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Aiying · 07/04/2013 21:02

...that has a small garden (c.20 feet) backing onto a very large (two-storey-high, c.20-feet wide) brick wall? Garden is north-east facing (wall is south-facing). Offer accepted, mortgage sorted, surveyor/architect fees paid - but panicking now that the wall could make selling the house difficult a couple of years down the line. It dominates all views from the back of the house, can't demolish as it's another property's wall. On the +ve side, it does make the garden extremely private! Might painting it white and growing creeper plants on it help? House itself is a 2-bed Victorian terrace (potential for extension) with large driveway in a 'nice' area. While it isn't my dream home, my budget is c.£850k which doesn't get much in zone 2 London, and keen to buy somewhere before prices go up even more. Other houses on the road are in the £1-2+m range, so this is definitely 'the worst house on the best street'. Help - WWYD?

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MoonlightandRoses · 08/04/2013 22:58

Aiying - They were hung up closer to roof level to catch the sunlight and direct it down, difficult to describe, but it did work. Her garden was fairly much an enclosed square, with high walls around so it would have been very dark otherwise.

I think, but I could be wrong, as they moved house quite a few years ago, that there were also mirrors at garden level.

ogredownstairs · 10/04/2013 18:00

13-1400sq feet is plenty big enough to qualify as a family home - it all sounds fine to me!

Aiying · 10/04/2013 18:30

Thanks Ogre! Still waiting for structural surveyor report but assuming theres nothing too worrying, I think I'm going to go ahead with buying this house. This forum has been a great help, thanks everyone :-)

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