Naice house bingo!

[GrahameSylvia]

House hunting at the moment and have noticed just how incredibly similarly all the naice houses are decorated. Especially in the posher bits of London, Manchester, York, Oxford etc.

Thought I’d invent a little game of house bingo to see how widespread this style really is and whose house is the dreamiest? Post your score / thoughts….

1 point for:
Exposed wood floors
Shaker kitchen
Patterned tiles on bathroom floor
Cacti
Bi fold doors
Kitchen island
Berber rug

2 points for:
Herringbone parquet floors
Petrol / navy blue kitchen cupboards
Brass / copper handles
Roll top bath
Fiddle leaf fig
Velvet sofas
Rattan
Pale / plaster pink walls

3 points for:
Crittall doors / windows
Botanical illustration prints
Double fridge freezer
Inbuilt wine rack
Pizza oven / big green egg barbecue
Tasteful arrangement of dried flowers and grasses in earthenware / terracotta jug - 5 bonus points if the jug is one you made yourself at pottery class

Posting in AIBU for traffic but also because I realise this is a bit of a dickish / unreasonable thing for me to post, especially when I too have drunk the cool aid and inherently think this stuff is lovely even though I can see a clever mix of Instagram algorithms and Rightmove has made me think that

Isn't it just what is in fashion? All of these things are all over the interior design mags/shows at the moment, so of course they're going to be in people's houses. They don't even have to be 'naice' houses - I've got friends in council houses with some of these things. They're very nice houses, but not 'naice'!

It is a bit dickish. There is such an appetite for being a bit sneery about other people's choices on here. And it's always, nearly, been like this in various periods, Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, Mid Century.

Has anyone mentioned panelling yet? They'll panel anything that stands still long enough

Who is the 'they' that are mad for panelling?

The people styling their houses in this fashion, did you not read the title 🥴

16 points here 😳

oops i mean 16 points!

Isn't it just what is in fashion? All of these things are all over the interior design mags/shows at the moment, so of course they're going to be in people's houses.

Do people really change their decor this regularly to follow interior design fashion? I very rarely decorate - only when absolutely necessary.

God almighty.

“1 point for:
Exposed wood floors
Shaker kitchen
Patterned tiles on bathroom floor
Cacti
Bi fold doors
Kitchen island
Berber rug

2 points for:
Herringbone parquet floors
Petrol / navy blue kitchen cupboards
Brass / copper handles
Roll top bath
Fiddle leaf fig
Velvet sofas
Rattan
Pale / plaster pink walls

3 points for:
Crittall doors / windows
Botanical illustration prints
Double fridge freezer
Inbuilt wine rack
Pizza oven / big green egg barbecue
Tasteful arrangement of dried flowers and grasses in earthenware / terracotta jug - 5 bonus points if the jug is one you made yourself at pottery class”

Which I think makes 20 points.

@Maramo I think you'd love my house; we have a large open plan kitchen 9m x 7m plus a separate sitting room and dining room. There are just my husband and I and we have 2 bathrooms and 4 bedrooms but 1 is my husband's office and I have my own office downstairs. We love the house because of the space.

Only if they are crushed velvet!

The previous owners of our house wanted £15,000 to leave their velvet 14-seater sofa when we bought from them.

We’d stretched so far that we couldn’t say yes, but it turned out to be so hard to move that they left it anyway.

It would never have been our choice, but I have to say that we really love it. If and when we decide to start having serious suburban sex parties it’ll really set the mood.

I only scored 3! We have wood floors original to the house and the bathroom in the basement has patterned tile (black and white - should get an extra point for that)

We do have a library though .... We feel pretentious every time we say it :)

Doesn't matter, in the current climate 'naice' is a hold on to those thinking that house prices should be ever increasing.

We are about to be in a decade of where you can't game easy money, installing 'naice' things doesn't increase the value of your property and you could have have overpaid. It;s part of of believing one side of the neolib agenda and ignoring the other side

@PasTropCher £14k!!! For a second hand sofa!!! Also, HOW big?! I didn’t even know sofas that size existed. As you say, suburban sex party style… Don’t get out the black light 😂

It goes round three sides of the cinema room, which has matching wallpaper.

We asked the removal form we used to move here to take it upstairs to be got rid of, but the three professionals gave up after failing to get one of the cushions up the stairs.

I hate to think how much semen was in there.

Yes I was just thinking that. I think people have forgotten the housing market years of 2007-2012 and can't see the parallels of years 2006-7 and 2020-21. I know there was a lot of bad loans then, but there wasn't huge inflation and the affordability is still crap. Plus a lot if the homes people have bought are still second homes/BTL so aren't essential to hang onto during a financial/cost of living crisis when house prices start to come down. I have seen a couple of homes have expensive renovations in my street and I do hope the owners haven't gone through all of that for nothing.

I am enjoying this thread though. I will probably never have a naice house, but I do get to enjoy my brothers when i visit. It would be a source of stress having a naice house with my two messy kids anyway.

I get 7 but am wondering whether I deserve bonus points for a pale pink shaker kitchen 😂.

It's all very predictable, nice ish but predictable.

The word 'naice' is dreadful though

The eyes and nose were stuck on when it was about 2" high. It is now considerably taller, so the eyes and nose are somewhat comically near the bottom. Not sure whether that qualifies as ironic or not...

And / or Ottolenghi.

The predictability is the point of the thread, though.

We have lots of space, 24' kitchen, living room, study, conservatory, separate dining room and 4 bedrooms. Just the two of us since DC grown up. None of it's open plan though. We want something less rural but not exactly downsizing as we still want the space. Just not all in one room😁

Oh, we get 13 points but will probably get Bingo by the time we've finished decorating (that'll be about 2032 at the current rate so it'll all be slightly old fashioned by that point ). I have to say though a wine rack in your kitchen is a bit naff, a wine fridge is much better (and kudos to the owner of the 'wine cellar').

I think it's fine to laugh about this, shows how predictable we all are. I'd add vintage furniture, bonus points for MCM originals. And for the poster who loves TMH, try following some swedish estate agents: Historiskahem, Alvhem, Entrancemakleri