New "Have a Look at This" thread

ProDave

Patr100 said:

ProDave said:

ManuelG said:

I'm lost and confused!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/85867809#/?channel=RES_NEW

Another example of our broken planning system. Could not get planning for an ordinary proper house looking house. Only got planning under section 79 for a "dwelling of unique and ground breaking architecture"

Yet for all it's "ground breaking " modernity, it only has an EPC rating of D , with the possibility of getting to a C.

Hardly surprising with all that glass.  Those glass links will be a fridge in winter and an oven in summer.

GaleSF63

ManuelG said:

I'm lost and confused!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/85867809#/?channel=RES_NEW

Not so much a floorplan as a map.

kerri_gt

Those glazed links make me think of so many horror movies

mi-key

kerri_gt said:

Those glazed links make me think of so many horror movies

It reminds me of the labs in World War Z. I would be constantly sneaking around so I didn't alert the zombies I was there

silvercar

silvercar said:

This one was on the Sarah Beeney ‘double your money’ programme a few years back. 

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/129059315

Sold for 900k June 2012, was ‘Beeney-fied’ and sold for 1.95m January 2016. In fact she was quite scathing of the work they were doing and wasn’t optimistic they would double their money, but I guess if you wait long enough house prices do eventually catch up.

Now on the market for 2.3m, already reduced from 2.5m after only 2 weeks on the market.

Particular attention to picture 4,  the small back garden containing a swimming pool that looks to be the width of the slide. Could be a re purposed duck pond.

£2.5m 14/11/22,
£2.3m,  28/11/22,
£2.2m,  1/2/23,
£2.15m  28/2/23....

Ditzy_Mitzy

silvercar said:

silvercar said:

This one was on the Sarah Beeney ‘double your money’ programme a few years back. 

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/129059315

Sold for 900k June 2012, was ‘Beeney-fied’ and sold for 1.95m January 2016. In fact she was quite scathing of the work they were doing and wasn’t optimistic they would double their money, but I guess if you wait long enough house prices do eventually catch up.

Now on the market for 2.3m, already reduced from 2.5m after only 2 weeks on the market.

Particular attention to picture 4,  the small back garden containing a swimming pool that looks to be the width of the slide. Could be a re purposed duck pond.

£2.5m 14/11/22,
£2.3m,  28/11/22,
£2.2m,  1/2/23,
£2.15m  28/2/23....

It's just not very good, is it.  From the takeaway kitchen chimney glued on the back to the paddling pool with pretentions in the back garden, the non-existent views, the ill proportioned garage (not deep enough), the entirely superfluous marooned bathroom on the first floor and the equally superfluous bedrooms on the second it just isn't very good.

One might buy the place to live out some fantasy of being a cut cost cocaine baron.  

Sarahspangles

Ditzy_Mitzy said: It's just not very good, is it.  .  

There is one design classic - the red leather Ikea Poang chair in one of the pics. I really regret selling mine!

artyboy

How about "have a read of this" for a change...? Just down the road from me and I think the EA actually wanted a career in creative writing 

Patr100

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

silvercar said:

silvercar said:

This one was on the Sarah Beeney ‘double your money’ programme a few years back. 

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/129059315

Sold for 900k June 2012, was ‘Beeney-fied’ and sold for 1.95m January 2016. In fact she was quite scathing of the work they were doing and wasn’t optimistic they would double their money, but I guess if you wait long enough house prices do eventually catch up.

Now on the market for 2.3m, already reduced from 2.5m after only 2 weeks on the market.

Particular attention to picture 4,  the small back garden containing a swimming pool that looks to be the width of the slide. Could be a re purposed duck pond.

£2.5m 14/11/22,
£2.3m,  28/11/22,
£2.2m,  1/2/23,
£2.15m  28/2/23....

It's just not very good, is it.  From the takeaway kitchen chimney glued on the back to the paddling pool with pretentions in the back garden, the non-existent views, the ill proportioned garage (not deep enough), the entirely superfluous marooned bathroom on the first floor and the equally superfluous bedrooms on the second it just isn't very good.

One might buy the place to live out some fantasy of being a cut cost cocaine baron.  

Well if it's too rainy for using the pool, you can always sit drinking cocktails under the stairs.
(pic 27)

Ditzy_Mitzy

Sarahspangles said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

It's just not very good, is it.  .  

There is one design classic - the red leather Ikea Poang chair in one of the pics. I really regret selling mine!

That is a really nice thing.  I'd regret selling such a thing too, had I ever owned one.  Funny what becomes desirable as time passes.  The oriental rug isn't bad either, although my preference is for stronger colours.