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Whooo baby, look at this place on Rightmove!

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OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 30/04/2020 01:16

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-90092834.html
So many questions-like where’s the sex dungeon, why so many chairs in the bedroom?

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Elderflower14 · 30/04/2020 06:33

I know where that house is. My late brother in law lived just down the road... Its on the main road to Blackpool.
Its like stepping back to the 1970s in that house..

SpillTheTeaa · 30/04/2020 06:38

Omg it's hideous 😂. It looks so out of place to the other houses aswell. Knock it down and start again ASAP! 😂

MorrisZapp · 30/04/2020 06:42

'if truth beyond'

Peonyonpoint · 30/04/2020 06:43

God, I actually like it. It was obviously the height of fashion in the seventies, and someone has put a huge amount of love and care into it and then stayed there forty years. If it was in Shoreditch someone would just buy it and leave it as it is.

What is it they say, your mother’s taste is awful but your grandmother’s things are beautiful? Our kids’ will probably be like omfg it’s amazing, WHYYY did you rip out all the features.

And the wee aga with chair and tv in the kitchen... that’s someone’s last years in their beloved home for sure.

TheSkyWasDark · 30/04/2020 06:43

I like a 70s vibe but it's just not even quite doing that right.

And it's so flat!

Inkpaperstars · 30/04/2020 06:50

It reminded me of the some of the sets for Clockwork Orange, not a good association.

I doubt the owners would be too worried about whether some random forum users like their decor. They seem confident in their choices.

NewHorizons2020 · 30/04/2020 06:51

The single armchair beside the stove in the kitchen saddened me a little. I can imagine the elderly owner sat there to keep warm with their memories of all the amazing parties that house once had.

DuaneDibbley · 30/04/2020 06:51

“If truth beyond”?!

papiermaches · 30/04/2020 06:52

'Highly deceptive' is that EA talk for fecking ugly, but big??

Dita73 · 30/04/2020 06:56

Bloody hell you lot are mean! It’s some poor sod’s home! Some old dear might live there and it’s her pride and joy but has to sell for some reason and is devastated. If that’s not bad enough it’s gone viral!

TheSkyWasDark · 30/04/2020 06:56

"Highly deceptive' is that EA talk for fecking ugly, but big??"

Not sure but either way, the thought of a house lying to you is quite unsettling.

What other lies do houses tell?

Inkpaperstars · 30/04/2020 06:57

The single armchair beside the stove in the kitchen saddened me a little. I can imagine the elderly owner sat there to keep warm with their memories of all the amazing parties that house once had.

Yes, if so I hope they really enjoyed their time in the house. It's pleasing in a way to think that these timepieces can survive through years and changing trends.

KitMarlowesCodpieceOfThigh · 30/04/2020 06:58

How do they keep those wooden ceilings so shiny??

CountFosco · 30/04/2020 06:58

I love it but it is sad as well. A beautifully cared for expensively decorated house that has signs of the owner's aging and their diminishing life, like the small dining tables for such a large house and the chair in the kitchen next to the oven. Would have been an incredible party pad at one point. Think some of the comments on here are unnecessary. I hope it is bought by someone who loves the style and sensitively restores it and gives it a fab garden as well.

Sarcelle · 30/04/2020 07:01

On the small car/bed in the garage there is a collection of objects, a small child's pair of trainers. This house has a sad vibe. But in the past it was clearly a social space - lots of sofas, room to dance, pianos. I would love to know who lived there. I am imagining an end of the pier entertainer, on the brink of making it big in the 70s, but never really amounted to much in the entertainment world.

FancyPants20 · 30/04/2020 07:06

@MorrisZapp That's what struck me aswell. A typo, or does the agent really believe that that's the phrase?

midnightstar66 · 30/04/2020 07:06

That is amazing! if only the walls could talk.

megletthesecond · 30/04/2020 07:06

The front and back garden appear to be concrete?
New boiler though 👍.

TheSkyWasDark · 30/04/2020 07:10

"Bloody hell you lot are mean"

Ah don't take it so seriously. Anyone coming into my house would think far worse unless they're a fan of fluorescent lighting, faded Ikea sofas and badly applied wallpaper.

TwentyViginti · 30/04/2020 07:12

I'm old enough to remember the brown and orange carpet combo! in fact I remember the 70s as being a brown and orange decade. My daughter would love this house and decor, being into 70s retro!

I can't see it on Twitter - anyone have a link please?

leolion81 · 30/04/2020 07:15

@JacobReesMogadishu don't be so rude about Blackpool. Like ALL towns and cities it has good and bad areas. It really grates to hear people making such an uneducated assumption about a town they've likely never visited.

Wired4sound · 30/04/2020 07:18

I love it, it would have been absolutely fabulous at the time it was built and decorated.

Makes me fancy a babycham and a lie down on the shag pile

MandosHatHair · 30/04/2020 07:18

This genuinely looks like something I built on the first Sims game when I was 15.

I thought the same, do you think the bed in the garage vibrates? Grin

JacobReesMogadishu · 30/04/2020 07:18

I have visited. And I thought it was a shithole. I’ve also watched a few police documentaries set in Blackpool which did nothing to change my view. That’s my subjective view which I’m entitled to.

Objectively I believe it’s known for being an economically depressed area and I would have thought that would be reflected in house prices. Hence my surprise at the price. Maybe it is in the “nice part” of Blackpool, but it still looks to be on a busy main road. So I’m still surprised at the price.

MushroomTree · 30/04/2020 07:18

Wow. Surely that used to be a commercial property and someone converted it to residential back in the 70s? Either that or someone actually built a house like that Confused

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