Which decade/era house style is your favourite (that you lived in or would buy) and why?

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I love the period features of a Victorian house but not a fan of the thin walls. Like the size of a 30's house, but their locations tend to be less central.
I like the larger gardens of 60'sand 70's houses but the front face rendering window situation I never found appealing.
Just no to 80's.
I suppose my favourite style is Georgian as they look like the houses that I would draw as a child; nice and symmetrical. We don't have any Georgian homes where I live though.

A modestly sized Arts & Crafts detached cottage with lots of interior period features and a nice garden would be my dream. Or a really old cottage with beams and a warren of tiny rooms.
Otherwise I rather like big handsome 1920s houses with large gardens as they remind me of the house I grew up in.
It's all about the authenticity of period features for me!

I'd love to live in a cool, architect designed 70's home.

Heart: big old Georgian or Victorian/Edwardian

Head: a nice cosy new build

I love Edwardian. I’ve lived in a few early Victorian cottages some of them were only one brick thick of had no foundations etc. think building standards improved considerably during that time.

Love 60s and 70s. So much natural light, and I'm a sucker for wooden cladding.

There are some beautiful Art Deco houses around here that I covet but they are very very rarely on the market and hugely expensive.

We live in an arts and craft terrace which I love.

I admire many periods, especially Georgian as they are so elegant and beautifully proportioned, but for me to actually live in and pay the bills on, after years of Victorian, 16thC, Edwardian, 1930s, etc, give me a newly-built house with all its insulation, triple glazed windows and affordable heating, and sod the period details.

The mid century houses of the Austin Vernon partnership in S London. Modernist architecture, big windows, rational space and layout.

I like modern houses which blend modern and traditional and are well insulated and comfortable e.g. these oak framed houses www.oakwrights.co.uk/case-studies/

Georgian houses are beautiful. High ceilings, sash windows, etc.

But I also love modern houses. Not toy town estates of indentikit boxes but individual eco homes.

This is fascinating I've nipped off and done some research based in this thread.

But now I'm confused - I was told mine was an arts and crafts style house but looking at images it doesn't seem to fit. Though it was full of Wm Morris when we bought it - and now it still has Morris, but toned down.

Would anyone care to catergorise mine if I quickly pop up a photo?

I really love our current 30s semi detached. Quiet location but can walk to city centre, huge garden not overlooked. Rooms are a great size apart from small kitchen but we're sorting that with an extension next year. Still has character, solidly built and retains heat in winter etc. Our last house was a Victorian terrace which I loved at the time but I wouldn't go back to it. Bloody cold in winter.

17/18th century. I like the character and thick, very thick, walls.

Always happy to nose at other people's houses @mangotoo !

I grew up in my favourite type of house. It was a huge Victorian farmhouse that had been built onto a much older house-dating back to the 1500’s. It had so many wonderful features-main staircases, back staircases, a secret passage between one bedroom and another, huge windows at the front, poky little windows at the back which seemed to be ten feet deep. Also huge gardens. It had lots of character! I’d have to win the lottery to buy something like that nowadays.

A pre-war semi or preferably detached. Am currently in a silk weavers cottage in rendered brick - single wall, cold, and small garden. I have a feeling it was put up quickly and cheaply - the only thing in my house that’s straight is me! I inherited, am renovating, and downsizing when it’s finished. I worry about what’s going to go wrong next, and am after something a bit more sturdy and with a bigger garden and drive.

Arts and Crafts for me, too. And joint second place for Edwardian terraces and 1920s-30s semis/villas.

Something grand and Georgian with a big garden, or Arts and Crafts. Also fond of double-fronted early Victorians – less so my bog-standard crappy narrow Victorian terrace with the long dark hallway.

Absolutely love grey stone-built Yorkshire houses.

Wide houses with symmetry rather than narrow long ones, really. Spend far too much time pinning things from Homes & Gardens.

Thanks @RedTravellingSocks.

This is from a few weeks ago

I live in a late 1920s miner cottage, it was quite plain to look at when we bought it but over the years we've replaced windows with sash windows (style they would've been originally from looking at old photos of the area) as well as put a nicer front door in. We had to put back in the original period features in the living room. I've always wanted a 1920s house, however my ideal would be a beautiful arts and craft style house with all the original features, beautiful wooden stair case, wood panelling etc. Unfortunately that's out of my price range so my miners cottage will have to do, we have planted a beautiful mature garden though so it definitely helps

Georgian

Mine is definitely 1960s/70s as long as it has more than a teeny tiny kitchen.

I yearn to live in a 60s house with original woodblock flooring, built in wardrobes in every bedroom, large windows, sensible layout and decent garden.

Absolutely sick to the back teeth of living in a narrow Victorian terrace with equally narrow 100ft garden. Never, ever again.

Could it be Victorian mangotoo - whatever it is, it's lovely and has great proportions, nice front door too.

I live in Bath in a smallish terrace house. The key thing is to have lovely neighbours and not a flat conversion/HMO nextdoor. We walk nearly everywhere. I feel a bit agoraphobic in semis and detached homes.

It is going to heat up like a pizza oven this week, but I do love it.

We do like renting minimalist homes on holiday to remind ourselves that we'd be hopeless relocating to something similar.

I don't have a particular favourite with regards to style/era its very house dependent

I like the proportions of a large Victorian probably the best but all had good and bad points. I am pretty happy with our large Victorian semi villa modernised re insulation / service but retaining proportion & character with our modern architect designed (me) studio building in the grounds. It wasn't my favourite when we got it, it took some work to get it to that point.

I have lived in a
1970's bungalow (dull)
A Georgian townhouse (awful build quality past the facade but pretty and nice sized rooms)
A converted water mill that was in the doomsday book (huge, foot thick walls, cool in summer not the greatest when there was flooding)
A 1980's executive detached (dull and a shrine to mahogany stain)
A 1960's architect designed detached house (terrible build quality, gorgeous framed views and open plan so didn't work with family)
1970s flat - weird shapes, terrible build quality
A 1940's semi - excellent build quality, nice sized garden, bedrooms and living spaces, tiny kitchen and bathroom, garage that would fit a motorbike but not much more.
Victorian Tyneside flat - not bad for a flat but noisy neighbours and no real outside space
Edwardian terrace - Lovely proportions, no outside space or parking, we got it from a developer who had done a bad job so we spent a lot of time rectifying his mistakes
Victorian semi - bought after it was neglected and it has taken a lot of work to get it to where it is. Huge plot, great character and great proportions, downside everything is a big job when you have to tackle it.