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Original poster

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

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FlouncingMintyy · 27/02/2013 23:01

swoon

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FoxyRevenger · 28/02/2013 13:07

Fook, I was Shock at the price for a 3 bedroom house.

Then someone (OP?) said it was cheap Shock Shock Shock

We are moving house and our budget is £175k!!! London/South East is a whole other world to my wee Scottish village.

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FlouncingMintyy · 28/02/2013 13:07

Ironically the famous "Roy Brooks" was an agent in my area of London. They still have an office but their property particulars nowadays tend to be of the toe-curlingly cringeworthy variety link.

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Maryz · 28/02/2013 13:08

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blacktaildog · 28/02/2013 13:08

reminds me of a wild west bar

currentbuns · 28/02/2013 13:13

"Reputedly this home was recently the scene of a long romantic triste between a handsome British model and a famous blonde US A-lister when she was filming for Working Title in London. More recently it has played the much-loved home to a local family. - See more at: www.roybrooks.co.uk/property/5-bedroom-house-for-sale-on-duke-humphrey-road-in-blackheath-se3/royb-008354/1#sthash.vjFWyYyI.dpuf"

currentbuns · 28/02/2013 13:14

Toes are indeed curling!

countrykitten · 28/02/2013 15:14

Well I may be Welsh FlouncingMintyy but at least I haven't got fucking awful taste in houses. We all have our cross to bear.

Maryz · 28/02/2013 15:16

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countrykitten · 28/02/2013 15:35

Sorry - things get said about the Welsh (and the Scots and French and whoever else) and it's considered light hearted and 'funny' but I quite often think that they are ignorant and stupid. The OP was pissed off that no one liked the tacky house she loved so made an ignorant remark about the Welsh. Whatever. MNHQ seemed to agree that it was unnecessary and offensive. Nuff said.

countrykitten · 28/02/2013 15:36

Thank you for the soothing! Am calm now.

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FlouncingMintyy · 28/02/2013 15:46

No, countrykitten, that is not what happened at all, so don't re-write history.

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Fallenangle · 28/02/2013 16:06
cantspel · 28/02/2013 16:15

The op was pissed at me as i think plumstead is a crime ridden ghetto and have no wish to live there.

She clearly lives or likes the area and so has taken it as a personal insult that someone else doesn't. Maybe she thinks i am welsh so she decides to insult the welsh thinking i will be mortally offended.

Maybe it is even her house and posted how wonder the doors were to get a bit of free advertising. Who knows as we are all just mere pixels on a screen.

countrykitten · 28/02/2013 16:17

Yes that was exactly what happened so I reported your offensive post and MNHQ deleted it. It went along the lines of 'I would rather smear myself in excrement than live in Wales where everyone......' and then came the offensive cliched dig at the Welsh.

The evidence is on the thread apart from that post which was deleted. I think that it is YOU who would like to re-write history but sadly what's done is done.

countrykitten · 28/02/2013 16:20

To be fair to you, you were trying to get at cantspel because she didn't like your dream house and the area it is in. As the thread clearly shows. Why the dig at the Welsh I have no idea - possibly some deep seated prejudice on your part, possibly your idea of a 'joke'. Whatever.

countrykitten · 28/02/2013 16:20

Hopefully you will think twice next time.

Levantine · 28/02/2013 16:23

Slightly swerving the subject away again, Roy Brooks descriptions are in a league of their own annoyingness. I thought of emailing them the other day i was so irritated by their drivel.

countrykitten · 28/02/2013 16:26

Ahhh -I didn't think that maybe it's actually the OP's house and we were supposed to 'swoon' too? That kind of makes sense! Grin

TippiShagpile · 28/02/2013 16:28

You would have thought they'd tidy the garden before they had the photos taken. Looks like a (very small) jungle.

Hideous sliding doors. Not my cup of tea at all.

LadyIsabellaWrotham · 28/02/2013 16:41

It's strange how everybody sees things differently. I looked at it and thought "nice doors, overly try-hard decor, but I'd love to have a nice bug garden like that". You can tell I'm a Londoner can't you.

LadyIsabellaWrotham · 28/02/2013 16:42

..."big" garden not bug garden - implausible as that may seem to most on this thread.

alemci · 28/02/2013 16:47

our house has naff doors to divide the lounge from the dining room. They are a 50's style not unlike Ken and Deidre's in Corrie but they do us. not very good on soundproofing though but good to open up for a party etc.

The house looked nice

Fallenangle · 28/02/2013 16:52

Isabella, for a London terrace that looks a fair size garden, or will be when cut back. At the moment it is definitely set up as a bug garden, perhaps it is meant to be. Refreshing to see something not paved over.

someoftheabove · 28/02/2013 16:54

I used to live in the next road, too, zgaze in a house that was probably identical in layout. I am gobsmacked at the price! We sold for £110,000 in 1999. And it was a rough area, but we liked how diverse it was, compared to where we are now, in one of the trashiest, whitest parts of Surrey.
Really hate the dividing doors, btw.

Maryz · 28/02/2013 16:57

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