The "have a look at this!" thread II

wantonnoodle

House from the 1960s according to the EA - looks like the bathroom hasn't had anything much done to it since!! http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-51102210.html

bouicca21

A lot of 60s stuff is now 'retro' - like that Ercol dresser/wall unit. I can live with it all - except the bathroom which would have to go.

NaughtiusMaximus

wantonnoodle wrote: »

House from the 1960s according to the EA - looks like the bathroom hasn't had anything much done to it since!! http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-51102210.html

IMO the bathroom's unusual in that despite obviously being 30+ years old based on the style (I'd take a guess at late 70s/early 80s) it's very well maintained and the photo could easily pass for one taken 5-10 years after installation.

katsclaws

We have similar tiles in our downstairs cloakroom. Our house was built in 1981.

Davesnave

AFF8879 wrote: »

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-69545717.html


Can't quite tell what the sign hanging on the wall says but something tells me it's ironic.

"Let's sail away." The only irony I can see is that with the build-up of dirt in there, the floor hasn't seen water, or a bucket and mop, since the flat was first sold in 2015.

moneyistooshorttomention

Davesnave wrote: »

I think we had a spate of these at one stage, but there's always room for one more.

Perhaps, like Hilary Clinton, he discovered his Welsh roots and staged his death so that he could relocate quietly to Wales and forever escape the pressures of Graceland. If that was the case, he'd be 81 now and about ready to downsize to a nice McCarthy & Stone in Mumbles....

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-69525737.html

Just saying....:cool:

Doesnt look much like a pensioner flat Dave??

But - yep suitable for someone re-discovering British roots.

Am surprised the usual "code" doesnt quite seem to apply - of "land for sale" usually translates into = well there is a house on that plot - but you're going to have to demolish it, as it's that bad. That house looks passable - an up-for-modernisation job - but could live in it.

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Doesnt look much like a pensioner flat Dave??

But - yep suitable for someone re-discovering British roots.

Am surprised the usual "code" doesnt quite seem to apply - of "land for sale" usually translates into = well there is a house on that plot - but you're going to have to demolish it, as it's that bad. That house looks passable - an up-for-modernisation job - but could live in it.

Err, it wasn't meant to look like a McCarthy & Stone, but the sort of house a reclusive rock star might once have owned, given that it has an underground recording studio in the grounds.

Always amused me that one of Wales' most famous recording studios was, purely coincidentally, in a place called Rockfield. I recorded something very bad there, very long ago....:o

As for 'Land for Sale,' it's something at least two Welsh agencies use because Rightmove is such a blunt instrument for finding landed property, and that alone.

Julie._McCombie

Trying to work out how to post a new thread from my phone.

moneyistooshorttomention

Davesnave wrote: »

As for 'Land for Sale,' it's something at least two Welsh agencies use because Rightmove is such a blunt instrument for finding landed property, and that alone.

Hadnt realised that - as any time I've spotted that comment the house itself has always been a "demolish completely" standard one - so assumed that was what it meant.

RightMove isnt the world's best website I do know. I'm sure I recall one used to be able to put in, for instance, a specification on it for detached houses only and now it doesnt seem to be possible. I've found the only way to "cut out the rest" and just bring up detached houses for an area is to just put into Google "detached rightmove area name" and that works (though there's still mobile homes sneaked in on that at the bottom end of the price scale and the odd non-detached house and "coach house" gets sneaked in throughout the price scale). At least it reduces the ones to look through somewhat.

rebs

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Hadnt realised that - as any time I've spotted that comment the house itself has always been a "demolish completely" standard one - so assumed that was what it meant.

RightMove isnt the world's best website I do know. I'm sure I recall one used to be able to put in, for instance, a specification on it for detached houses only and now it doesnt seem to be possible. I've found the only way to "cut out the rest" and just bring up detached houses for an area is to just put into Google "detached rightmove area name" and that works (though there's still mobile homes sneaked in on that at the bottom end of the price scale and the odd non-detached house and "coach house" gets sneaked in throughout the price scale). At least it reduces the ones to look through somewhat.

There is a drop down on 'property type' where you can specify detached properties. That's on the desktop webpage version - not sure on mobile versions, but I expect they have similar.