Show us your real estate pawn (Vol 4)

[Doofus]

RichB said:

his is something I don't understand about Huf Häuse but if you had a friend with one you may know. Does the glass have some form of switchable magic blackout capability? Else, there's not much privacy in that guest bedroom, or indeed, any of the other bedrooms.

There wasn't any magic glass in the one I knew,. but it was a while ago.

There were lots of heavy dark-brown curtains to obscure interior walls, and floor to ceiling venetian blinds for the 'windows'.

[Shnozz]

Doofus said:

RichB said:

his is something I don't understand about Huf Häuse but if you had a friend with one you may know. Does the glass have some form of switchable magic blackout capability? Else, there's not much privacy in that guest bedroom, or indeed, any of the other bedrooms.

There wasn't any magic glass in the one I knew,. but it was a while ago.

There were lots of heavy dark-brown curtains to obscure interior walls, and floor to ceiling venetian blinds for the 'windows'.

We have similar double height floor to ceiling windows in a penthouse and its in a city so overlooked quite considerably. It's less than ideal for privacy and something you tend to just get used to. Even with floor to ceiling blinds, you tend to not want them closed aside from at night so you get used to the fact that people can look straight in (and vice versa). Can't say its ever particularly bothered me and if I lived in a rural location such as that coast line or the Huf Hauses you see in woodland, I don't think I would be too fussed.

[RichB]

Shnozz said:

We have similar double height floor to ceiling windows in a penthouse and its in a city so overlooked quite considerably. It's less than ideal for privacy and something you tend to just get used to..

So as you get out of the shower and wander around your bedroom in the buff you don't worry? Or with that bedroom I posted the picture of, if you had guests down for the weekend and they felt, shall we say, a bit romantic, anyone wandering around on the balcony could just look in? Seems a bit odd to me...

[AstonZagato]

It's not just privacy. I like to sleep in a properly dark room. The sun rising at 4:30am would be a major problem for me unless I could get black out blinds.

[anonymous-user]

AstonZagato said:

It's not just privacy. I like to sleep in a properly dark room. The sun rising at 4:30am would be a major problem for me unless I could get black out blinds.

or an eye mask.

[h0b0]

The Spruce Goose said:

AstonZagato said:

It's not just privacy. I like to sleep in a properly dark room. The sun rising at 4:30am would be a major problem for me unless I could get black out blinds.

or an eye mask.

That is like a Viz Top Tip.

ViZ said:

Why waste thousands of dollars on yards of material for expensive curtains when you can wear an eye mask

Edited by h0b0 on Tuesday 15th June 15:37

[Nurburgsingh]

Tango13 said:

I think this qualifies...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/108161855#/

I like that...
Good stairs.

I live in a bigger than average 1920’s build and I’ve got 1m wide stairs. I can’t deal with houses with narrow stairs. It makes no sense.
Looking at some of these houses and others that are big bucks and they have “standard” width stairs. What’s that all about.
I was watching Mark Wright do a little video tour of his new place - full of chipboard stud walls and these tiny stairs... put me right off

[Shnozz]

RichB said:

Shnozz said:

We have similar double height floor to ceiling windows in a penthouse and its in a city so overlooked quite considerably. It's less than ideal for privacy and something you tend to just get used to..

So as you get out of the shower and wander around your bedroom in the buff you don't worry? Or with that bedroom I posted the picture of, if you had guests down for the weekend and they felt, shall we say, a bit romantic, anyone wandering around on the balcony could just look in? Seems a bit odd to me...

To be fair you adjust insofar as not walking from bathroom to bedroom in the buff. And to be fair, the master bedroom is more private so less of an issue. It's not an ideal set up I would agree, but the flip side of that coin is that we enjoy the amount of natural light it brings. When we considered moving, other apartments felt very dark and dingy by contrast.

Even when I am in my house with "normal" windows I wouldn't tend to walk around in the buff without curtains across etc. In the apartment you just have to remember to put some boxers on before walking into the kitchen and dining room where the full double height windows are. The short straw really is when guests stay in the upstairs. If it was a permanently occupied bedroom I would probably close the blinds; we do have them but covering all the windows doesn't give the same hygge as a set of curtains on a normal window.

Edited to add - I am surprised the house under discussion doesn't have similar to us with remote control blinds that come down from the ceiling. Would have thought that would be an easy install.

[AstonZagato]

The Spruce Goose said:

AstonZagato said:

It's not just privacy. I like to sleep in a properly dark room. The sun rising at 4:30am would be a major problem for me unless I could get black out blinds.

or an eye mask.

I find those uncomfortably claustrophobic. I wear them for overnight trips on planes but loathe them.
ETA (Not the free ones in the little kit they hand out on the plane but expensive ones bought for the job).

Edited by AstonZagato on Tuesday 15th June 15:32

[shirt]

Love this, just needs some furniture, art and colour but that’s about it.

https://www.themodernhouse.com/sales-list/elmbridg...

Oh and this

https://www.themodernhouse.com/sales-list/woolland...

[Jazzy Jag]

Doofus said:

Riley Blue said:

I think this is only the second time I've posted in this thread. What's the verdict?

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

(You're all going to tell me you've already had it, aren't you...)

It's a Huf, so a hard no from me.

Every time its posted, the plot gets a little bit smaller

1. coastal erosion

[abzmike]

shirt said:

Love this, just needs some furniture, art and colour but that’s about it.

https://www.themodernhouse.com/sales-list/elmbridg...

Oh and this

https://www.themodernhouse.com/sales-list/woolland...

The first is nice, but 9Million nice? The blurb talks about acres of woodland, but doesn't seem to specify quite how many...

[NickCQ]

abzmike said:

The first is nice, but 9Million nice? The blurb talks about acres of woodland, but doesn't seem to specify quite how many...

First sentence: "approximately seven acres"

[TheJimi]

Bonefish Blues said:

Isn't what you do in an infinity to fold your arms on the infinity end and gaze out? Just turn it by 90 degrees and you'd have the entire Welsh Ocean

In fairness, that's a decent point. No idea why they didn't do that.

[greygoose]

stongle said:

Judging by the mismatched styling and decor, I don't think the owners put a whole lot of thought into the place. Sure furniture can be changed and the out of place Aga removed form the kitchen but it all seems a bit thrown together.

Never seen an Aga in an island before, it does look wrong.

[TTmonkey]

https://www.sirbahamas.com/eng/sales/detail/198-l-...


Absolutely love the Bahamas. Would love to have the means to live there.

There are much nicer places to live there than this.

[Bonefish Blues]

I too love the Bahamas. I would not live on New Providence if you paid me.

Something more modest on an Out Island, or perhaps Eleuthera.

Edited by Bonefish Blues on Tuesday 15th June 17:52

[TTmonkey]

Jazzy Jag said:

Doofus said:

Riley Blue said:

I think this is only the second time I've posted in this thread. What's the verdict?

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

(You're all going to tell me you've already had it, aren't you...)

It's a Huf, so a hard no from me.

Every time its posted, the plot gets a little bit smaller

1. coastal erosion

Think youll find it’s built on a granite outcrop an is going absolutely nowhere any time this next millennium.

[sleepezy]

TTmonkey said:

Think youll find it’s built on a granite outcrop an is going absolutely nowhere any time this next millennium.

Whilst I don't disagree with you, I'd love to be a fly on the wall with that insurance quote:
"Hi, I'd like to insure my house"
"Sure, what's the value"
"£3m" [i know reinstatement will be less, but bear with me on this one]
load of innoxuous questions later
"and finally, is it near the coast?"
"well..."

[Bonefish Blues]

Tbf it's 75 metres away. Vertically