Lordy! come and look at this very unusual London house

[Mintyy]

It is fugly (I feel sorry for it!) but intriguing and makes a change ... Also, the EA pictures are unspeakably bad. And yet the house has a certain something

here

What is the green thing in pic 25?

It looks like an empty hot tub Moving

This is renovation to a high standard ...

www.rightmove.co.uk/s6p/55658024

It's a fairly new new build, so I'm not sure "renovation" is correct.

Actually I like it, needs some tweaks and those window grills need to go pronto!

Def would have to go with the sort of 60/70 vibe to the building to make it work I think.

Oh, my word, at that house! One day, someone is going to link to a mners house aren't they?

I think the house in the OP actually looks better from the outside because it promises 70s style. But it's been expensively, but soullessly, renovated that you're paying for stuff you'd want to change.

Hate square toilets and the window grills.

The rest seems ok. It seems done up as it's all neutral (probably why the square toilets - look interesting but awful to sit on).

I'd love to have all that storage space in the kitchen.

I think the inexplicable bit must be the 'refitted open plan bar area'. Which, together with the secret room that used to be a cinema, has led me to wonder if it's a former brothel. Did the bathrooms have bidets?

Why on earth has that Kentish Town house been linked?

The point is that it's a very unusual house for London. London is 80% Victorian terraces with the exact same interior layout, so its kind of refreshing to see a wacky 60s/70s house.

The naice throws one really is bloody ugly. Only the kitchen approaches passable.

A bar you say? So it WOULD be a good place for a function.

It's like one of those community centre/sports club function rooms.

The way the furniture is set up in the second house feels a little sinister. Maybe it's where the mafia take those to met their maker after they've discovered them hiding from them in the first house

Sorry meant the renovation one. Haven't looked at the throws one yet.

What's wrong with that? Rip out the boring carpets and replace with nice tiles or pale wood, take the bars off the windows (really, the neighbourhood can't be that bad, can it?!) and tone down the overenthusiastic marble in the bathroom. Maybe do something to that weird bannister arrangement in the living (?) room that doesn't seem to fit the rest of the house at all. Then you have a perfectly nice modern house.

Um. I really like it. Reminds me of a house we lived in abroad. It's totally different to the period house we live in, but it's interestingly quirky.

Why would you redecorate so exclusively in shades of white and beige? All that new carpet is just going to end up being thrown away.

I'd like that but in the North.
What you could do with that as a blank canvas.

In celebration of the double garage.

i'm sure the cars will like it.

Sorry Minty, I just love the Russian mafia style of the Kentish Town one, and I think the bars and marble of yours made me go and look it up again.

I'd like to live in a big white box so can't really understand why people spend good money putting bricks inside a house.

The throws house looks like the before shots on that House Doctor show, before she comes in and re-does everything with magnolia and seagrass.

The first house looks like she's already been.

That is one ugly house

between pictures 9 and 10, someone has put the loo seat down, but left the lid up. Wonder if the photographer had a quick slash

God, that's totally awful! I hate everything about it......does look as though it's a former brothel

Thanks Rachel :)