Aspect putting us off.

ben_m_g

There is a property for sale, in the right area, in budget, and the right size, but the outside is really putting us off.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-50674751.html?premiumA=true

Inside the room sizes look great, from the outside it looks like a prison (it looks a lot worse in person).

I have been racking my brain trying to think how you would go about making it look like a nice exterior (paint goes a long way or maybe some climbing plants?)

But I can't visualise the change, any ideas?

ellie27

I am confused, where is the main entrance to the house? Is that at the left side in the main photo?

When you go to Google streetman (or whatever it is called in street view) you can see the direct next door attached neighbours house does look much nicer. Has a nicer shiny black door, hanging baskets and some nice shrubbery/plants.

PlutoinCapricorn

I would invest some time looking around to see what others have done, both out in the real world and online e.g.

http://www.bhg.com/home-improvement/exteriors/curb-appeal/before-and-after-home-exteriors/#page=5

fairy_lights

It looks like a soviet town hall. I'd love to know what was going through the architects mind the day they came up with that.
As it's a semi I don't know what improvements you could do to the outside without getting your neighbours involved, and they might not be interested. The rooms also look very dark but maybe that's just bad photography?

slopemaster

If I'm seeing this right, it's an elegant Georgian facade which just needs some window boxes.
But your front door is on the side of the house and the garage of a nasty new house has been crammed up next to it. Or is that your garage?

LEJC

TBH...its the sort of thing that you probably cant do much to change....
Sometimes these open plan estates come with restrictions over painting or building walls etc...and it would take years to train plants to climb that.

I think if your hearts not in it from the start theres little that you can do to improve it.

lincroft1710

slopemaster wrote: »

If I'm seeing this right, it's an elegant Georgian facade which just needs some window boxes.
But your front door is on the side of the house and the garage of a nasty new house has been crammed up next to it. Or is that your garage?

It's a mock Georgian facade, that part of Peterborough is less than 20 years old.

fairy_lights

slopemaster wrote: »

If I'm seeing this right, it's an elegant Georgian facade which just needs some window boxes.
But your front door is on the side of the house and the garage of a nasty new house has been crammed up next to it. Or is that your garage?

I think it's a new build that has attempted to look like an elegant Georgian building but gone horribly wrong along the way

Gigervamp

Those toilet/shower/bathrooms, do any of them have windows? They all look very dark.

slopemaster

fairy_lights wrote: »

I think it's a new build that has attempted to look like an elegant Georgian building but gone horribly wrong along the way

Ah, yes.
Looking more closely, you're right.

sniggings

I could put up with the outside if the inside made up for it...small bathroom and the view is not great from the windows, so if you think it looks like a prison, I would expect it to start to feel like one fairly soon too.

( I thought aspect referred to the view from the windows,not the house's appearance?)