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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things
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Doozergirl wrote: »I worked my way through a snack pack of Cadbury's chocolate fingers earlier. A friend that works fro Cadbury but that doesn't really like chocolate is a very valuable friend indeed.
The lady herself.
Just at the right time.
If you scroll back just a few pages we were discussing this:
http://www.skbauctions.co.uk/auction-lot-details.php?id=1906080&search=current&page=2
that fetched 256k at auction yesterday.
...and how it wasn't worth that.
In addition to the problems you can see from the pictures, the back garden is inadequately supported...
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The lady herself.
Just at the right time.
If you scroll back just a few pages we were discussing this:
http://www.skbauctions.co.uk/auction-lot-details.php?id=1906080&search=current&page=2
that fetched 256k at auction yesterday.
...and how it wasn't worth that.
In addition to the problems you can see from the pictures, the back garden is inadequately supported...
what would you do with it?
Nice. :rotfl: It looks way better than the house we're living in right now. I like the paruet floor. The stairs are a fire hazard and that is what would put me off personally, not so much the back wall.
Clearly the wall isn't pretty, proper retaining wall with drainage holes and a fence on top, I can't see what costs £8k as it can't possibly need to be that high based on the neighbours, but then H seems to like digging holes and clearing muck. If it's mainly rubble then maybe it's just that is unstable along with years of that stuff that accumulates under conifers and trees themselves, the retaining wall maybe isn't needed so much. The house at the bottom clearly needs one! Everyone seems to have what looks like concrete barge boards at the bottom which I presume is original, without those cracking.
If it was bought to sell on then I'm not even sure it would come up on most surveys! You'd have to stand in the garden but I'm not sure how much remedial action we'd take if we'd bought it.
I can see that back on the market in five months time with a high gloss kitchen and a survey result that is still bad, for £320k.Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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lemonjelly wrote: »Not a yellow card. It wasn't dangerous play or anything.
In netball terms, a free pass, not a penalty pass-or-shot (-:...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Doozergirl wrote: »
I can see that back on the market in five months time with a high gloss kitchen and a survey result that is still bad, for £320k.
Normally, I loathe high gloss kitchens.
In that house, though, it'll fit in well. It's revoltingly ugly....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Tomorrow, our granite worktops and handles are installed.
Yay! In the home strait!
OH has assembled Isaac's new bed, the matresses are to arrive shortly, and our new bed is being installed on 12th November.
Our new bed is utterly mad, mind you. But fun....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »Normally, I loathe high gloss kitchens.
In that house, though, it'll fit in well. It's revoltingly ugly.
In this house, it appears that adding in this monstrosity of a kitchen has added £120k to it's value in little over a year. It's simply not worth that as the floorspace doesn't command that value, but in a year or so it will be virtually integrated into the town centre with a nice retail park across the road. Hmmm.
If I bought that house (maybe at the price they bought it for!) I'd rip the kitchen out. I like high gloss, done well. That isn't. It's so badly planned for the sake of having a breakfast bar that faces onto nothing, that I would happily poke the "designer" in the eyes. After I'd sat them at the first stool along the breakfast bar and poked their fingers in the gas flames from the hob first.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=19902030&sale=43780292&country=england
I don't even have a kitchen at the moment and I hate that one so much. Why would you walk through the utility to a 'morning room'? And why is it a morning room if it can't actually get any direct sunlight from the east?
I should sleep. I'm not feeling very "nice".Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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neverdespairgirl wrote: »Our new bed is utterly mad, mind you. But fun.
Gonna tell us why?
What did you pick for the kitchen? I presume it wasn't a high gloss?!Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Well - our bedroom's quite small (12 x 13 feet) and I didn't quite see where we were going to put all our stuff - clothes, shoes, etc.
So I wanted a bed which made the room feel less cramped, and had lots of storage.
It's now a platform bed, with chests of drawers underneath, wardrobes to the side, and no other furniture - so when we're actually in it, there's no furniture in sight, apart from the tops of the wardrobes whcih make bedside tables.
Our kitchen is oak cupboards, slate floors, and granite worktops. Very nice (in my opinion) and hard-wearing.
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The high gloss kitchens I've seen have all been cheap and nasty colours, which might have prejudiced me against them. And I can't help but think that they must be a mare to keep clean....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Doozergirl wrote: »I'd rip the kitchen out. I like high gloss, done well. That isn't. It's so badly planned for the sake of having a breakfast bar that faces onto nothing, that I would happily poke the "designer" in the eyes. After I'd sat them at the first stool along the breakfast bar and poked their fingers in the gas flames from the hob first.
Why would you walk through the utility to a 'morning room'? And why is it a morning room if it can't actually get any direct sunlight from the east?
I should sleep. I'm not feeling very "nice".
I agree - walking through the utility rooms, squeezing past the washing machine and the mops to get to the dark morning room sounds mad.
And that kitchen is badly designed, you are absolutely right. And the colours are depressing. It looks like a cheap hotel....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Here is the type of high-gloss kitchen that I don't like:
http://www.primelocation.com/uk-property-for-sale/details/id/SPTLA464/...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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