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

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Baffledandbewildered it is Plumstead (SE18), not Blackheath (SE3). You should have known that if you lived there.

Some seriously stuck up people on MN.

I don't like the doors much though tbh.

That house is in the very heart of Plumstead, no where near Blackheath!

There are some truely beautiful houses (with potential, obviously!) in that area and it is a real shame that the local area is so rubbish. It's one of those places that has just been left to rot, whist some of the neighbouring areas have had some regeneration.

I do like the house, but I'm seeing through the decor tbh. I don't think the garden is that small. I think it just needs an awful lot of pruning. I reckon you could get another couple of feet on the sides, if you chopped down a bit of greenery!

MaryZ I was unaware that London was a country. You can stuff your 'ffs' The reply was not tongue in cheek and it was aimed at Welsh PEOPLE not an area. See the difference?

If the OP puts up a post asking people to adore her dream house and people don't like it or the area then she should be woman enough to take what comes her way. People have different opinions. No need to slag of Welsh people just because she has thrown her toys out of the pram.

MaureenMLove has just said that the area is 'rubbish'! OP, fancy a pop at the Irish now to make a point?

Yes, it is a shame about Plumstead. But I suppose if more people wanted to live there you'd have to put a couple of hundred thousand on that price tag .

We live in a larger Victorian terrace which had had the two reception rooms knocked through (and sadly nearly all original features ripped out by the previous owners), but we have made them back into two rooms with doors between. Ours are reclaimed conservatory doors from Lassco which look nothing like the ones in the op.

I really love those doors but agree they'd be nice painted white.

I was going to say that is incredibly cheap for London, what's the catch? But it seems people have answered that already.

That house in a desirable London neighbourhood would easily go for 3x the price.

Also that garden is not small for London. It's bleedin huge!

Yeah sorry about that. Don't like racist remarks.

I'm in Wales and my house is far nicer. And cheaper. And in a very, VERY low-crime area.

I think that OP was doing a ridiculous comparison akin to the one that "London is a ghetto" or whatever it was that was said, cba to scroll back. I didn't think she was being seriously racist, just pulling an obviously stupid stereotype out of the bag to show how ridiculous the ghetto comment was.

I think that reading things in context is a lost art on Mumsnet nowadays :(

Oh and if we're being nit-picky, Welsh isn't a race.

Im not keen on the house or the dividers.

Of course I wasn't being racist. The only person who thinks so is countrykitten and she has got herself in a proper tizz over it.

Ck - I find when I am getting irrationally angry over a thread and frankly barking right up the wrong tree then hiding the thread is tremendously helpful.

I like the doors. And the fire. And the Welsh.

Didn't realise I lived in an actual ghetto :(
Oh well,I am down the road & fucked in negative equity. That kind of tops my bloody day.

It's ok. She's over on another thread getting offended on behalf of men with plucked eyebrows

Icelolly, you don't live in a ghetto! It's all relative. To some of the pampered twats on here it might be a bit, erm, rustic? But I doubt it's that bad. Plus it's London. Hold on to it for long enough and your area will probably becaome very desirable, properties will rocket. As my cousin is finding out after she sold her flat in Hackney ten years ago...

My fireplace is from Lassco OP. And the Medusa head bit of objet d'art in my (much smaller) back garden.

I wanted a marble bath from there but it cost too much and would have cost only slightly less to heat. And it would have crashed through the floor.

Vauxhall or Tower Bridge, Limited? I walk right past the Vauxhall one on my way to work ... always tempted to pop in.

Sorry to hear about the negative equity, icelolly.

Thanks. Came on for some property porn & got a shock when it was Plumstead. No doubt in comparison to leafy Surrey it is 'urban'.

It used to be in an old church sort of Old Street way. Is it not there any more? It seemed like we'd spend every Sunday there but that was a long time ago.

I'm near Vauxhall. I'll go down there and look at things I can't afford or fit in.

Its right at the foot of the huge round block of flats the helicopter crashed into.

No sorry ain't feeling the love. There is too much wood everywhere