Please Critique these details

Alchemilla

Thanks to everyone who has given time to comment.
I am very grateful and will take on board/pass your ideas on to the agent.

slowcoachme

Hate the kitchen, bespoke or not. Very little Food prep surface area,
Aga in different room, larder right round the corner. Nightmare.

kinger101

csgohan4 wrote: »

However if you use a fish eye lens to take the photo's it might make the rooms bigger, but to some that maybe cheating, and I for one hate deception. But then that's what floor plans are there for.

Wide angle yes. Fisheye no. The lines will not look straight....though this could be converted using software. I guess this issue is, on a half million pound home, I'd expect the EA to be using the services of a skilled photographer rather than taking snaps on their iphone. It's also beyond me why vendors don't insist on decent photos at the outset, or at least check whether the agent has decent photos on other properties being marketed.

Time and time again, the issue of poor photos by small independent agents crops up on this forum.

dodger1

Absolutely hate the modern window frames and porch, they don't belong and don't do the property justice. Just my opinion of course.

booksurr

I agree with slowcoachme - its a horrid kitchen lacking basic functionality.

whilst Aga's may be all the rage in country properties the fact it splits the kitchen in two makes the whole dining room / kitchen area unsatisfactory

was there originally a door into the bedroom from the "study" area? Having an upper landing as a dead end like that seems a rather inefficient use of space so describing it as a study comes across as a bit of a desperate attempt to claim a few extra feet of space as being for sale

you purchased it for £322,000 in May 2007?

TBagpuss

It's a really nice house, but the presentation by the agents is really sloppy - random swapping between inside and outside pictures, no flow, and one of the photos of the kitchen instead of the floorplan.

I agree that describing the landing as a 'study' looks rather desperate, and that the kitchen seems very awkward and badly designed; if I were looking at this house I would be factoring in the need to replace the kitchen in any offer I made. Looking at the floor plan, I would assume that the area marked 'dining room' was really the kitchen, and that the area marked as 'fitted kitchen' was originally a pantry/scullery.

It is also not clear from either the photos or the floor plan whether the downstairs shower room is literally *just* a shower room or whether there is also a WC.

Why no pictures of the garden? Is there a back garden at all?

anotheruser

And the two photos of the shed building in the field - is this field part of the sale? If not, why are the photos there?
No views from the bedroom windows, which were trumpeted about - "views over the village to the countryside beyond which are particularly good from the first floor."

I would put the dining room back into the kitchen, change the current kitchen and larder to be a dining room.

Alchemilla

Yes. An awful lot done to it since. Sorry. Response to the question about what we paid in 2007.

I don't like the modern windows either but lots of people seem to think they are a good option.

We won't be changing the kitchen since it is only three years old.

There is a small back yard.

The stables and field are included, it is also for sale at 410k without them.

Doozergirl

It's very nice. My kind of house from the outside and nicely proportioned rooms, except the kitchen.

Where's the rest of the kitchen? That isn't it, surely? I'd be moving it to a proper room because it looks like a lovely utility, not a family kitchen.

Alchemilla

The part with the dining table in is actually part of the kitchen.
Tbagpuss nailed it, the part the agent described as the kitchen is actually the scullery.