Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

GDB2222

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Here is the type of high-gloss kitchen that I don't like:



http://www.primelocation.com/uk-property-for-sale/details/id/SPTLA464/

I think that red would become rather tiresome. In fact, so would the straight layout, and the lack of isolation of the cooking smells, and the inability to separate small children from hot pans, and .... Apart from that it's lovely.

michaels

How about a water slide then straight in to the tub?

We are just painting all the walls Dulux white initially while we decide whether any of the rooms will have colours, the doors and skirtings are pine and will be varnished, the floors are oak.

We for some reason tend to do 'black and white' colour schemes, Viva will know why

Our kitchen is now 18 x 25 but still has a fair bit of wall in the middle - the long term plan is to get a big steel but cost and disruption mean that is for 'phase 2' but we are now left wondering how to lay out the room - we are not changing the kitchen so that can not move but the rest of the room will hold the dining table are, a sofa and a kids playing on the floor area.

Now things are nearly finished I must take and upload some photos but I need one of those estate agent cameras where even in a small room it can get almost the whole room in to shot from one corner.

lostinrates wrote: »

At first I though...yeah...that would be good....then I thought about climbing on to the slide naked in the morning and the skin burn as you stuck and slid against your sticking skin and the pull of gravity to the bottom.....would be like a does of carpet burn every single morning......so...I'll pass I think.

Doozergirl

GDB2222 wrote: »

Hmm, you pay £256k + £8k SDLT + legals etc and auctioneer's buyers fee = £265k. Work costs £30k (according to Silver). Financing for 6 months (min) £10k. Marketing costs £5k. That's £310k. Where's the profit?

I'm not going to suggest there's a profit. I agree with Viva that it looks like a house that a builder will buy. Crap £15k makeover to the house, do nothing to the back garden (which is the developer default), and then overprice it, see what happens. I really cannot see how that house would ever cost £70k to renovate by anyone (was that the surveyor's suggestion?). I couldn't physically spend it. I think £30k for a half decent job would be correct. So if someone wants it as a home, and done to their own taste, it's not a bad deal, just not a good one...

I'd still rather buy a house and fix it for me than buy one ready made by someone else for the same eventual price.

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

PN, I can't post a new thread in the other place. Is it a general problem, or just me?

No idea.... so I'll blame you and say "it's just you" and do that geeky IT support smug look that'll make you scuttle off and stop asking questions

I rarely go to the other place, it was only intended as a 1-day solution when this place was down a couple of years ago ... and most of the time I forget it even exists

GDB2222

I don't think that I can, either, but I think the moderator there has been busy on other matters.

Aberdeenangarse

Doozergirl wrote: »

I'm not suggesting there's a profit But I agree with Viva that it looks like a house that a builder will buy.

Whoever bought it must have thought long and hard. Once it reached the £250,000 stamp duty limit, it hung there for ages and I thought it had sold. Looks like there must have been two buyers desperate to buy it, though not being there I wouldn't know.

Doozergirl

GDB2222 wrote: »

I think that red would become rather tiresome. In fact, so would the straight layout, and the lack of isolation of the cooking smells, and the inability to separate small children from hot pans, and .... Apart from that it's lovely.

Waste of space isn't it really. Living area tucked down the end and pushed for space, meanwhile your kitchen takes up one straight run all the way down, you have a dining table floating in the middle of nowhere and a vast expanse of oak flooring that serves no purpose up the other end.

I get so wound up. Why don't developers consider how people will actually use a space when they design a kitchen?

PasturesNew

My current (rental) bedroom here must be 13'x8'. It seems huge. It's got a double in it and two bedside cabinets and a double wardrobe ... but there's shedloads of room for more furniture if it were mine. If it were mine I'd have one wall of ceiling to floor cupboards, then just a bed and cabinet.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

I don't think that I can, either, but I think the moderator there has been busy on other matters.

Oh ... I'll go and poke it about then, see if I can see what's going on.

Had a huge traffic spike in the last 3-4 days of October, might be a magnet for spammers.

Back in a bit ...

chewmylegoff

GDB2222 wrote: »

I'm old enough to remember my parents replacing our old butler's sink with a beautiful stainless steel one.

What did your butler think about that??