Just me being "catty" about a house again

Doozergirl

Got criticised last time for being pointless, so just warning you now - pointless thread.

Possibly the most insulting renovation of an attractive house or houses that I've ever seen. If they ever sell I will be surprised.

http://search.knightfrank.com/brm100166
http://search.knightfrank.com/brm100180

Drove past it and from across the road it looks like an attractive house but then you can see how badly the window frames have been painted. So I had to have a look at the details. You can make up your own mind but mine is spinning.

They have the most pointless layouts I have ever seen. I think the house has been divided in two somehow as I cannot fathom the 'shared access' with the front doors halfway down the building. I think you have to go in the main front door and it's split into two houses either side of each other as they are only about 12' wide in total downstairs. At £349k they're having a laugh if it isn't the whole building!

Both laid out downstairs like a 2 bed terrace. Walk through a reception room and a random stairwell to reach a skinny back extension 7'7" wide that contains the dining room through which you have to walk (where do you put the table?!) to access the 7'7" wide kitchen! Which again leads on to the '7'7" downstairs loo.

Two staircases each, massive bathrooms but the only ensuites belong to what can only, in one of the houses, be described as a box room?!

But I'm loving the wallpapered fireplaces. They didn't think that original fireplaces were of value in the house? I'm struggling to work out if the wallpaper was there before they renovated, it's so horrid.

Shame on you Knight Frank for even taking that on! It's an insult to people's intelligence. They must have been offices or flats in a previous life, and barely changed.

krycek985

I kind of lik ethis place .


Shared access could just be an area to get the bins from the backdoor to the front ???

sonastin

I wouldn't want to pay £349k if they were on bloomin' Mayfair!

Somebody is living in lalaland

Doozergirl

krycek985 wrote: »

I kind of lik ethis place .


Shared access could just be an area to get the bins from the backdoor to the front ???

Yes, on first glance it's pretty. Look harder. It's nearly impossible to get your head around it. Look at the floorplans.

That 'shared access' runs from the front door to the back of the house. The original house is clearly terraced. There is no shared access either side. They have basically cut the house in half and are trying to get £675k for it.

The left hand "house" is just over 12' wide downstairs and about 80ft long. Insane.

Contessa

I agree with Doozergirl. When I read that a Victorian or Edwardian house has been "renovated" I shudder. I admit, I'm only going by what I've seen on RM, but too often the pictures are, IMO, depressing-original features ripped out, laminate floors, modern fireplaces with 2 candles and a bowl of pebbles/vase of twigs. And, buyers are expected to pay for this vandalism!

diable

Birmingham......................

Doozergirl

Contessa wrote: »

I agree with Doozergirl. When I read that a Victorian or Edwardian house has been "renovated" I shudder. I admit, I'm only going by what I've seen on RM, but too often the pictures are, IMO, depressing-original features ripped out, laminate floors, modern fireplaces with 2 candles and a bowl of pebbles/vase of twigs. And, buyers are expected to pay for this vandalism!

That building is Listed. There's barely anything left there to list.

We're selling a Victorian house but it was only fit for the bulldozers by the time we got to it. Being sentimental idiots, we rescued what we could but it only really looks like a Victorian house from the outside and in it's proportions. Everything inside is new, the only old stuff is the bricks. Everything else was completely rotten. The new doors are Victorian style four panels, but oak, not pine. Ditto the new stairs. It would never have made sense to try and put reclaimed stuff in, the house is too straight now for wonky things.

Wonky houses suit wonky things though and that house/s is still wonky. It certainly doesn't deserve moulded doors and missing fireplaces. I'd have found them if it was mine. And thought of a sensible layout.

Moglet

I bet that was a beautiful building.

Contessa

Doozergirl wrote: »

Wonky houses suit wonky things though and that house/s is still wonky. It certainly doesn't deserve moulded doors and missing fireplaces. I'd have found them if it was mine. And thought of a sensible layout.

I'm a bit wonky myself-maybe that's why I like old houses! Mind you, my friends tell me to buy a small bungalow.

PasturesNew

The photos are definitely of two different houses.

First kitchen - there are hardly any sockets at worktop level.
There appears to be a dirty "bum height" mark on the hideously pastel green wall.
The carpet looks like it was probably 2nd hand from a homeless shelter.
The wallpaper is very ... what's the phrase ... rank. And the wallpaper on the fireplace is simply !!!!!!???
The kitchen wall tiles look like they were banged up by a bloke with no hands.
Second kitchen photo, when you walk through the door there's no access to a lightswitch.
Kitchen appears to have cheap worktops, or they made them look like cheap worktops, which isn't what you'd expect at that price.
While the main rooms have big/original skirting, the loo seems to be skirting-less.
Big bathroom - no bath, could have got a bath and shower in there.
Doors on the bathroom aren't cut to the right size.

All very peculiar and could have been done better.

LilacPixie

My impressions... its half a house.. where is the other half... Bedroom 4 in the attic looks like someplace for a hobbit to live not a human. Kithen worktops are cheap DIY shed specials and TBH the kitchen looks similar.