HOW CAN THIS HOUSE LOOK PRETTIER?

[CrispsnDips]

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144277922

It’s a bit of an ‘ugly duckling’ but has potential as it’s in a fantastic area

It looks very "bald" a properly planted garden with lots of shrubs and a real lawn would be great. Similarly window boxes or flowers on the balcony would be lovely. Cascading ivy in the front maybe?

The black tarmac drive also looks very harsh, I'd probably replace with brick or gravel she some hardy plants.

It's a house that looks like a village hall.

That type of design has its fans. If you like it, fine. If you don't, disguising it would be really difficult so I wouldn't bother.

It looks very 1970s to me in style, or maybe a few years later. With a decent budget, I would look at replacing/ recolouring the white windows on the outside, then inside I would rub down and put a light white wash over that pine ( not a lime wash, but just get rid of the yellow).

Then I would go for some really stunning furnishings. I am actually old enough to remember and still love the bold patterns of the furnishing fabrics my mum used in those days so I would go retro on it.

I could love that house.

The horrible balcony would have to go. The garage needs plastering. All that concrete/tarmac outside would have to go. Too much glass - nice for light but it'd be cold/hot. The chrome and glass banister doesn't go with the natural wood. I don't know tbh it looks horrendous to me, a really odd mixture of styles. Looks like a massive house with open plan (ugh) on a tiny plot largely covered in concrete and fake grass.

What hyperbole. Horrendous! Yeah it’s maybe not to your taste but it’s not horrendous, check your privalge if you think that’s horrendous.

I love it! So light and gorgeous outlook on both sides. I would replace the balcony with something wooden and rip up the astroturf.

Hah, my privilege of having an opinion 😂 I would never afford that house. I still think it's fucking hideous.

It’s a lovely house, the artificial grass would put me off though - all that plastic leeching into the ground 😖 A nice lawn with a couple of flowering shrubs would break up all the straight lines of the house and soften it up a bit, I think.

The artificial grass is hideous. The outside areas all need a good clean and you need some planters on the balconies to make it look less sterile. Indoors you need to put something in the gym and just make the whole place look inviting. At the mo it just looks like a big semi-neglected house on a tiny plot. Make the outside inviting for starters.

The dated furniture doesn’t match the style of the house. If I was trying to sell I’d hire one of those companies that puts your furniture in storage and dresses your house with modern furniture. I absolutely wouldn’t start painting over original features such as the wooden ceiling - destroying original features will reduce the value of the house!

I love the 70s vibe and if I was lucky enough to be able to afford that house I would restore the 70s feel.
Astroturf would be first to go. And some serious planting needed to soften the plot.

I like it but it but it needs plants. Lots of plants and flowers - inside and out.

Oh wow - the views!!!

Obvs the plastic grass would go. And I would put pillars below the balcony, to make it a bit more like a verandah.

Inside, change the bannisters and decoration.

Fabulous house with a bit of tarting up!

It was built in 2013!

@CrispsnDips It's a bit too pastiche tbh, and will never look 'pretty'. But if it works for you then go for it, the views are fab.

A proper lawn and cultivated garden, with some trees, shrubs and flowers, also planters on the tarmac, to soften it.
Plants cascading off the balcony and more planters, with varying height plants, including tall ones.
Pillars or arches underneath the balcony to make it look less stick outy, possibly glaze some of the underneath space or else just stick some rattan veranda furniture there. More plants, maybe a grapevine.
I think all of that would improve the outside and make it look more homely (NB to Americans, I am using this word in the British sense)
it is a certain style, so I don't think you can disguise it too much, just make it look its best.

Inside, I agree with the person who said a colour wash over all the wood, as it's too much for my taste.
I personally would want a lot more colour on the walls and in the furnishings. The windows are large, so the light is ample, therefore I would want to do a dark colour drench.
if it was my house, a lot of the walls would be taken up by books, which I like, I think it helps makes a place feel cosy.
Downstairs looks like a brilliant utility space, but nonetheless, I would change some of it to more living space, as it doesn't feel like part of the house.

Generally speaking, the best looking homes are the ones that are in keeping with their surroundings, whatever those surroundings are. Unfortunately, someone got planning permission to build this modern thing in a rural location overlooking period properties (or properties which look period).

It's not a bad house, in and of itself. Practical, bright, airy, user-friendly.

I'd definitely plant actual grass, the plastic stuff is awful and totally out of keeping. It needs lots of planting, indoors and out. The glass balcony should be replaced by wood. You should do whatever you can to make it look like it belongs in a rural location on the edge of a valley surrounded by fields. Personally I don't think the pine is that bad because the house is so bright. That's a pretty expensive looking kitchen, I'd leave it as in. Better furniture: it has nothing to do with the architecture, and looks like it was brought from the previous home which was probably more in keeping with the rest of the village. Either be rural or urban; modern or classic. Pick a lane and stick to it.

Not to my taste but the interior could be whatever you want it to be. The outside though is truly awful.

The balcony is a monstrosity and if that was removed or changed then the outside wouldn't look so horrendous.

I don’t think I’d spend money on doing it up to sell. The potential is clear. Surely whoever bought it would do it to their taste. Are you buying or selling op?

My first thought was greenery, too, inside and out. OK, so all the perennials are obviously dormant but the fake plastic grass is so obviously fake plastic.

Curtains. I know they're not everybody's cup of tea but they do soften the look of a room and help to reduce the clatteriness of large open spaces with hard surfaces. that lovely sunny spot by the picture windows must be unbearably hot and bright, sometimes.

And is the only way to get into the garden from the house through a side door in the garage or a bedroom? That would bother me more than anything if I was considering it as a family house as it's so hard to change.

Paint all that orangey pine out. Introduce colour. Internal plants. Think about the shape and style of the furniture - it's all a bit modern country floating in modern architecture - MCM lines would be better.

It's way overpriced for an ugly, 3-bed house with minimal garden. There are better things on RightMove.

Lovely house but a dated pine overload. Needs painting over and some plants

I think it's fab - but it has a v small garden for the size of house..
Paint all the trim etc one colour.
You could have it rendered - that would look classier.
Get rid of the fake grass and create an actual garden.

I think it's amazing! Bright, spacious rooms, lovely location, gorgeous views - what's not to like (apart from the fake grass)?