Owner of UK's Most Expensive House Defaults on Mortgage. House Seized

wymondham

I'm sure I saw the owner on the MFW board with a countdown of the payments? ;-)

I wonder if he cancelled his Sky subscription as every little helps??

Graham_Devon

Just what do you do with so many rooms though?

I can see the benefit if you have a very large family living with you, but seriously, everyone has a favoured room.

Let's say a large house has an office or two, a dining room, play room, couple of lounges, bar room, few bedrooms.

At some point, these rooms become too many, and you simply won't use them. Everyone favours one room, as we feel most comfortable in familiar surroundings, so it's likely they use specific rooms most of the time.

Same with swimming pools. Five!? You'll favour one, and use that one most of the time. Two swimming pools is a niceity, but five!?

It has 103 rooms. Probably 20 of them are used "frequently" by the owners. And 20 is a push.

mj12_2

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Just what do you do with so many rooms though?

I can see the benefit if you have a very large family living with you, but seriously, everyone has a favoured room.

Let's say a large house has an office or two, a dining room, play room, couple of lounges, bar room, few bedrooms.

At some point, these rooms become too many, and you simply won't use them. Everyone favours one room, as we feel most comfortable in familiar surroundings, so it's likely they use specific rooms most of the time.

Same with swimming pools. Five!? You'll favour one, and use that one most of the time. Two swimming pools is a niceity, but five!?

It has 103 rooms. Probably 20 of them are used "frequently" by the owners. And 20 is a push.

Maybe they didnt find a nice car had the 'engorging' effect that they wanted so they though an oversized house might fill the void instead :-)

neverdespairgirl

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Just what do you do with so many rooms though?

I can see the benefit if you have a very large family living with you, but seriously, everyone has a favoured room.

Let's say a large house has an office or two, a dining room, play room, couple of lounges, bar room, few bedrooms.

It has 103 rooms. Probably 20 of them are used "frequently" by the owners. And 20 is a push.

I agree with you. Up to a certain number, you might well get some value out of having them, especially if there's a large family, of course.

My parents' Kent house has a huge kitchen, a living room, sitting room, dining room, scullery, and at the moment 6 bedrooms, soon to be 8 with the attic coming into play (1 current bedroom doesn't really count, because you can only get to it through other rooms).

When the whole family's there, the bedrooms are all used, and my brother sleeps in the living room, and we eat in the dining room on more special occasions. But most of the time, everyone's in the kitchen (-:

PasturesNew

I imagine people with that many rooms have lots of friends (hangers on) and they all whoop it up and party at each others' houses and stick around for a week or so, so need putting up.

With enough money to buy that you need a lot of space for your Yes Men/hangers on, so you feel good about yourself.

Cleaver

Graham_Devon wrote: »

At some point, these rooms become too many, and you simply won't use them. Everyone favours one room, as we feel most comfortable in familiar surroundings, so it's likely they use specific rooms most of the time.

Totally agree. We live in a house with seven or eight main rooms and there's two of those that I rarely go in to.