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Who lives in a house like this?

92 replies

RuggyPeg · 07/04/2019 08:26

I love imagining the lives of people who live in unusual homes. Such diversity exists in where we chose to call home and in what goes on behind closed doors. This, for example. Who thinks, after a quick swim in my Egyptian themed pool, I quite fancy a poolside game of chess!!!

Fabulous house though. I'd quite fancy a great aunt to leave it to me in her will!!

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-69872065.html

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HoraceCope · 07/04/2019 09:18

But in Bath you would have to commute to London!

Mememeplease · 07/04/2019 09:19

I like that one in Bath.

The London one. Well I have no words Shock

HoraceCope · 07/04/2019 09:21

Great Dunmore is Essex isnt it?
See the big portrait Grin

HoraceCope · 07/04/2019 09:23

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-71911034.html
this one is cheaper with 11 bedrooms

Acis · 07/04/2019 09:26

It also seems to lose a bedroom between listings; the fact that they've only shown one suggests that the rest are empty. What strikes me is just how uncomfortable most of it looks - you'd never sit down to relax or chat in the second reception room with those upright chairs with the spindly legs, for instance, and the "music room." is positively off-putting.

ginghamtablecloths · 07/04/2019 09:31

Someone with a lot of money who can afford to indulge themselves - £6m plus!

I love the wooden panelling and the symmetry.

RSAcre · 07/04/2019 09:33

Hideous! All gilt & swags, & nearly £7m to have neighbours right on your doorstep? Just goes to show money doesn't buy you good taste.

No ta but thanks for sharing RuggyPeg, what a hoot.

Original poster
RuggyPeg · 07/04/2019 09:34

Bored - couldn't agree more.

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Snog · 07/04/2019 09:35

Loving the Bath house!

ThisIsTheEndgame · 07/04/2019 09:36

If I was rich and wanted to live in London I would buy something like this www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-51861033.html then buy a nice little million pound cottage out in the countryside for weekends.

Gettingnowhere · 07/04/2019 09:36

Hey!! What are you all doing in my house?? FUCK OFF

midsomermurderess · 07/04/2019 09:37

Going by a picture on one of the walls, the owners are Sikh. It looks as if nothing has been done to it since about the mid 1980s. The owners strike me as ostentatious of their wealth but with few visitors or the energy to keep on top of a property of that size. Almost £7 mil to buy and God only knows how much to refurbish, especially that awful kitchen.

generalh · 07/04/2019 09:39

It shows that money doesn`t = taste!

Picklypickles · 07/04/2019 09:41

Someone with more money than taste - looks like a posh old folks home.

Langrish · 07/04/2019 09:41

Love the traditional rooms - what I wouldn’t give for that panelling. The modern bedroom is incongruous and the pool just Yuk. Gardens too small for the house too.

Nah, think I’ll stay put Grin

Littlebelina · 07/04/2019 09:41

£8k per annum service charge on that one endgame. That's more than my mortgage! (Suppose my house ain't worth 3m though)

Littlebelina · 07/04/2019 09:43

(I agree with you in principle though)

longwayoff · 07/04/2019 09:48

Bishops Avenue, north London, famous for enormous prices and some very individual style combined. These houses are reasonably close to central London and not old enough, or interesting enough, to be listed, so you can knock them around to your hearts content. Pools, basements, garages, extensions, pillars and so on. I don't think many have full time residents.

TooBusyHavingFun · 07/04/2019 09:48

Hideous...

Love the one in Bath though, then I'd use the left over money for a pied a terre in London and a holiday home or 2 in the sun, best go get a lottery ticket...

Racheyg · 07/04/2019 09:51

I used to live down the road (it's in between East Finchley and Hampstead) and most people buy houses like this and bull doze them and start again. It looks like it hasn't been lived in for years.

I love that road as it's so diverse. Lots of new builds (very grand mind you) or houses like this

LemonTT · 07/04/2019 09:55

Assuming it’s probably someone’s home, why be so nasty about it. Is it because they might be rich, old and probably an ethnic minority?

The comments and the post are nasty and mean spirited at best.

CurlyhairedAssassin · 07/04/2019 09:58

Urgh, I hate that Covent Garden apartment. It’s like an office block. Perfect for exhibitionists, though, your neighbours look VERY close. They’d get a good eyeful of you taking a shit!

echt · 07/04/2019 09:59

I like the swimming pool, and the big back garden which has much room for development.

The front looks like a fake frontages of the Western town in "Blazing Saddles".

BlueJava · 07/04/2019 09:59

Gosh- those rooms! Wouldn't want to live there as it's too ornate and large - plus imagine the work for upkeep of it! My own "dream home" is also on rightmove here: www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-57450423.html

I love it but can't afford it!

PlainSpeakingStraightTalking · 07/04/2019 10:00

@Lemon - its not a 'home ' it's the London base when the yare travelling - you can tell that as half the furniture is covered up with dust sheets.