The "have a look at this!" thread

celyn90

Matt1977 wrote: »

Thanks for the link, cel.

Sorry to hear about your grandmother and uncle. I guess that it is probably the same situation with that house in Coventry.

thanks x I expect it is something like that. In our case, both were capable of living a normal life outside, my uncle always worked; just in both houses it was like that. I remember as a kid my mum and dad going up there in disposable overalls and cleaning, with her complaining bitterly whilst they did and me standing up for hours because I didn't want to sit on anything. She used to keep used cooking oil - all of it (and she used to fry everything) - in empty squash bottles and they would stuffed be everywhere *shudder* It doesn't take long for it to get like that.

My husbands father hoards stuff too - they have walls built out of boxes of stuff he just pulls out from the bins that might come in useful. He blames war time for it. You have to turn sideways to edge down some of the corridors in the apartment because it's floor to ceiling with cardboard boxes of magazines and newspaper mainly. It drives me to distraction.

Probably why I'm such a neat freak to be honest :rotfl: :rotfl: We've just moved into a renovation house and I found nearly 500 jamjars in boxes in the garden, plus enough used cooking oil to start a biodeisel plant also in squash bottles in the outhouse. Deja vu... :eek: I keep meaning to start a thread called "what presents did the vendors leave you in your new home" :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Lilibee

celyn90 wrote: »

I think they are these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BISF_house

We have a large estate in Oxford of these type of houses; plus a lot of solid concrete ones in other parts of the city.

I grew up on the other half of that estate, where the houses are mostly normal brick. We always referred to 'the other side' as Tin Town

Davesnave

celyn90 wrote: »

I keep meaning to start a thread called "what presents did the vendors leave you in your new home" :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Please don't! We're still finding them.:eek:

We remained ignorant of owning 2 x 15' pig arks for almost 3 months, so that will give some idea!

wine_night

Look at pic 7. I guess that the fan on the wall is there to use post-treadmill.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-30750985.html

devotee

wine_night wrote: »

Look at pic 7. I guess that the fan on the wall is there to use post-treadmill.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-30750985.html

That treadmill is definitely selling it to me! And it's being used you know :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

kaylz39

mamamoi wrote: »

been having a giggle reading through this thread tonight.

Check out the size of this conservatory pic 14.... poss bigger than my whole house!

and the glass floor on pic 3 of this one


It made me laugh how small the TV is in the living room for the size of it...the settee's were miles away. You'd really have to squint! All that money and they can only stretch to a 36" TV ha ha & I bet its baking in that conservatory...looks more like a garden centre!!!

ceridwen

MoneyJuggler wrote: »

Don't go in the attic!


http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-34245359.html

I would have loved that as a child:)

...and I'd love the whole house as an adult...one house that would cause me to have a twinge of regret if I'd come up on yesterdays Eurolotto - ie at my decision to give away the vast majority of it (rather than keep it for luxury living for myself). I'd have to take a firm grip of myself to make sure I still did give it all away faced with a house like that...oh well...chance would have been a fine thing to have that moral dilemma..:rotfl:

Back to the "The most I would allow myself to spend on a house - if money was no object - is £500,000 (in my dear area)".

ceridwen

492800 wrote: »

I wonder if photoshoppping the sky would come under this description.. :-p
Im always amazed at how this estate agent always manages to get the same sunny/cloudy sky in most of their pics .. it must always be lovely weather in S.E London

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html/svr/2711;jsessionid=A4A1529B8BD96754700D5FF26C9F1AC0?locationIdentifier=BRANCH^14975&includeSSTC=true&_includeSSTC=on&index=20

Not sure about that....but you've just depressed me at the confirmation of how dear my area is - our house prices are about the same level as there (and thats London.....):eek::(

jaxjax123

I got married in the village this house is in. I had a shock at the interior when I looked through the pictures not at all what you'd expect.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-34546871.html

Skint_Catt

jaxjax123 wrote: »

I got married in the village this house is in. I had a shock at the interior when I looked through the pictures not at all what you'd expect.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-34546871.html

:shocked: :rotfl: