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  • moneyistooshorttomention
    moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite
    bouicca21 wrote: »
    Anyone who likes a house that !!!!!! is going to be unswayed by the kitchen worktops.

    I wouldnt describe it like that. I like things like the trends for wood cladding and big windows etc current now. But I simply don't understand quite how it "works" in practice - things like privacy considerations (those windows), getting one's legs underneath the "breakfast bar cupboard" that has 2 barstools by it in the kitchen, the cooker splashback wouldn't be high enough to work for me:rotfl:. Add the fact I don't understand why the garden paving and some of the furniture are rather old-fashioned in comparison to what is meant to be a modern house.

    I do like houses to "work" first and foremost:rotfl:
  • Cakeguts
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    It's an old ashtray,

    I actually meant the post next to the old ashtray. I can't think of any houses that I have been into recently that have a post at the bottom of the stairs that goes all the way up to the ceiling like that. It is holding the ceiling up?
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    edited 1 January 2017 at 3:47PM
    Cakeguts wrote: »
    It is holding the ceiling up?

    Sorry, yes it's structural. Not unusual on houses of that age and type.

    Probably the staircase was originally walled-in, maybe with a door at the bottom. The bannisters were likely added later when it was opened -up.
  • grayme-m
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    moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »
    Some of us are trying not to think about that....as we own one...but it got nicked...:(:mad:. That being - one was there in the kitchen of my starter house and it was agreed with vendor it would be left as part of purchase price - and then he nicked it...it was missing from the kitchen when I moved in....:eek::mad:

    Did you sort it out, was it not on the signed paperwork of what was staying and what was going?
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  • moneyistooshorttomention
    moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite
    grayme-m wrote: »
    Did you sort it out, was it not on the signed paperwork of what was staying and what was going?

    That particular little vendor didn't even leave some of the stuff down there agreed in writing in "black and white" that it was staying.

    Long story - I managed to get a bit of payment out of him for goods of mine he had taken - but not enough to cover anything towards my kitchen cabinet. He had nicked 3 things in total in the end - as I found. Add I was rather tied-up with rewiring in a house he told me had been re-wired only a few years previously - and it hadn't....
  • Cakeguts
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    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-57098737.html Black and white ceiling and floor in the kitchen.
  • moneyistooshorttomention
    moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite
    Cakeguts wrote: »
    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-57098737.html Black and white ceiling and floor in the kitchen.

    Think you have linked to the wrong one...
  • phoebe1989seb
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    edited 1 January 2017 at 11:21PM
    Davesnave wrote: »
    Sorry, yes it's structural. Not unusual on houses of that age and type.

    Probably the staircase was originally walled-in, maybe with a door at the bottom. The bannisters were likely added later when it was opened -up.

    Yes, we had a similar set up at our last house (a Georgian semi-rural property) :D
    Mortgage-free for fourteen years!

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  • Davesnave
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    moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »
    Think you have linked to the wrong one...
    Never mind, there's loads of 'artex' and exposed wiring to sort out ....;)
  • Cakeguts
    Cakeguts Posts: 7,627 Forumite
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    Never mind, there's loads of 'artex' and exposed wiring to sort out ....;)

    No it is a different one I found. I just thought someone might enjoy the black and white kitchen floor and ceiling.
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