Period homes ruined by 'modernisation'

[bohwen]

Anyone seen any gems of unrestored period properties? I don't mind the era of a house, so long as it's good quality and has good features. Every age be it Georgian or 50s Modern has its virtues.

I saw this beauty online a couple of years ago, and cheap sold for £200k in 2015. Art deco, really strongly so too.

Saw it back on the market, and it's absolutely ruined. Looks like the kind of place you'd think of a car dealer living in

And now they want £695k ! What a joke.

Before (scroll down):
www.zoopla.co.uk/property/shangri-la/bryn-road/pontllanfraith/blackwood/np12-2ey/16691658
After 'modernisation'/restoration:
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-76980103.html

I almost couldn't click on the second link. And it is awful, but they actually haven't ripped everything out just covered it in tacky shiney white. It is heart breaking though.

it looks awful now. But I've also found the monochrome look (unless done incredibly well) a little tacky.

That's sad happens all the tine doesnt it. People dont realise the gem they have and don't really have good design ideas themselves. Round here lovely old houses are modernised with huge grey doors and windows making once lovely houses looking like secure establishments.

That is literally blinding... their home and their taste though so

I remember as a kid seeing lovely cottages for sale in Cotswolds and they were perfectly Miss Marple, but now they’re all modernised. I mean some beautifully done, but I miss even the ramshackle factor (they’re not my homes though!)

It's awful and they killed off the garden as well.

Those black rooms!

I hate the new colour scheme, but the rest is okay. It's a Grade II listed property so I imagine the 'bones' of the house will have to have been kept? If I had to choose I'd go for the renovated one, thought the kitchen looked okay.

It’s awful.

BUT the high gloss, black pin pointing and ‘mansion’ style is at the very least a nod to Art Deco.

That home cinema - gross. I'm surprised there aren't jewelled tissue boxes and tubs of KY on the arm of each chair.

I live in a 60s semi which we have modernised.

That done up house is nearly my worst nightmare. Shiny hard surfaces everywhere. Monochrome and cold / sterile.

I really really dislike what they have done.

There was so much potential in that house -
sympathetic modernisation using the wooden floors, interesting windows and beautiful green garden.

That's just hideous - and the huge flat parking area looks like a school playground

It looked so private before, now that swimming pool is in full view.

Bonkers.

Thing is, they have kept to the Art Deco look. I hate the new house - looks cold and uninviting - but I dislike Art Deco as well for the same reasons. Style over comfort.

I hope they've got a Dalmatian or a zebra

My x husband and I bought a Victorian house many years ago, the previous owners had in the 60s/70s removed all of the original features, fireplaces, cornices, walls (made it open plan), changed the windows to bays and removed the corbels from around the front door.
Luckily next door had been kinder and we spent the next few years reinstating everything, spending a lot of time at reclamation yards etc.

Oh my they have butchered that beautiful house. I couldn’t even look at all the photos

Well, I wasn't keen on the original interior design but that monochrome is pretty hideous!

I have to say if Im getting a bit bored of seeing Victorian terrace kitchen extensions with bifolding doors and recessed lighting!

@DerbyshireGirly your vivid imagination should come with a warning. I nearly threw up.

The person who bought the 4 storey Georgian home I grew up in did this. Absolutely vile. When we left it still had the bells for the servants etc, then saw it on rightmove looking bland as can be with all original features gone. It upset me a bit actually.

My gosh that is a monstrosity of interior design.

The worst part of the new listing is the sodding Dove handsoap in the picture though

I agree, there is a house near me from the same era that i coveted for years, it was lovely outside though, beautiful condition, gorgeous garden, well maintained, original doors and windows. Then it came up for sale.

Seeing the pictures on Rightmove broke my heart. The inside didn’t have a single original feature and the layout had all been messed around.

I don’t give it a second glance when I pass it now.

That’s just decor, the bones of the house have been kept the same. Monochrome isn’t my preference, but it’s simoly taste. They haven’t butchered it because they’ve not removed any original features. So it is down to personal taste.

New colour scheme not to my taste and quite blinding and harsh. A softer palette or at least different in each room would be better. The real travesty is why pave so much of the garden and reduce it to a tiny green patch?

I drove past that house a few times years ago and always fancied having a nose about inside it as it is so different to the usual Welsh valley houses.

The biggest problem with this is that the owners have taken their version of 'style' so far that that any sane person would not pay a premium to tear out all that lovely new polished porcelain. I would literally want to rip everything out and start again so would have much prefered to buy it in its original condition. This particular house can surely only be for shooting something x-rated :D