to want to buy this house for the dividing doors in the reception room alone?

[FlouncingMintyy]

swoon

[KobayashiMaru]

Those modernist houses are seriously fugly.

[countrykitten]

Hmmmm - I think it's all a bit too 'try hard' for me and ends up being on the wrong side of classy/classic. The doors are horrid.

[countrykitten]

Oh God - just seen the bathroom....nooooo!

[cantspel]

The garden is tiny and the doors would look better with frosted glass. The fire place and the bubbles on the walls of the attic room are nice but i would rather eat my oldest child than live in an over priced london ghetto.

[GinAndSlimlinePlease]

I love the Lubetkin house! Not so keen on the faux victoriana. Sorry.

[FlouncingMintyy]

"but i would rather eat my oldest child than live in an over priced london ghetto"

that's a monumentally stupid thing to say isn't it?

Millions and millions (about 10 million of them at the last count) live in London. What do you mean by ghetto?

[MarmaladeTwatkins]

Ooooh, no.

They're very oppressive. They might be better painted white but I'd be tempted to rip them out along with everything else in that house.

In the bathroom picture, why is the loo roll holder positioned so far away from the loo?! Very impractical

[littlewhitebag]

I don't like it either. It's just not my taste and i would hate to live in a city. No need to be rude about it though. We are all different.

[cantspel]

If you read again i said I. That is me not those who choose to live there so it doesn't matter how many millions of people who live in london as i dont want to be one of them.

Crime stats for plumstead

www.met.police.uk/crimefigures/datatable.php?borough=rg&period=year

595 robberies a year, so over i a day, 5383 violent crimes a year = ghetto

[countrykitten]

Bloody hell. That's shocking.

[Owllady]

oh that's a lovely house in the OP
but my experience of Plumstead is similar, same re Erith

[HousewifeFromHeaven]

I have the exact same fire in my bedroom as in the op lounge, although marble surround.

I'm not unique after all

[skratta]

I hate that house! And I agree with zgaze. I choose my laptop over fancy dividing doors!

[SusanneLinder]

I don't like the first houe at all-I really don't like "period" properties.Far too cluttered and too much added stuff that detract from it.I like modern type houses. It has no kerb appeal. But then I live in an area where 400k would get you a detached property in a rural setting.

The second one-well I hate the outside (the poles!), but it is during the art deco period which I love.But soooo much more could be made of the inside.

[cantspel]

As i have never lived in Wales i cant form a view as to whether or not the welsh shag sheep but i have lived in london.

[Feminine]

Some of it is nice. In those nice bits it looks like a relaxing home.

I don't like the doors, they look like something from a 1960's spaghetti western!

I don't think its on to slag off areas, some people probably lead happy lives in them! :)

[Fakebook]

The UK doesn't have "ghettos" .

this is a ghetto

[countrykitten]

Not sure that there is any need for racist remarks OP just because most posters think that the house you like is a bit naff. And it IS naff - overdone and lacking classiness. Probably done up by someone who has seen pics of a lovely period property and tried to copy. Badly.

Is being racist how you generally respond to well meant criticism (you did ask for opinions after all)?

[countrykitten]

FM - please explain why you have used racist remarks in this thread. Really not impressed. Shows a rather high level of stupidity on your part.

[FakePlasticLobsters]

I love the second house, but I don't like the fireplace in that funny shaped room, or the way you have to sit side on to the TV in the corner.

[digerd]

I need walls as have so many glass show cases and sideboards all packed full with stuff.
Receptions are a posh name for rooms downstairs other than the kitchen.
If one room is a kitchen diner, it would be a cheek to call the diner part a reception.

I didn't like the front or the furnishings, but do like the folding doors, but no good to me as would have nowhere to put my 2m sideboard and vitrine that sits on top of it .

[AgathaF]

Bloody hell - how can a thread about dividing doors turn into a bun fight so quickly

[cantspel]

You would need to move the sofa every time you wanted to open and use the double doors.

[countrykitten]

What are you showing off in your glass cases and your vitrine? Intrigued.