New "Have a Look at This" thread

SadieO

Those arty close ups annoy me so much! Fair enough if it's highlighting a feature of the house like a ceiling rose or something but often it's just something like a bowl of fruit or something that belongs to the seller. Or peeping into a room through a half closed door. I don't know why that is supposed to endear the house to a viewer. I always wonder if the photographer is a frustrated artist who hates the fact that they are photographing houses for estate agents instead of having their work displayed in a gallery somewhere! 

That bathroom situation looks very odd. 

BikingBud

joho said:

Wouldn't be very keen on having two other peoples garages under my flat. 

Lower Meadow, Ilminster, Somerset TA19, 2 bedroom flat for sale - 63975361 | PrimeLocation

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BikingBud

SadieO said:

This isn't the worst house I've seen on here (although it's not great, and for some reason has a kitchen sink in the little bedroom) but the price is... ambitious shall we say! York is not the cheapest place to live but if you want a 3 bed semi and can afford £300-350k there's plenty of nice ones in that range, you don't have to buy this dump doer-upper! Just a couple of doors down on the same street for just £15k more you can have this nice one - I'm sure you'd spend more than £15k getting the first one up to the same standard. And actually the second one has been up for sale since Oct so you might even be able to get it for a lower offer. I totally understand the appeal of a doer-upper but surely part of it is that you get it at a lower price to take into account the work needed??

Might have been set up a darkroom for developing photos?

BikingBud

Patr100 said:

Unnecessary arty close ups and what appears to be an open plan bathroom?
(no  floor plan to check)
 https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/131011550

They say the camera never lies but it can certainly skew the perspective: Image 7v8 or 2/15 v 10/12.

Floorplan would be extremely beneficial.

FreeBear

BikingBud said:

SadieO said:

This isn't the worst house I've seen on here (although it's not great, and for some reason has a kitchen sink in the little bedroom) but the price is... ambitious shall we say! York is not the cheapest place to live but if you want a 3 bed semi and can afford £300-350k there's plenty of nice ones in that range, you don't have to buy this dump doer-upper! Just a couple of doors down on the same street for just £15k more you can have this nice one - I'm sure you'd spend more than £15k getting the first one up to the same standard. And actually the second one has been up for sale since Oct so you might even be able to get it for a lower offer. I totally understand the appeal of a doer-upper but surely part of it is that you get it at a lower price to take into account the work needed??

Might have been set up a darkroom for developing photos?

With a green safelight and a bit of fume extraction, you could be right. Although, for print making, I'd prefer a bigger shallow sink.

SadieO

FreeBear said:

BikingBud said:

SadieO said:

This isn't the worst house I've seen on here (although it's not great, and for some reason has a kitchen sink in the little bedroom) but the price is... ambitious shall we say! York is not the cheapest place to live but if you want a 3 bed semi and can afford £300-350k there's plenty of nice ones in that range, you don't have to buy this dump doer-upper! Just a couple of doors down on the same street for just £15k more you can have this nice one - I'm sure you'd spend more than £15k getting the first one up to the same standard. And actually the second one has been up for sale since Oct so you might even be able to get it for a lower offer. I totally understand the appeal of a doer-upper but surely part of it is that you get it at a lower price to take into account the work needed??

Might have been set up a darkroom for developing photos?

With a green safelight and a bit of fume extraction, you could be right. Although, for print making, I'd prefer a bigger shallow sink.

Oh that's interesting! Might explain the heavy duty window covering, plus the square extractor thingy set into the upper window (can be seen if you zoom into the external picture of the front of the house.) Cracking theory @b@BikingBud and @FreeBear!

ProDave

Patr100 said:

Unnecessary arty close ups and what appears to be an open plan bathroom?
(no  floor plan to check)
 https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/131011550

Pictures 8&9 show an under stairs WC opening to the loving room.

Picture 17 shows a presumably upstairs bathroom viewed through it's open door, so not open plan.

Picture 23 is the dodgy one.  I am reading that as an open plan bathroom on a landing.  I think you enter the door into the bathroom and another set of stairs take you up to the loft bedroom so this open plan bathroom is the upper bedroom's en-suite?  At least there is a little bit or return wall alongside the WC so someone entering the room does not get a "surprise"

EssexHebridean

SadieO said:

This isn't the worst house I've seen on here (although it's not great, and for some reason has a kitchen sink in the little bedroom) but the price is... ambitious shall we say! York is not the cheapest place to live but if you want a 3 bed semi and can afford £300-350k there's plenty of nice ones in that range, you don't have to buy this dump doer-upper! Just a couple of doors down on the same street for just £15k more you can have this nice one - I'm sure you'd spend more than £15k getting the first one up to the same standard. And actually the second one has been up for sale since Oct so you might even be able to get it for a lower offer. I totally understand the appeal of a doer-upper but surely part of it is that you get it at a lower price to take into account the work needed??

The first one coincidentally has a separate WC and bathroom as well - which is both topical, and must surely mean that the bathroom is super-hygienic?, 😆 I’m with Bagpuss though - that hallway is lovely! 

Patr100

ProDave said:

Patr100 said:

Unnecessary arty close ups and what appears to be an open plan bathroom?
(no  floor plan to check)
 https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/131011550

Pictures 8&9 show an under stairs WC opening to the loving room.

Picture 17 shows a presumably upstairs bathroom viewed through it's open door, so not open plan.

Picture 23 is the dodgy one.  I am reading that as an open plan bathroom on a landing.  I think you enter the door into the bathroom and another set of stairs take you up to the loft bedroom so this open plan bathroom is the upper bedroom's en-suite?  At least there is a little bit or return wall alongside the WC so someone entering the room does not get a "surprise"

"loving room?" so what do you call the bedroom?
I was not referring to pc 17 but pic 23 when I perhaps sarcastically mentioned "open plan".
Yes the landing appears then to lead to the loft room but you still need to  pass that way to access the loft.

Patr100

BikingBud said:

SadieO said:

This isn't the worst house I've seen on here (although it's not great, and for some reason has a kitchen sink in the little bedroom) but the price is... ambitious shall we say! York is not the cheapest place to live but if you want a 3 bed semi and can afford £300-350k there's plenty of nice ones in that range, you don't have to buy this dump doer-upper! Just a couple of doors down on the same street for just £15k more you can have this nice one - I'm sure you'd spend more than £15k getting the first one up to the same standard. And actually the second one has been up for sale since Oct so you might even be able to get it for a lower offer. I totally understand the appeal of a doer-upper but surely part of it is that you get it at a lower price to take into account the work needed??

Might have been set up a darkroom for developing photos?

Looks to me like an enlarger partially covered in plastic in pic 10 to the left
with several packs of photographic paper on the baseboard .
Plus tripod to the far left.