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"Cinema rooms" - why?

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Amethyst24 · 29/04/2015 23:38

A perfectly ordinary modern house on a road near where we live has just come on the market, pimped to within an inch of its life, including a so-called "cinema room". It's on at a hilariously high price given its location, and I'll watch its future progress with considerable interest.

But it makes me think - all these mental oligarch's places in Chelsea have cinema rooms, presumably so the owners don't have to talk to their guests. But otherwise why, unless you worked in the industry or had three teenage kids, would you want one? Will anyone on here admit to having one? All I can think of is my late DM saying, "God, darling, how VULGAR."

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ChangingTiming · 29/04/2015 23:45

You can't post a property thread without the relevant rightmove link!

APlaceOnTheCouch · 29/04/2015 23:46

I'd love a cinema room. It would be dark and quiet. Both bonuses in my pov . I think I also dream of recapturing my youth when friends would come round to watch a DVD. It would be so much better in a cinema room. We could have screenings of It's A Wonderful Life at Christmas; we could watch Mannequin and sing 'Nothin's Gonna Stop Us' at the top of our voices. . .

I don't care if it's vulgar because in every other way I am utterly cultured or maybe not and also because I'd only have a cinema room if I already had a dressing room and a library.

LittleBearPad · 29/04/2015 23:46

Link please. They are naff, you're quite right.

JoanHickson · 29/04/2015 23:47

They don't have a TV in the living room?

ThinkIveBeenHacked · 29/04/2015 23:51

Want to get the.most out of their Netflix subscription?

Seriously though, if I could, I would. DH is a proper film lover,and DD seems to be going the same way so our house would get lots of use out of one.

123rd · 29/04/2015 23:52

There was a house in my town last year exactly the same as your description. Very ordinary/modest looking from the outside. But inside was a totally different matter. There was defo a cinema room. The entrance hall was ridiculous. All modern and shiny. The kitchen was super sleek and the whole house just seemed to "done " it took AGES to sell. ( prob because it was way overpriced too)
The outside hinted at period features, maybe a little unevenness in a wall. But no, the house was completely soulless

StupidFlanders · 29/04/2015 23:57

I think it's a waste of a room- we have a huuuuge tv (I know how unpopular big TVs are on here!) it's as big as most screens anyway and we don't need to black out the room and we don't have those reclining cinema chairs (which I don't like).

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Amethyst24 · 30/04/2015 00:04

Want to see? (Warning - it's shiny as fuck.) www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-49731400.html

For comparison purposes, this lovely house in a much better area is yours for just a few £ more www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-33587289.html

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Amethyst24 · 30/04/2015 00:07

You need to look at Streetview to get he full impact of just how horrid the road is, and how mental they are to have developed it like that.

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meandjulio · 30/04/2015 00:07

OMG it's a prison.

mazylou · 30/04/2015 00:10

AstroTurf!

thelittleredhen · 30/04/2015 00:12

It reminds me of Clockwork Orange. Not sure why.

stareatthetvscreen · 30/04/2015 00:17

ohhhhhhhhhhhh i always imagined cinema rooms having rows of seats :(

goodasitgets · 30/04/2015 00:18

Christ, nearly blinded by that link
I mean, I like modern but...

BitOfFun · 30/04/2015 00:19

DP's last house had a cinema room. Practically speaking, it just meant that the previous owners left the blackout curtains. Which was nice.

ThinkIveBeenHacked · 30/04/2015 00:20

Mental! Link no.2 is like my perfect house!

LittleBearPad · 30/04/2015 00:20

That paved bit looks like an exercise yard in a prison.

stareatthetvscreen · 30/04/2015 00:21

is that all it takes bof? in which case i might have 2 !

Ookmybanana · 30/04/2015 00:30

How very sterile. I'd feel bad putting anything on display. I'd also have a permanent headache from all that white.

I don't have a problem with cinema rooms per se, I love films and friends have a great projector set up at theirs which is very unobtrusive but that? Nope. Not for me. Horses for courses though.

kickassangel · 30/04/2015 00:31

A real cinema room should have some surround sound speakers, a big screen and comfy chairs. DH proper loves movies and is even a moderator on a movie forum, so we do have a big screen and surround sound in our big basement ( the basement is a proper room, not just a concrete pit). Friday nights we get a take out, and all of us cosie up on the sofas to watch a film together.

We just say we watch films, though. We don't call it a cinema room,that would be wanky.

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Amethyst24 · 30/04/2015 00:34

The horrible thing is there were probably actual trees in that garden before the developer got hold of it. What a shame.

It's also yards away from a main road so your astroturfed terrace will be awash with diesel fumes. Bucolic. (Or perhaps just colic.)

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BackforGood · 30/04/2015 00:34

Now - the 2nd one I could live in, but the first...? It's horrible.

If I had a whacking great house with about 5 Reception Rooms I could see a cinema room would be nice for the odd film night and the big football matches, etc., but I can't undertand why you'd lose a room in a normal size house for one - I mean, surely no-one goes to the cinema that much ?

Philoslothy · 30/04/2015 00:36

We have a cinema room, we are dreadfully vulgar

PastPerfect · 30/04/2015 00:36

We don't have a TV in our main living area but have a room which is just for watching our massive wall mounted TV - I wouldn't be quite so vulgar as to term it a "cinema room" but I love the concept

mamapain · 30/04/2015 00:37

I'd love a cinema room. I suppose we have one of sorts but it has other uses me not official cinema seats. Cinemas now do screens with sofas so we just pretend we're in a chez on or something.

I love films, and i like the idea of watching one being an event. Rather than just the constant TV most people, including us, have in their living room. the idea of going to my cinema room to watch frozen a piece of cinematic art instead of fitting it in between A Place in the Sun and Gogglebox s ema very cultured to me.

We'll probably move in 5 years. I cannot wait to put my house on mn. You lot will shit an artisan brick! It looks similar to the second link on the outside, but is shinier than the first link inside except more gaudy. I describe it as "where WAGS go to die"

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