New "Have a Look at This" thread

MaryNB

jimbo6977 said:

https://www.lep.co.uk/lifestyle/homes-and-gardens/windsor-heights-look-around-ps1m-flat-chorley-664091

Surprisingly enough this hasn't been snapped up. 

It's like living in a hotel lobby...

jennyred

jimbo6977 said:

https://www.lep.co.uk/lifestyle/homes-and-gardens/windsor-heights-look-around-ps1m-flat-chorley-664091

Surprisingly enough this hasn't been snapped up. 

whats a night kitchen???

Ditzy_Mitzy

jennyred said:

jimbo6977 said:

https://www.lep.co.uk/lifestyle/homes-and-gardens/windsor-heights-look-around-ps1m-flat-chorley-664091

Surprisingly enough this hasn't been snapped up. 

whats a night kitchen???

I think it's a small, simple kitchen used for keeping a meal warm at night.  The idea is that the owners use it themselves.  The cook prepares the evening meal and goes home, leaving it in the night kitchen.  His and her nibs get home late from being out or away, go to the night kitchen, take the meal from the oven and eat it.  Washing up is left for the maid in the morning.  It saves having to pay a cook to remain on standby all evening.  

Patr100

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

Patr100 said:

Skiddaw1 said:

Patr100 said:

Some distinctly time warpy decor here (bathroom off the bedroom)
Still pricey for a complete refurb needed but it's near the trendy promoted "village " area of Walthamstow so someone is trying it on a bit.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/88249312

Goodness, that does seem pricey for a house that needs so much work especially as it has only two bedrooms. Some of the decor is fab though isn't it?

One thing these old dated interiors suggest is something of the "secret lives"  that probably some older often vulnerable people  live, with no close relatives, perhaps rarely venturing out.  I wonder how little the neighbours, social services,   etc know of their threadbare circumstances, , until it is revealed when the neglected house is sold.

I disagree.  The décor in there may look threadbare to modern eyes but it would have been top end in the fifties and sixties (kitchen appears sixties to me).  Look at the detail on the fireplace, the carpets, the upstairs bathroom and the fitted kitchen.  The owner made a considerable investment in the place and no doubt would have put in modern, then, wiring and made the place suitable for the twentieth century.  It would, in all likelihood, have been Victorian and very tired before that.  Lots of older people were proud of their investments and simply used them until the point they could be used no more.  Given that mid-century fixtures and fittings last longer, that point took a long time to reach.  It is still to be reached in places.  The idea of ripping everything out and starting again is very modern, as is the inability to put up with datedness.  People replaced wallpaper and carpets, of course they did, but they tended to keep the bones of the thing.  Taking out a serviceable fitted kitchen or redecorating rooms for the sake of it would seem like madness, or the preserve of the very rich.  One also has to think that the owner, having made his or her investment, may not have seen it as dated at all.  Coming from a slum, for instance, that house would have looked like paradise.  

I think people are missing my point, or I didn't make it well enough. I'm not talking about doing a place up for the sake of it .
There's clearly damp and peeling wallpaper in that house and signs of neglect though some of the radiators look more contemporary.
My late parents were the generation that were glad of what they had , as long as it was clean , and I grew up in the 1960s in a very basic council flat with no bathroom. and not enough bedrooms for a family of five so dad slept in a folding metal "zedbed" in the living room.
But some of the interiors we have seen in this thread if recently inhabited are clearly signs of places that would affect the health of those living there  and I was reminded of that.

od244051

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

jennyred said:

jimbo6977 said:

https://www.lep.co.uk/lifestyle/homes-and-gardens/windsor-heights-look-around-ps1m-flat-chorley-664091

Surprisingly enough this hasn't been snapped up. 

whats a night kitchen???

I think it's a small, simple kitchen used for keeping a meal warm at night.  The idea is that the owners use it themselves.  The cook prepares the evening meal and goes home, leaving it in the night kitchen.  His and her nibs get home late from being out or away, go to the night kitchen, take the meal from the oven and eat it.  Washing up is left for the maid in the morning.  It saves having to pay a cook to remain on standby all evening.  

Here's the RM listing.  https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/82585712#/ Night kitchen is in pic 19. It's bigger than some properties' sole kitchens. I remember watching HUTH and one of the properties that was turned into a HMO turned a small room into a 'brewing station" Which was essentially a hot water urn attached to the wall,  a sink, a fridge and a couple of cupboards. So instead going to the kitchen, the brewing station is useful if a tenant just wants a hot drink

goldfinches

Patr100 said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

Patr100 said:

Skiddaw1 said:

Patr100 said:

Some distinctly time warpy decor here (bathroom off the bedroom)
Still pricey for a complete refurb needed but it's near the trendy promoted "village " area of Walthamstow so someone is trying it on a bit.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/88249312

Goodness, that does seem pricey for a house that needs so much work especially as it has only two bedrooms. Some of the decor is fab though isn't it?

One thing these old dated interiors suggest is something of the "secret lives"  that probably some older often vulnerable people  live, with no close relatives, perhaps rarely venturing out.  I wonder how little the neighbours, social services,   etc know of their threadbare circumstances, , until it is revealed when the neglected house is sold.

I disagree.  The décor in there may look threadbare to modern eyes but it would have been top end in the fifties and sixties (kitchen appears sixties to me).  Look at the detail on the fireplace, the carpets, the upstairs bathroom and the fitted kitchen.  The owner made a considerable investment in the place and no doubt would have put in modern, then, wiring and made the place suitable for the twentieth century.  It would, in all likelihood, have been Victorian and very tired before that.  Lots of older people were proud of their investments and simply used them until the point they could be used no more.  Given that mid-century fixtures and fittings last longer, that point took a long time to reach.  It is still to be reached in places.  The idea of ripping everything out and starting again is very modern, as is the inability to put up with datedness.  People replaced wallpaper and carpets, of course they did, but they tended to keep the bones of the thing.  Taking out a serviceable fitted kitchen or redecorating rooms for the sake of it would seem like madness, or the preserve of the very rich.  One also has to think that the owner, having made his or her investment, may not have seen it as dated at all.  Coming from a slum, for instance, that house would have looked like paradise.  

I think people are missing my point, or I didn't make it well enough. I'm not talking about doing a place up for the sake of it .
There's clearly damp and peeling wallpaper in that house and signs of neglect though some of the radiators look more contemporary.
My late parents were the generation that were glad of what they had , as long as it was clean , and I grew up in the 1960s in a very basic council flat with no bathroom. and not enough bedrooms for a family of five so dad slept in a folding metal "zedbed" in the living room.
But some of the interiors we have seen in this thread if recently inhabited are clearly signs of places that would affect the health of those living there  and I was reminded of that.

Yes, I was thinking it had all the signs of some local authority scheme to install central heating that had been done without ever checking that the owner can afford the ongoing costs so they'd probably been shivering in a damp house for years. That sort of "initiative" makes me very cross. The other point that occurs to me now is whether the person concerned was being vastly overcharged by their energy suppliers as well, which I suppose we'll never know now but I'd dearly love to discover. 

Caraway90

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/77542551#/

A lovely little time warp.

Skiddaw1

Caraway90 said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/77542551#/

A lovely little time warp.

My parents would have adored it! Reminds me of my childhood home in many ways. My mum always hankered for a house with one of those outside chimney stacks.

ProDave

Caraway90 said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/77542551#/

A lovely little time warp.

Telephone table / seat in the hall.  That brings back memories of when you had one telephone in the house,joined to the wall with a cable that you could not unplug, and most people decided the hall was the best place to put it with a little seat to sit on while you spoke.

I actually like the house and it would seem a shame to rip out that kitchen if is is as good as it looks.

Slithery

It's in one of the best parts of Norwich too. Lovely.