Right Move posh on the outside strange on the inside

[EachandEveryone]

Is that a muppet peering through the window? I cant work this one out at all, is it a residential home, I wonder? Clearly Im winning the 40 million on Friday. I have never been to St Johns Wood I think Paul McCartney lives there. Not in this house though https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/123301931#/?channel=RES_BUY

Is picture 15 a retro hair ‘salon’

I agree. My parents home is not dissimilar to this and I am going to have to see it one day. It would break my heart to think of their loved home being ridiculed.

I would buy that SJW house in a heartbeat. Sure, it could do with some updating but you just know it’s got the best structure and a beautiful vibe. The gardens pretty cool too.

*sell it

My cousin has an apartment in that building next to it, I've always felt it's so out of place now and would have probably been in a lovely quiet and leafy street a hundred years ago.

I love the orange bathroom.
I think the whole house is loved and well kept by the owner.

I mean I have kids, one of whom had serious toileting troubles for years, so my bathroom floor has seen some bad times! I’m always glad it can just be sprayed and wiped or mopped! If you didn’t have kids it might not be an issue. I would just think the dampness from years in a bathroom could cause issues with a carpet? Maybe not though.

I moved into a new build about 16 years ago and we all sort of went round each others homes looking at what we had done with them

My neighbour has picked mahogany kitchen wall units (it's so dark!), carpet in the kitchen and carpet in every bathroom
I mean what do you do if you drop a bottle of milk and it must absorb all the cooking smells?!

Lovely! But unfrosted windows in the loo? Double aspect unfrosted?! Hmm, could not live with that

There's a spotty dog in front of a window - what looks remarkably like a crocodile with open jaws is outside the window looking in...

The vast majority of comments have been very positive of this house. Yes some folks less so, but this property has certainly not been widely ridiculed.

That’s a bee in the window box, not a muppet. A big 🐝. A big cross 🐝

Those poor poor fish in that tiny little pond, just cruel

https://www.kfh.co.uk/north-west-london/houses-for-sale/2270828/. More pictures, another agent

I absolutely love it! A real home with history. A million times better than endless open-plan grey boxes.

Wondering now why it's with two agents. That usually means a property isn't selling. It's incredibly well located although situationally overshadowed.

I don't have a grasp of property prices in that area.

I think it's amazing. I'd love that house but I can never get my head around London prices. For that price where I am you could get a couple of acres and a 5 bed 3 bath.

These threads are so mean. Who lives in a place like this? It’s not hard to work out that the owner/s are older. Lots of the things in here are big standard of their time and even if they weren’t so what?
people starting threads like this should be required to put up photos of their own home.

It's so much lovelier than bland, boring grey, sterile houses that are fashionable now.
In 20 years time people will think, who in their right mind thought grey houses, in a country with grey sky looked good.

It's a well loved and lived in home. It's beautiful, it tells a story of love. Look at the dog, stuffed dogs on the chair, and the ornaments etc.

All I see is a lifetime of love. What's to mock in that?

I absolutely love it.

I think it's so cruel to ridicule someone's home. I personally think it's a charming house and full of character. I bet the owners have lead interesting lives.

It’s just very dated with a couple of props thrown in so people will share it on the internet.

I have just googled. It's a lone house in "flatland" priced at about £2m above the price point the road.

It's on with three agents and was last reduced in October. Despite its charm, it hasn't exactly been snapped up.

Structurally it may not be as sound as it appears; neither has anyone suggested it is decluttered and "dressed" to sell which is customary for expensive properties. Neither is it on the market with high end agents.

I'd love to know the provenance of the owners who must have lived there for decades as there is no record of a previous sold price.

My initial instincts, I fear, were correct. It will end up going to developers for under £3m to be replaced with probably 6 flats, three stories which will all go for at least £1m.

I love it. Sure there are some things that I'd change and update a bit, but it has some lovely features. We're looking for something like this in London, but I think that the surroundings - mainly the small garden with car park behind - means it's not quite right for us.
Really tempted to look though, it's expected that the surroundings will be a bit busy in that area.

It’s the sort of place I imagine Giles and Mary from Gogglebox living in.

I do wonder though when pollution might start affecting house prices, I’d just not want to live where the pollution is high.

Wowee it's fabulous. The more you look the better it is. I love it.
You could spend hours going around it looking at everything. Fantastic

I don't think people are being horrible about it either