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Not and exact description but is it nice... do you like it?
I have just fund a place to rent and whilst the inside is nice, the outside looks a bit old, dodgy even, as its a villa and is a dark redish brick and just looks meh !
Do you think its important? or is it just what the inside 'living' part of the house feels like?
opinions welcome !
I think that you could make it look nice? 2 nice pots with nice big plants outside the front door? mabey a bench seat? Can you do anything to the gardens? I dont think it matters too much, but its nice to come home to a nice looking front yard :)
Im living with my mum atm, and their house is fairly new with a nice garden :) But I have rented a few houses that arent very pretty and with a few bits and peices I manged to make them fairly nice :)
i see my house as a home, not just a house..its on the inside that counts!
oh and mine is ok from the outside, its older
I used to live in a granny flat that was on someone else's property and it was gross looking - I hated it for the first few months but then it just stopped mattering to me more and more. There wasn't anything I could do to fix it anyway and inside was my home and I loved it.
I think the inside matters much more but I do think it makes a difference when you pull up to your house and like the way it looks too.
Good luck!! xx
Unless the outside is structurally ugly (like flat roofed toilet block look-alike) it can easily be given a facelift. Aesthetics are far easier to change than structural things, so that is why the inside is what is more important. Most houses can be made to look nice with a bit of render/paint job, wall art work like wrought iron hangings and some pot plants. You can even use some strategically placed colourbond or decorative brick work that you put over the top to flash it up, but that could easily go out of style.
Honestly, the front of my house is ugly. It's a 50's housing trust place that just wasn't built nicely - cheap, ugly red bricks, windows that are far too small, and no eaves. So one side of the house has a massive expanse of these awful bricks. We could render it, but then there'd just be a huge expanse of concrete. We can add eaves or anything due to the shape of the roof there. There's really not much we can do! The garden is nice though, the back yard is great and inside is wonderful. I can get past the front :)
It would make a great rental, so we plan on building one day and renting out this one
agree. can always make outside look nice plus will keep the nasties away:
I love the front of my house. We live in a new estate, where everyone has gone for drought tolerant plants, all spiky and pretty, but I've gone more your trees and shrubs, lots of flowers and soft leaves with grass (I KNOW right!? Grass!!). I take an enormous amount of pride in it. You can pretty up any place as much or as little as you like. Little shrubs are cheap at Bunnings and some grow really quickly. Some brightly coloured flowering plants might pull your attention away from the bits that you don't like :hug:
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? ;)
<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.
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.
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!
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.
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 ;).
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).