Typical Nelson houses

I've been wanting to post this blog for some time, but didn't finish cataloguing all the different style houses we've seen in Nelson, so I took one from the web!! You'll never know the difference. These are very typical styles of houses in Nelson, and probably throughout New Zealand too.

Most of the houses are ranch style or one-levels. Thank goodness for my knees! We've wanted a one-level for some time. This is a common house with the windows in the front, and bushes forming the "privacy fence" with the front door off to the side. Notice how close together the houses are from each other. And maybe half the houses have garages, and they are typically very old and small. You won't find too many garages like you might be used to.

Here is the same style house, with door in front, and decorated in the typical early 1900s fashion. I don't actually know if it was early 1900s, but its what it looks like. This house is on an older street with a group of older period houses.

Here is another house on the same block.

Another typical house, not too much different, but again entrance is off to side. Some of the houses, like this one, appear to be those small, quaint ones I have shown you above. But this one extends very far back, covering two lot sizes. Some of the houses are deceiving because they really do have a lot of space in them and nearly all do a good job of creating privacy with the use of shrubbery and plants.

The houses are stuck in every available crevice of space. Nelson must have had large plots of land, especially in our neighborhood where most of these photos were shot. Now the plots have been/are being sold and subdivided and here you have a typical side street/driveway (kinda like where we live) and several small "townhouse" style houses stuck into the plot of land.

This is another very common house style here which I detest! It is basically two rectangles on top of one another for a 2-story house, with the bottom being the garage and a basement like area that some people convert. The top is usually everything else in some clever format, but always fitted into your basic rectangle. And you usually find a deck all the way around the house like this. Obviously the premise is height, you want the view so make a second story. But there is no creativity with this house layout, it looks like a box, it feels like a box, and I really dislike the use of space in all the models we've seen. We're not buying this style house, period!

And another adorable picture of Livvy thrown in for the heck of it.