The "have a look at this!" thread II

thelawnet

http://search.struttandparker.com/assets/brochures/CHM120187.PDF

Gorgeous. Not sure how much you'd have to spend to bring it up to standard though.

Sold for £650k.

A repossession after the owner sold it for £750k with a lifetime right of residency to a scumbag developer (apparently was worth £1.25m?) who mortgaged it and then got repossessed.

http://www.housingandpropertylawdaily.co.uk/news-by-category/2011/06/14/broken-promises-and-property-deals-novel-proprietary-estoppel-ruling-clarifies-law--10372.html

LittleVoice

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

Not really posting an awful house here - unless you guys think otherwise of course, LOL but have just discovered our old family home has come on the market in the last couple of days and thought it worthy of posting - www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-37983133.html?premiumA=true

Looks just the same except for the addition of an aga and different wall colours in kitchen and two of the bedrooms. The kitchen and bathroom have not been replaced and some of our pots are still visible in the garden.

I hand-painted the friezes in the two main reception rooms back in 1999 and made all the curtains that can be seen too - a little OTT for some I confess, but they did compliment our furniture........I even laid the reclaimed tiles in the hallway myself - they came from the church my parents were married in!

When we sold in 2007 the buyers bought lots of our stuff too - pictures, mirrors and a whole collection of taxidermy butterflies in the hallway......I guess those alone might justify inclusion in this thread

Trouble is DH and I want to buy it back - I wish I'd not spotted it now

Was the loo really so uncomfortably close to the bath (pic 19)?

UsernameAlreadyExists

LittleVoice wrote: »

Was the loo really so uncomfortably close to the bath (pic 19)?

LOL, great for ejecting at both ends after a "good" night out
*innocent*

And that place is not far down the road from me. I am shocked at the price though. Wow.

lauraland

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

Not really posting an awful house here - unless you guys think otherwise of course, LOL but have just discovered our old family home has come on the market in the last couple of days and thought it worthy of posting - www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-37983133.html?premiumA=true

Looks just the same except for the addition of an aga and different wall colours in kitchen and two of the bedrooms. The kitchen and bathroom have not been replaced and some of our pots are still visible in the garden.

I hand-painted the friezes in the two main reception rooms back in 1999 and made all the curtains that can be seen too - a little OTT for some I confess, but they did compliment our furniture........I even laid the reclaimed tiles in the hallway myself - they came from the church my parents were married in!

When we sold in 2007 the buyers bought lots of our stuff too - pictures, mirrors and a whole collection of taxidermy butterflies in the hallway......I guess those alone might justify inclusion in this thread

Trouble is DH and I want to buy it back - I wish I'd not spotted it now

Wow its so grand! If you do buy it back can I buy the door in pic 7 from you (and the chair in pic 14 if the sellers leave it) - I love it!

Find_The_Real

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

Not really posting an awful house here - unless you guys think otherwise of course, LOL but have just discovered our old family home has come on the market in the last couple of days and thought it worthy of posting - www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-37983133.html?premiumA=true

Looks just the same except for the addition of an aga and different wall colours in kitchen and two of the bedrooms. The kitchen and bathroom have not been replaced and some of our pots are still visible in the garden.

I hand-painted the friezes in the two main reception rooms back in 1999 and made all the curtains that can be seen too - a little OTT for some I confess, but they did compliment our furniture........I even laid the reclaimed tiles in the hallway myself - they came from the church my parents were married in!

When we sold in 2007 the buyers bought lots of our stuff too - pictures, mirrors and a whole collection of taxidermy butterflies in the hallway......I guess those alone might justify inclusion in this thread

Trouble is DH and I want to buy it back - I wish I'd not spotted it now

I always liked the houses in the area and wondered what they were like inside so thanks for posting it, as it has some lovely features.

phoebe1989seb

LittleVoice wrote: »

Was the loo really so uncomfortably close to the bath (pic 19)?

He He.......No, guess it's just the angle of the pic - the outer edge of the loo seat was about 2' from the side of the bath

phoebe1989seb

lauraland wrote: »

Wow its so grand! If you do buy it back can I buy the door in pic 7 from you (and the chair in pic 14 if the sellers leave it) - I love it!

Thanks Laura I'd looooooove to buy it back, but now it's just me and DH we don't need that big a place

The front door was/is gorgeous - new owners haven't changed the colour of that either, but neither have they replaced the missing original Victorian stained glass roundel (one of two) with a painted bird that was missing when we bought in 1997 and was one thing we never got round to doing! I really like that chair too - that wasn't one of ours, but the gothic mirror in the front room (our dining room) was and I'd love to get that back.........as well as my butterflies, although I appreciate they're not to everyone's taste. We kept a few but had 200 and are starting to build them up again

So pleased no-one's said they hate it.........so far, LOL - it actually feels like it's still mine and is up for criticism!

namecheck

thelawnet wrote: »

http://search.struttandparker.com/assets/brochures/CHM120187.PDF

Gorgeous. Not sure how much you'd have to spend to bring it up to standard though.

Sold for £650k.

I love this, luckily someone else has bought it though.

The buyer is likely to have to spend a small fortune on the renovations, along with the various hassles associated with listed properties.

However it does seem "cheap", considering the size of the buildings, the amount of land and the fact that it is in easy reach of London.

HappySeagull

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

When we sold in 2007 the buyers bought lots of our stuff too - pictures, mirrors and a whole collection of taxidermy butterflies in the hallway......I guess those alone might justify inclusion in this thread

Great house, can see why you want it back!

But now I'm wondering how you stuff butterflies - it must take a very steady hand. :think:

wabbitpoo

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

So pleased no-one's said they hate it.........so far, LOL - it actually feels like it's still mine and is up for criticism!

Sorry - but I for one think its hideous!:o Nice house, but rip out all that garbage, really!

Sorry to be blunt, but you did ask.