New "Have a Look at This" thread

GDB2222 · 17 April 2022 at 3:51PM

Skiddaw1 said:

SoozyJ22 said:

I walk past this house from time to time.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/90822061#/?channel=RES_BUY

It's always stuck out as the rest of the cottages are very well presented. It's certainly going to make a good project for someone.

It could be stunning couldn't it? Definitely bags of potential.

Grade II Listed Cottage

So, that limits the potential.

GaleSF63 · 17 April 2022 at 9:00PM

Patr100 said:

GDB2222 said:

user1977 said:

Patr100 said:

GDB2222 said:

How does that arrangement work with the shower right next to the window? Won’t the window and curtain get soaking wet?

Depends how splish/spashy you get. I suppose you could fit a shower or waterproof curtain to the window.
There doesn't seem to be any curtain on the other side for splashes.

Those "rainfall" style showerheads provide a pretty vertical flow of water, so probably not a major issue. Though wouldn't be the first time I've seen "recently-refurbished property omits stuff needed for practical purposes."

One day we looked round an architect designed major refurb.

https://openhouselondon.open-city.org.uk/

The lovely new bathroom at the front of the house had a very large floor to ceiling window glazed with ordinary glass, not opaque, leaving nothing to the imagination of passers by. The architect was there to show people round, and said it was an oversight, which I thought was a particularly apt way of phrasing it.

Thankfully there's sticky frosted plastic films you can apply to windows to make them obscured
but yes, it's an unfortunate "oversight".

If the shower or bath is near the window it's worth a check even if it's frosted glass. It's not always as opaque as you think!

Patr100 · 18 April 2022 at 12:56PM

GaleSF63 said:

Patr100 said:

GDB2222 said:

user1977 said:

Patr100 said:

GDB2222 said:

How does that arrangement work with the shower right next to the window? Won’t the window and curtain get soaking wet?

Depends how splish/spashy you get. I suppose you could fit a shower or waterproof curtain to the window.
There doesn't seem to be any curtain on the other side for splashes.

Those "rainfall" style showerheads provide a pretty vertical flow of water, so probably not a major issue. Though wouldn't be the first time I've seen "recently-refurbished property omits stuff needed for practical purposes."

One day we looked round an architect designed major refurb.

https://openhouselondon.open-city.org.uk/

The lovely new bathroom at the front of the house had a very large floor to ceiling window glazed with ordinary glass, not opaque, leaving nothing to the imagination of passers by. The architect was there to show people round, and said it was an oversight, which I thought was a particularly apt way of phrasing it.

Thankfully there's sticky frosted plastic films you can apply to windows to make them obscured
but yes, it's an unfortunate "oversight".

If the shower or bath is near the window it's worth a check even if it's frosted glass. It's not always as opaque as you think!

"No , honestly Officer, I wasn't spying on her bathroom, I was just checking the window for opaqueness"

robatwork · 18 April 2022 at 1:41PM

Gers said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/122344151#/?channel=RES_BUY

Never seen such a 'bath' before!

Very common in flats in Europe although possibly a bit bigger than this one. Just about big enough to wash your aris or a baby.

FreeBear · 18 April 2022 at 3:05PM

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/122303597# - eeps. Modern architecture, and a price to match..

General_Grant · 18 April 2022 at 4:15PM

FreeBear said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/122303597# - eeps. Modern architecture, and a price to match..

If the sign in picture 6 is correct, then why does it feel like a hotel? In the video the agent even says it's like a lovely hotel.

[Deleted User] · 18 April 2022 at 4:32PM

Gers said:

ProDave said:

Gers said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/122344151#/?channel=RES_BUY

Never seen such a 'bath' before!

It's a hip bath. Often fitted to narrowboats or other small spaces. Really just being used as a shower tray here.

Blurb says 'Recently refitted three piece bathroom including Omnitub Duo deep soaking Japanese bath with 8 jet spa and over bath integrated shower.'

It's small by Japanese standards. The tiles are rather hard too, in Japan they usually use slightly more forgiving fibreglass or plastic in case you bump against it.

Looks like a classic case of having seen something but not understood it, just blindly copied it.

TBagpuss · 19 April 2022 at 1:04PM

ProDave said:

GDB2222 said:
One day we looked round an architect designed major refurb.

https://openhouselondon.open-city.org.uk/

The lovely new bathroom at the front of the house had a very large floor to ceiling window glazed with ordinary glass, not opaque, leaving nothing to the imagination of passers by. The architect was there to show people round, and said it was an oversight, which I thought was a particularly apt way of phrasing it.

We deliberately put clear glass in our bathroom window because we wanted to enjoy the view. But it is an ordinary height window, the road in front of us is too close to see anything other than your head even if stood right next to the window, so it would only be a tractor driver that might see anything else lower down.

You can of course just shut the blind.

we once stayed in a Very odd holiday cottage . The bathroom had a large window with clear glass and no curtains, overlooking a main road and with a pub immediately opposite. (And yes, anyone coming out of the pub, or sitting in their beer garden, could see pretty much everything) The bath was in the middle of the room (just with the tap end against the wall. There were two very bad reproductions of Greek statues, one either side of the bath, one male, one female, both nude, and a floor-to-ceiling mirror opposite, so if you took a shower, not only could you see yourself, you got to compare with the naked artworks...
We re-purposed a spare sheet to provide a curtain, as none of us was in an exhibitionist mood.

The rest of the cottage was equally interesting. We couldn't decide whether the owners had decided to re-decorate a few years before and given yup half way, or if there were joint owners who each had equally strong, but entirely incompatible, ideas on interior décor and had compromised by taking it in turns to pick a room.
About half the rooms were very chintzy, with (mismatched) floral prints everywhere, frills on anything you can imagine having frills on and some things you probably can't, and vast quantities of very study pot-pourri. The rest were all bright primary colours, lots of very bright lights, including theatre dressing room style lights round the mirrors, plus a job lot of modern art prints. (as far as I can recall, the bathroom, as well as the mirrors and statuary, featured bright yellow walls, and shag pile carpeting all over the floor and up the sides of the bath, although the chintz lover had obviously managed to sneak in a there were also three or four baskets of pot pourri...