Ben Fogles house... (purely nosey & invasive but still...)

[Polew]

To be shocked its Bizarrely... full & verry verry expensive

Rightmove listing

Bahaha. I do this. Although I’m a designer and autistic. Design (and order) is my thing. I do like reading and can be fun… 😂

I wonder if they homed Ukrainian refugees like he said he would.

Feel so sorry for the cleaner having to clean around all those cluttered surfaces. And as for organising your books by colour! Total disrespect to books wankery.

I can confirm that organising books by colour = psychopath

Looks like somebody bought it for £750,000 as flats - turned it into a house & they bought it brand new fully built for £2.75m - now renting it out for £26,000 a month ?

Wheras the neighbours place probably sold as an older house ?

I can't imagine these prices though so may be way off ?

Or autistic 🖕

I refuse to believe the lovely Ben would have skanky artifical grass and colour organised books 🤮. I thought he was fairly bright.

They clearly kept the place super clean & organised for them if they did 🤔 (or it was a complete failure early on so they're offloading onto the professional rental market ?)

Can't help wondering how a man who spends his working life espousing the merits of mindfulness, minimalism, small spaces and only using what you need squares that with this palace to materialism and aspiration?

That wonky picture is already doing my head in.

Too much stuff. I wonder if he buys books based on the colour of their spine. Though it is rather pleasing to the eye.

Money.... (upper) social status ... "off duty/working life balance" ....

I'd say his wife was home 99% of the time hence the fake grass (over his lack of desire/availabilty to mow) & constant pile up of travel memrobilia but no sign of her business/kids/family outside of the dog

Love the kitchen though!

Umbrellas indoors! Open umbrellas!

I hope they’re renting it out unfurnished! 26k a month for that migraine inducing decor 😬

😂

I'm suprised they didn't advertise it semi-unfurnished

I’m wondering how you even do that unless you specifically buy a certain number of books with specific colour bookends deliberately…bonkers

Absolutely love it. I must get more pictures up

I like it apart from the blue tiled fire places.

What a lot of strong negative reactions to colour coordinated books.

I mean it mildly annoyed me but books are books.

I like the fact you can’t see a telly anywhere.

Fake colour co-ordinated books at that.

What a strangely-worded headline. It makes it sound as though Marina has no agency and that she and the children have been evacuated to the countryside, while Ben stays behind.

Whether it's a nice house or not/you like the design or not, etc. I can't get over the £26,000 per month! I thought you'd be able to get a luxurious palace for that, even in London 😂

North Kensington has always been North Kensington - in fact my dad ran "North Kensington Community Centre" - it just became more gentrified over the years. The slow creep down from Notting Hill and across from Ladbroke Grove - although when I lived there and went to a (terrible) school, there was a clear divide between the posh bits and the rougher parts. Mind you, saying that, I had a fair few friends who lived in the victorian terraces and their flats were council owned. I remember when my parent's friends bought run down houses in the area for around £40,000, one on the corner of Chesterton Road - huge, majestic but a proper money pit.