To not view this house

[Elaine222]

Name changed as I've spoken about this a lot in real life so don't want other posts linked.

DH wants to view this property. It is in the area we want and he loves it from the outside. I hate how it is set up, think it's really over priced and can't imagine how we would use the space.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/150168083#/?channel=RES_BUY

Currently we are in a smaller property and I think we'd need to spend a lot to "fill" this house. I worry our current sofas etc. wouldn't fit. Looks like the family there now had the same issue. Lots of badly matched furniture round the sides of the rooms has honestly put me off.

There are 4 of us so the bedrooms would be good. The living areas, dining rooms etc. looks like too much dead space. Not a cosy feel at all has made me unable to see what I could do.
He is keen to go and view but I don't think that would help me get a view of what it could be, just more what it is.

Gut feeling is a no. Possible too much money considering I'd want to re do all the windows, the bathroom etc. But interested on opinions and what ideas for making this a home, other people have please.

I think if you know you don’t like it, then it’s fair enough not to waste your/the sellers time.

Ultimately you need to sit down together and discuss what the essentials and budget are. Do you want a project or something ready to go? What are you willing to compromise on?

I would view it, it's good to see different houses to get more of an idea of what works/doesn't work. Not really very fair to your DH to not even view it.

If it’s not for you, that’s ok. But no harm in viewing if you have the time, sometimes the more you see the more you learn.

So much potential here. Surely it’s better to have more space than you need immediately? Families grow, possessions accumulate. I am not sure that ‘cosy’ is something to be aiming for. But everyone’s different.
I think you should at least look at it.

Bathroom looks nice.
It's a big bland house at the moment.

It looks like there is someone living there with high needs - wheelchairs and assistance in the bathrooms, that is probably why the furniture is very spaced out to allow a disabled person to get about.

other than that the house is very spacious and i dont see anything strange in the layout. The kitchen is a terrible colour - but that can be re-sprayed/painted.

lovely garden.

I reckon it could be amazing, so much potential. I really dislike the kitchen though, the colour is awful imo

I would view. You may find you change your opinion or it may solidify what you are and are not looking for.

A friend has recently furnished a huge house almost entirely from free sites and it looks fabulous. Plenty of people downsizing have large pieces of furniture to give away.

That purple kitchen would give me a headache though...

Estate agent photos often make rooms and spaces look bigger then they are, I would view it anyway.

I personally would go and see it. It’s a great layout - upstairs & down. The issue it has it really poor furnishings & decor. Those things are so easily changed. You might walk in and absolutely love it, but you won’t know that unless you view. If you hate it? Nothing much lost.

£650k round here would barely get a 2/3 bed terrace, so my value for money radar is a bit off!

Those photos are all stretched, so the rooms and spacing look a lot bigger than they are in reality.

They've got both a mobile hoist and a ceiling track hoist in those photos, so presumably they have a wheelchair user living there. The furniture will be set up to provide maximum space to manoeuvre a wheelchair, so not necessarily the set up you would use. Eg. The sofas are all back against the walls - you could bring them forward to make a cosier setting, leaving a walkway behind the sofas.

Apart from the kitchen colour I think it's very nice.

They obviously have someone who needs space between furniture to move around so they can't stage the rooms to look cosier.

Its a good house with loads of potential and space. They clearly have someone disabled there and thats probably why there is loads of space left with minimal furniture.

The rooms could be furnished in a cosier way and you could have bags of fun doing it.

I would look at it.

Exactly my thoughts which would explain all the clearance space for access, otherwise it could be a really nice house

I think the layout is great, so much space inside and out and I don’t know the area well but it doesn’t seem overpriced to me for how big it is. Decoration can be changed.
There’s no harm in going to see it and if your DH thinks he might really like it it’s unfair for you not to even look at it

I would go just so your DH can put it out of his mind. My DH was fixated on a house I thought would have a lot of issues due to age but he loved it so we went to view. Seeing it in the flesh meant DH could see what I meant re upkeep costs etc and so we took it off the list but if we had never gone I think DH would always have thought 'what if'.

Id at least go and see it. You can't always tell from photos what a place is really like.

Also I've noticed these days so many estate agents doctor photos to make rooms seem bigger. So it may not be as big as it looks.

Filling rooms is easy.
You don't have all the furniture against walls for a start. That makes a big difference. If those sofas were facing each other with a coffee table between them and then a sideboard or something against a wall, that room would look a lot smaller.

Ooh I could do a lot with that. The proportions are good and quite traditional. The current decor is bound to put you off, but all that space could be a good blank canvas and it absolutely could be made to feel cosy and comfortable, not just cavernous.

Once all their stuff had gone, the urgent things for me would be respraying the kitchen units and probably putting a bomb in some F&B paint everywhere else! There's a lot you can do and that's a lovely big space. If it's in budget and the right area, I'd at least go and see it.

Its great. They haven't used the space to the best of its ability at all, but so much potential with so much space. You can make a big room feel homely by designing it correctly.

Also now I have looked at it, I think the furniture makes it look odd but you could definitely get it to be cosy. Big corner sofa in the living room (not against a wall) to make a cosy zone near the TV or around the fire etc.

I would view it, the pictures have been taken with a wide angle lens and might not be as cavernous as they look.

I think if one person likes a house it’s always worth having a look.

Just go and have a look. It’s not going to kill you to just see what it’s like in real life.

All the photos will have been taken with a wide angle lens, so the rooms won’t look that cavernous in person. And as others have said - given the disability aids, it’s likely that the furniture is sparse for that reason, not because the house is somehow hard to furnish.

Edited to add that we nearly didn’t view our house when it was on the market because it looked a bit odd in the estate agent pictures. We only went out of desperation. But we ended up putting in an offer as soon as we’d seen it!

I actually don’t see what’s wrong with the house at all to be honest.

Sofas get replaced or added to as you go.