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

I don't like the style but hey, they're trying to sell

what I do hate (not specific to this house, obv) is integral garages - you never get enough downstairs space to match the upstairs - I don't see the point

FGS! You can't feel intimidated by house whose owners have got a [whispers] ...DFS sofa?

... and who have splash backs by the basins rather than properly tiled surfaces.

The sink though... is worth several £1000s. I could live with it but then I don't cook, well... perhaps not, trying to remove splash marks and finger prints from it, or getting paranoid that the cleaner may scratch it, would be a perennial nightmare.

What an ugly house, I imagine the occupants wear big, unflattering glasses and weird clothes.

My pet hate too befuzzled.

Have been on some humdingers of threads on this very subject before .

Most well read man I ever knew (and I know a lot, having worked for many years in publishing) had about ten books in his house (atlas, dictionary, book of quotes, some cookery books). Everything else he got from his weekly trips to the library.

chunkychick Thank you I shall remember that - I have a life!

piglet I feel much better as I have proper tiles.

bibbity. Thank you. I feel better.

The people I know who read the most all have kindles and/or read online. And I never understood what was so big or clever about having whole swathes of your house taken over by dust-gathering floor to ceiling shelves with books you'd read once and were never going to read again on display just to show how well read you were. I find that trying too hard. And it is a huge pain in the arse when you move or someone dies and you have to process all those books.

Foul red sofa though, I have to agree.

that I too live in the 'cheap' north

I love having space even if filled with non-trendy stuff

Heh heh, just looked up one of the old "anyone who doesn't have books in their house must be intellectually lacking" threads for old times sake. Usual suspects were on there.

All the stuff is Ikea! Looks more like it's been styled by Swedish students to me.

I wanted to move all the beds, I think they are all positioned wrongly.

befuzzled - pet hate of mine too. I used to hang onto my books until I realised I was using them as a kind of showy-offy shorthand to illustrate just how urbane and well-read I was. And then I, um... grew up a bit DH and I have moved 4 times since meeting and each time have schlepped a car-load of books to Oxfam's bookshop in SW1, feeling remarkably better for it afterwards. The last time I did it I resolved to rid our shelves of ANY book that I had no desire to read again. Almost every fiction book went, leaving a mix of reference, travel, and cook books. And YES to the dust-gathering-ness of books on shelves. Bleugh.

Looks like they've spent a fortune in Ikea. And robbed a sluice from the local abattoir to put in their 'kitchen / family room'.

I'll bet their DC has cracked their head on that sloping ceiling getting out of bed more than once :)

The trouble with the house in the OP is that the house itself and every single item in it was cheaply mass-produced within a short time frame.

Homes are a lot more interesting when they have plenty of individually made items and things that have been collected on travels or passed down through the generations that are (a) beautiful (b) treasured.

'Again with the book thing?! Have you people not heard of kindles' Yes, my dh has one, but I love the feel of cracking open a new book; of being able to stuff a paperback in my bag and not worrying if it gets a bit bent, and I'd hate to drop a Kindle in the bath. Books are tactile, a kindle isn't imo.

Books mean that you don't have to wallpaper; that there's always something to read, even if you've not recharged the kindle, and they are a talking point. I do reread mine and enjoy them. I can scribble in them; stick post its on them; and it gives my cleaner something to do when dusting!!!

So would I Jajas, dh has to drag me out when we are in the UK.

Do none of you know that storage companies do a roaring trade taking boxes of personal items out of houses during selling times.

You box up all your tat, stick it in storage and then get it delivered to your new home. Easy.

Just me with shit taste then, I think it's fabulous. I'm in the south east so my jaw dropped at how cheap it is for a five bed house of over 2000 square feet. Mine is on the market now for that price and it is literally half the size. If I was in Yorkshire I'd put in an offer like a shot. Is it in a nice area?

That's what I did Pag. Only the removal people were a bit surprised at exactly how much stuff I'd managed to cram into the storage space My friend who is an architect helped me and he viewed it as a sort of 3D Tetris exercise

Auburn - can you imagine how much that kind of space would be in the southeast?

Patti

I have never tried it but a friend did. It meant she was able to do half her packing and sorting in advance. I thought it was a great idea.

Oh I absolutely love it. Love love it. I rarely like any house I see, I'm always planning how I'll change it, but I would not touch that house, not one bit. Gorgeous.

We 'decluttered' our flat before selling by sticking most of our belongings clutter in the loft. Was a nightmare wjhen we came to move as the loft had been pretty full of crap beforehand and I was still passing stuff down to our burly mate on moving day after the van had departed for our new place. Took me about five trips back in the car to get everything. Wish I had put it in storage instead!