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

I love it. Without the bars on the windows and all the beige, obviously. But the shape is fab. You could parquet the fuck out of it and turn it into a mid century masterpiece.

There is nothing terrible about it. Its clean, newly fitted, its fine. Not my taste, but its pretty nice, really.

I wouldn't pay that much for a house in south London, though

I was going to suggest former brothel too - the inexplicable "bar" area looks like a reception desk for a madam to sit and take the cash.

Fisb Thats what I thought Devora I'm a receptionist, hence the comment about it being my house.

I like that first house. Well, not the location, and to be honest I'd rather not have bars on the window, but a bit of TLC, some wooden floors and some colour and you'd get a fucking amazing home out of that shape.

I wonder if the bars on the windows are connected to the fact it's next door to a school?

That second house is amazing, picture 3 in particular. How could you concentrate on the TV with that shade of pink screaming at you from the walls?

photo 20 looks like your "bar" whereas I am more worried about the possible dead body under the tarp in photo 26. Why keep on about the fitted new (ugly) kitchen and where are some of the kitchen cupboard doors and why are some of the kitchen doors different colours (but not in a trendy different colours way!)?

Horrible, like a prison. Big rooms, hardly any natural light.

the second house is just awesome; that avocado suite with those tiles. I think my parents had tiles like that but even with their love of retro they are LONG gone.

The first house is a lesson in lack of style and taste. It has been renovated on the cheap and looks awful. I have seen worse but for £850,000 I would want something much much nicer.

Second one is just as hideous. Everything about it is a horrible tasteless pastiche of something else.

I love it.

It's been butchered in the renovation but it has character and loads of useful space.

It's much better than the soulless new houses boxes that get built today.

I'm a bit surprised at all the hate for it on here. It isn't that ugly

It's a bit beige inside, but I don't dislike it. Let's face it when you are at home you don't sit outside looking at it. I prefer the pared down look anyway and hate clutter as it makes me feel claustrophobic.

What concerns me is all the bars on the windows. I used to live in Croydon and don't recall Upper Norwood as being rough.

This and this are what I call ugly.

The living room in the house that outputgap linked to is hideous.

Funny thing, but I could have sworn it wasn't £850,000 when I linked it yesterday! More like £700,000?

I promise drink hasn't been involved but I was exceptionally tired and hungover from sleep medication yesterday. Does anyone who clicked on the link last night happen to remember?

Ha ha - the estate agent has probably noticed the amount of traffic the ad is getting and has added 20+% to the price

That's what I'm thinking lala! I really NEED to know.

If you download Property Bee, that will tell you if there have been any price changes. (Then you can tell us.)

I like the exterior - I'm a big fan of mid- century properties, but I hate what they've done on the inside - very bland and non-descript. Not a bad price for London though!

Is that a sauna? And if so why is it miles from a shower?

Spiral staircase. No. Just no.

Also the garage integrates on the first floor. Wtf is that about.

this house was up for sale earlier in the year before these people "did it up"

if you think it looks bad now then the before pics reminded me of a wife swappers house. Magnolia covers a lot of red and purple. they appear to have updated the bar (quite liked red walls if I remember it well enough and Betty Boo was a feature) but kept the green plastic sunken bath, they have though gotten rid of the viewing platform over the bath.

yes it was about £700000

I like it! If you got a decent architect in you could make it amazing

It looks like a children's home

I quite like it, even if it does scream property developer refurb. If it wasn't in London, I'd want to buy it.