I Was Going to Buy Your House Until ....

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Why not?

My parents have, in their living room, a sofa my grandparents bought in 1939. It's been re-covered several times (by my Granny) but it's still fine.

Similarly my sofas and armchairs are 1990s recovered, Edwardian recovered and Victorian and Georgian, awaiting recovering

Jonbvn

Davesnave wrote: »

I didn't think the interior of the house was too bad, but then I'm used to viewing Welsh property.......:o.....some of it owned by horsey people. Not a good combination!:eek:

I don't have time to look properly, but here's a not-too-bad example of the sort of thing I mean....

http://www.evansbros.co.uk/Details.asp?PropertyCode=CWMBA/15227/3

That property looks like something from the Welsh National History Museum.

ukcarper

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

No-one likes woodchip.

You are being influenced too much by the TV property shows.

neverdespairgirl

ukcarper wrote: »

You are being influenced too much by the TV property shows.

I'm not.

My parents moved, when I was 5 and my sister 3, into a house with woodchip everywhere.

I still remember the endless skinned knuckles.

PasturesNew

Jonbvn wrote: »

That property looks like something from the Welsh National History Museum.

I've been there, loved it. I'd recommend it to anybody going to Cardiff ... rather than shopping.

PasturesNew

My parents bought this house 15 years ago - and it was all 1970s style. Sculpted wallpaper, swirls of artex on walls, 1970s kitchen tiles, pink bathroom suite. They bought it complete with the previous owner's old (1970?) dodgy oven/cooker, carpets, curtains. We've got a full set of polystyrene ceiling tiles too.

Nothing's changed. Not one room's been decorated. Not one carpet's been replaced. The cooker leans (propped up with a lump of wood under the front and some random bit of wire twisted round the oven shelf so stuff doesn't fall out when you open the door.

And it'll never be changed. It'll be sold like this as "requiring complete renovation".

ukcarper

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I'm not.

My parents moved, when I was 5 and my sister 3, into a house with woodchip everywhere.

I still remember the endless skinned knuckles.

I really don’t think it is too bad I bought up 3 children in house with wood chip can’t remember it causing many grazed knuckles.

I think it really is a fashion thing and to be honest it’s a good thing we aren’t all sheep and follow what the latest designers say is cool.

ViolaLass

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Leather jacket hanging on the wall

Maybe it was his dad's and has sentimental value.

Even if that's not true, I don't get the big deal. Maybe he doesn't have a coat peg. Maybe he thinks it looks nice on the wall. Why is it a problem that it's hanging on the wall? If it were a non-leather jacket would that be better or is it just the fact that he has an item of clothing on the wall that is bad?

Is this a TV reference perhaps? I grew up without one so if it is, I won't get it.

ukcarper

ViolaLass wrote: »

Maybe it was his dad's and has sentimental value.

Even if that's not true, I don't get the big deal. Maybe he doesn't have a coat peg. Maybe he thinks it looks nice on the wall. Why is it a problem that it's hanging on the wall? If it were a non-leather jacket would that be better or is it just the fact that he has an item of clothing on the wall that is bad?

Is this a TV reference perhaps? I grew up without one so if it is, I won't get it.

Is it hanging on wall or is it the staircase.

Davesnave

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Why not?

My parents have, in their living room, a sofa my grandparents bought in 1939. It's been re-covered several times (by my Granny) but it's still fine.

lostinrates wrote: »

Similarly my sofas and armchairs are 1990s recovered, Edwardian recovered and Victorian and Georgian, awaiting recovering

But those are pieces capable of bering re-covered. i.e. Ercol, not DFS....;)

I'm no fan of woodchip, but understand that when one has, say, a 1930s house with dodgy plaster it needs some kind of 'containment,' at least until a re-plaster can be afforded. After all. it isn't a quaint cottage where such imperfections can be passed-off as 'character.'

Our solution was anaglypta, but the cats, then kittens, had a field day with that! After surveying the damage, I decided to put it up with glassfibre resin for the first metre above floor level and then paint over. This was virtually undetectable and stopped the kittens wreaking any more havoc. However, I've often wondered how the person who decided to remove the paper got on, and just how much they swore when they realised the bottom metre was welded to the plaster! :o