Feeling intimidated by styled house

[iseenodust]

Just browsing rightmove & came across this one which just makes me feel inadequate. A shot devoted to the sink? I know if we moved there it would look nothing like that in a week. (no vested interest)

pristinehouse

Absolutely hideous. Forget one picture of the sink, there are about eight shots of it! Most of house very pedestrian, save for the over-done kitchen.

Yeah but.... it's still in Bevlah.

Disclaimer: I was born in Wakefield

Agree with those who said soulless. Thought it had been recently renovated and styled to sell till I saw the children's bedrooms.

Not my taste at all but I admire their bravery. The world would be a boring place if we all liked the same stuff.

It's like they won a competition in a magazine where they would get ££££ to spend on interior stuff with the proviso that it all had to come from B&Q.

GingerBonces Rule, thesecondcoming!

When my friend put her house on the market the Estate Agent turned up with a couple of big plastic crates and told her to clear all her surfaces of stuff into them for the pictures.

De-personalising helps to sell apparently.

What a crap house.

Horribly bland on the outside, and contrived to within an inch of its life on the inside.

If I had the budget that they obviously had, I'd do better.

They don't live like that, obviously. Clearly you've not watched enough House Doctor, where she sensibly advised packing stuff away ready to move.

And have you lived there long?

I like it apart from the sink which makes me want to swill and spit Pavlovian stylee.

It's a truly horrible house. All the soul sucked out of it. I noticed the lack of books, too.

All they've done is have a professional photographer from the agent come round & help style it a bit... They probably have clutter in storage or moved it from one room to another for the photos. Or they genuinely don't have any (which is a bit odd but not a crime!!)...

It seems like a nice big house, cheap compared to the Southeast where I'm living & you could do a lot.

BUT what a MASSIVE waste of space with that ensuite??!!! Shower rooms should be small, especially if its a family home. Everyone knows you'll only be having a super quick shower before the kids wake up etc. It's bigger than the family bathroom!!! I'd rip that out straight away...

And all the sinks are rubbish.

And OP - when selling, just remember if people can't see past your general life detritus & see the house beyond, they're the kind of people who have a lifestyle not a life... :o

Not my thing, but obviously they have spent a lot of money on it, but ran out before they got onto the upstairs!

I don't think it's hideous, just a bit overdone and lacking some personal touches.

It's hideous.

Ohhh I can't see it : (. Please coud you post the URL? Or ref?!

The en suite for the master bedroom is bigger than the bedroom itself In fact, the master bedroom is smaller than bedroom 2 - I'm guessing the owners gave up some of the space in order to have a big emailer.

FWIW, our en suite is bigger than the family bathroom, not intentionally but just the way the room sizes worked out when we renovated. I do love it though :)

I don't mind that house at all, I'd struggle to keep it as clean and clutter free if I lived there though! Don't like the sink but could put up with it for the price they're asking - seems ridiculously cheap compared to house prices in the south.

It's absolutely hideous. Trying far to hard, with no personality whatsoever. Probably inhabited by the sort of person who aspires to be in Hello or OK magazine.

Again with the book thing?! Have you people not heard of kindles.

befuzzled, I think it's just that it looks like the house of someone a bit thick.

Exactly what mars says. It's really clinical too. Trying too hard. I mean the Tripp Trapp highchairs match the green kitchen cupboard.

The bathrooms look a little dated to me - those bowl sinks.

Kitchen sink - wtf is it? What are all those different sections for?

That's what I mean - you are assuming they are thick because there are no books on display ergo they don't read much. That kind of inverse snobbery no longer applies I don't think these days - as I said further down, I read every day but there are only a few cookery books and reference books in my house now as I sold them all and have a Kindle. The dc still have loads of books but they are upstairs in their bedrooms where most visitors won't see them as they read before bed. It annoys me that some people that visit will be judging me as uneducated or thick because there are no books on display. It's anachronistic and snobby.

Sorry, pet hate, as you were.