Who would live in a house like this?

[MarthasHarbour]

I am proud to present my first slightly dodgy Rightmove find on MN it looks so normal from the outside, but you never know what goes on behind closed doors

Discuss

I love emsy's one. That's been done by designers I'd say. The small windows are bizarre on the first one, looks like they've been partly bricked up.

a million quid for this monster

Never ever buy a house with that much wood in, will be hiding some really nasty problems.

what is with the random piles of crap on the floor

Oh My Lord at GetOrfs contribution Birds of a Feather springs to mind.

I will never ever understand carpet in bathrooms, vile!

I like the Wirral House too.

HildaHotPants as long as you are not married to a Howard then you is cool as anyfink! (especially with a name like that!)

GOML that house is just, well, something else isnt a mil quite cheap for Chigwell? which would explain a lot!

I think the Wirral one I posted is a nice idea in a house of the appropriate vintage - it just all jars very badly with a period terrace in an area that is stuffed to the gills with, um, period terraces! I love the idea of an art deco house with tons of original features, but I wouldn't recreate an art deco interior in an Edwardian semi - that is just headache-inducing!

DH viewed a Span house to rent when we were moving down to London - the guy who owned it was an architect and it was beautifully restored with original kitchen and flooring etc, I can totally see how that is a brill idea (same goes for flats in the Barbican etc) - but I don't get why you would give a 60s makeover to a house like that.

The Altrincham one is salvageable, just ugly furniture mostly (or have I missed something?? )

Another house of stripy grimness www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-34034704.html

I know it is another one from Chigwell, but it is easy pickings. They always have hideous and expensive houses in Chigwell.

The infinity poodle reflections are terrifying.

at getorf's house of stripy grimness.

Do you think they chose a chocolate brown bathroom suite to hide the skiddys?

I want the museum piece. Seriously.

But only if they leave me the furniture, I fear my IKEA offerings could make it look a bit crap...

Hideous, hideous, hideous. I am off to bleach my eyes

lol at skiddy brahn loo

I really like that Wirral house. It's lovely imo.

Well, if you want to buy the Wirral house I can confirm it's in a very nice area, spitting distance from the train station and shops and the schools are excellent (grammar schools very close by, girls' school in walking distance and boys' school less than 5 mins in the car). It overlooks the railway line but the trains are local electric ones (we've lived that close to the same line and it wasn't a problem). You can also walk to several nice restaurants from there, and it's 5 minutes' walk to the beach.

how the hell can thise fing awful houses be worth that much!!!!

Oh I do LOVE these threads, safe in the knowledge that my house isn't on the market :o

Best house I've ever viewed had little niche things in the wall - like they'd randomly knocked a few bricks out. And in the niches (is that the word I mean?) were little tableaus of S&M/bondage scenarios through the medium of Barbie dolls. It was like how some people display dolls from around the world, except it was Dominatrix Barbie with her whip. Plus - they had what DH felt was a suspicious amount of storage space. Make of that what you will.

Is it just me, or has this South Wales house half-sunk into the ground?

Gruesome! It really does look like a (naff) boat!

lol at the sunken house!

The Wirral house looks like our house was when we bought it BUT ours actually was 1920s and lived in by a VERY elderly lady. I cannot imagine why anyone would do that to a modern house...

(It also needed new plumbing [lead pipes], new electrics [no earth], new heating [an experimental 1920s heating system that burned £10 notes and gave no heat at all], new windows [swayed in the breeze] and a complete rebuild of the kitchen / larder / scullery [kitchen with no outside light attached to tiumbledown lean-to with buckling roof] which, luckily, the surveyor spotted...in addition to the complete cosmetic makeover...)

That sunken house is really creepy!

Jesus Christ, is the bedroom in link one on a ship?

Hmm, I think this house needs an awful lot of work to make it livable, the wood it awful and what is with the tiles??? On the plus side the garden and rooms look to be a good size.