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>> | No. 16749
16749
In my opinion most houses built in this country in the last hundred years are ugly. They are badly proportioned, the ceilings are too low, the windows are too small and awkwardly positioned. The walls are vast acres of flat brick with little or no detailing. The rooms are too small, the walls are too thin, the noise insulation is ineffective. |
>> | No. 16750
16750
notsobad.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() Here is an older house in the same city that looks much nicer. The brickwork has detailing that is pleasant to the eye, the windows and doors line up with each other. The bedrooms are significantly larger and I suspect the ceilings are higher too. |
>> | No. 16752
16752
I find a lot of modern housing soul-crushingly pokey and they cram far too many in to whatever scrap of land they can find. |
>> | No. 16753
16753
denhaag.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() Imagine if the streets of Britain's provincial cities looked like this! |
>> | No. 16754
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>>16749 |
>> | No. 16755
16755
e1ecohomeshenleyriseb[1].jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() You're probably wrong in every regard. Old houses hemorrhage energy and generally need a good demolishing to make way for BREEAM-efficient buildings. |
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>>16755 |
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>>16755 |
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>>16757 |
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>>16755 |
>> | No. 16761
16761
Studio-flat-2.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() It's just a symptom of our ongoing housing crisis. Land is so expensive that developers are cramming as many houses as possible onto a plot and building them as cheaply as possible. If you shrink the rooms, you can turn a two-bed into a three-bed and so on. Developers get away with it because it's a sellers market - people are desperate for anywhere half-decent to live and don't have better options. The extreme examples come from London, where developers cram a sink and shower into a shoebox and call it a studio flat. |
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>>16758 |
>> | No. 16765
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>>16763 |
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>>16753 |
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16773
>>16763 |
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16775
>>16773 |
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>>16775 |
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>>16776 |
>> | No. 16781
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JS47793787[1].jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() >>16780 |
>> | No. 16782
16782
(IMHO...) The cost of property has gone up in the UK because of: |
>> | No. 16858
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>>16761 |
>> | No. 16860
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>>16782 |
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