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

[Polew]

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

Rightmove listing

No article just noticed the very colourful decor on right move then spotted the colour coded books

The decor looks very try-hard, not organically grown collection of stuff, but frantic bulk buying in order to portray a certain image.
That’s why even clutter lovers don’t find it cozy.

Him/his family have done multiple photoshoots & interviews in it

The children’s bedrooms are lovely

I actually quite like that style!

surely the price is a typo though??

Quite like it (apart from the plastic grass) as someone else’s house. Wouldn’t like it for my house.

With that much money to spend on rent, you probably have staff for that!

Price not a typo

There are over 30 properties for rent within 3 miles of that one for between £20k and £30k pm

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/find.html?locationIdentifier=POSTCODE%5E1620966&minBedrooms=5&maxPrice=30000&minPrice=20000&radius=3.0&propertyTypes=&mustHave=&dontShow=&furnishTypes=&keywords=

Our first house only cost slightly more than that for us to own the entire house forever.

Me too, my first thought was there’s a happy house right there !

🤣

I think it's lovely, I like clutter and having beautiful things on display. It's very 'London media type' style though, I've seen loads of houses of famous people like this over the years.

Really shocked by the fake grass though (which it very obviously is - and I bet it's the pricey kind that people claim looks real) - I would have thought he'd be far too ecologically aware for that.

Also, I really, really do not think that anyone in Ben Fogle's family is doing the dusting. If you live in a house like that you have a cleaner, probably multiple times a week.

Well I am disappointed in him for having artificial grass 🤬😡🤬

Surely they aren't wanting to rent it out with all that clutter in it?

That's what happens when you go to Homesence without a budget 🫤

To add, just about all the other ones are of a similar size/style and not full of weird clutter but nicely decorated.

It is possible to enjoy the aesthetics of your book collections as much as their individual contents. Books are wonderful decorative objects, they are so much more than mere educational or entertainment items.

I want to reorganise some of mine by colour now, but that’s the only inspiration I’ve drawn from Fogle’s place 😧

I'm more concerned with how their going to patch the walls before the tenants arrive at their £20,000+ a month new home covered in old picture frame spots

is it definitely plastic grass?

Literally nobody has a book collection that divides into neat sixths of bright yellow, red, and a shade of blue I've never seen a single book in.

I'm afraid not only is it a psycho arrangement, as a life long book lover/shelf observer, I don't think they are actually books.

I love the house and decor, apart from upside down umbrellas. It has a ‘salty sea Captain’ air about it, definantly someone who travels a lot.

I like it. He's travelled so much of the world I'm not surprised it's so full of stuff.

Think it used to Ladbroke Grove or something

I follow his wife on Instagram, from her photos etc it seems like they live in a big house in the countryside? I’m confused!

Colour coded bookshelves looked naff when all the decor blogs were doing it in 2012. Still looks naff.

Out of all the things that have bothered me about the house, the fact that the picture is wonky is what has bothered me the most! 😂