New Omaze Windermere house

[DilemmaDelilah]

For anyone wondering, the new Omaze Windermere house is here... LA23 1JA.

I think I would like it... But there are a couple of issues for me.
The first is... the boathouse is actually down the road, not right near the house. It has a lovely upstairs sitting room and kitchenette, but no loo! So you would have to walk downstairs, along the road and to the main house if you needed the loo.

The second is... It's 2 hours from one adult child and 5 1/2 hours without stopping (so with a couple of stops nearer 7 hours) from where we, and other adult child, now live. The train journey would be about the same and necessitate several changes, so if we moved there we would rarely see them or the grandchildren as they don't drive.

I think I would need to have one fabulous holiday there and then sell it.

I don't like it. Loads of neighbours, very bland decor. I didn't know about the boathouse - but that's rubbish! I'd take it gratefully if I won it, but it would be an immediate sale.

House Price History

Claife Holme and Claife Holme Boathouse, Old Hall Road, Troutbeck Bridge, Windermere, LA23 1JA - Hackney & Leigh

I would keep it. It's got good holiday let potential so would pay for itself and would be handy for visiting relatives. If you were at the boathouse and needed a wee, surely you would just pop downstairs and go in the wet dock?

6 and a half mil !!

Its been sold it seems.

Thank you @chrissycn11 for that extra information. It looks like they have only done very cosmetic changes... and taken the doors off the kitchen and probably the other downstairs rooms! They would have to go straight back on if it was mine. My cooking may smell delicious... But I don't want to smell it everywhere in the house.

@BarnacleBeasley personally I wouldn't want to have to hang my bum over the dock to wee, and I certainly wouldn't want to have to hang on to a child that needed to wee.... and what if you needed more than a wee! I speak as someone whose bowels have been completely shot by chemotherapy - luckily just about getting back to normal now 36 months later - but reliability isn't something I take for granted.

The lack of a loo in the boathouse is the same as when you are at the beach.

What do you do in that situation?

Hmm, I think Windermere is a bit of a stretch for location. It's Troutbeck Bridge really. It's just behind my old secondary school!

I assume you're supposed to use the loo on the boat.

It's so interesting to see the before and afters on the interior design. It's the same class of changes each time. They make the rugs bigger, sizing to the room rigorously. The pictures are either very large unframed abstracts or a collection / gallery wall. There's always a rug-an-a-big-plant-an-a-little-side-table (and a floor lamp behind the chair) combination. Tables are also sized properly to the room - if there's room for 8 or 12 places then bigod you're getting one.

Basically everything is bought new for the space and nothing brought along from an actual life so it's beautiful but blank, anonymous, sterile. They have a fussiness because of this. It's unavoidable I suppose! They're trying to make an imagination focus for players to imagine their own life in the space.

And boucle chairs. Always with the boucle chairs.

I'd worry the running costs wouldn't make it an affordable rental and you'd struggle to sell it as there would be very few buyers. Windermere could be amazing for summer swims off your jetty but it's sadly too polluted

It doesn't have any lakeside land apart from the boathouse. There's a road between it and the lake. And it looks from one of the estate agent pics as if they are building something between it and the lake, so the views may disappear.

Omaze state it's a £5 million home but the sale guide price was £6.5 so they must have put in a cheeky offer

Imagine the council tax and bills on that.

I would sell it for about 3M
Hopefully it would sell no problem

Yes what's to stop the winner selling for say £1 million? I assume nearby homeowners can't do anything, despite the potential impact on their home value?

Very bland house, don’t like the furniture. Still want to win it though.