Show us your real estate pawn (Vol 4)

[TheJimi]

DB4DM said:

Receive, drink, eat, sit, dance, work, play games?

Aye, well done, smart arse

I was more asking what he actually uses each room for.

[AstonZagato]

TheJimi said:

AstonZagato said:

Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area said:

What on earth is the point of having 7 reception rooms?

I happen to have seven reception rooms. Each has its own use. It is nice to have places to tuck oneself away, especially when the house is full over Christmas and Easter (or Lockdown). If I were to downsize, I'd probably want to compromise more on bedrooms.

What do you actually do with seven reception rooms?

We have:

• Drawing Room (formal entertaining)
• Dining Room (formal entertaining)
• Morning Room (ironically mainly used in the evenings as a snug for watching telly with the wife)
• Media Room (huge telly, used for watching blockbusters with the kids, gaming, etc)
• Library (my study but can be used for business meetings)
• Orangery (informal entertaining - sitting around after a kitchen supper, cup of coffee with friends)
• Music Room (wife practises there, also a second study for her)

I also have a gym in the pool house but that's not attached to the main house.

[DB4DM]

My 6 out of AZ's 7 is a fair guess, and music v dance is not far out

[leglessAlex]

AstonZagato said:

We have:

• Drawing Room (formal entertaining)
• Dining Room (formal entertaining)
• Morning Room (ironically mainly used in the evenings as a snug for watching telly with the wife)
• Media Room (huge telly, used for watching blockbusters with the kids, gaming, etc)
• Library (my study but can be used for business meetings)
• Orangery (informal entertaining - sitting around after a kitchen supper, cup of coffee with friends)
• Music Room (wife practises there, also a second study for her)

I also have a gym in the pool house but that's not attached to the main house.

Every now and then on PH I'm reminded what my life will never be like

I do love the idea of having an orangery though, specifically for their original purpose of growing some more exotic fruits.

[RichB]

leglessAlex said:

AstonZagato said:

We have:

• Drawing Room (formal entertaining)
• Dining Room (formal entertaining)
• Morning Room (ironically mainly used in the evenings as a snug for watching telly with the wife)
• Media Room (huge telly, used for watching blockbusters with the kids, gaming, etc)
• Library (my study but can be used for business meetings)
• Orangery (informal entertaining - sitting around after a kitchen supper, cup of coffee with friends)
• Music Room (wife practises there, also a second study for her)

I also have a gym in the pool house but that's not attached to the main house.

Every now and then on PH I'm reminded what my life will never be like I do love the idea of having an orangery though, specifically for their original purpose of growing some more exotic fruits.

I recently retired so my study which I used as an office and for web meetings si now the library although I am toying with the idea of putting a piano in there so it will double up as a music room.

[Bonefish Blues]

leglessAlex said:

AstonZagato said:

We have:

• Drawing Room (formal entertaining)
• Dining Room (formal entertaining)
• Morning Room (ironically mainly used in the evenings as a snug for watching telly with the wife)
• Media Room (huge telly, used for watching blockbusters with the kids, gaming, etc)
• Library (my study but can be used for business meetings)
• Orangery (informal entertaining - sitting around after a kitchen supper, cup of coffee with friends)
• Music Room (wife practises there, also a second study for her)

I also have a gym in the pool house but that's not attached to the main house.

Every now and then on PH I'm reminded what my life will never be like

I do love the idea of having an orangery though, specifically for their original purpose of growing some more exotic fruits.

I've got my citrus trees in the kitchen-diner for winter. Oh well

[Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area]

Interesting stuff, AZ, although I guess there’s an element of finding uses for rooms that you have rather needing them for those specific purposes.

Anyway who said that Scottish (and Irish) houses were taste vacuums? Other than missing a couple of en suites this looks great to me



https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gbperse...

[Doofus]

Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area said:

Interesting stuff, AZ, although I guess there’s an element of finding uses for rooms that you have rather needing them for those specific purposes.

Anyway who said that Scottish (and Irish) houses were taste vacuums? Other than missing a couple of en suites this looks great to me



https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gbperse...

Draught excluder at the back door is a bit telling.

[Jeremy-75qq8]

addey said:

This is just round the corner from me. I quite like the house and the grounds (who wouldn't want their own mini football pitch?!) but the decor isn't entirely to my taste

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/115882253#/...

certainly better than the usual characterless neo geo rubbish that dominates the rest of Cobham....

(famous-ish D-list celeb owners too)

As a current builder of a neo Georgian pad locally ( I like them sorry !) the price of that for 8000 sq ft next to the m25 is daft

[AstonZagato]

Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area said:

Interesting stuff, AZ, although I guess there’s an element of finding uses for rooms that you have rather needing them for those specific purposes.

Yes. Especially over lockdown when the three kids were home and we all needed individual places to work.
That said, I would always want a formal entertaining space and a family area. I’d always need a study. The wife needs one too as she deals with patient info all the time. We’d need somewhere to watch telly. I guess we could squash some of the rooms together though. But as I said before, I’d prefer to compromise on bedrooms than on reception rooms. If we had less space, the wife’s family couldn’t all descend on us for a week at a time.

[TheJimi]

AstonZagato said:

TheJimi said:

AstonZagato said:

Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area said:

What on earth is the point of having 7 reception rooms?

I happen to have seven reception rooms. Each has its own use. It is nice to have places to tuck oneself away, especially when the house is full over Christmas and Easter (or Lockdown). If I were to downsize, I'd probably want to compromise more on bedrooms.

What do you actually do with seven reception rooms?

We have:

• Drawing Room (formal entertaining)
• Dining Room (formal entertaining)
• Morning Room (ironically mainly used in the evenings as a snug for watching telly with the wife)
• Media Room (huge telly, used for watching blockbusters with the kids, gaming, etc)
• Library (my study but can be used for business meetings)
• Orangery (informal entertaining - sitting around after a kitchen supper, cup of coffee with friends)
• Music Room (wife practises there, also a second study for her)

I also have a gym in the pool house but that's not attached to the main house.

Asked and answered, thanks!

I'm always kinda curious about how people use such spaces, because from a personal perspective, I'd genuinely never use that many reception rooms.

[Sway]

AstonZagato said:

Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area said:

Interesting stuff, AZ, although I guess there’s an element of finding uses for rooms that you have rather needing them for those specific purposes.

Yes. Especially over lockdown when the three kids were home and we all needed individual places to work.
That said, I would always want a formal entertaining space and a family area. I’d always need a study. The wife needs one too as she deals with patient info all the time. We’d need somewhere to watch telly. I guess we could squash some of the rooms together though. But as I said before, I’d prefer to compromise on bedrooms than on reception rooms. If we had less space, the wife’s family couldn’t all descend on us for a week at a time.

Similar here - except I can't be fked with formal entertaining!

To achieve it, sacrificing bedrooms is exactly how we did it - six bed house is now effectively used as a three bed. One of the original bedrooms is now effectively 'lost' as we've converted the top floor into a master suite so it's become a dressing room.

[Escort3500]

Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area said:

Interesting stuff, AZ, although I guess there’s an element of finding uses for rooms that you have rather needing them for those specific purposes.

Anyway who said that Scottish (and Irish) houses were taste vacuums? Other than missing a couple of en suites this looks great to me



https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gbperse...

Quite lovely, and seems reasonably priced for such a nice place.

[abzmike]

Escort3500 said:

Quite lovely, and seems reasonably priced for such a nice place.

Yes lovely that, and a really nice part of the world. Hope it has a good boiler though, that’s a big old house.

[TheJimi]

Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area said:

Interesting stuff, AZ, although I guess there’s an element of finding uses for rooms that you have rather needing them for those specific purposes.

Anyway who said that Scottish (and Irish) houses were taste vacuums? Other than missing a couple of en suites this looks great to me



https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gbperse...

Yep, cracking and a bargain at that money, imo.

As said, lovely part of the world, and you're not totally out in the sticks either.

[Escort3500]

abzmike said:

Escort3500 said:

Quite lovely, and seems reasonably priced for such a nice place.

Yes lovely that, and a really nice part of the world. Hope it has a good boiler though, that’s a big old house.

We’ve friends who live in a big old manse in Aberdeenshire similar in age and size to this one and their heating and overall maintenance costs are eye watering. It’s a fabulous place nevertheless, and a bargain (circa £600k as far as I recall).

[andyxxx]

I have to add this:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/108302459#/...

It's only about 5 miles from the centre of Sheffield - really isolated, desolate and cold, but in a fantastic setting.

I went in this property about 30 years ago and it never seems to look any more ‘done’ but I doubt £1 million would see it completed to the level it deserves.

[Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area]

That was on here a long time ago. It’s a ridiculous asking price, just insane.

[RC1807]

AstonZagato said:

//snip// If we had less space, the wife’s family couldn’t all descend on us for a week at a time.

Less space it is, then!
(Makes no difference to me. Mrs RC's family is tiny!)

[Shy Torque]

TheJimi said:

Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area said:

Interesting stuff, AZ, although I guess there’s an element of finding uses for rooms that you have rather needing them for those specific purposes.

Anyway who said that Scottish (and Irish) houses were taste vacuums? Other than missing a couple of en suites this looks great to me



https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gbperse...

Yep, cracking and a bargain at that money, imo.

As said, lovely part of the world, and you're not totally out in the sticks either.

Yes, plenty of people in the mobile home park across the road.