What does your home look like from the outside?

[mummydreamer]

if it's 'rustic' old looking, i think that would actually look quite nice....but if it seriously looks like it's going to fall apart, or rotten or something, then i don't know....? i agree with the others thought about maybe trying to jazz up the space a bit? or hide it?

[turtleschell]

<ine is ugly, but I never notice.

If it gives you the creeps though, that's a different thing. I remember looking at one house and I felt all shuddery for days after.

[hannanat]

I love my house from both the inside and the outside, but I have previously lived in some doosies.

If you do end up giving it a lick of paint, make sure you check with the landlord; you don't want to get in trouble.

[helle]

I love the outside of our house... to bad all the work we've put in is just so we can flog it off ><;
I agree with jennie13... it doesn't take much to make a nice front yard. Few pot plants (so you can still take them when you're renting...) and water/mowing the lawn
In saying that tho, I have always wanted to buy this house that was near my old school... it was a serious dump on the outside (think vines climbing up it everywhere etc...) I wanted to do it up emaculate inside and leave the outside as is so when you'd walk in you'd get a real "wow" effect.... but it got knocked down about 3 years shy of me even being about to buy a house!

[~Kim~]

When we owned our own home, street appeal was important, but now we are in company allocated housing, and the front of our place isn't flash. But really what's inside is far more important. And even then, if that's all that available to you, it's what you make it, not how appealing it is to other people.

[ladybird11]

Lol, you can only see our roof from the street!

We live on such a steep declined block you wouldn't even know there was a house here unless you were actually looking for it. But when you walk (well jog) down the drive way its a nice 'normal' looking place in a nice suburb - nice large windows, funky looking Yucca's in large blue ceramic pots to 'funk' it up a bit lol, light coloured bricks and cream gutters .

[fionas]

if you were buying, I'd say it would be a consideration but really, for renting, it's neither here nor there. Yes, it's nicer to have a nice-looking property on the outside, but you can't have everything.

Different story if you were buying/selling. Street appeal is quite important when you're selling - if you're buying you need to consider whether you could make changes.

Our house is nowhere near as appealing a house from the outside as our old place. It's a circa 40s weatherboard whereas our old place was a brick Victorian. However, there's things we could do to make it more appealing like paint it and replace the aluminium windows with timber windows. The blinds also need replacing. However, we do have a great garden (that also needs some TLC).