The "have a look at this!" thread II

quantumlobster

Oakdene wrote: »

Never mind that house, this is what £1.2 million can buy you in the very westest of Wales.



https://www.purplebricks.co.uk/property-for-sale/8-bedroom-character-property-pembroke-dock-514384

"Off-street parking for all your cars. Yes, all of them. Don't care how many you've got. ALL OF THEM."

kerri_gt

Oakdene wrote: »

Never mind that house, this is what £1.2 million can buy you in the very westest of Wales.



https://www.purplebricks.co.uk/property-for-sale/8-bedroom-character-property-pembroke-dock-514384

Hmmm, plenty of character but can't help but think it's missing that 'homely' feeling :rotfl:

kerri_gt

bouicca21 wrote: »

Sadly I don.t have 1.2 million, because that is just my sort of house.

Gorgeous house, sadly I don't have £1.2m either - fancy pooling our resources and going halves? :rotfl:

westernpromise

kerri_gt wrote: »

Gorgeous house, sadly I don't have £1.2m either - fancy pooling our resources and going halves? :rotfl:

I don't think you'll need £1.2 million in the end. With a maximum of 1 bathroom and loo it's never really going to work as a family house, nor will you get planning to extend as it's a conservation area.

vansboy

AFF8879 wrote: »

This honestly has to be one of the strangest set of EA photos I have seen.... who on earth approved these?!

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-74125199.html

Picture 4...now, what shall we do with this odd piece of worktop, I cut off, Honey??


Just nail it on the end, by the fridge, please darlin'!!


VB

NaughtiusMaximus

westernpromise wrote: »

I don't think you'll need £1.2 million in the end. With a maximum of 1 bathroom and loo it's never really going to work as a family house, nor will you get planning to extend as it's a conservation area.

It worked for pretty much every family up until the early noughties.

LandyAndy

westernpromise wrote: »

The only loo downstairs is an outside one and even if you joined it to the house you'd still have a toilet off the kitchen:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-74152370.html
And as it's "on the market for the first time in an astonishing 92 years", that'll be 92 years of plumbing and electrical updating required....

The garage is too narrow for a modern vehicle so you may be able to steal the back half of it, at least, and make an attached downstairs bathroom and utility.

westernpromise

NaughtiusMaximus wrote: »

It worked for pretty much every family up until the early noughties.

Yes, but they weren't paying £1.2 million for it. When your £400k 1-bath house was too small you upgraded to 2 baths for £150k more.

It won't go for that anyway. If you wanted an unmodernised house with an outside loo around there, you could for £1.635 million have had this one nearby last year
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property/9-erskine-hill/london/nw11-6ha/17340719
- which is getting on for 3x the size.

moneyistooshorttomention

NaughtiusMaximus wrote: »

It worked for pretty much every family up until the early noughties.

Social habits have changed rather in recent years.

As someone in my 60s, I can recall being brought up with idea of having a weekly bath. But it's been the norm for some decades now to have a daily shower or bath. So that's each person in the house requiring use of the bathroom for that purpose 7 times a week - rather than once a week.

So - 4 person household = bathroom needed for a shower/bath 28 times a week, compared to 7 times a week.

Then there might be someone in that household that takes that shower/bath at the beginning of the day and then goes off to a day at work, then a session at the gym, and they'll want another shower/bath after the gym.

etc etc.

Then again - a lot of people are trying to "fit more into a day" than they were - eg extra hours at work or working several different part-time jobs in the gig economy or whatever. Those busier people don't have time to wait for someone else to finish in the bathroom before they can use it. It was all very well when it was Dad working 9-5 Monday-Friday (and deemed "more important" because of being a man) and mum not working at all etc etc - but these days it's a very different picture in many households

westernpromise

I don't think Dad was more important because he was a man. He was more important because he earned the money and everyone else just spent it, so it's pretty clear who's the most important member of the family. At a pinch he could do without them, but they couldn't do without him.