Help me get over my dream house

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I am in the habit of looking on Rightmove and falling in love with houses I can almost but not quite afford. My recent obsession is Art Deco heaven. Help me wise ones, tell me how awful it is, how much it would cost to do up and how it really isn't a good idea to instantly put my lovely home on the market and swap it for a life of scrimping and DIY....

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-49929876.html

You haven't even seen it in person. It will have faults that are not shown on the right move listing. It probably smells of damp.

They're probably selling it because the flat roof needs replacing .

I feel your pain, especially with a house like that which has beautiful bones but has had no sympathetic love given for a very long time!

I still look at my dream house on Rightmove,even though it has technically been taken off and the pictures are all blurry. I have a plan in place to oust the current squatters I mean owners, who are probably lovely people , by offering them eye watering money to leave.

Sometimes I try to talk myself out of it by thinking of downsides (indoor pools are expensive to maintain and run, as is underfloor heating, I don't really need a small stable block ,I hate the wallpaper in the master bedroom also I don't have £2m ) but given the chance I would move in tomorrow.

Well its all about taste but personally thats the ugliest house I've seen in a long time!

I think I may have a thing for ugly houses that need a lot of love. Good point about the flat roof potentially needing replacing - I'll add that to my list of jobs to save up for after I move in (along with central heating, crittall windows etc).

I have seen it in person....
I went and loitered outside it this morning....

It'd be hypocritical of me to talk you out if it.

I'm about to buy a house that is beautiful but requires far more work than I can really afford. 20+ (small!) sash windows for a start.

I swing vascilate between joy and devastation

It'd be cheaper to flatten it and start again.

(Lovely plot though)

It's a money pit, those polystyrene tiles for starters...

4th bedroom too small, cost a fortune to heat!

The roof will def need replacing!

Polystyrene ceiling tiles nightmare.
That is not a great example of beautiful Art Deco architecture, some features, but not great.

This is more like it
www.wowhaus.co.uk/2012/06/16/on-the-market-four-bedroom-1930s-art-deco-property-in-southgate-london-n14/

It looks more like a low budget Grand Designs modernist cube gone wrong than a true Art Deco. The fittings and whatnot look 1950's to me. I'm not sure it is true Deco. The window proportions look off. Pokey.

We are saving up for a mortgage and stupidly decided to go and look at houses before we were even close to our target. Found a gorgeous home with a huge garden, massive Jacuzzi size tub and the best loft conversion I've ever seen. I had a little cry when I remembered we didn't have the deposit to put down on it. Will never do that again

There is a 1920's number on the market near me. Very nice but has sat on the market for ages because it's overpriced and the flat roof is putting a lot of buyers off. Plus, it's a period that not everyone loves, aesthetically.

The flat roof will need replaced and cost ££££

The gas fire in the lounge must go, and if you bought it you'd complete in early December which means you'd freeze over the winter with no fire

Those corner windows in the bedrooms are weird and will need very odd (bespoke, expensive) curtain rails

I think you should buy it.

I love Art Deco too but this one looks like a box.

How do you link to a house? I've never got over my dream house and the details are still up, despite it being sold about 3 years ago. It went for £5000 over our final offer... we'd have raised it somehow if we'd know they were wavering over the price.

The amount of windows in the master bedroom is weird. Not enough space between for wardrobes.

Plus everything else thats been said by PPs

That is not Art Deco!! Post war box more like :). Good plot and nice floors though. But nothing Art Deco about it

I love it! Buy it!!

The first thing I thought of was the Pontipine's house from the Night Garden.

We looked at this www.google.co.uk/amp/www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/local-news/house-to-bite-the-dust-3723566.amp
Art Deco house but they just wanted too much for it for the amount of work that needed doing. The water tank in the roof had burst a few years back and they hand never fixed it, the plus side was that the basement was watertight.... yep the burst water was still sitting in it like a rather crap indoor swimming pool. So the place had some serious issues with damp, needed stripping back and starting again for electrics, insulation, render, roof, heating.
Unfortunately they had also ripped out the original windows and replaced with horrid upvc.
Inside the layout was awesome though, the bones where all still there, amazing master suit and living rooms, with an totally classic Art Deco staircase and the view from the top room was a magnificent one over the Cleveland hills.
It had the potential to be somewhere amazing but the guys who owned it saw the potential for profit and carved up the site getting permission to demolish it and put up flats instead.
We ended up buying a Victorian villa project instead, I now can't drive past this place as it makes me cry that they ripped it down.

Here it was before they started to spoil it https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/picturestocktonarchive.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/the-rookery-eaglescliffe-1989/amp/

@wonkylegs I'm gutted that house had been demolished I had a childhood dream to own it one day! I was blissfully unaware until now that it had gone!!

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news
If it had been even a tiny bit more affordable we would have saved it but he wanted so much

@wonkylegs how much did it sell for?