Does anyone want this £2 million house?

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Here’s the link.

https://www.chestertons.co.uk/properties/21253149/sales

I know we like a nose around other peoples houses. Might need sunglasses for this one.

To be fair that’s the case already in my (plain white interiors) house!

I would pay her to paint the walls back white. Not a fan of living in others people personality space.

Oh my giddy aunt! Now I know why my DH talks me down from some of my bright ideas from Interior Design Masters...

Have they been able to sort out the rancid smell in Brixham? That is a lot of money for not a lot of house in a smelly area.

I quite like it but I think she is rather overvaluing her work.

Property value = £5-600k

It comes with 65 original artworks and 20 pieces of painted furniture. Her paintings for sale on her website seem to be £1.5k - £3.5k. Even if you are very generous and value each of the 85 items included in the sale at an average current value of £5k each, that’s £425k.

That’s a long way off £2million…

Five bedrooms with ond bathroom, no en suite, no bathroom on the upper floor, no study and no utility room.

No, I'll keep my £2m for now.

I actually like her paintings on her website but the decoration in her house is way over the top and proves you can have too much of a good thing.

Well, it wouldn’t matter if the kids doodled on the walls would it?

@ObliviousCoalmine I think there’s a medium between grey and mirrored surfaces and that decor. I’m sure the owner is a talented artist, but I don’t see it.

Presumably, if you buy it, you have to maintain that, if she’s going to turn up to refresh it every five years. I’d hate that. I’d want to decorate it and refurbish it to my taste. My home is not there to advertise an artist’s work and I would feel very uncomfortable in it.

Just as well I can’t afford it.

I'd love a house that had unique murals painted by an artist, but not that one. It's a sloppy unhinged-looking mess.

Emily Powell

I love it. It makes me smile, and would bring me joy:(at least for a while). And hopefully the person who buys it will love it too and not magnolia over it

If your plan would be to paint it magnolia (🙃) then you wouldn’t buy it obviously. You’re paying for the work and the name. You’d buy a similar plain house and go about your merry way.

Zoopla tells me that she bought it for £525,000 in October 2022. So her artwork adds a premium of nearly £1.5 million. Interesting choice to put it within the mansion tax threashold, considering how small the property is.

I love it! So nice to see someone having fun and enjoying what they like in their own house.

I wonder if it would be classed as a home or a work of art, though, and be exempt from the mansion tax? How would that work if you actually lived in it?

For comparison, there's a house for sale in Brixham for £1,300,000

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/157222835#/?channel=RES_BUY

People keep trying to persuade us there are loads of "ordinary" houses around worth £2 mill but outside of central London they're pretty rare.

My eyes! The amount of time and effort and energy that would take to sort!

She walks in to see a White Company-esque showroom! 😂

I'm only surprised they haven't painted the garden as well

Exactly this. And that said, I absolutely love it! I love bold and strange home designs.

However - that much for a terraced house? Nope.

I doubt the taxman will be so gracious to not tax someone who has paid £2,000,000 for a house, and to call it art, rather than a house. The buyer will still have to pay the stamp duty and the council tax, after all.

No. Three floors, five bedrooms and only one bathroom?

Yeah. I feel like this marketing strategy is not going to work because it’s way way overpriced as a house but even if you’re just her biggest fan, you’d just buy a few more paintings to put in the 1.3m home linked to above and have about 500k change.

Good grief this is hideous! It makes me feel jittery just looking at it.

No thanks - I need a calm, elegant, softly lit home not like I'm living in an exploded paint shop