AIBU to think this house is an accident waiting to happen?

[Inertia]

Just noseying on Rightmove - how did any of this get past building regs? I thought the lack of handrail on the stairs was bad enough until I saw the landing!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/140675273#/media?activePlan=1&channel=RES_BUY&id=media22

At least we know why it's up for sale now.

Well now I know what happened to 1985

I assume it's for sale as the owners are, in fact, maimed or dead!

It'd be like walking over one of those glass floors just to go for a wee 🙈

I was going to post exactly the same as you 😀

It does! One where the residents' relatives hate granny, and can't wait to inherit?

(Edit: this was in response to the 'looks like a nursing home' comment, but apparently that vanished on posting...)

That living room takes “open plan” to a whole new level. The mid-room columns suggest someone started taking down a load bearing wall and then realised they might have a problem …

@Oioicaptain is that the place that was in the Discover of Witches tv series?

In the hallway under the stairs there’s a table with family pics on in and there’s at least one of a child. Maybe the sellers are rich mountaineers?

Bloody hell.
There is no way on earth you would get me to use those stairs.
It does seem to be the house that taste forgot, and the building regs inspector never got to see!

1950s hotel carpet at its finest.

Yes! Is that arch window thing in a dip? Is the arch at the back a weird illusion and is in fact 2ft tall?? Is the carpeted catwalk area a slide with a massive deathly drop on each side? My eyes have broken.

It has a Seussville vibe to it.

The tiled step in the bathroom is more what I noticed! Another deathtrap feature to kill yourself on.

This is the Metaverse and nobody else has signed up for it.

God, that's hideous -how could anyone do that to a lovely house? The carpet makes my head spin. Imagine tackling those stairs after a couple of glasses of wine.
But perhaps it's on the market because the previous owner broke their neck?

Noone has mentioned the vast draping curtains, which must have been custom made, which have all been hemmed about two feet too long!

I mean, I know they're small beer compared to the Greek temple effect lounge, the carpet that taste forgot, and the plunge of death landing, but still...

You could have a awesome christmas tree in the hallway.

I wonder if estate agents ever read these comments?
Let's hope Ian Macklin of Hale has a poker face when he's showing viewers around!

Omg the landing… makes me feel funny just looking at it. Surely you cant sell it like that… ?

Footballers’ Wives circa 1989! Yeuuuuuuch 🤢 Stairs worry me at the best of times: I’d rather piss in my handbag than go upstairs to the loo

It’s a relatively cheap plot for Bowdon. It’s not about the house the value’s in the land. A developer will either demolish it or substantially reconfigure that house and double their investment, minimum.

That’s what I thought too!

The stair thing is mad, but the decor is just hideous too

I feel like whoever designed that had some unresolved issues about right angles & a deep seated hatred of stair rails or bannisters.

The décor is also hideous, but I don't think updating it would help all that much when it's all angles with the odd curve thrown in & that mishmash of styles.

Its one of the computer generated sets from Knightmare! You just want a kid in an over sized viking helmet being guided around by three inept friends!

Screams 'sourced my carpets from my hotel chain suppliers'... and 'I'd really like an engine shed but I am not allowed one'... absolutely horrific and I would probably pay that much NOT to live that close to Altrincham!

I'd trip over the pattern on that carpet and plunge to my death.

Our surveyor had conniptions about the original art deco banisters that someone could poke their head through. They're a bugger to dust but aren't going anywhere.

Footballers house betcha