Property Snakes and Ladders; 2009

seven-day-weekend

Loved the oast house, the design is just how I would have done it, terrific.

My traditional village house in Spain has a downstairs kitchen (originally a stable!) and first floor living room (and remains of bread oven ). I like it, it's easy to just shut the kitchen away from the rest of the house if you don't want to clear up straight away.

seven-day-weekend

I would have bought the parking, made the bread oven a feature and economised elsewhere.

I also would not have bought a listed building and then grizzled about all the features that warranted the listing. These people should just have bought a bog standard terraced house and renovated it cheaply.

PasturesNew

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

I would have bought the parking, made the bread oven a feature and economised elsewhere.

Me too...
Oh well ... their loss is our entertainment.

I can't believe the amount of these people who buy Listed properties not knowing there's something different about them from non-listed, then getting all p155y when they aren't allowed to force their cr4p 'design' on the space.

Cidersid

At the end of the show SB talked about next week's show>>>??? did i hear that they were standing to loose 500k???

Sounds interesting.....

mewbie_2

Yeah it was slightly better on the schadenfreude front - still not spectacular though. Rich people do up a house, and fail to go bankrupt - not much of a story.

This Listed thing is a bit rubbish imo. What is the point of keeping the bread oven if it can just be hiiden from view? Who does it benefit? Would the nation really be any poorer if they ripped it out and put a Smeg in its place?

Oh I did learn something. Got a room that's no use to anyone - too small for a bed, no use as a dining room. Call it a snug. Oh yes Pater, step into the snug and we'll try not to breathe each others farts.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Me too...
Oh well ... their loss is our entertainment.

I can't believe the amount of these people who buy Listed properties not knowing there's something different about them from non-listed, then getting all p155y when they aren't allowed to force their cr4p 'design' on the space.

TBF I've seen it work quite bizarrely. e.g. friend bought listed property with cruddy mid 20th century consevatory put on and a horrid door put in where none originlly was. Took a long time to convince them it would benefit the property to removed these partly because it was there when the listing was applied/made. Friend couldn't have imagined that restoring to the original would be considered inappropriate.

seven-day-weekend

Cidersid wrote: »

At the end of the show SB talked about next week's show>>>??? did i hear that they were standing to loose 500k???

Sounds interesting.....

Tell me more!

(I'm in the UK at the moment (normally live in Spain) and I'm really enjoying all the house programmes. I don't have access to them in Spain. My favourites are Grand Designs, Property Snakes and Ladders and Homes Under the Hammer. So I'm getting my fix before I return to rural Andalucia!).

lostinrates

mewbie wrote: »

This Listed thing is a bit rubbish imo. What is the point of keeping the bread oven if it can just be hiiden from view? Who does it benefit?.

Next owners could benefit, if its just covered up not ripped out. Finding something like that would make my day!

ETA: hey, top of the page again!

PasturesNew

Cidersid wrote: »

At the end of the show SB talked about next week's show>>>??? did i hear that they were standing to loose 500k???

Sounds interesting.....

Yes, £500k.

moneysavinmonkey

I didn't understand what happened at the end of this weeks show with the family house... they tried to rent it out for £1500 a month and failed so they our now trying to rent it out for £1500 a week?? !!!!!!? am I missing something?!

I definitely recognise the blonde haired woman coming up next week, I think she has been on come dine with me?