Oh sweet Jesus

[vestandknickers]

How scary is this place?

spooky mad ghost pad

Nope... I'm not having it, nobody lives in that house! it's like a fecking museum! The view however, is amazing!

Perhaps the vendor will turn to MN for opinions on how to shift her expensive tat palace if it's been on the market for a while?

It's more like a shop than a home. Weird. I don't find it 'witchy scary' though, just batshit!

There's an art to getting white on white to look good - they don't have it. It just looks like someone has spray painted over everything in white. Awful.

... and what's with the uber ugly kitchen??

It's certainly Miss FHversham-esque!

It's a gorgeous flat but good god the clutter!!

Yes countess I was thinking something similar - I look at that, what immediately springs to mind is what would happen if my 4yo DD went in there with a cup of ribena :o

It is a lovely flat though, minus the tat.

I swear that doll is just waiting to murder someone in their sleep and those dresses look like they would float after you on their own. I also thought of Mrs Haversham.

She/he (presumably she) has kept it bloody clean though, I couldn't be arsed wiping jam/mud/kitkat off all those white surfaces.

Yes, a white kitchen actually wouldn't be so weird, yet instead the kitchen looks like something out of The Hobbit.

Holy crap!

Did anyone else breath a sigh of relief at picture 4 because it had colour in it?

They definitely have a bijou little shop in town, without a stockroom.

Why have they shown 5 pictures of one room (lounge)?...the fur pelts in the sleigh give me the willys and if I was that cat in pic 3 I would be watching my back

It's not a museum or a stockroom, you philistines! It's a 'Scandinavian-influenced design paradigm'!

Would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in the estate agent's the afternoon they wrote-up those particulars.

I bet that's the first time the EA has used that phrase. Wonder if that was the vendor's suggestion? It's still a tat palace full of junk.

I can only think Havisham.

Yes, someone wanted that 'look' but didn't know how to do it properly. Funny how a 4bed flat sounds good and probably sells better even though there's nowhere decent to eat nor a visitor toilet. Much better to put a kitchen/diner alongside the lounge at the front and have two decent bedrooms and take your pick from decent bathroom/study etc at the back.

Wow.

even the cat fits in with the decor

It's definitely spooky. But get rid of all the white furniture and decorative tat and it would be a nice place to live. It has great bones. What I can't figure out is how they manage to keep the spooky cat from shedding all over the white upholstery. We have cats and we have sensibly coloured furniture that doesn't show the fur. Much.

Not sure if I could live in a building painted that precise shade of searing pink, though. But I'm shallow. And given that they're asking a million quid, I think buyers can afford to be picky about the little things.

Itd be nice without all their stuff. With normal things im sure itd be great.

Pretty sure I seen this in a magazine and the couple who own it own a Scandinavian furniture company which is basically all just the strange white stuff in the pictures. Can't remember their name though!

It's a type of style gustavian and not for everyone
I personally love it, love the Mora clocks
All that tat is actually very expensive so yes leave it for me if I could afford it!

What is it about vintage dresses for decoration? I don't get why people want to drape their furniture with Victorian crinolines etc.

Not that creepy, but very contrived. Like a department store window display at Christmas. On fact, I find all the flouncy nick knacks rather irritating. Think of the dusting!

What happened to the kitchen?

This is Gustavian style, properly. It's nothing like. This house is nothing but a horrible pastiche of it, and makes something beautiful into something very ugly imo. It completely misses the point which is all about proportion, simplicity (did you hear that, house destroyer?), light and clarity. It's innately simple. The whole idea is lost on whoever created this monstrosity.

and what I mean about simplicity isn't that the objects/furniture is plain, or undecorative. It's that the decorative aspect of it (which is really beautiful) doesn't get in the way of it being useful and suitable for living in.

The house in the OP is in no way suitable for normal life. EVERYTHING would be in the way.