As a buyer who swoons at woodchip wallpaper and carpets in all sorts of colours and textures (and a kitchen straight out of 1987), you may well be excited – but you aren’t necessarily deluded either. Those people who would walk into your house and shudder at its ugliness? They’re just missing the point.
There’s an idea in the world of design that things have ‘spent’ potential – their resources have been utilised or have already been milked dry. The perfect example of this idea is the house that someone else has previously decorated. Before you even pick up a paintbrush, you’re paying through the nose – and there’s so much less room to see and so much less value still waiting to be unlocked, compared with an unloved ugly house.
In an ugly house, then, there’s value buried beneath bad decisions and years of neglect. For example, you need to look beyond the decorating choices of the previous owners and see what the house has beneath the skin. Often, it will have bones in place, like good walls and decent proportions or handsome features that were never removed. Thirty years of bad taste doesn’t ruin beautiful bones, and a house can easily be a gem in disguise if its bones are good. For advice on Home Renovations, visit https://precisionbuildersltd.co.uk/services/home-renovations/
The transformation of an ugly house into something beautiful can also give you an unparalleled sense of achievement. Like with many areas of life, tweaking the fine points will always be fun, but nothing compares with taking something broken and turning it into a thing of beauty. In renovation terms, the greater the gap between the before and after pictures, the more of an achievement it is and the more value you’ve added to your project.
So, while some of the best properties might turn people off, they can also be among the most rewarding. Look beyond those carpets!