Homebuilding & Renovating

Renovating a 1930s semi: 10 GREAT DESIGN IDEAS

There are semi-detached houses from many different eras in the UK, but those built during the 1930s are arguably more prevalent than any other — in fact, according the The University of Nottingham, there are more than three million 1930s houses in the UK.

There’s no single reason that there are so many of these houses scattered throughout the country, but one of the biggest factors was that they were a relatively cheap way to build lots of new homes quickly after the depression in the early 1930s and the destruction wrought by WWI. As the economy

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