Creighton Avenue N2 1930s house

[Mumbler71]

We’ve sold our Edwardian house and have seen a 1930s house on Creighton Avenue. We are not in love with the outside of the house but love the garden , brightness and potential the house has . Ideally we would have loved an older house in Muswell Hill but it’s so much more expensive . This house offers the space and great garden , great schools just not so attractive on the outside . Also you can walk to east finchely station . I just feel we will hate it later , or I’m I being silly ? What is it like living on Creighton Avenue?

We live in a 20’s house that we moved to from an Edwardian one. I think they’re nicer houses to live in as they have bigger rooms and bigger plots.

Being within walking distance of public transport is also great so it sounds like the house ticks many boxes.

Maybe it’d be a case of looking for inspiration of how do decorate? If you’re looking at the 1.5M house, there’s another on the road for 1.799M that’s nicely presented. It has different character to older homes but I think it’s lovely too.

I'm another who prefers the inter-war houses in the area. Huge bay windows, stain glass windows, art deco features, big gardens.
They lend themselves very easily to decorating nicely in a modern 30s/art deco way.
I don't live on the street but know it well. Nice area.

Not much help, I'm afraid, but couldn't resist posting as I used to live in a student bedsit/flat on Creighton Avenue in the late 80s.
AFAICR, the tubes weren't very handy - quite a walk or a bus to the nearest, but - apart from that - loved it.
The house seemed huge. Enough space for flatmate and self to have a bedsitting room, kitchen (larger than my current one!) and a dressing room! Downstairs flat had separate sitting and bedroom but shared a kitchen with the landlady and her daughter.
We all shared a bathroom (there was also a separate downstairs toilet): downstairs flat scheduled for a bath every morning, upstairs had a bath every night. Night bath much better as the water was boiling and warmed you up for the perishing cold rush to bed (downside to living there was that there was no central heating and we couldn't afford to run a heater on the electricity meter. Coldest two winters I've known in London: ice on the insides of the windows and damp towels froze on the towel rail).
Landlady and daughter's accommodation was three bedrooms, v. large sitting room and dining room plus what used the be the maid's rooms (small bedroom and sitting room) used as storage/pantry.
Beautiful wooden panelling and - for London - v. big garden.

I could see it would be gorgeous with some modernisation (she'd changed nothing since moving there in WWII, having left Austria as she was Jewish).

Despite the cold I've very happy memories of Creighton Avenue. And the landlady lived well into her 90s, v. fit and healthy (took my daughters to visit a couple of times, years after we left) so she was presumably cryogenically preserved.

Please forgive the ramble, but I hope you're very happy if you settle there

What a lovely story! I love to hear things like this and often wonder about the past inhabitants of my house.

Sorry for detail OP

@LaMarschallin I love that story! These parts of London is full of such hardy figures who astonish with their longevity and fortitude.