Why are UK houses so ugly

[imitationleather]

If I was an Irish builder I'd always use the highest quality materials and do the best job possible.

Would hate to fulfil the stereotype.

[pigamus]

Just ring Mr Stubbs

[Blumf]

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:

Well... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50827576

[Sebastian Cobb]

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

I was wondering what the requirement to build a new wing for given it looks like the place has lots of rooms already, which made me think perhaps it was something that would be difficult to shove inside the existing building like a pool or something. But that's sheer guesswork.

[idunnosomename]

looks like there already was a swimming pool wing built alongside it in the 90s that he had demolished and rebuilt. anyway you try finding somewhere big enough that's this handy for Swiss Cottage.

[TrenterPercenter]

Untold privilege? Round my end there are loads of detached houses like this

Hehe Clit Heroe

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.)

This is true but some of the terraced housing is still very nice - I love my 1910 Victoria Terrace to bits I'd only ever want to live in the next rung up because some of them have cellars and I want a cellar for plotting shit a home gym.

Holy shit! not looked at house prices for a while they have gone even more nuts!

[richjj1978]

Hehe Clit Heroe

This is true but some of the terraced housing is still very nice - I love my 1910 Victoria Terrace to bits I'd only ever want to live in the next rung up because some of them have cellars and I want a cellar for plotting shit a home gym.

Holy shit! not looked at house prices for a while they have gone even more nuts!

West Mids late Victorian terrace here. Lovely house with a usable cellar, mine's got central heating and a 43 in plasma in it.

[Better Midlands]

Lots of this grey shit stuck to the front of houses round here.

[TrenterPercenter]

West Mids late Victorian terrace here. Lovely house with a usable cellar, mine's got central heating and a 43 in plasma in it.

Nice! I am very jealous.

[poodlefaker]

https://twitter.com/PlanningShit

[dissolute ocelot]

Lots of this grey shit stuck to the front of houses round here.

Is that just stuck on the front of the brick? It looks like what Americans do because they build houses that are just wooden frames with wood or metal siding stuck on the front. Except it's not on top of the rest of the wall, it's further forwards.

[pigamus]

So many houses painted that dull battleship grey now. There's a pub chain and all their pubs are grey as well - the Sizzling ones maybe? Is there a reason for it?

[Huxleys Babkins]

It's fashionable.

[FiremanJim]

You can't even see your house when you're inside it so it doesn't even matter

[idunnosomename]

So many houses painted that dull battleship grey now. There's a pub chain and all their pubs are grey as well - the Sizzling ones maybe? Is there a reason for it?

finally a compromise between ocean grey and military grey

[richjj1978]

It's fashionable.

I blame influencers (and by association, the people who let themselves be influenced)

[pigamus]

Oh I thought it might be anti vandal paint or something

I means it's literally the colour you'd paint a corporation bus garage in 1952

[dissolute ocelot]

Farrow and Ball have a range of paint called Dead Flat.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Well... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50827576

Looks like a dang acoustic diffuser