The "have a look at this!" thread II

moneyistooshorttomention

Upsidedown_Bear wrote: »

I agree - inside pictures needed

Wonder what they've done to it to make it worth £320K more than they paid for it in March?
Or is the property market there going up that fast?

Possibly "what they've done" amounts to finding out what those cliffs are made of - and not liking it. I admit my very first thought on seeing any property near cliffs is to wonder whether those cliffs will stay put - or get eroded by the sea.

robatwork

Did you wonder where the people from *that* purple house in Uxbridge went? Well they toned it down a bit...

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-61461947.html

Dandie89

Rain_Shadow wrote: »

They have the same clock on the kitchen wall that I have. Pics 6 and 7

No one's ever going to sit in your kitchen and say ''any idea what the time is?'' ☺

Dandie89

Picture 21 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-43991061.html

A lot of energy could be saved if more houses had one of these

moneyistooshorttomention

Dandie89 wrote: »

Picture 21 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-43991061.html

A lot of energy could be saved if more houses had one of these

All sorts of "odd" bits and pieces to that house imo and probably got a garden that's too small in relation to the house.

Now can anyone answer me as to what one does for privacy on big windows in a modern house? Looking at all those huge windows and I suspect neighbours could see in through a few of them.

Answers on a postcard please re:
- can't use net curtains (as they're old-fashioned)
- can't use muslin curtains (as they fall to pieces after a while - voice of experience time)
- can't use blinds (as they look too "officey" and/or old-fashioned)
- can't put on stick-on filmy screening stuff (that doesnt look quite right - assuming one could manage to put it on perfectly in the first place) and not possible to see out through
- can't use Indian sari material or the like (the windows are much bigger than that)

I spotted just the house I'd like (all else being equal - like loadsa money to pay for it) the other day and it had those huge windows with nothing up at them....

Davesnave

Dandie89 wrote: »

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-43991061.html

"Each wing is clad with pre-fabricated weathered steel, perforated at particular points over glazed areas to mimic the effect of dappled light through the branches of trees....."

Glad to know our place had something in common with one priced at £3.8m.

Unfortunately, we had to get rid of our 'weathered steel' roof. The rusty corrugated iron was allowing too much water to fall onto our log pile!

phoebe1989seb

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

All sorts of "odd" bits and pieces to that house imo and probably got a garden that's too small in relation to the house.

Now can anyone answer me as to what one does for privacy on big windows in a modern house? Looking at all those huge windows and I suspect neighbours could see in through a few of them.

Answers on a postcard please re:
- can't use net curtains (as they're old-fashioned)
- can't use muslin curtains (as they fall to pieces after a while - voice of experience time)
- can't use blinds (as they look too "officey" and/or old-fashioned)
- can't put on stick-on filmy screening stuff (that doesnt look quite right - assuming one could manage to put it on perfectly in the first place) and not possible to see out through
- can't use Indian sari material or the like (the windows are much bigger than that)

I spotted just the house I'd like (all else being equal - like loadsa money to pay for it) the other day and it had those huge windows with nothing up at them....

Our last house wasn't 'modern' by any stretch of the imagination - being some 200+ years old - but we did add a large extension with cathedral-type vaulted ceiling that had a double-height window. Our architect gave us the option of tinted or one-way glazing panels, but we chose standard glass as this part of the house looked out onto the rear garden and wasn't overlooked at all.

When we lived on the south coast a neighbour had one-way type glazing panels in the mahoosive double-height windows he incorporated into his 1950s-meets-barn conversion property, but he had reasons for not wanting people to see in

moneyistooshorttomention

"one way glazing panels" - now there's summat that's a new concept to me.

Any details on that one welcome...:)

Guessing that equals one can look out - but anyone else can't look in? Am guessing it's somewhere along the lines of tinted glasses - ie one can see out but no-one can see in (ie see your eyes)???

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

"one way glazing panels" - now there's summat that's a new concept to me.

You've obviously never been a shoplifter! :rotfl:

(But your anaslysis is correct.)

moneyistooshorttomention

Davesnave wrote: »

You've obviously never been a shoplifter! :rotfl:

(But your anaslysis is correct.)

You're right - and I haven't:D:A.

I'll take that as a compliment....and those windows as a matter to investigate (well...the ones on my current house aren't the ones I personally would have chosen...so....).

An explanation of what a shoplifter would know - but I obviously don't.....would be useful.