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Tomatocutwithazigzagedge · 03/11/2026 14:49

I feel completely transported into an episode of "The Good Life" just flicking through these photos. Fabulous. 😅

glendabrownlow · 03/11/2026 14:51

It's a lovely house. My parents had the identical rugs in the 70s.

Aviarythebird · 03/11/2026 14:54

That’s gorgeous! I love the doors and bannisters particularly.

MingingRunnersFeet · 03/11/2026 14:56

I could quite happily live in that as is. Apart from the bathroom. I’d have to change that!

Bandsis · 03/11/2026 14:59

Wow that's fantasic. It looks to have been really well done at the time.

I wonder what the story is that so much care and money was put into it then and then nothing done since.

FairyInTheMossGarden · 03/11/2026 14:59

Absolutely love it.
The downstairs loo is a bit like being in a coffin though.

FairyInTheMossGarden · 03/11/2026 15:00

Bandsis · 03/11/2026 14:59

Wow that's fantasic. It looks to have been really well done at the time.

I wonder what the story is that so much care and money was put into it then and then nothing done since.

They won the pools in 1971 and created a masterpiece to last a lifetime.

Bandsis · 03/11/2026 15:04

Intersting that the agent is selling it as a modernisation project rather than a 70s masterpiece.

Notanotherrestructure · 03/11/2026 15:04

It’s gorgeous and in very good condition. That hallway is beautiful. There’s a lot of brown but that was the height of fashion then. Shame it can’t become a period piece museum.

GoodGirlFaith · 03/11/2026 15:06

Would make such a great film or TV set! Reminds me slightly of the house in Ludwig.

FairyInTheMossGarden · 03/11/2026 15:11

Bandsis · 03/11/2026 15:04

Intersting that the agent is selling it as a modernisation project rather than a 70s masterpiece.

You know the next time you see this house it will be on Instagram's Weeping1930sHouse all gussied up with black windows, plastic grass and a resin drive.

Whosthetabbynow · 03/11/2026 15:13

It’s a glorious pine overload circa 1972.

bardabunga · 03/11/2026 15:16

Bandsis · 03/11/2026 15:04

Intersting that the agent is selling it as a modernisation project rather than a 70s masterpiece.

The National Trust ought to buy it as a time capsule.

It's the sort of place film location-finders can only dream of.

PauliesWalnuts · 03/11/2026 15:18

FairyInTheMossGarden · 03/11/2026 15:11

You know the next time you see this house it will be on Instagram's Weeping1930sHouse all gussied up with black windows, plastic grass and a resin drive.

Was just going to say the same! I don't think I'd change much - kitchen and bathroom and carpets and that polystyrine ceiling in the kitchen. And that garden fence is a travesty.

PauliesWalnuts · 03/11/2026 15:19

Whosthetabbynow · 03/11/2026 15:13

It’s a glorious pine overload circa 1972.

As someone born in 1972 and who grew up in a house with plenty of G-Plan and those exact downstairs internal doors, I think a lot of it may be teak?

PlacidPenelope · 03/11/2026 15:20

Wow, I love it!

Bring on the Lottery win!!!

OMGhowisitnearlychristmasagain · 03/11/2026 15:22

Friends of ours have a house with very similar decor and let it out as a location house and earn a fortune.

MyBestThing · 03/11/2026 15:28

My parents house in the 70s had a lot more orange!
The kitchen is more 80s.
It's entirely hideous but that's because I lived with brown wood like that for many years. I'd definitely rip it all out.

Hatty65 · 03/11/2026 15:31

I like it, but I'm astonished at how expensive it is for a 4 bedroom semi.

I vaguely assumed Wales was cheap, but you would get a lot more for your money round us.

I don't suppose it's to everyone's taste and would therefore need a lot spending on updating it unless you love the 1970s

AutumnOakTree · 03/11/2026 15:34

It’s not really too my taste, but I can see it was well done, even the blue bathroom.

Bandsis · 03/11/2026 15:35

It's not your regular 4bed semi though, it's massive and look at the views!

It's got stately home vibes to me - if stately homes were decorated in 70s style.

Harshreality · 03/11/2026 15:43

The bathroom is absolutely heavenly

LemonTT · 03/11/2026 15:56

MingingRunnersFeet · 03/11/2026 14:56

I could quite happily live in that as is. Apart from the bathroom. I’d have to change that!

Hell no I would stick a preservation order on the bathroom. It’s fantastic.

WhereYouLeftIt · 03/11/2026 15:59

I expected not to like it (I often describe the 1970s, the decade of my childhood/teens, as The Decade That Taste Forgot) but I could live with most of it!

The bathroom I would mostly keep - love the turquoise, dislike the tiles. Yes it's a teak overload, but it's been done well, and the hall and staircase, with that leaded glass window is fab. The pebbled glass door in Photo 8 - I remember such doors (and that exact glass) very well.

Even if you didn't like the decor, the house has fabulous bones that you could build your own style onto.

TokyoSushi · 03/11/2026 16:01

Oh it's glorious - I love it!