Anyone got 4 mill to spare?

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I’ve followed the owner on instagram for some time. This is an exceptional property and he’s been renovating one in Suffolk too.

https://uniquepropertycompany.co.uk/property-results/uncategorized/huguenot-house-princelet-street-spitalfields-e1/

I know and work in this area. It’s full of litter, drug issues, hipsters and Jack the Ripper tours right outside your door. Fun to visit. I’d not live there if you paid me really.

I absolutely love it.

You could cobble together all the furniture in that place (including the broom...whats that about??) for less than 500 quid, by rifling through a few old sheds around where I grew up. Nothing impressive about it whatsoever.

I don't like it. I don't want to live on the film set of Oliver. And no toilet on 2 floors would be a no-no.

I can manage the interior design it can be changed but looking at the floor plan it doesn't look very big and layout is all over the place for the price so its a no thanks.

Every room looks like the servants quarters or even the garden shed. I can easily see what it could be like, it's almost the exact same layout of a house I used to own, but it's charging top whack for a look that doesn't fit the style of the house or the street it's on. For that money I want a kitchen that doesn't look like the 2 Ronnie's could have done Fork Andles in it.

@RumNotRun Robert Shackleton (@princeletdrift) • Instagram photos and videos

Looks like an Oliver Twist orphanage - agent calls it 'gentle', I was thinking 'bleak'

I have no idea why an estate agent would put photographs of cabinets on the listing? Surely that's going with the owner?
It's a great house in that it's a period property
They're very tricky to live in, though! I'd paint it bright colours and have comfy furniture and a decent kitchen. A pain to get permissions, though.

Pics of furniture are selling the 'lifestyle' - the styling is what you'd expect for the area and the ultra trendy too cool for school type of people who may want to live there.

I'm not a big fan of the styling but the house is amazing.

Honestly don’t think the market for this house is people who would want to redecorate it all and fill it with modern furniture- after all, the decoration part of what you’re paying for. My imaginary buyers are a couple of bankers, very interested in design and aesthetics, no kids, keen to spend their weekends at auction houses buying 18th C furniture. Same people who might 20 years ago have been buying Barbican flats or warehouse conversions and filling them with Brutalist or industrial design.

You're right, it's very specific and niche.
People calling it bleak etc are obviously comparing it to a regular family home, which it isn't.

It's a whole life style thing. People who buy those old weavers houses in Spitalfields are very into recreating the 18th century look.

Awful. If I had 4 mil, that would be the last place I would want.

@AMuser Spot on, it is not a fun place to live at all.

You’d have dress up every day as Lucy Worsley to live there. I’d look so out of place in my normal clothes.

Yes, no joggers and sliders if you lived there.

The Suffolk house Insta photos look like the storerooms at my work. All kinds of interesting stuff but you come out feeling grubby and in need of a good wash.

It doesn’t seem to have much natural light in it so pics aren’t doing it justice . It has a lot of potential

Definitely has the potential to be a beautiful house although I couldn't spend that much on a house that needs that much work. Or any terraced house, regardless of location.

Amazing that it's being sold as renovated, I'd be curious to see the before photos.

It’s lovely though I’d want a decent garden if I parted with 4 mil.

I love it although agree I’d want some big sofas and an outdoor area.

Also love Nigel Slater’s style.

I wish it was free advertising courtesy of mn but have to say that it would be amazing to live in a property like this!!

I think the owner has a good reputation for renovating as much as is needed - there’ll be a lot of work that can’t be seen, I guess.

@3peassuit given where it is, a "decent garden" would mean the price tag would be significantly more than 4 million.

I'm unreasonably pissed off that there are no floor coverings.

Exposed floorboards and stone floors? How cold and draughty.

Also, wonky cupboard doors, tarnished mirrors, paint drips visible in photographs... there's shabby chic and then there's just shabby!