New "Have a Look at This" thread

joho

Spot the dog and a lovely building!

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SadieO

Cute dog and that is a lovely building! I'd have expected something a bit fancier inside though. And what's with the "jaunty" angle of the toilet roll holder?! I would have to fix that straight away. 

user1977

Bedroom 3 has conveniently open-plan en suite WC....

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136330850#/media?channel=RES_BUY&id=media11&ref=photoCollage

ProDave

user1977 said:

Bedroom 3 has conveniently open-plan en suite WC....

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136330850#/media?channel=RES_BUY&id=media11&ref=photoCollage

Isn't that a bathroom with the bath removed and a carpet laid and someone thinks they can sleep there?

user1977

ProDave said:

user1977 said:

Bedroom 3 has conveniently open-plan en suite WC....

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136330850#/media?channel=RES_BUY&id=media11&ref=photoCollage

Isn't that a bathroom with the bath removed and a carpet laid and someone thinks they can sleep there?

Seems a fairly chunky size for a bathroom.

Sarahspangles

user1977 said:

Bedroom 3 has conveniently open-plan en suite WC....

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136330850#/media?channel=RES_BUY&id=media11&ref=photoCollage

That’s definitely a house that’s been adapted for someone with very restricted mobility.  A big parking space, no obstructions to circulation downstairs and facilities for toileting and washing in the bedroom. There’s no pic of the hall and stairs but the stairlift has probably been sold on already.  They don’t come up for sale that often because usually residents with these needs are in the social housing sector. 

joho

I can't get my head around this house.
How (or more importantly - why?) have they lowered the ceiling? It seems to make the middle area, around the dining table, very dark. And how have they got a skylight over the cooker when that should be the party wall?

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Ditzy_Mitzy

joho said:

I can't get my head around this house.
How (or more importantly - why?) have they lowered the ceiling? It seems to make the middle area, around the dining table, very dark. And how have they got a skylight over the cooker when that should be the party wall?

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It is comprehensible, if not particularly well thought out.  

1) The ceiling hasn't actually been lowered.  Image two has been taken from a vantage point at the very back of the house, with the utility room door on the right, facing the front (street end).  The extreme rear bit is a transverse, full width extension that has its own narrow span of roof and, consequentially, a different ceiling height from the house proper.  The ceiling level beyond the extension is, by and large, where the ceiling should be in the main building.  Creation of the void space where one meets the other is an inevitable implication.  It doesn't look great, granted, unless one is a fan of those over-cab shelves one finds in big Transit vans.  

Now, it isn't actually true to say the ceiling in the main house hasn't lost height.  It has as a result of the removal of the supporting wall between the end of what would have been the front room, the now vanished dining room and the kitchen.  Removal of the walls has necessitated the building of a lattice of steel girders or RSJs, the ends of which are resting on brick piers at the points where the walls were.  It's yet another by-product of the modern, open plan at all costs mentality.  

2) You've misinterpreted the floorplan.  The cooker is on the unattached side of the property behind the garage.  It will be beneath another span of roof, possibly a continuation of the garage roof, so can have its own skylight.  

Sarahspangles

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

The ceiling level beyond the extension is, by and large, where the ceiling should be in the main building.  Creation of the void space where one meets the other is an inevitable implication.  It doesn't look great, granted, unless one is a fan of those over-cab shelves one finds in big Transit vans.  

LOL.  I bet the architect’s drawing had philodendrons, pothos and ferns in that bit rather than luggage and co-op carrier bags. But it’s clear from the ‘garden’ that the current owners aren’t keen on green. They’re loft-livers forced to own a semi.

Am I the only one who thinks in about 18 months time there’s going to be a small industry in people setting up to fix malfunctioning bifold doors? And in ten years you’ll be able to employ a company to make them go away, like artex.

joho

Oh my. Just lovely.
Apart from the loos! 

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