To ask for your opinions on my house?

[StylishMummy]

We're in the stressful and expensive process of moving house, next door have just sold for £170,000. We're on for less and have slightly less space and less than all agents suggested (165-170). But we're not selling!

Collective brain of the vipers nest is my next place for feedback - be as brutal as you like!

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-70481371.html

The conservatory sort of looks like storage; like your extra furniture is there. I'd echo others in saying you need a dining room - could the conservatory be that? Is it heated?

The third bedroom is small and oddly placed. If it wasn't labeled a bedroom, I'd have thought it was a large closet or dressing room.

The backyard-the grass needs filled in and manicured. I wouldn't feel as though I had a lot of privacy back there. Would it be possible to install taller gates? At the very least, new pictures. And move the trash cans out of the picture.

I like the kitchen and bathroom.

Sorry but it’s a 2 bed with a dressing room. Not a 3 bed. It isn’t a bedroom if it has no window and you can only access it via another bedroom.

The conservatory looks really cold. I also thought the floor was the outdoor patio that hadn’t been floored over. The curtain at the door makes me assume it’s draughty. Two living rooms and no dining room is also a bit odd. And I’d be factoring in the cost of new windows - the current ones must be ancient because brown hasn’t been in fashion since the 80s.

The room with the stone fireplace and especially the conservatory type room could do with making look more homely and modern. The double bedroom too - in that case something simple like different bedclothes might do it. In general I would say there's nothing major wrong. The main thing for me would be the very bare conservatory (I think?) room doesn't look at all cosy or homely.

I think it looks nice OP though a few ideas -

1. Can you put a glass banister on the stairs and close in the steps?
2. The tiles in the kitchen are quite dated and might be better in a lighter colour?
3. I'm not sure what your extension is? Is it a conservatory? I think you need to make it into a useful room e.g I would fill it with plants and bookshelves and put some colourful rugs on the floor so it becomes a relaxing space.
4. The patio area needs to be tidied up.
5. The garden needs to be cleaned up and plant something in it to make it look like it is used. The bins need to be hidden or stored in some sort of order.
6. Finally add a hanging basket to make the front exterior more welcoming.

The pebbledash - can you give it a lick of paint to freshen it up?

It’s bit of a weird layout but I’ve seen far worse ans how lovely to have such a massive bathroom!

But paint the render outside it just looks grim and uninviting, especially next to a red brick Victorian - even better take the render off if you can. But white would work.

Take the coffee table out from in front of the log burner. It just looks cluttered and hides your sexy log burner.

Love the blind in the family room - make your lounge more like that. Rather than the blind/curtains combo.

Kitchen is clean and nice, wouldn’t worry about that.

Stairs, they look deadly and are super distracting. Paint them out.

Conservatory floor, maybe get an indoor/ourdoor rug from Wayfair to hide it. Also why curtains in there? Looks a bit odd.

Bedrooms are lovely!

Garden, why is picture 11 basically picture of your bins? Slap your estate agent from me for being a lazy bugger.

Repaint that side wooden wall in pic 10 and Rejig the garden to make it look like you could have a glass of wine out there. Doesn’t look used at the moment.

You have a lovely house! Good luck!

I love it. If it was in my area for that price, I'd buy it.

Here is the floor plan of a similar house. As a PP said your 2nd bedroom has no window. Bedroom and bathroom in this house were both at the back with both having windows.
Alternative floor plan

Photo 2: remove background clutter, turn off main light and add more ambient lamps, coffee table in front of sofa, leafy plants on base of fireplace, don’t push the curtains back so much.

Photo 3: remove item of furniture in left foreground and pull sofa out more from under the stairs. Again use side lights instead of main light and take the photos on a brighter day.

Photo 4: drag coffee table closer to sofa, (don’t do this for photo 3). Remove cuttered furniture in the background near the white door (it looks like a laundry basket!?!)

Photo 6: open blinds (what are you hiding in the garden?), pull the crap out from under the table and chairs (again, what are you hiding, i’m starting to feel like i should be suspicious of you), add plants, plants and plants so it feels like a conservatory, remove the crap (waterbottle on radiator??). That floor looks icy cold, add a natural rug.

Rest of it looks fine. Goodluck OP x

As others have said, the conservatory needs to be dressed properly. Turn one room into a dining room. I'd also take out the fake brick fireplace and just leave a hole in the wall with candles in and a chunky wood mantelpiece.
Kitchen and bathroom both look nice.
Garden is soulless. Get some pot plants put in.

Agreed the photos are not great. For me, the main issue was curb appeal. The render has meant that compared to next door, it looks dated and a bit ugly. Ditto the brown window trim.

The curtains all need to be opened and for photos to be taken when the sun is shining in. Just doing this will make a huge difference.

Turn the front room into the lounge and the middle room into a dining area. Dress it properly with comfy furnishings, and table setting, flowers - but leave plenty of floor space.

Kitchen and bathroom are both great, nursery is also nice. Main bedroom is a bit busy with clashing wall paper and bedding. try plain white bedding.

The conservatory needs to be presented as a proper summer room. Cover up the flooring and add some plants.

Paint the outside wall...

Also, I'm afraid the rendering would putt me off a lot.

Looks drab, not somewhere ready to move into, needs brightening up, photos on a sunny day, get rid of stag paper, bathroom is good - clean, clear and bright but the rest of house not. Less beige? More crisp white walls maybe? get rid of wall paper in bedroom and living room curtains, get rug in conservatory? (looks abandoned), get rid of checked roller blind, if you can afford it turf grass, make one reception room a dining room? all that sounds alot of work maybe instead put a charcoal carpet throughout and have crisp white walls and plants.

Is the layout of next door the same?

Because I’m looking at it thinking, well that child’s bedroom looks tiny, and that’s not the small bedroom?...(I don’t know if it is or not, but I’m guessing by the single door and window)

So if the room that doesn’t look like it’s actually big enough to be a bedroom isn’t the smallest one...

If it's the middle of the terrace that has just sold for £170k, the one attached to your left, then I can see why. The layout is more sensible in that house. Two good sized bedrooms and a single room (all with windows, this really is a problem on your listing), clearly marked lounge, dining area and kitchen and sensible bathroom size.

You're asking for the same amount for what really is a two bed, sorry.

It is always down to price. Anything will sell at the right price. It is easy to find your neighbour’s house that just sold and yours is well overpriced if you compare to theirs. Theirs is a much better layout throughout and has three proper bedrooms.

The main thing is it looks unloved from the front, jet wash the wall and remove the weeds that are growing along the pavement, put up hanging baskets and maybe a tall plant in a tub.

I'd also paint the whole house a brighter colour, your neighbours house makes yours look worse than it is.

I look at rightmove every day and often see houses that are drab outside and surprisingly lovely inside and it makes me think they've just done it up to sell because if they loved the house they'd have kept it nice outside too.

There are things you can't change like the building behind it but you could certainly distract from it by having a pretty garden, viewers like to imagine themselves living in it and your back garden isn't inviting at all.
Cut the grass, plant nice shrubs and flowers and put a table and chairs out.

Make the conservatory into a room with either a sofa and toy boxes for a play room or a decent sized dining table in the middle and buy the biggest rug you can find to cover as much of the floor.

Also get the estate agent to redo the photos on a nice day, I'm a photographer and decent pictures can make a huge difference, the odd perspective is because they use a wide angle lens which elongates the room, there's not much they can do to be honest in small rooms.

Get a big rug for the conservatory to make it feel homely and part of the house.
It needs to show that it can be used for something- a playroom etc.

Change one of the living rooms to a dining room. People want to know they have room for a table etc. Maybe put a sofa from the room you can help into a dining room in the conservatory?

Pretty up the outside front with flowers in pots. Do something with the patch of weeds where burglars can jump past the bins to get into the house. Don't include it in the photos, because it looks a nightmare in terms of security, but if they get in the house and like it, they might look past it - particularly if you could add some trellis to make it look safer.

Turn the room with the staircase into a dining room with the table from the conservatory and a crisp, spotlessly clean tablecloth.

Switch from those blinds to nets. Just plain ones, just because blinds look bad from the outside even more than they do from the inside.

Shove a rug over those paving slabs. Get rid of the 70s furniture in the conservatory - you could put the sofa, TV and other furniture from the 'Dining Room' in there, along with the coffee table that's blocking the woodburner and that would make it look a lot less of a badly built lean to. Put the wicker chair into the bathroom with a new, fluffy (white) towel draped over it.

For the child's room, I'd put the bed against the wall the window is on and rearrange the furniture so it doesn't look so shoved up against the edges - I'd put the patterned drawers at the foot of the bed if it fits, the chair next to the head and the wooden CoD where the hamper is. And a pretty picture on that huge expanse of white wall beside the window. Stick a larger Teddy Bear on the wooden CoD and the small one can go on the bed. The rug looks tatty, so lose it. If you had the money, gritting your teeth and repainting it a pale grey would mean a lot of your target market would like it a lot better than the bright yellow (and pink would still go with it).

I actually quite like the kitchen, compared to some I've seen, and think the only dressing you could do was a stand mixer or suchlike on the empty run and perhaps a coffeemaker (gives the idea there are more sockets) and some brand new teatowels.

Sand and repaint the wood clad wall. It makes it look like a knackered shed.

And leafy plants. Large ones. Lots of the things.

Then take new photos. Nuneaton in the pissing rain isn't exactly desirable.

The outside is not comparable to next door tbh. Their house is quite attractive and looks well cared for and if they have hedging in the front, I imagine their back garden is also neat and tidy. It looks like the fencing on the left hand side of your garden is the border between you too which means they have new fencing all around their garden?

It could be an idea for your to fence yours off like that so it is uniform at least?

Could you plaint the exterior? (The back rendering could do with being painted too)?

I would put in a dining table somewhere

I'd personally want to redo the upstairs lounge & conservatory, and have some work done on the front of the house too. The gardens a little small for my liking but depends what you like. Its nice overall though and a very good price

On the whole pretty good but need to sort a few things in this order...
Stairs- unsafe especially for kids etc- get them filled in
Conservatory - big rug, coffee table/ soft chairs/ sofa and a house plant- at present it looks like a holding cell!
New pictures- when the sun is shining!
Pot plant with flowers in back garden
Paint the grey away outside of you can afford to.

Your welcome

Definitely need to put a rug in the conservatory, and a dining table if you possibly can. The issue is that the 'family room' really should be a dining room but I guess there isn't actually space because it's too narrow? This is not a thought process you want people having, so 'stage' the conservatory as the eating space even if you'd never, ever use it that way yourself.

I just done think anyone would want a house with a conservatory that looks like that - sorry but it's dreadful. I'd be tempted to invest in sorting it out or knock it down.

The outside is also very dated. Maybe paint it?!