Wtf is this all about them

[Maryqueenofstots]

I’m very very bored on a non moving train so forgive me if this is the erstwhile home of your much loved great aunt (recently deceased, good rest her soul, tho it’s possible she’s going to the dark place after than incident in the 60s).

I just don’t understand this. It’s a studio flat with a separate room across a corridor which houses the kitchen. Which is weird, right? And I thought it was just one of those weird London anomalies, but there are two!! For sale just now.

Please explain to me, oh wise ones: wtf is this all about?

Expensive and yet largely pointless flat of weirdness

I think it’s probably estate agent speak for “shitty kitchen of much mankiness”

I rented a flat for a year where the bathroom was down half a flight of stairs, off a half landing. So to go to the loo I had to leave my flat into the communal stair, down 9 steps and into my bathroom. It was exclusively mine, so I kept it locked but it was a weird arrangement.

Even ignoring the weird layout, this is just bizarre, the bathroom is so small and grim, the kitchen isn't much better- that money would buy you a decent sized house in a lot of areas of the country. How is it an "investment opportunity"?

It just seems really incongruous with the entrance, and having a "porter"!

I wondered about fitting a kitchenette in the main part and then if you stripped the kitchen out you could fill the entire room with bed and not have to sleep in the sitting room. You would be across the hall from your own bathroom though, so maybe it would be worse.

I can imagine it could work okay for an MP or similar as suggested above - someone who basically gets home, showers, rolls into bed, rolls put of bed, drinks coffee and leaves.

There’s a one bed in the same block for £700k - these are a steal!!

(do we have a sarcasm emoji?)

A friend of mine once had a small flat in a converted building which had a kitchen built in under the stairs in a random passageway. Nightmare when you think about it really - having their cooker immediately underneath someone else's fire escape route! Probably against building regs now.

This would be the perfect solution to DH constantly getting under my feet in the kitchen.