Bit of a quirky house in Hampstead…

[Alfreddoeblin]

Do the owners just like books or is this an attempt at a Tracey Emin unmade bed art installation look with random books piled up instead.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144887792#/?channel=RES_BUY

gosh I thought they were AI generated from school photos!

How fucking much?!?

that's fabulous.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146086214#/?channel=RES_BUY

bit of a cheaper option for me !

Or they paid someone creative and artistic to curate their art collection and design their interiors 😂

The only people I have met with such impressive art collections are bankers. TBF, one of them is also genuinely creative himself… and one served a prison sentence for being what you might call a “creative banker” 😂

That’s not Hampstead!!! <sniff>

Possibly but I’d say that was someone quite artistic and creative living there.

I'm sure I've seen this house in a magazine before, the kitchen is very familiar.

it's not Hampstead tho

it's nearer to South Hampstead

nearer to Swiss Cottage rather than anywhere else, suppose it is St Johns Wood - ish.

Tiny garden tho compared to the size ( and price ) of house, despite the access to the communal gardens out back :)

I am struggling tho to find all these bathrooms on the estate agents floor plans.

Lovely house in one of the very nicest areas of London, but not at all keen on the work by the interior designer.

I wouldn't actually class this as one of the nicest areas at all. Terrible traffic, very poor air quality, houses all on top of each other so always hearing people, seeing into their gardens and them seeing into yours, are massively impacted when neighbours decide to renovate/put up scaffolding etc.

So in this house, is it a room full of plants, or is it where the services are for a giant house?

I also want to know what that giant grubby looking thing is surrounding the orange rattan chair is in picture 2.

Plus is that low cabinet in front of the window something from Ikea for £50 or from I Saw You Coming Naice Interiors for £5000.

It's a fabulous house, very arty, beautifully presented. I like the books, quirky. Maybe they have an system so they can find stuff ? alphabetical, by genre etc.

I don't think it's a particularly beautiful house. It's pretty bland/generic. I walk around that area a lot and there are thousands of far more attractive houses.

On the outside I mean! Not a fan of the inside too but for different reasons.

I'd prefer a Huguenot weavers houses in Spitalfields, you could get one for a fraction of this and have change for the country manor house.

Some of the art is great, the book arrangements make me itch.

The kids are prob at Oxford/Cambridge now

There's a sculpture in the garden that looks a lot like this:

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/contemporary-art-2/elliptical-column

And is possibly worth more than our entire house

Oh wow, if you put Wadham Gardens into Google Maps and look at street view, it's an incredible road!

We have books in piles in this house, so it doesn't look in the slightest bit odd to me. And yes, not Hampstead, but St John's Wood. I prefer it to Hampstead actually.

That house is over 6200 sq foot, it’s enormous. The private garden is lovely. At 70 foot by 40. And then of course the shared gardens.

id love to know who lives there. Something to do with media, arts or music I’d say,

Wow, that price!! Eye watering even for London. I'm amazed this sort of property is on Rightmove. You'd think it would just be in the Times supplement or prospective buyers head hunted. I think I'd want a whole island for that price.

Personally I find it all a bit too quirky and try hard but it could be lovely. The books remind me of the back room of a charity shop, LOL.

I love how the Londoners are discussing the area (is it Hamstead or not etc.) and the rest of us are scrabbling around to see what we can get for that in our areas 😂I'm enjoying the property porn this is throwing up as well as the comments on the art as I am a bit clueless.

What's with the scabby fake grass? Ew.

That's VERY aspirational pricing! Even by SJW standards, 22.5m is a lot for that.

Thing is, by the time you get to these prices, you expect a lot more for your money if this is a house to be lived in as a primary residence: absolute privacy, no bars/railings in front of the windows, no communal space, unlimited parking, a pool, much much more square footage, staff rooms etc. You can spend that money on an apartment in Mayfair and it would be feasible, if you're the type to have a primary residence elsewhere (an actual house, probably in a country setting in another country). You lock it up and go, the doorman and building staff will look after it. But this is a house that will require maintenance, presence, upkeep and isn't in the sort of location that occasional visitors to London would want. It's basically a centrally-located suburban house. It's a family home, to be lived in. That's a lot of compromising for a lot of money.