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Leaving furnishings- yes or no

20 replies

MrsBlondie · 23/04/2023 20:09

We move in a few weeks.
Realised we could leave behind 3 sets of curtains at bedroom windows.
Would you prefer not - ie nothing left on windows or yes - might not be your choice but sorts windows out for first few days.

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PurplePansy05 · 23/04/2023 20:11

Probably yes - it's convenient to have the right size curtains when you move in until you buy your own/get shutters installed etc. That's a personal preference though. Your can just ask them and in any event you're supposed to leave what you've ticked off on the forms.

DiscoBeat · 23/04/2023 20:12

I found this very useful as you wouldn't have the right size curtains initially and they might even be keepers.

caringcarer · 23/04/2023 20:17

It is unlikely your old curtains will perfectly fit your new home. I'd leave them if I did not want them but tick on the form you are leaving them. It might help new owners out for the first month or so or they might love them and leave them up.

emma123456 · 23/04/2023 20:19

Yes definitely yes

Pixiedust1234 · 23/04/2023 20:21

If you don't want them then leave them. I've always appreciated the bedroom ones being left at least.

UndercoverCop · 23/04/2023 20:23

Our previous owner took the curtains and left loads of huge faux mahogany furniture upstairs and a giant rusty gazebo in the garden.
Curtains would've actually been helpful.

euff · 23/04/2023 20:27

We are still using the curtains and blinds left over four years ago

phishfoodforlife · 23/04/2023 20:28

I'd ask. If I needed them then I'd be grateful and happy for you to leave them but otherwise I might be

phishfoodforlife · 23/04/2023 20:28

Sorry...
If I didn't need them I might be irritated that they were something else I'd need to get rid of.

So yeah, ask them.

Cupcakequeen75 · 23/04/2023 20:45

They may already have measured up for new ones (although you would probably have seen them if they had done this).
Ask them by all means and if agreed (on the included fixtures & fittings list) that is fine but don't just leave them.
Not everyone wants things left even if you are doing it with the best intentions.

CalloohCallayFrabjousDay · 23/04/2023 20:49

We left behind net curtains, almost twenty years later they are still at the window and probably haven't been washed in all that time 🤢

catinthesunshine · 23/04/2023 21:03

I would want to be asked if I wanted them or not. (I also probably wouldn’t want them.)

Heinzbakedbeans · 23/04/2023 21:03

Very old dusty dirty nicotine stained vertical blinds were left in our house. I was grateful for them as they were useful until we could buy some new ones (actually still have the living room ones a year later, we'll replace them one day! ). However, check with the buyers, I can imagine some buyers would have been very pissed off with these being left.

beguilingeyes · 23/04/2023 21:04

Curtains absolutely. It's horrible to be in a new home and have bare windows.
Our seller was moving into rented accommodation in Manchester and left us loads of stuff. Two wardrobes, which was lucky as we couldn't take ours with us, three chests of drawers, all the mantlepiece mirrors and loads of tools in the shed.
I've heard of people taking the light bulbs and door handles...

Namechange98765432 · 23/04/2023 21:20

I'm buying a house, and I noticed the seller has put all the curtains and lightshades and everything on Facebook for a few pounds a time. Now, I did say to her that if she wants to leave this sort of thing that's all good and I'm happy to offer for them - but it seems she would rather spend the time removing and selling them 🙄(I'm sort of - come on Mrs, I'm giving you a quarter of a million quiz - you can spare your Dunelm voile)

Namechange98765432 · 23/04/2023 21:21

*quid not quiz

DelurkingAJ · 23/04/2023 21:22

We actively offered to leave the ones that were no use to us and the buyers said ‘yes, please’ and that was that!

SquashPenguin · 23/04/2023 21:23

Our sellers tried to take the carpets until it was pointed out to them no one actually does that anymore 🤦🏻‍♀️😆 We had a slight panic when the forms came through and that was what they’d put down! Thankfully they left them and we ripped them out about a month later. The blinds they left went in the bin after a week.

gogohmm · 23/04/2023 21:26

Yes to curtains, very useful

CoffeeWithCheese · 24/04/2023 17:26

Our vendor asked us if we wanted the curtains and a couple of items of furniture (wardrobes that were a pretty tight fit to get out of the alcoves they were in mainly) left - we were overjoyed. No, the bedroom curtains are not particularly to our taste - they're a bit too Parisian Shag Palace for my personal taste - but they go with the current decor and cover the windows and will buy us the time till we get something that doesn't look like we're bonking swinging from the chandeliers (she liked chandelier type light fittings as well).

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