Why are UK houses so ugly

[canadagoose]

I find Scottish houses to be the ugliest. I think it's all the sandstone which, when accompanied by the dour weather, make everything seem a bit dank.

That sounds like eastern Scotland. The sandstone got a bit manky in the past in the industrial age, and it doesn't look great. A lot of Scottish council houses, as well as post-war private houses, have a crappy pebble-dash look, and it's not much better.

[Sebastian Cobb]

That sounds like eastern Scotland. The sandstone got a bit manky in the past in the industrial age, and it doesn't look great. A lot of Scottish council houses, as well as post-war private houses, have a crappy pebble-dash look, and it's not much better.

Did you ever see the metal prefabs up near Northfield when you stayed in Aberdeen?

Horrid things, the bolts that hold the metal together tend to rust so they get big brown stains down them like a ships hull.

[Cerys]

New build modern house, wow! Looks great!!!

Looks like conjoined Hitlers.

[Twit 2]

And the detached version, those but  sliced in half, is referred to in the brochure as "The Mengele."

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

Go and live in a cave then.

[Cuellar]

UK houses: grey in appearance, and demeanour.

[TrenterPercenter]

Is this one of those threads where someone is going to post a picture of man in stockings putting his willy in a letter box?

[Glebe]

Is this one of those threads where someone is going to post a picture of man in stockings putting his willy in a letter box?

Or sticking a cucumber in a letterbox with a speech bubble saying "The Martians are coming!" © Ken Dodd.

[monkfromhavana]

One thing that makes UK houses ugly is either having no front garden whatsoever, or just having paving slabs to park your car on instead of a bit of a garden.

[Noodle Lizard]

I remember finding it weird to see some of the richest entertainers in the UK's houses, compared with their US counterparts. When that whole Jimmy Carr tax evasion scandal happened, you couldn't move for seeing photos of his 8.5 million quid home:



It looks like a pediatricians office!

The UK does have some wonderful architecture, but it seems as though nobody really lives in it.

[Psmith]

It's the same here in Oz.They've gone more for the concrete air raid shelter with windows style.No semi's but detached houses far enough apart someone can walk between and get to the back garden aka outside entertainment area.

[Blumf]

When that whole Jimmy Carr tax evasion scandal happened, you couldn't move for seeing photos of his 8.5 million quid home:

Is that the UK equivalent of a McMansion?

[Icehaven]

It's the same here in Oz.They've gone more for the concrete air raid shelter with windows style.No semi's but detached houses far enough apart someone can walk between and get to the back garden aka outside entertainment area.

That's untold privilege in the UK. I've very, very rarely encountered anyone who lives in a detached house, and even then they were mostly bungalows.

[canadagoose]

That's untold privilege in the UK. I've very, very rarely encountered anyone who lives in a detached house, and even then they were mostly bungalows.

I knew a couple back in the Borders who lived in a detached house, but they were high school teachers. I can't imagine being able to afford one myself. Even semi-detached is pushing it in the Edinburgh urban area.

[katzenjammer]

New build houses could be improved a lot just by putting bigger windows in, but they always choose tiny ones. I guess there must be some minor cost saving the cunt builders just can't resist.

[Zetetic]

Easy way towards (nominal?) energy efficiency, I'd guess.

[katzenjammer]

Been like that for decades, way before anyone (nominally) gave a shit about energy efficiency

[Mr Banlon]

Is that the UK equivalent of a McMansion?

It's probably built better than a true McMansion (the US ones are built of stucco covered wood or fake brick veneer with styrofoam mouldings/fibreglass columns), but it is the same kind of architectural dog's dinner.

[Buelligan]

Maybe it's the long face.

[Mr_Simnock]

That's untold privilege in the UK. I've very, very rarely encountered anyone who lives in a detached house, and even then they were mostly bungalows.

Untold privilege? Round my end there are loads of detached houses like this - https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/59917583/?search_identifier=90b0a56f7726800a643db1df3ef9f6e4. Every single new estate built in the area over the last 10 years has a load of detached houses built in them and they go as soon as the plots become available to buy. Even places like Burnley and Nelson have loads of detached houses in them - https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/59949415/?search_identifier=4ffc07963acaf1d2b920e8710aba9cf0

[jobotic]

I do like a cycle to have a pog at all the lovely Span houses at New Ash Green

https://www.google.com/search?q=span+new+ash+green&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB895GB895&sxsrf=AOaemvLEFKk44qgc9cv2ogdJMP6Jb-xc3g:1638267168411&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiyovrk7L_0AhWiQ_EDHXyODV0Q_AUoAnoECAEQBA&biw=1517&bih=730&dpr=0.9

[Icehaven]

Untold privilege? Round my end there are loads of detached houses like this - https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/59917583/?search_identifier=90b0a56f7726800a643db1df3ef9f6e4. Every single new estate built in the area over the last 10 years has a load of detached houses built in them and they go as soon as the plots become available to buy. Even places like Burnley and Nelson have loads of detached houses in them - https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/59949415/?search_identifier=4ffc07963acaf1d2b920e8710aba9cf0

Fair enough, but I don't know anyone who lives in one. The vast majority of homes in the West Midlands aren't detached and a lot that are are prohibitively expensive (unless they're shitholes/in shitholes.)

[Dex Sawash]

Saw some attached ones the other day that the end units had fake windows on the side. Just rectangle of applied white trim with white crosshair inside with negative space painted flat black. Will probably fall off in 2 years.

mate

Edit- em-eight filter still works

[imitationleather]

I saw a video of someone vlogging outside their house and you could tell it was a fancy one because it had big windows. However, immediately behind these massive windows was a staircase. So from the outside all you could see was an off-centre diagonal staircase right in view.

It looked absolutely appalling. Why the fuck would they build it like that?

[katzenjammer]

Even places like Burnley and Nelson have loads of detached houses in them - https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/59949415/?search_identifier=4ffc07963acaf1d2b920e8710aba9cf0

Must have skinny brick layers round there

[idunnosomename]

Is that the UK equivalent of a McMansion?

not really. McMansions are because there's such a dearth of large properties in the US for nouveau riche to buy. This is a arts and craftsy/Queen Anne Style 1900s house. A rather ugly one, yes. But not as incompressibly built as an American new mansion build

Found it in a couple of minutes. it looks a lot better with the original box porch on it in 2008 before Jimmy bought it and put that awful naff lil collonaded one on though. he's also had a massive modern wing built to the right, in front of it.

[mrpupkin]

New build modern house, wow! Looks great!!!

Would fucking love to live in one of these massive houses with three floors tbh. Who cares what it looks like from the outside, not gonna sit out on the driveway looking at it am I?

[Dr Rock]

Yeah Carr has ruined that building the no-taste arse.

[pigamus]

I remember finding it weird to see some of the richest entertainers in the UK's houses, compared with their US counterparts. When that whole Jimmy Carr tax evasion scandal happened, you couldn't move for seeing photos of his 8.5 million quid home:



It looks like a pediatricians office!

The UK does have some wonderful architecture, but it seems as though nobody really lives in it.

Why the fuck was he allowed to build that, it looks awful

If it's not big enough then buy a bigger one you honking twat

[retsuza]

As ugly as many houses in the UK might be at least it's not as bad as it is in Ireland where thousands of houses are actually falling apart because some assholes used shit building materials: