The "have a look at this!" thread II

ash28

westernpromise wrote: »

That's pretty nice but for £775k I would expect the upstairs rooms not to feel like an attic conversion. I'd also like an attic.

Our bedroom is built over a double garage in the same way as this one, though our house is a traditional house with an attached double garage built at a right angle to the house and the bedroom was built over the garage when the house was built 10 years ago.
The size of the room is very similar to this one (minus that wall in the middle of the room) and does not feel like an attic conversion at all. There is some loft space above the room and the only issue with the room is the lack of wall space for free standing wardrobes, ours came with built in storage so it isn't an issue. We also have a door on the ensuite!

Davesnave

Madmel wrote: »

This is very close to where I live (not mine). But is it a bungalow? And I'm not at all sure about the master ensuite... https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-64289869.html

The EPC isn't great so the insulation upstairs might not be that good. In this heat, it wouldn't be the style of building I'd prefer.


I suppose the price is due to location. Very nice, but I'll stick to visiting that area for short day trips and stay where I am, in the 'undiscovered' bit! :rotfl:

ChicaBonita

Madmel wrote: »

This is very close to where I live (not mine). But is it a bungalow? And I'm not at all sure about the master ensuite... https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-64289869.html

It looks like they've photoshopped the views in the windows, must be the filter.

I stayed in an airbnb in Brighton last year where the ensuite was like that in the master - luckily I had the room to myself, you could see straight onto the toilet and shower from the bed! Even when I was in there on my own I felt odd!

westernpromise

The trouble with slopey wall-c um-ceilings, as seen in many attic conversions, is that you can't have freestanding furniture - wardrobes and the like. And I just hate tacky built-in wardrobes.

edit: I'm fascinated at how filthy-minded the auto-censorship is. I used the word "c um" which the censor instinctively misunderstood....

ukmaggie45

Who in their right mind puts the bathroom and only toilet in the house on the second floor? (See Floor Plan)

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-66475684.html

What if you fancy a few pints of an evening? :eek:

westernpromise

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Who in their right mind puts the bathroom and only toilet in the house on the second floor? (See Floor Plan)

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-66475684.html

Good spot. At a guess, someone in a 3-bed house who wants it to be a 4-bed by going into the attic. As the attic makes a better bathroom than bedroom (slopey ceilings maybe?), the bathroom went there and the 4th bedroom went where the 1st-floor bathroom used to be.

I rather like that house, it's been quite well done, but yes that would be a bit of a pain. If it were me, I would try to find a way to squeeze a ground floor loo under the stairs somehow. If you go for one of those loos where the handsink is set into the top of the cistern you can fit them into very small spaces.

RedFraggle

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-72862745.html

Pics 7 and 8. Why?

westernpromise

RedFraggle wrote: »

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-72862745.html

Pics 7 and 8. Why?

So a single chair and small table at the end of a path that ends in the middle of the garden.

Card table for a solitaire player?

westernpromise

Very nice ex-vicarage for reasonable money this close to the centre of Stafford.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-60570052.html

But:
What's with the ground floor layout? - front hall leads only to the kitchen and you have to walk through two rooms to get to the sitting room? Eh?

And: The property is reached via a public footpath which continues to the private driveway and leads to the property and extensive grounds of large lawns and ample parking for several vehicles.

How do you get vehicles down a public footpath? Is this why this 5-bed cellared house with huge gardens has no garage?

Davesnave

westernpromise wrote: »

edit: I'm fascinated at how filthy-minded the auto-censorship is. I used the word "c um" which the censor instinctively misunderstood....

The censor obviously didn't go to grammar school, so never had the pleasure of learning a language full of helpful sentences like: "We shall overcome the barbarians with the skilful use of our spears and arrows."


Still waiting for that one to be appropriate. After Brexit, maybe? :rotfl: