What does your house look like?

[Johnnytheboy]

AAGR said:

TheJimi said:

schmalex said:

AAGR said:

.... posts gratuitous porn without a warning....

Outstanding motor cars, fella

Thought that myself!

Penguin-piss coolness there

Thanks guys. The RS200 and the XR3i have both gone now, so I run a Jaguar XF, and my son's splendid Fiesta XR2 (Mk I) lives in the garage too.

Have a look at his garage in his profile...

[Bill]

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[oilydan]

Now painted a more pleasing cream colour.

[Johnniem]

Johnnytheboy said:

Garden is a bit too fiddly for a ride on, going to get a good big pusher instead.

Er, 'too fiddly for a ride on'??!!! Perhaps you need to consider buying ride on to do the less fiddly bits and a small petrol powered mower for the fiddly bits!

[IanA2]

Johnniem said:

Er, 'too fiddly for a ride on'??!!! Perhaps you need to consider buying ride on to do the less fiddly bits and a small petrol powered mower for the fiddly bits!

Yup that was my solution a Honda self propelled for the fiddly bits and a Honda ride on for the main bits. Over the years we've nibbled chunks of what was grass for other uses so ride on pretty much suffices now.

[TheJimi]

Bill said:

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[1441]

Built 1992, just completed purchase this morning move in next week.

[BenWRXSEi]

Ilikebeaver said:

benedwards64 said:

The old house:



Not much from the outside but rather nice inside, I thought...










And the new one - on moving day:

Wow! Both old and new are amazing.

More pics please...

(I thought old house looked familiar, and it's no surprise to see your in oxon, but I can't pin it down! )

Well, it's only taken a year... few pics of the 'new' place:











And the views are pretty good too:




Old house was in Wallingford. New one is 10-20 miles away.

[MajorProblem]

That is a beautiful property, have you got an Aga in the new place? I have a bit of an Aga fetish, currently refitting one in our house.

[IanA2]

MajorProblem said:

That is a beautiful property, have you got an Aga in the new place? I have a bit of an Aga fetish, currently refitting one in our house.

Ah, I always wondered why people installed those things

[h0b0]

BenWRXSEi said:

Love the house but these tiles look like skulls to my tired eyes

[technodup]

h0b0 said:

Love the house but these tiles look like skulls to my tired eyes

That's what I thought. Too freaky for me.

[Morningside]

There are some very lucky people on this thread.

[Johnnytheboy]

h0b0 said:

BenWRXSEi said:

Love the house but these tiles look like skulls to my tired eyes

Ooh no I like them.

[Blib]

1441 said:

Built 1992, just completed purchase this morning move in next week.

Congratulations. Best of luck in your new home.

[BenWRXSEi]

MajorProblem said:

That is a beautiful property, have you got an Aga in the new place? I have a bit of an Aga fetish, currently refitting one in our house.

Not quite - new place has a Rayburn which does cooking and heating. I was originally quite excited about it, but turns out it's rubbish at both cooking and heating.... yet still manages to cost a small fortune to run. Fortunately there's also a 'proper' oven and hob in the kitchen as well!

Long term plans are to rip it out and replace with a modern boiler and a proper Aga, but that's going to cost a fair packet so we'll sit tight for a year or two. At least we've got the wood-burner in now and made some improvements to drafts so we shouldn't be too cold this winter.

technodup said:

h0b0 said:

Love the house but these tiles look like skulls to my tired eyes

That's what I thought. Too freaky for me.

Yep, they're actually sunflowers or something. I rather like the skull effect though, so they're staying

[schmalex]

BenWRXSEi said:

Not quite - new place has a Rayburn which does cooking and heating. I was originally quite excited about it, but turns out it's rubbish at both cooking and heating.... yet still manages to cost a small fortune to run. Fortunately there's also a 'proper' oven and hob in the kitchen as well!

Have you had it serviced?

We have an oil fired Rayburn in our house that runs all our heating, cooking and hot water. Apart from it being extremely temperamental 3 or 4 years ago and breaking down whenever the seasons clicked over to winter, it is no more expensive to run than gas and electricity heating, cooking & hot water.

I refreshed the baffles, blast tubes, photo sensors, fuel pump and solenoids when it was being temperamental, I service it every autumn and it has been super reliable and pretty economical to run (plus, you can't beat a roast cooked in a Rayburn / Aga )

[Patch1875]

Lots of lovely houses. We plan to move into this early next year, lived outside the city for a while now we have missed big city living so back we go.

Can walk into Edinburgh city centre and handy for the school.

[anonymous-user]

Very nice. Love the balcony. Although...my poor knackered knees wouldn't thank me for the stairs in those!

[FailHere]

It doesn't look much like a house, because until recently it wasn't.