Setting the table for estate agent's photos

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Is it just me or is this really naff and off-putting?

There are a lot of good things about this house but I don't think I could bring myself to view it because of the staged table settings in the kitchen and roof terrace. Maybe the agents cajoled them in to it.

Well when you finally find the main living room dimensions it's not what you'd call generous, but bloody hell. Hard work looking at the photos!

I actually really like that house!

And I would hope that the way the estate agent has set up the deco won't stop to visit. I bet it won't be as minimalist when you visit or that it will be like this if you move in.
The whole point of visiting a house to buy it is to manage to remove any objects from the owners (or lack if) and to visualise your stuff in there.

It's like people who say they don't want to buy x house because the living room is painted beige when they know full well they will redecorate it all anyway.

Ninety percent of people looking at rightmove aren't about to move, we are just nosy and like looking at houses. So making them look like something out of a house magazine sort of makes sense. I don't mind the set tables in that context and of course, if you're seriously looking, you don't book viewings based on whether the table is set or not.

we are indeed all nosy!

all the set tables in the world won't alter the fact that the neighbours can see into the kitchen and into every tiny inch of the garden, plus the bedrooms look straight out into others.

Wowfudge that's exactly the type of thing I was talking about. it's like TV programmes where they try to make it 'real' by wobbling the camera about all over the place. All it does is make you dizzy. And furious, in my case.

I can't see any shoes. Have they removed the shoe shot?

I love the kitchen, and don't have any problem with a "staged" table setting.

What would put me off is the overlooked back yard - it isn't even a garden, no parking and the fact that there is only one loo in the house. Other than that I think the house looks really nice.

I live in South Yorkshire. The next village has a house for sale at the same price. It has:

"an open plan living area incorporating kitchen, dining area, further reception space and stunning 'A' framed lounge, second dining kitchen, utility, second lounge, two downstairs wc, gym, study and to the first floor are five double bedrooms, two with en-suites and all with fitted wardrobes, superb master suite with access to sun terrace plus excellent family bathroom. Outside there are gardens to three sides, off street parking for 5-6 vehicles including carport plus access to the double garage. To the rear is a fully enclosed garden with lawned area, numerous patio areas with many bi-fold doors giving access from the house."

And this is in a nice area.

I have driven myself mad looking for the shoes. I cannot see them. Please can someone tell me where they are before I have to arrange an actual viewing?

Now that's weird. I just looked again and sure enough the picture of the line-up of shoes has gone.

A more cynical person might think there's a spy in our midst

I think there's definitely a spy!

The wantage ones just hard to view. I do love the running tap though, just in case anyone wonders what taps do.

The bunny on the end of the bed gets my goat: just show me the room!

It's the new Hungarian bananas. They creep.

The Wantage pictures are terrible! They're not pictures of anything you're actually going to buy.

Gawd, the Wantage photos are the worst I have ever seen. It's like "this is on your brain on hallucinogenics".

I thought I was going mad as I couldn't see the shoes.

It's on the Zoopla website with the shoes picture, it's a bit bizarre.

I thought I was either on the outer circle of a joke here or playing wheres wally as Ive been going back and forth over all of the photos seeking out the shoes and now for some strange reason I feel compelled to have a look on Zoopla for the darn shoes.

I am lol at the shoes going AWOL since I viewed the pictures this morning

Now you have to view OP, to let us know if the shoes are actually real

i have just looked on zoopla for the shoes. WTF is wrong with me? I'm sure I used to be quite intelligent and use my spare time for useful things.

Haha I've been zooming in searching for shoes in every picture- I was thinking I needed my eyes tested!! Have they taken it off then?

I couldn't find the shoes neither, thought I'd gone blind when everyone was talking about them.

Ha, we just had our photos taken today. Not a shoe or banana in sight and as far as I can see he was holding the camera straight. With a two year old and a five week old baby the decluttering was a bit stressful though - every time we put something in a box our toddler shouted "no!" and took it out again so in the end I had to do most of it when he was out, with the baby in a sling . . .

Oh THANK GOD FOR THAT, found the shoes on Zoopla.

that house makes me feel incredibly claustrophobic. Statistically, looking at the numbers of windows all around, so close, there will always, ALWAYS, be some dickhead shouting / smoking / playing shit music / holding a banal self satisfied pilled up conversation while running the engine RIGHT NEXT to where you are trying to sleep / work / eat / read / get your child to sleep. I didn't realise there were places outside London as bad as that - and as expensive as that!

I reckon all their 'stuff' is in those cupboards in the garden....