Real Estate nightmares

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Escort3500

11,825 posts

144 months

Saturday 29th September 2018
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Looks like an upmarket car showroom. Lost opportunity in that location.

Phunk

1,972 posts

170 months

Sunday 30th September 2018
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technodup said:
jke11y said:
Yesterday, in a similarly good / sought after area, this was listed - who in their right mind would choose the White House over this - http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...
The type who want to live in spam valley.

Us shielders are smarter than that. wink

The big difference I guess (other than that Broom house being ugly as sin is the schools. But at close to a million you'd expect the weans to be going private anyway.
The house in Pollokshields is closer to Hutchinson’s too!

My parents live round the corner from that white box monstrosity, I’ve never noticed it before, Will take a look next time over.

zygalski

7,759 posts

144 months

Sunday 30th September 2018
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MDMetal said:
devnull said:
ManOpener said:
Sticks. said:
It looks like the aftermath of an arson attack.
It looks like my old outside primary school toilets form the 80s which were hardly ever cleaned, we'd all have 'piss races' up the urinal walls, leaving those lovely calcified ammonia stinking stains.
A prime example of what looks good in the tile brouchure does not look good in real life.
Kitchen looks to have been plucked straight out of a 1985 Moben brochure. vomit

Croutons

9,807 posts

165 months

Sunday 30th September 2018
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Laurel Green

30,770 posts

231 months

Sunday 30th September 2018
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Croutons said:
Comes under the heading 'artistically different'.

PositronicRay

26,952 posts

182 months

Sunday 30th September 2018
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Architectural incontinence, all the rage.

Escort3500

11,825 posts

144 months

Sunday 30th September 2018
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“Contemporary Modern Extension”. Comedy gold.

A house bereft of any architectural quality or taste made all the worse by an unimaginative and clumsy extension. There’s not one aspect or element of the place that is worthy.

Jonesy23

4,650 posts

135 months

Monday 1st October 2018
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Comically sized cloakroom/toilet. Not sure how the layout was originally but it would be tight getting past the sink.

Whitean3

2,182 posts

197 months

Monday 1st October 2018
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sidekickdmr said:
I was torn between putting this in the pawn or nightmares thread, but decided its deffo a nightmare.

I love modern buildings, and it does have a nice view, but something about this just isnt right.

It's so void of character, Im still not convinced its not a CGI laugh

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

To add some context, 2.5M in Ilfracombe is silly money, the next property down, in a 1 mile radius is 900 K for a 5 bedroom farm house, with 5 separate letting cottages and 3 acres of land, with a stream and a lake, oh and a barn
It's not quite right, is it, I agree. But I see that noone has yet commented on the Partridge-esque name- "Stealth House". Confirmation of a nightmare if ever it were needed!

FourWheelDrift

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88,375 posts

283 months

Monday 1st October 2018
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anonymous said:
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Maximised floorplan by building right up to the neighbours boundary.

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.303455,-1.5279395,...

scenario8

6,554 posts

178 months

Monday 1st October 2018
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It’s certainly a brave extension. Can’t believe it’s added value so I hope they enjoyed its use.

The listing has “tricky to sell” and “soon to be seen advertised by successive competing agencies” written all over it. Best of luck to them.

Oh and Mr tonker, Sir, that is not an average sized property (outside of certain areas in and around Cobham).

dhutch

14,198 posts

196 months

Monday 1st October 2018
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Croutons said:
Oh wow!

FourWheelDrift

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88,375 posts

283 months

Monday 1st October 2018
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P19, they have a sunken light switch in the WC after tiling around it. This house just keeps giving. But imagine just how much more space they would have if they'd used thinner tiles biggrin


Escort3500

11,825 posts

144 months

Monday 1st October 2018
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FourWheelDrift said:
P19, they have a sunken light switch in the WC after tiling around it. This house just keeps giving. But imagine just how much more space they would have if they'd used thinner tiles biggrin

And less adhesive biggrin

Chris Type R

8,018 posts

248 months

Monday 1st October 2018
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Ugly as they are, a combined toilet / washbasin might have been better in that space.

boyse7en

6,671 posts

164 months

Monday 1st October 2018
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sidekickdmr said:
I was torn between putting this in the pawn or nightmares thread, but decided its deffo a nightmare.

I love modern buildings, and it does have a nice view, but something about this just isnt right.

It's so void of character, Im still not convinced its not a CGI laugh

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

To add some context, 2.5M in Ilfracombe is silly money, the next property down, in a 1 mile radius is 900 K for a 5 bedroom farm house, with 5 separate letting cottages and 3 acres of land, with a stream and a lake, oh and a barn
Paddled past that place in my canoe over the weekend so I can assure you it does exist smile
. I knew the lady who lived in the house that was there before they built this place (it was a medium-sized bungalow that she did a bit of B&B from).

It's not in Ilfracombe, its about three miles along the coast just outside Combe Martin. It is surprisingly isolated, you would have no idea that there is a holiday park next door (and it is hardly Butlins, its quite a small affair anyway). You can only see it from the sea - not from the road at all. It is down a private driveway with very little evidence that there is anything of interest down it.

It is still well overpriced it think, but it has very little (if any) competition at that end of the market. There just aren't many "Grand Designs" type places in the area.

PositronicRay

26,952 posts

182 months

Monday 1st October 2018
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You say that but they've included an extra one out of the front box room, just need a ladder.

snake_oil

2,039 posts

74 months

Monday 1st October 2018
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PositronicRay said:
You say that but they've included an extra one out of the front box room, just need a ladder.
What the fk is that all about! In fact, surely it's a fail from BC perspective? Needs a juliette there?

PositronicRay

26,952 posts

182 months

Monday 1st October 2018
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snake_oil said:
PositronicRay said:
You say that but they've included an extra one out of the front box room, just need a ladder.
What the fk is that all about! In fact, surely it's a fail from BC perspective? Needs a juliette there?
Presumably they just keep it locked to keep the "spliff smoking boyfriend" out. They'll sell, plenty of weirdos about.

guindilias

5,245 posts

119 months

Monday 1st October 2018
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boyse7en said:
Paddled past that place in my canoe over the weekend so I can assure you it does exist smile
. I knew the lady who lived in the house that was there before they built this place (it was a medium-sized bungalow that she did a bit of B&B from).

It's not in Ilfracombe, its about three miles along the coast just outside Combe Martin. It is surprisingly isolated, you would have no idea that there is a holiday park next door (and it is hardly Butlins, its quite a small affair anyway). You can only see it from the sea - not from the road at all. It is down a private driveway with very little evidence that there is anything of interest down it.

It is still well overpriced it think, but it has very little (if any) competition at that end of the market. There just aren't many "Grand Designs" type places in the area.
I actually really like that, maybe I have terrible taste (and not enough money), but I'd want all that glass to be the "remote controlled tint" stuff, which would probably add another £200k to the asking price.

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