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The "have a look at this!" thread II

Grimbal · 2011-08-05 10:16:46

Official MSE Insert: Thanks to Grimbal for starting this thread, where compulsive Rightmove browsers share their funniest finds. Scroll down for Playboy mansions, unusual extensions, toilets in wardrobes and mysterious presences under bedcovers. Back to the original post... Thought I'd start off a new thread as the other…

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LisbonLaura Posts: 1,121 Forumite

17 July 2014 at 11:54PM

Igamogam wrote: »

I agree......institutional magnolia one step too far!

Oh god, it's bland fawn everywhere time; even the kitchen units & pictures! :mad:
Imho magnolia on walls is fine providing there are bold colours elsewhere and wood floors.
The walls then recede & are hopefully forgotten.

Much as we might love wood ........ Let Me Out!!!

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LisbonLaura Posts: 1,121 Forumite

18 July 2014 at 8:00AM

In August 2009 I went to Slovakia and met a man called Tomasz (pronounced Tomash), who lived in the hills in the centre of the country.
He made a beautiful house on his land, it was constructed with dead wood from the surrounding woodlands, hay bales and thatch and clay plaster made from clay dug by hand from the ground

All from http://www.bodgers.org.uk/bb/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1564

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Igamogam Posts: 6,028 Forumite

18 July 2014 at 8:34AM

Have always like this:

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article-2039719/Simon-Dale-How-I-built-hobbit-house-Wales-just-3-000.html?ito=newsletter

Hobbit houses in Wales have a mixed success though

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/couple-lose-fight-save-hobbit-5395091

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picket_fence Posts: 165 Forumite

18 July 2014 at 8:34AM

More strangeness from Wales http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-24839160.html
I like how some of the words in the EA blurb have been cut off, adds a certain something I feel. Perhaps I should start doing it in my pos

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picket_fence Posts: 165 Forumite

18 July 2014 at 9:08AM

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-37868290.html
Think the presence of several bottles of wine might explain the bleary nature of some of these photos.

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LisbonLaura Posts: 1,121 Forumite

18 July 2014 at 10:37AM edited 18 July 2014 at 11:47AM

picket_fence wrote: »

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-37868290.html
Think the presence of several bottles of wine might explain the bleary nature of some of these photos.

Pic1: Man upside down on a horizontal bar.
I wonder if he does that every morning, or was he out purely to impress Miss EA.

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LisbonLaura Posts: 1,121 Forumite

18 July 2014 at 11:03AM

picket_fence wrote: »

More strangeness from Wales http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-24839160.html
I like how some of the words in the EA blurb have been cut off, adds a certain something I feel. Perhaps I should start doing it in my pos

OH says he knows exactly what happened to interrupt the flow:
EAs doing this :rotfl: on re reading their preposterous blurb

1 Property Informa
With unbelievable potential this one off unique property must be viewed

It's best not to view Ammanford.
The 'POA' is to gauge if there is any interest at all.

Oh how we miss Britain https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=596646637016332&id=594643037216692

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moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite

18 July 2014 at 11:22AM

Igamogam wrote: »

Have always like this:

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article-2039719/Simon-Dale-How-I-built-hobbit-house-Wales-just-3-000.html?ito=newsletter

Hobbit houses in Wales have a mixed success though

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/couple-lose-fight-save-hobbit-5395091

Those houses do look cute, though I'll admit I couldn't live in a Hobbit House myself (too many possessions basically).

Errr...spot the discrepancy though. In the second house something on the kitchen windowsill looks a lot like kitchen paper towel unless I'm much mistaken (though I did spot the bottle of "green" cleaning fluid further along that counterbalances). Hands up...guilty as charged that I do use kitchen paper towels myself, but I know I shouldn't be really...and plead "Its so convenient" as my excuse for doing so...:o

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115K Posts: 2,678 Forumite

18 July 2014 at 12:00PM

I wouldn't like to live in a hobbit house or even a cottage as I find them claustrophobic. They are often pretty though.

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Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite

18 July 2014 at 12:58PM

When I last looked at this, it had 4.5 acres and was decidedly down at heel. It was then £345k with, if I remember correctly, one potential building plot.

I couldn't buy it. The market was dire at that point.

It seems that instead of selling, the owners got planning and sold off a few building plots, refurbed and are now heading off into the sunset with their bounty.

It seems reasonable value for money. Good luck to them.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-40315657.html?utm_content=ealertspropertyimage&utm_medium=email&utm_source=emailupdates&utm_campaign=emailupdates1day&utm_term=buying&sc_id=10316786&onetime_FromEmail=true

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