What do you loathe?

[JunoJunebug]

What type of home would you NEVER want to live in? Why?
For context. I love so many styles of houses I don’t know how to narrow my search.

A new build, on a housing estate, the type where there are windows overlooking you on all sides and tiny gardens backing on to each other. The film "Vivarium" summed it up perfectly.

Saying this, I saved so hard for 7 years to buy my house, so I feel very grateful to have one at all.

Same. This would be bottom of my list.

Also wouldn't want to live in a little 1700s cottage with ceiling beams and wonky rooms, would feel really oppressive.

Anything with really long corridors. I always think I'm going to see a figure stood at the end of them!

Ultra modern square boxes.

Underground houses with grass on top of them.

Round houses, like converted light houses.

high rise flat with people all around me. Would consider a penthouse though

Anything very overlooked from all sides. I’d hate feeling constantly on display, I need privacy!

Definitely a new build on a large estate. I'd consider a small development with a quality builder. Also nothing open plan I like seperate rooms.

in trying to answer this question I realised it’s not so much what kind of houses I don’t like, it’s which I do - and those are generally late 19th/early 20th century houses with high ceilings and bags of character. The type that are dreadful to heat and demand a wide array of snuggly hoodies and blankets. I dislike them when they’ve had all of the character stripped out to be too new inside, but I do like them to be sensitively modernised.

Painted brickwork ugh

Anything with neighbours.

I think you just get a sense of home when you look. I imagined my family house to be a 1939s semi with a decent garden and gorgeous bay windows. Ended up in a new build and love it, it's very quiet I get up to birdsong and I still after 20 odd years get that lovely feeling when I open the front door.

Anything attached. Would never move into a semi or terrace ever again if I could possibly help it.
Fine if you have good quiet considerate neighbours but people can and do move all the time and you never know who you will get. When you get someone inconsiderate and you are attached to them it can make your life a living hell for months / years

You been watching Grand Designs again?

I don’t like the idea of living in a new build on a housing estate miles from any facilities or community. I rented a house like this once & felt depressed

I loved a new build, everyone complains about them but I find them Fantastic, obviously can't say for every developer but ours are amazing, even if we had issues with the property, the developers have a duty to come out and fix any issues within the given time frame anyway, depending on developer this is usually 1-3 years, they'll fix any settling cracks, gaps in doors/windows, unlevel walls, plumbing or drainage issues, insulation problems, any uneven plastering or paintwork... etc and if they can't fix it, they'll refund the value off the property

Me personally, any property without a driveway or the space to create one, I believe if you don't have a driveway, don't a have car.

I don’t like exposed brickwork, visible woodwork such as beams, small windows, cold houses or no outside space.

Tower blocks. I’d rather live in a basement than a1960s or 70s high rise.

Low beamed ceilings. Claustrophobic. And bedrooms with eaves

For context. I love so many styles of houses I don’t know how to narrow my search.
Location, location, location.

I would hate to live in a new build, or on any kind of estate. I wouldn't want to live in a flat, either. No outside space would be a non-starter, too.

Newbuild boxy estate houses with small square overlooked gardens

Neighbours that you can see!
No car parking
Only one reception room
Kitchen without space for a table

Old house with pokey stairs and low ceilings.

I couldn't get on with the new builds when we viewed.
I would not choose to live in a high rise or a flat of any type.

We felt lucky to find a quiet cul-de-sac with a great sized garden and drive.

An overlooked garden would be my definite no-no. But I'd definitely now consider a new build as energy costs would be one of my main considerations now. I'd sacrifice character for energy efficiency which I never thought I'd think.

Terraced Victorian