Are you good at looking past the vendors tastes at the potential?- pics included

[Trikebaby]

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Would you be able to see past this? The grounds are lovely size and the planning for another property interesting.

Not sure I’d be able to see past the clutter!!

@ifIwerenotanandroid

Is the snake in picture 19? I was looking for a case or something to keep it in; it took me a few goes to find it. Did an EA really stand there & take a picture with a snake in the room?

That’s a belt.

It makes me feel sad looking at this person’s home. It was obviously decorated to their taste and full of character, albeit a OTT but now they can’t return to their home,
I hope they were happy there. The kitchen is actually quite cute, all that red. No understated grey or shades of farrow and ball.

I think I’d really like the person who lived there - they’d be interesting and enthusiastic, in a way that those vanity-project goldfish bowls make me think the owners are vacuous money-grabbers. I’m sure it’s a grossly unfair prejudice, but that’s my first thought.

Though I could never cope with the dusting.

You can see their Zimmer frame. It’s obviously an elderly persons much loved home who has either died, gone into a care home or to live with relatives.

Very sad.

It has never bothered me to buy a house that would look ok empty and redecorated, and more!

Whoa, what a house. It somehow looks like a miniature house I once built. A LOT I mean A LOT has to be done to be able to live in but I must admit it’s oddly appealing.

It’s very cluttered - but you can see the rooms... so...

Huge living spaces, not sure what I’d do with the conservatory though.

Bet you a tenner you could move in as is and everything is really well looked after so you could just redecorate room by room rather than having a load of immediate jobs though - although it’s not to my taste and dated, it’s been loved, which usually means well looked after.

As someone else has said, I think I'd like the person who lives there. I've often visited people's homes in the course of my work and always found it a privilege to be invited into someone's house. It looks like someone older lives there and they're not able to manage the house without help anymore. Maybe they brought their children up there and now their spouse has died.
It's nasty to hold it up to ridicule imo.

I'd need a ton of money to make it livable, but yeah, it looks as if it has the bones of a lovely house. I don't really get the 'I can't see beyond' thing. Clearly lots of shallow people out there.

I think the clutter isn't the issue, it is the things like the plastic doors, the vile bathroom, the built in furniture, the artexed WALLS, the wooden frame/pillars.

Depending on finances, it looks like a lovely house. But it's going to need so much stuff stripped out/off. I had similar in my current house, but my house is smaller so it was a smaller job.

Those grounds though. If you have the money, it could be stunning.

I can definitely see past it and I would but it if I was in the market for it.
The garden would sell it for me there is huge potential there and it is in basic good shape.

I guess it depends on how much work you are willing to do. Clutter and poor presentation aside, you are still looking at a dated bathroom and kitchen, lots of carpets that need ripping up. We bought a very tired and dated house, to be in our preferred location, so we're having to do this. I'm still looking at dreadful vinyl wallpaper in the lounge 😣

If I could, I would love to buy that and coax it gently into the 21st Century. It’s a great, solid house that’s been a loved family home. It would just need some TLC to make that continue. It looks like it would have great vibes.

I'd have to do something about the conservatory; the master bedroom window looks out on it, and it would appear from the floor plan the kitchen does too. But yes, I can see past the rest. I've bought a house not dissimilar; too young and ugly to be a traditional doer upper but with great bones. The outside is still ugly, but the inside is now fantastic!

I would make that into a beautiful Palm Springs style mid century house - the stone fireplace, I would develop that into an even bigger one and open the rooms up, lots of gorgeous prints and furniture, great to have all that land.

NO GREY.

@MoirasRoses

There’s a walking stick in the shower

The occupant or previous occupant clearly needs it there?

Lol at them making no effort to tidy up.
Once you take all the stuff out most of the rooms look ok. The kitchen and bathroom aren’t for me, so they would have to be redone.

The outside space is great, you could make a great garden with that.

Yes but that's what I do for a living (architect)
This one has a fairly good plan and looks like most of the work is cosmetic so quite an easy doer upper

Yes, i can see past the clutter.
Tbe house has a fantastic amount of potential a.nd could be a fantastic buy. If I was looking I wouldn't rule it out.

I would go for it, actually, in a few years. We're heading to Wales, and that would suit us nicely.

Well it depends if the clutter is staying or going, doesn't it?

But even empty, every single room needs attention. New kitchen, new bathroom, new shower room, replastering all the stucco walls (and investigating for asbestos), textured wallpaper everywhere, carpets would have to go, it has those tacky criss cross leaded windows..... it's a back to bare bones and start again job. Fine if you're up for that, but it's far more than clearing clutter.

I thought I could but seeing these photos makes me disoriented!

I definitely wouldn't rule it out.
Look at the room proportions.

Decorating canbe done in fits and starts assuming its structurally ok.

If it hasn't been decorated in 40 years maybe the plumbing and the windows and insulation haven't been updated either though and youd want to check them out.

Can definitely see past the clutter. The corner plot would discourage me unless I was planning to redevelop the site. If planning to live there the main issues (visible) would be the anaglypta walls and replacing the windows. Was also fooled by the "snake"

I think the issues with it are cosmetic. It has good basic structure and looks spacious. It could be really fun to transform. My decision would be based on the location, which I know nothing about.

I also think there are some mean and unimaginative comments here. People get older and less mobile, fashions change.