Show us your real estate pawn (Vol 5)

[nordboy]

hidetheelephants said:

lauda said:

2.5pi said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148100705

Four Seasons Hotel spec

There are a load of places like that popping up on the riverside near me. Personally I think they’re hideous.

McMansions that have zero architectural merit and have zero appeal.

Is that actually real or is it computer generated? No humans involved.

Horrendous!! There's loads of stuff on here that's less than a 10th of the price that I'd rather buy. Nothing about that appeals at all. £15m my arse. Only someone with no taste would buy that, like a premiership footballer, to go with their wrapped, bodykitted Lambo Urus.

[Bonefish Blues]

No, because it hasn't sold since first listed last year iirc. Consensus was a bit floody. And Luton/Dunstable.

[Burnaby]

nordboy said:

hidetheelephants said:

lauda said:

2.5pi said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148100705

Four Seasons Hotel spec

There are a load of places like that popping up on the riverside near me. Personally I think they’re hideous.

McMansions that have zero architectural merit and have zero appeal.

Is that actually real or is it computer generated? No humans involved.

Horrendous!! There's loads of stuff on here that's less than a 10th of the price that I'd rather buy. Nothing about that appeals at all. £15m my arse. Only someone with no taste would buy that, like a premiership footballer, to go with their wrapped, bodykitted Lambo Urus.

There is a certain amount of computer generated manipulation going on it seems. Have a game of spot the difference between the two pool pics.

[oddman]

okgo said:

I think this one is a more interesting building personally

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148155719

Don't normally comment on the ridiculously out of reach stuff but that's a truly special historic gem. Hopefully it'll be bought by someone who will respect and maintain its heritage.

How the Cheshire monstrosity can be listed at 50% more is completely beyond me.

[okgo]

oddman said:

Don't normally comment on the ridiculously out of reach stuff but that's a truly special historic gem. Hopefully it'll be bought by someone who will respect and maintain its heritage.

How the Cheshire monstrosity can be listed at 50% more is completely beyond me.

Yes, it’s lovely. 20 acres round there quite a lot. My grandparents lived close by, it’s quite a unique landscape for the south. Sandy, lots of snakes!

[oddman]

okgo said:

Yes, it’s lovely. 20 acres round there quite a lot. My grandparents lived close by, it’s quite a unique landscape for the south. Sandy, lots of snakes!

Somebody posted a big old gaff in Surrey a few weeks ago and at first glance I thought it was lowland Scotland.

[Phooey]

I have a thing lately for exposed oak / beams so to me this in some of the pics looks mostly quite nice

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148160444#/...

[DodgyGeezer]

Phooey said:

I have a thing lately for exposed oak / beams so to me this in some of the pics looks mostly quite nice

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148160444#/...

Do like that

[Doofus]

DodgyGeezer said:

Phooey said:

I have a thing lately for exposed oak / beams so to me this in some of the pics looks mostly quite nice

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148160444#/...

Do like that

I know the ground floor bedrooms will only be guest rooms, but I don't particularly like the idea of having to walking through the glazed hallway, past the front door to use the shower room.

I also don't like the fact that there are actually only two reception rooms. Why do people insist on having open-plan houses?

[CountyAFC]

Main bedroom over lounge.

No.

[okgo]

oddman said:

Somebody posted a big old gaff in Surrey a few weeks ago and at first glance I thought it was lowland Scotland.

Asked my mum about that house

“ Nearly 60 years ago, I had a school friend who's Dad was caretaker or gardener there.
We used to play hide and seek when the owners were away”

“ Used to go in the house and had a Narnia moment in massive wardrobe with loads of real fur coats inside. One with a foxhead 😝”

[RSTurboPaul]

Doofus said:

DodgyGeezer said:

Phooey said:

I have a thing lately for exposed oak / beams so to me this in some of the pics looks mostly quite nice

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148160444#/...

Do like that

I know the ground floor bedrooms will only be guest rooms, but I don't particularly like the idea of having to walking through the glazed hallway, past the front door to use the shower room.

I also don't like the fact that there are actually only two reception rooms. Why do people insist on having open-plan houses?

A feeling of light airiness and space?

Or they are nudists / exhibitionists?


Not sure why anyone would need more than two reception rooms. Kitchen, lounge, sorted.

Unless a formal dining room counts as a reception room? But then that could just be within a kitchen/diner/lounge area.


Horses for courses, I guess

[Caddyshack]

hidetheelephants said:

Caddyshack said:

I like it, I can see why many would not but i like the modern clean nature of it.

There's nothing modern about it, it's edwardian pastiche.

And new…modern. It had a modern kitchen, modern windows, modern levels of security and insulation, modern bathrooms, modern pool…you know….kinda modern.

[Doofus]

RSTurboPaul said:

A feeling of light airiness and space?

Or they are nudists / exhibitionists?


Not sure why anyone would need more than two reception rooms. Kitchen, lounge, sorted.

Unless a formal dining room counts as a reception room? But then that could just be within a kitchen/diner/lounge area.


Horses for courses, I guess

We've, for a long while had, and will always want, a house with more downstairs rooms than upstairs. Physically separate rooms for lounge, drawing room (for want of a better term), dining room, kitchen (although ours also has casual dining and a sofa) and study (ours is called 'the library'). There's only two of us, but open plan means noise (and cooking smells), and we both do different things during the day.

Plus, when we entertain, it's on a more intimate basis than filling a designer warehouse full of revellers.

As you say; horses etc..

[Louis Balfour]

Phooey said:

I have a thing lately for exposed oak / beams so to me this in some of the pics looks mostly quite nice

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148160444#/...

Beam me up, Mr Scott.

We've beams, old ones, and the novelty has worn off. I'll happily have plastered ceilings next time.

[pissonheads]

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148059782?u...

Needs a bit of tarting up and 'de-versailles-ing' inside ngl - doesn't look like some rooms have seen any decorating since 2003. But you don't get that kind of lakefront on Windermere come up very often - even though I can't help feel £8mil is a little hopeful.

[TheJimi]

pissonheads said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148059782?u...

Needs a bit of tarting up and 'de-versailles-ing' inside ngl - doesn't look like some rooms have seen any decorating since 2003. But you don't get that kind of lakefront on Windermere come up very often - even though I can't help feel £8mil is a little hopeful.

That has just shot straight into my top three of this thread for me.

Damn!

[thegreenhell]

I love the setting, the grounds, the boathouse etc, but hate the house. If I bought that I'd want to tear down and rebuild from scratch.

[Bonefish Blues]

That interior is quite a thing. Not a good thing, mind, but a thing nonetheless. Image 51 had me all topsy-turvey too. But a fabulous setting, for sure, and I don't mind the style of the exterior.

[TheJimi]

I mean I'm not in love with the external aesthetics, but you could do a lot with that. Plus the location really nails it for me.