Property swoon

[SpunkinLatte]

Tell me IBU. I walked by this house today and pointed out the lovely front door to DS. Come to my nightly property search (we're not actually looking for a house, I just like looking) and I see it's for sale!! It went on the market today. In my excitement I foisted my tablet on DH and told him I loved it. He is not a fan and said we could buy it but then have to explain to DS why he can't go to university. it's not that expensive, he was just annoyed at my insistence on us buying it immediately .
Tell me this house isn't that nice so I don't go to bed resenting my DH.
espc.com/property/48-paisley-crescent-edinburgh-eh8-7jq/35547022?sid=28578890349

I loathe open plan and bloody generic bifold doors in " spaces"
I like rooms , walls and normal doors.

I didn't realise that Edinburgh was so expensive! £300 grand for a tiny little terraced house! I thought houses got cheaper the further north you go, I must be a bit dim. In fairness, it's nicely decorated, but I wouldn't give it a second glance.

The outside of that house is probably the ugliest thing I have ever seen

I actually think it’s been very badly done. The kitchen takes up so much of that room, the little two seater sofa is right next to the kitchen cupboards and difficult to watch tv from. It’s not a big enough room to cram everything they have in, it needs to be a kitchen diner only, not kitchen diner living room, they’d have been better making rhe downstairs bedroom the living room and making it a two bed house. This layout doesn’t work in reality, in addition. They have done sod all for kerb appeal. The yellow just highlights how crap the rest of the outside looks.

It's ugly and not that big.

You could recreate the kitchen and wood burning stove for a mere snip of £300k.

Outside is hideous imo.

Looks awful from the outside. It’s actually cheap for Edinburgh- you struggle to get anywhere decent for less than 500k - but will probably go for more with the “offers over” system & overheated market.

It's a 2 bed house not a 3 bed house. I can't believe hey are trying to pass off a room 4m by 5m as the entire living space for a 3 bed house.

My Aunt and Uncle used to live in the street below in a very similar house.

The houses are actually really tiny inside and the photographer has been really good here at making the rooms look larger. My Aunt had the attic converted into a bedroom, but the house felt very cramped for a family of 4.

It's not a house I would spend 300k on, especially since it's so far up the hill that it's a bugger to walk to if you are coming from the Northfield side.

I thought that university was free of charge in Scotland?

But we'd still not have a downstairs loo or guest room.

According to the floorplan it does have a downstairs loo.

I can't believe hey are trying to pass off a room 4m by 5m as the entire living space for a 3 bed house

This was my thought, and that space encompasses kitchen, dining room and living room. They have tried to make it look bigger with thr glass door and window, but it doesn’t work. You’d have no option but to use the downstairs bedroom as a living room, put in a little loo, if you could find the space, and turn it into a two bedroom, which I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what it was in the beginning.

i'd rather have this one - two 'proper' floors plus potential to go into the loft like next door.

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-62225857.html

One could replicated the swish fittings for not too much more than £50k and then do the loft later.

I love ogling other properties!

Okay, admittedly I thought the exterior of the house rather ugly and not my , but the inside is nicely done, nice and bright and has lovely views.

It appeared fairly small - but it might be just how I viewed the floorplans.

If your DH isn't keen on moving, but you only love the front door, maybe just replace or paint your current front door?

They took the photos on a beautiful sunny day too. It makes a big difference.

The inside is nice but the outside is hideous.

I don't really get the view either, it's a load of houses with a bit of sea in the distance.

Definitely not a dream home.

They've stretched the photos to make it look bigger. We have those Ikea Hemnes drawers (the three drawer white ones in the alcove), and they're not as wide as that. So in real life it will feel tiny.

What's to like about that kitchen? Not much bench space, you'd be cooking with your back to the rest of the room, it looks like an upmarket galley kitchen plonked into the far wall of a bedsit.

lovely inside but outside is horrible, sorry op , Is that spar dash on the front ? I hate spar dash with a passion and what is going on down the very front garden......... a huge slab of concrete?

Hello front door?!

Yellow...

That's a fairly ugly property and utterly soulless downstairs. If it's just the fittings and furniture you like, can't you spend a bit of the money you would have put towards a house move, and tart your own place up a bit?

Ooh property chat I can join in with (Edinbugger here!)

I am partial to a bright front door (mine's magenta!) but I think the house might be a bit style over substance. It does feel a bit overpriced to me; my 3 bed, city centre house was valued at £350k when we bought it 3 years ago and although it has no garden it's otherwise a decent bit bigger.

Are you looking to move? Maybe we can find you options?

Thanks all. We're not really looking to move, we're not really sure what we're doing to be honest. I would move in a heartbeat if it was the right property but DH and I have agreed that we'll do a bit of work on our terraced house. I'm more impulsive than DH and would probably have jumped at half a dozen houses that have come up in the last few years.
Our neighbourhood is selling like hotcakes at the moment though so if we were serious we'd really need to have our house on the market before we even started looking and that is just too risky for the DH!
I definitely fell in love with the fixtures in that property so it's given me some inspiration for our own house (which is pretty much the same size but a smaller garden and potential for a loft storage/study room.
I've posted a few times about what to do with my poky little house and have had some great responses so I've got a lot of ideas about what I want to do.