A nice 1st home! (David Wilson Homes)

Member Name: 137699

Product:	David Wilson Homes
Date:	17/12/02 (2799 review reads)
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Advantages: Beautifully crafted, Thoughtfully designed, Quality build

Disadvantages: No downstairs loo!

I bought a David Wilson home near Watford in 1995. It was not brand new, the 1st owner had lived there for 15 months, before moving to South Wales, however the house was still in almost new condition, and David Wilson was still building on the estate.

The thing that shone through with DWH compared to other new developments in the area was the thought, detail & quality which had gone into our estate compared with those built by Bellway, Barrett etc.

Instead of rows and rows of the same design, each plot has it's own unique look and feel, and there is a nice mix of red brick, and sand brick throughout the estate, along with exposed timber etc. 2/3/4/5 bed houses are all intermixed, to make it feel like an evolvement, rather than a development. Many of the well-established trees that were on the estate site were preserved, which meant that the estate had an established feel from day 1, and the garages were all built in convenient locations with pitched roofs, with plenty of resident & visitor parking. Also, overlooking from the rear was very thoughtfully planned, as almost no-one was directly overlooked.

Make no mistake, in this area, the DWH estate was the one everyone wanted to live on!

My house was a 2-bed end terrace. It had a fully fitted kitchen, with nice floor tiling, and many electrical points. It was even supplied with a whirlpool cooker, but that was not the best bit of kit it had to be said. There was no cooker hood, but the electrical point had been thoughtfully put there in case you wanted to install your own.

All the windows were double-glazed in hardwood frames, and had closable-vents to allow a bit of air movement without compromising on the heating bill! The boiler was excellent, and the house was fully carpeted in nice quality pile carpet. A beautiful bay window allowed extra room in the lounge - an ideal place to put the telly, or an armchair.

The rooms were very well sized, with a lovely mai
n double-bedroom, and a 2nd bedroom which could also have taken a double bed if needed. The decor was magnolia throughout, and the bathroom and kitchen were tastefully tiled.

Although a terrace house, the walls were very sound resistant, and extremely well insulated. The heating bill was remarkably small!

Everything was put together very well. It may have been that the first owner had some teething problems, but for us, in 6 years of living there, nothing went wrong, nothing leaked, no tiles came loose, no plaster cracked - altogether a well sorted house.

The gardens had been landscaped by the previous owner, but DWH had installed a nice curved path from the back door, to the path which ran along the back of the house to the garage plot.

I was very sad to sell it in 2000, but a move to Southampton enforced the sale, and the new owner is very pleased with her house.

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