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High gloss kitchens - the first time round (70's)

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MothershipG · 10/03/2013 22:51

Idly checking out houses I can't afford near me and I found this replica of my Mum's bright orange gloss kitchen pic no.4

Bearing in mind the recent thread about current styles that will date a property I couldn't resist sharing!

I'd love this house, a friend lives on that road, but I'd need another £100,000 to do the loft and redo the kitchen!

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sausagebaconandtomatobutty · 10/03/2013 22:59

I can't believe that house is that much!!!

now I know I'm not local or anything but surely they have just picked a figure ut of the air?

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Mrsladybirdface · 10/03/2013 23:02

I like that kitchen, I bet it was high end at the time, and to have lasted 40 years is greatSmile

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timidviper · 10/03/2013 23:04

I too am stunned at the price! We live oop north and I cannot believe anyone would pay that, it'd be about £150k here.

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MothershipG · 10/03/2013 23:10

Yes, that fireplace is quite something! Grin

It's London prices Sad I love it round here but really wish we could afford a slightly bigger house, oh well, when we retire and move to Plymouth we'll make a killing. Wink

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MousyMouse · 10/03/2013 23:11

oh wow.
that's full of period features. I esp like the sideboard in the dining room. very sleek. john lewis sells these for ££££

fossil971 · 10/03/2013 23:12

That house is so immaculately 1970's it's practically a retro shrine. We had that Ercol dining set when I was a kid. I wonder if you could persuade the sellers to leave behind their Tupperware, brown-and-orange Denby that are surely hiding behind the cupboard doors too. They even have a starburst clock Grin.

Bartlebee · 10/03/2013 23:15

Gosh, that house is a 1970s museum.

My parents had a shiny kitchen but it was avocado green! Matched their gopping bathroom.

cece · 10/03/2013 23:18

I would keep the kitchen it's lush. I tried to get DH to agree to an orange gloss kitchen when we did ours recently but no joy

Fallenangle · 10/03/2013 23:22

If it is all as shiny as it looks could be straight out of John Lewis in 2014 if my prediction as to fashion trends is correct. Maybe a bit over priced for 3 beds in Brentford though. Won't be fashionable til 2017!

Fallenangle · 10/03/2013 23:28

Living room sideboard mousey looks like MFI. probably the whole lot cost less than £100 and took a month to build. The ercol OTH is class.

TomArchersSausage · 10/03/2013 23:30

Shock at the price.

Devora · 10/03/2013 23:35

Wow, all that original retro! With a few tweaks it could be very on trend. I actually rather like the fireplace with the sunburst clock on one side.

I live not a million miles from there, though here that house could be £100k more. London premium. It is a hideous problem - both for those of us who live in the capital and for those who don't.

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MothershipG · 11/03/2013 08:09

It's on the border of Brentford next to Ealing, in a popular road and those 1930's(?) houses have good sized rooms, it backs on to a park and is 2 mins from a Piccadilly line station and near to a pretty good high school so I don't think that price is greatly inflated. Although I suspect they'll have built in a bit of wiggle room as most people will want to update that kitchen!

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Clayhead · 11/03/2013 09:05

We had similar kitchen units but in green.

Also, a chocolate brown bathroom!!

EnjoyResponsibly · 11/03/2013 09:10

It made me sad. All those photos and momentos. A real family home.

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MothershipG · 11/03/2013 13:37

Why does looking at such a well loved home make you sad Enjoy? Yes it's been a home but for all we know the owners are fulfilling a long held dream to move to the countryside or sail around the world. And now that house will become someone else's well loved home with all their stuff, although I fear those kitchen units will be lost to posterity... Wink

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EnjoyResponsibly · 11/03/2013 19:26

Very true OP, must remember that this is half full Wine

PigletJohn · 11/03/2013 20:01

that kitchen's poppy red, not orange.

I remember the doors being remaindered off in a timber merchants called Colvins in Walthamstow.

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MothershipG · 11/03/2013 22:21

Are you sure Piglet? Is it just bad lighting that makes them look orange? My Mum's were definitely orange (and she had similar flooring and brown tiles as well!)

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DameDoom · 16/03/2013 19:13

I lovvvvvve that kitchen - needs a few tweaks but the units are fab. You don't get quality like that nowadays. All the photos made me smile. I know you get good or bad vibes as soon as you walk into a prospective purchase but the good vibes literally radiate from the pictures. This looks to be a happy, much loved and immaculate home with bags of personality. I hope the family that buy it lavish as much love on it that the current owners clearly have.

DizzyHoneyBee · 16/03/2013 20:16

Over half a million for a house that needs completely doing up?!! Shock Lovely house though

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