Drooling over houses I love but can't afford

LEJC

The thing for me is...the one's I drool over are the dooer uppers....

theres nothing better than seeing something that is totally unloved and looking at it with vision.
The ones that are done have little or no appeal to me...I would much prefer to create it as I want.

Mrs36

MrsJam wrote: »

Please feel free to join me!

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-64302557.html

Wow, a victorian terrace with an AGA? Someone has overspent there :rotfl: I really cannot warm to victorian houses at all, Despite lashings of cream paint, they all feel dark, in my opinion.

LEJC wrote: »

The thing for me is...the one's I drool over are the dooer uppers....

theres nothing better than seeing something that is totally unloved and looking at it with vision.
The ones that are done have little or no appeal to me...I would much prefer to create it as I want.

Agreed, LEJC

The one by the Thames is beautiful, but so bare. No pictures, no evidence of life

gettingtheresometime

BobQ wrote: »

If you are going to drool, then drool over something more palatial....

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-46501071.html

I do like the name of the Estate Agent.

Call me strange but for £4M I think I'd like to see more pictures of the actual house than the views.


In fact I'm always a little wary of listings that show more of the outside than the inside!

cloo

This website has a lot of the sort of houses I like to drool over, though I notice it doesn't provide too many pics, presumably to deter us drooling plebs from hogging their site


http://www.themodernhouse.com/sales-list/camden-road/

phoebe1989seb

Like LEJC, I usually only drool over fixer uppers as I have some kind of magnet that draws me to abandoned, unloved properties, lol!

Often these are [STRIKE]moneypits[/STRIKE] Arts and Crafts in style, such as the one we're currently sympathetically restoring

One I do have in my RM saved list that I lust after, is this

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-50031001.html

It's Tom Conti's and I love it! For me, it's all about the architectural details (pics 14 and 16) and the history of the place, although this one is waay too big and the kitchen is hideous.

I console myself with the fact that we have some similar features here - Art Nouveau finger plates, a verandah and some of the original fireplaces. We also have the same weathered Lutyens bench (pic 19) and herringbone parquet flooring in two rooms

At the moment though, my searches are concentrated on small, rural properties with a few acres. We miss our last - very rural house - and hope to move again when this one is finished.

For me, the ideal would be to have the best of both worlds - a bolt hole in London and a cosy cottage with acreage in the country.....like a former neighbour of ours in Wiltshire who had a fantastic flat off the Kings Road and a sprawling thatched house in which he spent weekends and holidays. Lucky ***

fairy_lights

Don't waste your drool on terraced houses when there are French castles you can be fantasising over!
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/overseas-property/property-47195790.html

SnooksNJ

eggha wrote: »

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do you mean normal houses I can't afford or do you mean houses that everyone would drool over as being lovely but unaffordable unless you are the super rich ?

a 3 bed terraced house up north may of course be unaffordable to some, but hardly drool territory

instead, how about 3 acres of private gardens but on the bank of the River Thames with easy access to central London (although too close to a tennis club for my taste)
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-63420461.html

How about private ocean access and Ina as a neighbor? http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/33-Lily-Pond-Ln-Aka_East-Hampton_NY_11937_M46162-11854

Mrs36

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

Like LEJC, I usually only drool over fixer uppers as I have some kind of magnet that draws me to abandoned, unloved properties, lol!

Often these are [STRIKE]moneypits[/STRIKE] Arts and Crafts in style, such as the one we're currently sympathetically restoring

One I do have in my RM saved list that I lust after, is this

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-50031001.html

It's Tom Conti's and I love it! For me, it's all about the architectural details (pics 14 and 16) and the history of the place, although this one is waay too big and the kitchen is hideous.

I console myself with the fact that we have some similar features here - Art Nouveau finger plates, a verandah and some of the original fireplaces. We also have the same weathered Lutyens bench (pic 19) and herringbone parquet flooring in two rooms

At the moment though, my searches are concentrated on small, rural properties with a few acres. We miss our last - very rural house - and hope to move again when this one is finished.

For me, the ideal would be to have the best of both worlds - a bolt hole in London and a cosy cottage with acreage in the country.....like a former neighbour of ours in Wiltshire who had a fantastic flat off the Kings Road and a sprawling thatched house in which he spent weekends and holidays. Lucky ***

That's a beautiful house! The kitchen table and chairs really don't suit it though I love Arts and Crafts houses - any chance we can see pictures of your moneypit?

eggha

Davesnave wrote: »

Even the relatively modest property I have requires hundreds of hours input and around £2k/pa spent outdoors. I could double that easily and still not be extravagant.

but my dear boy, one has staff to do that sort of thing, and one houses them in the staff cottage elsewhere so they can do it out of sight

Cakeguts

MrsJam wrote: »

Please feel free to join me!

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-64302557.html

When I lived in Oldham, Failsworth used to also be a part of Oldham. When did it move to Manchester?