Moving from an old house to an ultra modern house

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We live in a victorian flat at the moment and we are just so fed up of it being freezing and drafty and requiring constant maintenance (which our landlord doesn't do).

We've seen an ultra modern (not just new) flat that's in an area we like. Has anyone made a move from an old/period house to a super modern one?

What do you do with antique furniture, does that look weird?

I can't speak from experience but l'm sure you can keep some key pieces and make it work.

Otherwise storage?

We sold our first home (Georgian) & rented 3 older properties whilst waiting for our "forever" home to pop up.

It did this year & to our suprise it's a new build (15years old). I never thought we would buy a "new" home but what an absolute game changer. We love it. Like you we were fed up of cold homes, extortionate energy bills etc.

Not a single regret. Plus, our vintage furniture fits well as it's timeless. Mixing old & new gives your home character, well, I think so anyway!

My sister did this and the old furniture looks great in the brand new house. Far better than mine where I went from a 70s house to an edwardian one.

I agree with @Lovelylittlehouse that mixing old and new gives character.

I've moved from a 1730s house to a brand new eco house. It was a rental whilst we looked for a place to buy.

The transition from 12 foot tall sash windows and draughty chimneys to fully insulated, solar panels, underfloor heating was astonishing. Our bills dropped from high to nothing.

Downsides were that our furniture looked ODD! As we were renting we couldn't change the decor, pine laminate flooring or supplied venetian blinds to match so it all jarred. The new build had been designed by computer to max out room space I think as there were no cupboards anywhere - we'd gone from big old understairs and alcove cupboards to having nowhere to put the ironing board or vacuum.

When it came to buy again we bought an 1870s cottage. We missed the character and now our brass bed looks in his natural habitat again.

I know someone with all different period/styles of furniture and they have moved a few times, last time being a modern house and each time the furniture looks fab. However I guess it depends on the size of furniture.,

This is kind of the reverse, but here at the cottage - where the ‘modern bit’ is Victorian - we like to mix it up with a fair bit of modern artwork (nothing ££, mostly my own work) and bits of mid century.

Some things are timeless, for example, the DH bought me a huge black and white poster print of Florence in the 1966 floods. It would be at home in a modern setting and it works as an alternative to the ubiquitous over mantle mirror approach that’s so popular hereabouts