Anyone else find this house too confusing?!

[Thurlow]

Imaginary house-hunting near us with an imaginary budget.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/112945526#/?channel=RES_BUY

It's clearly a family home after the children have moved out so a lot of the rooms aren't being used but... aren't there are just rooms off rooms off rooms?

Could be amazing with a few walls knocked down though.

It needs an awful lot of money spent on it. The room configuration is giving me a headache!

It's all a bit dank. Run-down rehab clinic came to mind.

How the heck do you install a sunken bath in an upstairs room?

I can’t get past the posed tennis picture!

Too confusing!

Rip out all the walls and start again sensibly

Amazing garden though.

@midsomermurderess

It's all a bit dank. Run-down rehab clinic came to mind.

Hahah I thought it looked like a rehab too!

We had that very same kitchen when we lived in a council flat in the early 1990s.

The mushroom shaped doorway in picture 15 is an interesting feature.

I bet the person who did the floorplan for the website got a headache doing it too.

Wow. At first I thought they were calling any room possible downstairs a bedroom to get a big headline "six bedroom house" but actually there are only two upstairs

I'm not even sure I'd love it after spending a fortune sorting it all out. All that wood. So little usable upstairs. Looks like a big plot. Know I it down and start again?

And bleuch to the sunken bath. Who wants their head at floor height by a toilet? I know these used to be a thing, but why? Genuine q, what was the attraction?

*knock it down

How do you get out of a sunken bath ?
I would end up sitting on the floor, roll onto all fours and then lean on the toilet to stand up !

all that pine!!! The garden is fab tho

You have to go through a bedroom to get to the pool!

I think it looks terrific. Children would love it so what with space and pool and garden to play games in. They could have loads of friends over and never get in your way. Imagine the number of bookcases you could have. The labradors. It looks like very good value for money indeed (reaches for marmalade sandwich).

All you would need to do is paint some of those eave ceilings perhaps a darker colour to bring them down, or white, and perhaps remove a bit of panelling, as it is quite woody over all. It needs some softer looking soft furnishings, floor length curtains instead of the short ones, change out leather sofas for ones with higher snuggle appeal* and a bit of paint and wow.

*I know the sofas would go with the sellers but just in terms of overall appeal.

The sunken bath, just why? The whole house reminds me of when you give an 8 year old a bucket of lego and say "make a house". The floor plan is nuts.

An awful lot of money for something that really isn't very nice...apart from how big the plot of land is!

The pool bedroom surely can't be counted as a bedroom surely?

And were the bedrooms originally built as rooms off of the reception rooms or did it all evolve somewhere?

Needs the attention of a wrecking ball and several bulldozers.

Absolutely ghastly.

And through the conservatory, which will be freezing in winter, to get to bedroom 2.

Nice garden.

Interior looks like it has abandoned since the 70's/80's.

It's a beautiful house, would repaint the yellow room, but I think apart from that it doesn't need much done.

I love quirky houses, my own house is a little different with living room and kitchen upstairs, and bedrooms and bathroom downstairs, and I love it.

@Thedishwasherstacker

How the heck do you install a sunken bath in an upstairs room?

That bath made me laugh out loud- a sunken bath at floor height is surely a massive trip hazard. And how would you get out gracefully??? Scramble wet onto the floor?

Good for an Escape Rooms setup?

Even knocking through the walls wouldn't work, too up and down and all over the place.

This is a building site that happens to have a hideously over-extended and dilapidated house currently sitting on it.

It's on an acre of land. Forget the house, it's the land that you're buying. It depends on the zoning etc, but you might reasonably expect to build a cul-de-sac of 8-10 properties or one very large modern home with a range of outbuildings.

I love the house itself (from the outside) but I'm kind of surprised they didn't at least redecorate neutral for the photos. It doesn't look like they've redecorated for a very long time. The inside basically needs ripping out and starting again. But I guess the sort of people who would buy it could afford to do that.

I'm always interested to see house price variation in different locations. My friends sold a similar size large family house with a couple of acres of garden, immaculate condition, last month and it was less than half the asking price of this one just from being in the countryside in the West Midlands rather than Herts.

bizzey I wondered that too, no way of getting out elegantly.