The "have a look at this!" thread II

Mylo_The_Moggy

linz wrote: »

It's the return of the aggreived cat !

That just made me lol when I saw that peering over the wall like Chad!!!! :D

moneyistooshorttomention

ShelleyC wrote: »

I love the swimming ponds. I so love the idea of one in my future garden

OOOOH!:D Duly saved in my online folder for home-to-be.....now drooling and dreaming as to whether....:T

Don't suppose you have a link to that newspaper article I saw quite some while back about a woman who was living a very environmentally-friendly life on a very low income and had a weeny one of these in her garden (which I think she must have made herself)?

stitching_witch

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Don't suppose you have a link to that newspaper article I saw quite some while back about a woman who was living a very environmentally-friendly life on a very low income and had a weeny one of these in her garden (which I think she must have made herself)?

Is it this one? I printed it off a couple of years ago and have it in a folder as it is so inspiring!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2013817/Interiors-This-Eden.html

Stitchy x

phoebe1989seb

Goldiegirl wrote: »

Is it only me that does this ....... Please tell me I'm not the only one.

For quite a while I've been curious to see what the new owners have done to my parents old house, so from time to time I've searched online to see if the house is up for sale, so I can have a virtual look round. It hasn't been up for sale yet, but I've looked round my old house, and was gutted to see that they'd got rid of the lovely kitchen and wardrobes we'd had fitted. Also, I found my aunts old house which had been remodelled out of all recognition.

I know I'm being nosy, but it is interesting!

You're not the only one

Recently I posted on this thread that I'd found out that our last-but-one house was for sale again - we sold in 2007 - and I posted the details here as it is IMHO quite an interesting/nice house.

I was interested to see from the pics that the people that bought from us have done very little to the house - added an aga in the kitchen (I knew they intended to do this as they sent round the aga man to measure up before completion) and changed the wall colours in a couple of the rooms.......otherwise everything (that can be seen) is pretty much as we left it, from the curtains I made to the antiques we sold them as we were downsizing

It went under offer very quickly - and is priced at £100k more than we sold to them for :mad:

I'm also on the lookout for my parents' old house of 49 years which was sold last year. The female half of the couple that purchased is an estate agent. She maintained they were buying as a family home, but it still wouldn't surprise me if they whack in a loft conversion & knock a few walls down (as the neighbours have) and put it back on the market.........time (and frequent perusals of RM, LOL!) will tell

LEJC

I have stumbled across a gem of a house,when looking arond an area in which I grew up

The house is in need of renovation I think but its one of those that the more you study the picture the more you see...

Given the fact that its a very 60's or 70's house I'm not sure if its so right...or so wrong...

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-26730663.html?premiumA=true

I originally thought it was a mirror on one wall and then realised its a viewing porthole...

Davesnave

LEJC wrote: »

I have stumbled across a gem of a house,when looking arond an area in which I grew up...

Those Viccy/Edward terraces are mostly well enough built, and that one doesn't have the bathroom off the kitchen either.

And you could play "Solsbury Hill" on the stereogram ( ) whilst actually looking at it!

LEJC

ive just never seen what looks to be wallpapered skirting boards or what looks like laminated ceilings...Im loving the yellow sink in the kitchen and in its time that oven must have been the height of fashion.

Gingernutty

I have never seen so much Formica in all my days! All those patterns! The patterns around the viewing portals must have been a real labour of love.

moneyistooshorttomention

stitching_witch wrote: »

Is it this one? I printed it off a couple of years ago and have it in a folder as it is so inspiring!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2013817/Interiors-This-Eden.html

Stitchy x

No - it was one, as I recall, about a woman living on £100 a week and featured a photo of her sitting in her outdoor wild pool.

That's an interesting article though and set off a fit of lusting for a couple of acres worth:(:T

tom9980

http://www.mouseprice.com/property-for-sale/ref-10617764

Interesting street name, needs a bit of modernisation