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Anyone with a cool £5 million looking for rainbow staircase and integral steel slide into kitchen? walk this way...

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kitsmummy · 28/04/2013 19:56

My eyes are bleeding. I thought I'd browse trendy Notting Hill pads for inspiration and found this beauty. I'm all for a bit of quirky but this, really who would buy this monstrosity? And if you look at picture 23 it also appears to have a life size Batman in the house

Someone actually got paid to design this??!!!

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PacificDogwood · 29/04/2013 20:47

buy

curmit · 29/04/2013 20:50

Well. It should definitely sell. To Willy Wonka.

wendybird77 · 30/04/2013 20:08

I love the staircase. The rest doesn't do much for me. I seriously love the stairs though.

ArbitraryUsername · 30/04/2013 20:23

It's just awful. The layout is totally impractical, apart from anything else. You'd need to do serious work to turn it into a liveable house.

The staircase would look lovely in a museum, but it's not nice in a house.

ImTooHecsyForYourParty · 30/04/2013 20:25

That is the worst and most ridiculous property I have ever seen in my life.

And I SOOOO want a slide in my house. I'd never walk down the stairs again. Grin

Plomino · 30/04/2013 21:29

Dearie dearie me . £5 mil for that , and then you still have to live in the god awful place that is Notting Hill . Having worked there , I've never seen such a concentration of the self consciously 'hip and trendy' .

No thanks . Not even for a slide .

Chubfuddler · 30/04/2013 21:33

Little tikes slides are about 35 quid.

SoupDragon · 30/04/2013 21:39

How can a house with no personal effects on display whatsoever have a life sized Batman on the landing??

Chubfuddler · 30/04/2013 21:47

Because no one lives there. A mentalist property developer has done it up to flog.

lavenderbongo · 30/04/2013 22:06

I like it :) Who wouldn't want to slide down to breakfast in the morning!

I think I would put more furniture in it and shift the wierd bed in the reception room, but overall its very cool.

Also might swap Batman for a lifesize Dalek or Tardis!

SoupDragon · 30/04/2013 22:13

Well, on the whole, I can do without sliding down a giant speculum to breakfast. It would put me off my porridge.

cumfy · 30/04/2013 22:28

I liked the batshower.

Rowlers · 30/04/2013 22:29

It's trying far too hard.

Fuckwittery · 30/04/2013 23:02

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ArbitraryUsername · 01/05/2013 08:43

Bugger cushions. It needs something resembling a comfy chair, anywhere in the house. It is the least hospitable looking house I've ever seen.

If I we viewing it and had millions of pounds to spend on a house, I'd be walking around thinking about all the walls that need to go back in to make it a useable space. I don't want to bath in my bedroom, expecially not when the doors are all glass so there is no privacy whatsoever. At least they've put the toilet in a cupboard behind the wall of mirrors.

The white ensuite shower room looks very municipal to me too. Horrible. And the blue carpeted bedroom screams scuzzy student let to me.

I hate the kitchen. The bar bit that sticks out at a funny angle seems to make the already narrow space almost impassable. I guess the owners are not supposed to cook in it though, just drink wine from the two wine fridges.

I bet it's really echoey. It's all big empty spaces with hard shiny flooring.

Even the slide looks like the least comfortable and pleasant of all the curly side options. As others have said, it is like a giant speculum. Eurgh. And the yellow soft play matting just looks cheap and horrible.

Seriously, the designers might be good at big public spaces and such like, but the seem to have no idea how to design for people's homes. The othe photos someone else linked to are equally bad. The office with the swamp monster in the corner is utterly horrible. It looks like someone just plonked a cheap, messy desk in the middle of a big empty room.

AwkwardSquad · 01/05/2013 09:22

Sweet Jesus. Where's my Migraleve?

YoniOneWayOfLife · 01/05/2013 09:52

The US version

TheReturnoftheSmartArse · 01/05/2013 09:57

It is utterly vile. Is it, like, a giant art installation, which you can actually live in? Weird!

ArbitraryUsername · 01/05/2013 11:14

The US version has a shiny slide (that goes all 4 stories). It looks less municipal than the London flat.

But, more importantly, it actually has places you can imagine people actually sitting and, you know, living in. There are a lot of sofas, many of them quite hideous. But at least you could sit down. I think you might be in danger of bumping your head on the slide while watching the giant TV (which is surely far too close to the sofa to watch comfortably).

SoupDragon · 01/05/2013 11:42

The US version is far nicer.

bran · 01/05/2013 11:53

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Moominsarehippos · 01/05/2013 16:28

The US version makes me want to go for a poo oddly enough.

yorkshirebound · 01/05/2013 20:36

To be clear, it IS the house from the Hugh grant film, not just alluding to it.

Still unliveable in, though

Plomino · 01/05/2013 21:09

Is it ? I stood outside that house for hours and hours , when they were filming the shots of Julia Roberts opening the door to the press and then slamming it again . After the 15th time it got a little tedious .

PurpleThing · 01/05/2013 21:22

I like it, you nest of philistines.

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