Undecided on this house

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www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/110125739#/?channel=RES_BUY

This house needs some work, but will it always look tired and dated, especially the exterior? I would really like to hear opinions.

I love how it looks!

But the bedrooms aren’t enough so for that reason. I’m out.

I’ve lived in a house just like this. Lots of light because windows are huge compared to modern houses. I’d be wanting to check electrics as it may need rewiring, insulation as they can be cold and the situation around Leasehold.

We loved our 1960s house and were sad to leave it.

I think it looks okay from the outside, just needs some (a lot!) modernisation and bringing up to date inside. Has potential.

We live in a 1960s house in an area surrounded by loads of other 1960s houses. Perhaps at the moment not the most attractive externally, but big rooms.

My only comment is bedroom 3 which looks like it's perhaps been carved up off bedroom 1 as there's something weird going on with the radiator and window?

The back garden is tiny!

It's my favourite type and era of a house so I love the exterior!!

Great size rooms downstairs for living room and pretty garden and large drive. You could make all of them really lovely. The house is 1970's. It will always look like that period. If you don't like look of house could you look for another you do like then compare internal room sizes and drive and gardens. You might find you can learn to love the style of house.

It’s got a lot of potential, as others have said it is very light. But yeah l can’t got on with that era of house myself

I don't like the garden. The back garden is tiny. The front garden is huge but useless as it is so open. All the other houses have open front gardens too. Is that something in the leasehold agreement? - i.e. you are stuck with it.

It's definitely of its time, and you won't change that - it's a distinct look and you either like it or you don't (as with a Victorian terrace). There are definitely things you can do to make it look less tired- new front door and garage door, new windows, clean up the drive. But if you don't like the style of the era, it's not the house for you.

The leasehold would make it a definite no from me, and tbh I'd have other concerns too. The front garden area is vast, at the expense of the back garden, which is where you'd actually want to be! Some of the rooms are big and airy but others are too small...
if I were ever to buy a 60s house then for me, the only way to go would be to truly embrace it and do the whole 60s vibe with furnishing it rather than try to fight it. But frankly it's not something I can see myself doing.

@BettyCarver

The leasehold would make it a definite no from me, and tbh I'd have other concerns too. The front garden area is vast, at the expense of the back garden, which is where you'd actually want to be! Some of the rooms are big and airy but others are too small... if I were ever to buy a 60s house then for me, the only way to go would be to truly embrace it and do the whole 60s vibe with furnishing it rather than try to fight it. But frankly it's not something I can see myself doing.

Modern leaseholds have given leaseholds a really bad name. We've owned a few older leasehold properties, they've all had peppercorn rents (£3.20 per year being the most expensive), only 1 was actually collected, there were no leasehold clauses and the leaseholders permission was not required except to demolish the building in its entirety.

We used to own a 1960s semi that was fugly but had lovely spacious rooms and big windows - we did a very very small wraparound extension, as in less than 2 metres on two sides of the kitchen and knocked through and the house was fab. When we sold that we paid too much attention to the opinions of others and bought a very late Georgian/early Victorian town house and hated every second we lived in it. We are now midway through renovating a late 1960s detached which is fugly but has big rooms and huge windows. It's on an estate of similarly fugly houses, all of which have good size plots.

That said, we viewed a house a few years ago that I think was the same layout as yours with the very small upstairs and we would have had to do a double storey extension, as indeed the eventual owners have done. It had an enormous plot and could take that. I wouldn't buy they house you've linked due to the plot layout I'm afraid as I don't see any easy way of making the upstairs sensibly sized but I would absolutely buy another fugly 60s/70s house.

I'm not keen on the look, but it's quite like what I live in now! Mainly because it has large rooms and big windows unlike newer houses and more practical things (like a downstairs loo) unlike the Victorian houses round here. And because the snob factor makes your money go further.

I know it wouldn't be everyone's choice, but it if it was my forever home and I had the money, I'd be gutting it, extending the upstairs and yes, I would render it. But I watch too much Love it or List it and George Clarke on TV.

Changing the front door and windows will help. There’s a few companies that do transformations and new rendering to houses like this that make them look amazing! I would say they used to be dated and I wouldn’t want them but now you can make them look modern and wonderful.

Sorry, to add, I wouldn't touch it if it really is a leasehold.

I presume you're happy with the small rear garden and ridiculously large front lawn?

@vickyc90

You could render the front in a white or grey with grey windows. If you put 1970s Reno into instagram it's a popular project. The back garden looks really small but the front is impressive. It seems a little over priced looking at nearby sold prices

NOOOOOO do not do this its the stone cladding of tomorrow. There will thousands of home owners across the land in years to come ripping out those grey windows shaking their heads in outrage!

I love the house - it reminds me of our first family home with spacious rooms! The interior needs updating for modern living but the exterior is timeless.

I love it and would scandi style the shit out of it but why is it a leasehold?

Loads of potential and you could change outside and windows . Depends on your budget for refurbishment.

I like it

Sorry I think it’s awful!! Wouldn’t even consider a house like this

It's a very good house in a hugely sort after area ( I live round the corner) .it has loads of potential to make a lovely family home .
Have you visited it ? Does it have a good feel ?
Houses go very quickly in this area as people like to move up to bigger houses on the same estates , it's very popular with dog owners , walkers and cyclists.
The house does need updating possibly a new boiler too so take that into consideration when you make your offer .

It's a house with great potential, but the small rear garden combined with the leasehold aspect would make it an absolute no from me.

I love mid century and I've always gone for much older. I like it as it is!

I think it is a really lovely house, generous room sizes, obviously needs much renovation, but could make a wonderful family home.

Pretty similar to what we had the move before last, very large detached family home, replaced kitchen/utility, replaced all three bathrooms, recarpeted/decorated throughout. And made it look great, sold it this year, as needed a bungalow due to my disability, sold for over double what we paid for it nearly 18 years ago.

If you can afford to do the work, I would go for it, just bear in mind that trades are difficult to get hold of at the moment and the cost of building materials have risen sharply.

Good luck with whatever you decide.