Trapped in time ...I’d keep the bathroom

[VeryBastardCat]

www.deanwood.im/residential/for-sale/douglas/high-view-road-im2-5br-ddp05048/

Love this. Suspect it’ll get ripped apart but love the panelling and bathroom.

Have to say I wouldn't keep the bathroom but the paneling is gorgeous. What an opportunity!

Love the bathroom. Not a fan of panelling

Is that carpet in the bathroom? No.

Well maybe not the carpet...but the tiling.

We had that dining room carpet in our dining room when I was growing up in the 70s!

The bathroom is absolutely hideous 😂

it's the 1940s house and some of it is beautiful. The bathroom needs a complete rip out though, because it clearly hasn't been touched in decades and that means a lot of plumbing horrors could be hidden.

While the panelling isn't to my taste, it is lovely. You also get decent sized rooms which modern houses don't have.

new carpets, redecorate, new bathroom, done.

I love the panelling. The bathroom is a bit bonkers but I'd want to keep it. As someone said, though, if it needed new fittings it would be ruined anyway. The carpets are all hideous but I bet they are really good quality.

LOL the bathroom - is that a carpet? Are they serious?

The Moroccan style tiles are very fashionable but I wouldn't keep them on all the walls. Maybe just one feature wall.

Then I would put in a roll-top bath and lots of plants...

I think the bath is quite new. It looks like a walk in bath for disabled/elderly people.

That dining room carpet was very popular in the 70s, I'm sure I saw it in friends houses. We have those Ercol dining room chairs, we bought them from John Lewis about 4 or 5 years ago.

Looks like wallpaper on the kitchen walls which you are not supposed to have near a hob nowadays, I can't see a job or cooker anyway.

I love the original Ercol candlestick chairs! I think it’s a gem!

That house is a credit to the people who lived there and looked after it so well.

I just spotted the gas cooker and it looks like one we had in the 1990s, brown high level grill type, blimming thing would not die and we only replaced it recently, I think it would have gone on forever. DH loved that cooker and it took ages to persuade him to get a new one

With the exception of the carpet (sick!) the bathroom could stay with me too! It’s a lovely house ...so much potential :)

Really like it, love the panelling

The house looks lovely, very spacious

We had that dining room carpet in our dining room when I was growing up in the 70s!

We had that carpet too (probably early 1980s )
I didnt like it because it was too good a hiding place for huge spiders!

@murbblurb

it's the 1940s house and some of it is beautiful. The bathroom needs a complete rip out though, because it clearly hasn't been touched in decades and that means a lot of plumbing horrors could be hidden.

While the panelling isn't to my taste, it is lovely. You also get decent sized rooms which modern houses don't have.

new carpets, redecorate, new bathroom, done.

Late 1920s surely?

Our house is 1937 and has the same deep skirting boards but DM had a 1927 bungalow which was a bit similar in style to it

DH loved that cooker and it took ages to persuade him to get a new one

He's right. Those cookers were great, and I haven't had perfectly grilled cheese on toast since the 1990s, when I stupidly moved on to fancy modern cookers.

@SoupDragon

We had that dining room carpet in our dining room when I was growing up in the 70s!

I read your post and I thought “I bet it’s those squares” and I looked at the link and lo and behold! I am obviously carpet psychic.

Yes, eye level grills are the best. I absolutely love it, and if we hadn’t just bought one I’d put in an offer.

I absolutely love the dining table and chairs.

@Thecazelets

I absolutely love the dining table and chairs.

The chairs look the same as ours, they are Ercol Shalstone forJohn Lewis, not sure about the table as we bought a smaller Ercol one from JL. We like them as they are not too big and bulky so would also go well in a kitchen