Please critique my house...

AnotherJoe

Brackenfield wrote: »

Thanks for your input anotherJoe. Glad you like the pics. I appreciate my white with pops of colour aren't everyone's thing.

We have used the sunroom often for dining. Should we add a table/chairs there?

Our nearest town is Lanark and 4 beds in that price don't seem to be moving, was hoping ours might!

There's an excellent idea. Put a dining table and chairs in and call it a "dining room" and not a sunroom. Seriously. Most people cant see things until you shove it in front of their faces, and that includes me in this case !


p.s. i agree with the comment about taking the initial photo from the other side of the house so there's less emphasis on the garages more on the residential side of the house.

Cheeky_Monkey

I love it too. It's very well presented and I love the style.

There is nothing I don't like about it but I agree that the sun room should be changed to a dining room.

If it wasn't in the middle of nowhere, I would snap it up :beer:

getmore4less

The plan needs the door on the off kitchen loo, you can see it in the pic.

Looks like there is a coat store in the main hall
the utility & rear hall that is a fair bit of space/storage with no pics
there are 4 of the kitchen showing basically the same thing 4 times highlighting the table and the floor, move people on to the next pic.


I see the trailer at the back can you get a car/caravan down there, hard to tell from the pics or streetview.

Not sure land is that big an issue in a lot of Scotland there is loads of it and plots are bigger.

I think a lot of listings would benefit from a full plot plan or at least the OS type view.

overall nice place good spaces, what's the commute to places with work?
Does the suffer the same as Glasgow area with damp air over the winter

Brackenfield

Thank you all so much for the feedback.

Anotherjoe, we have seated 2 tables with 18 people in that room so I think you are right, a neat table with even 4 chairs would work, maybe glass to keep it light n airy?

Cheeky monkey, I'm glad you like it, I know we all have different tastes. One poster called it a 'project' which isn't how I see it.

Getmore4less we don't have a caravan but that trailer and a discovery have both been moved/parked at the side of the house as the monobloc continues all the way round. Is a caravan wider?

Storage, 2 hall cupboard's, rear hall cupboard, utility cupboards below sink, built in wardrobes in 3 bedrooms, does this need mentioned?

Travelling for work; 5 miles to lanark, 12 to Biggar, limited work. Livingston and Hamilton 40 mind. Glasgow, Edinburgh, Carlisle all 50 mins to an hour.

The first pic is mine rather than estate agents, if we get another stunning day, I'll pop out and take some more from the other angle.

hb2

You have a lovely house with plenty of space. I think storage should be emphasised in the listing, many newer places have very little of it (our 10 year old flat had a grand total of 1 cupboard other than kitchen units, of which there were too few) and it costs to add in.

I think much of the problem is down to the location, you are waiting for one of the fewer people who wants to live there. I might snap it up were it not at the other end of the country!

getmore4less

Potentially being able to secure/store vehicles at the back is a bonus for anyone with a tourer of a boat.
I can see the drive down the side just not clear the access is wide enough sounds like it is.

I do pics and plan first to get a feel for space some of your space is missing from the pics.

That bed/study over garage is a great potential space as it has it's own entrance from the rear hall lets see it.


Another on here started a couple of days ago and got good feedback from people, I had another look to day and only now realised there was a brick built store/shed outside(it was burieds in the words but I don't read them on the first look at places.

Brackenfield

Thank you hb2, i think you are right.

When we replaced the old pine kitchen we ripped down all the wall units but put in the 'bank' of units floor to ceiling to keep our storage. Given your comments, hopefully it all helps!

Brackenfield

Getmore4less noted re rear access. That was our daughters room which was ideal as she could come and go for work/clubbing and not disturb us. She actually joked we could add a kitchen ( access walk in loft from that room) and she'doesn't stay forever! Lol

Clutterfree

First of all it's not to my taste (I like period properties) but imho I feel that the outside and inside don't "marry up".
From the outside it looks like your average bungalow that an older couple would love to live in.
However, from the inside, the majority of the decor would not look out of place in a swanky apartment.
That said, the bedrooms look like you've not got round to doing them up and seem out of place to the rest of the interior.

I'm just wondering if when looking online and buyers see the outside they expect a certain "look" and it's totally different inside.
Conversely the buyers that love the modern interior may feel that the outside looks too run of the mill for them.

I'm probably talking out of my backside, and it's not a criticism of your style, but that's just my take on it.

Also, way too many photo's - I just ended up quickly flicking through them rather than taking my time.

Good luck!

davidmcn

I suspect any lack of interest is mostly down to location - it may be theoretically commutable to Glasgow and Edinburgh (though an hour sounds ambitious at peak times), but people who want a semi-rural home can find plenty which aren't so far out in the sticks. So buyers are probably going to be those with more reason to be in that locality (or perhaps those who want to be within reach of the central belt but also handy for the M74 south).