Yummy, yummy house!

[NorthernLurker]

[[http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-26988405.html here] I pass this every morning. The kitchen needs extending and the bathroom and master bedroom decor would have to go straight away but otherwise it's damn near perfect.
Just need a few hundred grand to hand.......

[NorthernLurker]

Yes I think you're right. Drove past today and any extension is going to be intrusive. I hope the agents are please with the hit rate - I should charge commission.

[Inertia]

Ooh it's gorgeous.

I think you'd have to work with the rooms you've got. I would put the kitchen in the breakfast room, put a doorway through from the kitchen to the dining room, and block up any doorways that would then become redundant.

Existing kitchen would become a decent utility room.

Basement is currently a utility space so obviously has services. Looks like there are some windows, but not sure it'd be bright enough for a good kitchen diner- you'd have to excavate a lot of ground. So I'd convert the basement into a guest suite / study.

[pearlgirl]

I'll end driving up that way just to look at it because I'm very nosey. The houses on that bit of the road always look nice to me but I am normally concentrating on remembering which turning to take.

[NorthernLurker]

Or there is the basement - kitchen diner down there?

[NorthernLurker]

I'm going mugging folks tomorrow It's not really over looked. You can't tell from the pictures but it's actually quite a bit higher than the road and houses opposite etc. The road isn't quiet -it's one of the main roads aproaching the city but it's not standing traffic busy either. I wondered about putting the kitchen in the breakfast room too. Would you block up one of the two existing doorways in to the dinig room in that case?

[Ponders]

oh yes it does. doh!

[Ponders]

sorry, dining room - according to caption - but dining room doesn't have a fireplace according to floorplan. (& house doesn't have a bathroom according to floorplan. who draws these things?)

house is divine, OP. Can you mug a few old ladies for the money?

[OnTheNingNangNong]

That house is pretty!

I would extend out, tastefully of course. The road looks fairly quiet compared to what's 50ft away from me now.

[Ponders]

I reckon that breakfast room is Breakfast Room Green

[MadBusLady]

I am an urbanite and I love other people's idea of busy roads. Somebody said "busy road" on another house thread not long ago, and I went into streetview, and TBF it probably was busy at badger rush hour.

[SmellsLikeWeenSpirits]

Ugh what a ghastly expression

Sorry. Not sure what came over me

[SmellsLikeWeenSpirits]

Is that a busy road? And it's very overlooked

Are those your chips? I'll just piss on them

[MadBusLady]

Wurrrrl what you could do is put the kitchen in the current breakfast room which would at least make it big enough for a table in the middle, make the current kitchen into a utility room/boot room/office (possibly even dividing it in the process, since there is light on two sides there and those rooms don't need to be very big), and knock a simple doorway between the new kitchen and the dining room.

[NorthernLurker]

But look how far it is from the kitchen to the dining room atm - you need several hostess trollies!

[MadBusLady]

Hmm I'm not sure about that. Those grand Victorian reception rooms are really something, and not that common, it would be a shame if they were all turned into shiny spotlighted kitchen/dining/living spaces because of our current fad for that arrangement. I also love larders/odd cupboards off the kitchen and think it's a mistake to knock them out. Probably the single most useful place in our house is the 60s lean-to off the kitchen, all manner of crap gets stuffed in there.

[NorthernLurker]

Nah I've moved on to remodelling the whole middle of the house

[MadBusLady]

Nooo, don't lose the fireplace! Think you'd have to just remove all the walls either side of the fireplace and trust to clever decorating to do the unifying. If you could extend the kitchen though I think something small and glass-roofed is the obvious choice, more likely to get permission. It won't get too hot as it's NW.

[NorthernLurker]

I agree about the price. I think the last sold in the terrace was for about 540,000. I think this house has a slight edge being at the end and with the lovely garden - but then the layout isn't perfect.
What do you reckon - offer 520 and hope to pay 550? (I can dream )

[SconeInSixtySeconds]

Hmm. On research it seems a little overpriced. It sold in 2004 for 450grand or so - the chances that it has gone up that much seems unlikely to me.

Anyway, this was my student home. It didn't look like this back then! I had the dining room for 36 pounds per week

[SconeInSixtySeconds]

Oh I always loved that house. I used to live on that road as a student and it is just stunning.

Now off to read the thread!

[NorthernLurker]

Here's a thought - what about knocking through between the current dining room and breakfast room and making that in to a kitchen/dining/living space - which you walk directly out in to the garden in to through the doors from the current dining room. Then convert what look like two cupboards off breakfast room and kitchen in to a utility and the current kitchen in to a study.

[NorthernLurker]

I think you'd need a really good architect! You've either got to build on the back - and look at the side picture - how do you avoid it looking 'stuck on'? Or you knock through in to the breakfast room - managing that with the fireplace in the way between the two rooms.

[EleanorFarjeon]

It's lovely and screams potential.

It needs a gorgeous, big fuck off kitchen.

[Reastie]

lovely house

[pearlgirl]

I drive past it too and had never realised how big the garden is. When we were house hunting we looked at a house further up that road but on the other side -nothing as lovely as that one.