

orla keiley prints emulate it

Oh! Thankyou alemci.

It was different the first time round....much more nylon!

yes, I was a dc in the 70s and my parents bought a brand new 70s house so very experienced. turquoise and pink bathrooms

also wood panel wall

our current house bought 1996 had hideous 70s features e.g yellow bathroom, beige and green kitchen, bi fold door with wooden handle

green swirley patterned bedroom carpet that served to cover the weeds in the garden

however I do like Orla Kierly designs but don't have any

Kitchen island

En suites

A wall of folding glass doors

No attic as was built with a room up there already

Granite worktops in kitchen

Wood or tiled flooring and underfloor heating

Garden that is sometimes smaller or only the same size as footprint of house

Minkah
There's loads, the big lamps, 70's style suites, the sideboards are all described as funky and retro. Open your eyes.

I'm not saying its the most popular style around, but is becoming increasingly desirable, apparently. Has been for a few years now.

The difference between modern and period is that even the most modest Victorian terrace seemed to have had high quality decorative features - tiles, cornicing, fireplaces, ceiling roses etc

Very unlike today's small modern terraces that have nothing beautiful-but-useless at all. Shame.

nope, it's just that most of the really bad Victorian (and other old) homes have fallen down, or been demolished in slum clearance, or were bombed, or have been improved.

Survivor bias means you mostly see the best examples.

Yes, one sleep, you have opened my eyes, thankyou.

Alemci, sounds gruesome! We had a lot of white furniture, and liberty prints, and huge red glass opaque lamps hanging from the ceiling, which you could pull down low to hang over the table, then somehow get them to go up again!

My bedroom was basically orange. With orange circles on the walls!

The new build homes built nowadays are such appalling quality that there won't be any around in 100 years time so nothing with "original features".

I think commercial buildings' legacy will be lots and lots of glass. The concrete of our time....

I think you are right, prefab standard?

orange bedroom sounds yuck

ah good point Piglet.

Is it not the case though that many towns have rows and rows of sought-after but small Victorian houses, some still with desirable original features, whereas their modern counterparts are all featureless low-quality boxes?

Modern houses with genuine future-proof appeal are comparatively rare, no?

Bi fold doors
Kitchen Islands
Open plan kitchen/diner/playroom type room
Ensuites x lots
No parking
Grey walls, kitchen cupboards, tiles etc, etc pref with acid yellow
Log burners
Chrome everything

little mosaic tiles