Voyeuristic London flat thread

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I have no desire to live in London, or in a teeny tiny flat, but I just love looking at them on Rightmove. and saying 'how much' a lot.

Beautiful front door, tiny flat

The space inside the fireplace seems bigger than the rest of the flat here

I love the optimistic place setting for two. I don't think two people could fit in here

The prize for the smallest flat goes to..........

Thanks Bum.
I can spend many happy hours on Rightmove

How can they get away with describing these places as "well proportioned" and the kitchen as being "well-equipped" when it's got 2 rings on the hob, what looks like a microwave only and 2 cupboards. (Op's first post, the one opposite Harrods). It's a joke. Isn't there any trading standards?!

You would never get to bed if you ever got pissed in this one, would you?

That Brixton one is on my list of desirable properties - or it was til I realised only one room you can fit a double in due to door configuration

What I can never understand, with those tiny flats, is where people keep their clothes. Not to mention the vacuum, the ironing board, the spare sheets, etc.

Exactly! My flat is big, but I said "well where does the ironing board/Hoover etc go?"
Anyway the master bedroom was a stupid shape, like a square with an extra square in one corner so I made them box it off, fitted a rail and stacked up some old kitchen cupboards turned on side. Hidden behind doors and stores coats, bedding etc etc
Can just see doors to it in attached photo. Also attached pic which shows half my kitchen... Less than 130k up north!

I think a lot of these will be used by people who work in London in the week and have another house to go to at the weekend, hence not needing so much storage space.

Good point Canadian.
That said when I was looking for houses 'where will the vacuum cleaner go' was one of the questions I asked. There are a surprising amount of houses where there is precious little storage.

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-52201819.html

Here's an example of what you can get in my area for the price of some of these studios!

I lived in Brixton for five years or so back in the early noughties and loved it (yes I was early twenties at the time). Walking down Coldharbour Lane of an evening did mean running the gauntlet of crack dealers but going to the market on a Saturday morning was one of my favourite things to do - amazing cheap food and loads going on. I haven't been back since they turned it into Brixton Village but I think I would be horribly disappointed.

This thread has been a timely reminder that although I'm having a few teething troubles with my new house, I got a very good deal!

Yep I think most of those studio flats are pied a terres - or glorified hotel rooms for rich Saudis who come to London every couple of months for a weekend of shopping at Harrods -and drive property prices up for the rest of us . You don't need room to cook or clean clothes as you eat out and use dry cleaners.

Very true Quod, if you can afford to live there then there is no way you are doing your own cooking, cleaning or ironing.

That said DH and I nearly lived in a flat with a sleeping mezzanine and we were dirt poor, it would have been our only home.
in the end we found a damp but affordable one bed flat

The EA of the huge place in Anwick needs shooting - half the photos are of the bloody garden and the indoor shots of the house (after about 20 odd flower photos) are poor.

Perhaps the idea behind the photos of the Anwick place is that there is much that needs doing that they want to sell you on the idea of the size of the house and the solitude first.

I had to look at the kitchen for ages to work out what was going on

They call this bijou without any irony

Is the tiny chair to make the whole place look bigger?

God yes, that kitchen completely freaked me out til I realised there's a gigantic mirror in there. That's like something out of a fairground attraction!

you could get this in Glasgow

This is what the winners of the £32mil letter prize could buy.

Bloody awful in my opinion.

God, that is grim. And the use of standard estate agent angles on the photo gives the impression it's a 32 million quid shoebox as we're so used to seeing size distorted by clever photography.

Chris Addison tweeted a link to this today - it's not for sale but I assume it's okay for gawking purposes, given we're never going to buy any of these places.