Real Estate nightmares (Vol 2)

Real Estate nightmares (Vol 2)

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ambuletz

11,091 posts

191 months

Thursday 5th December 2024
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EmBe said:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/149724461

Ever wanted a house with it's own Sex Garage (tm).....(pic 14)

Wouldn't want to sit in those armchairs.
Does anyone know the name of those type of green chairs used at the dining table? parents have an exact version of this table & chair set (albeit in a different colour). however they've owned it 30+ years and the foam/padding in them has shrunk to nothing.

Doofus

29,514 posts

183 months

Thursday 5th December 2024
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ambuletz said:
Does anyone know the name of those type of green chairs used at the dining table? parents have an exact version of this table & chair set (albeit in a different colour). however they've owned it 30+ years and the foam/padding in them has shrunk to nothing.
I'd call them knock-off Louis XV style.

Escort3500

12,476 posts

155 months

Thursday 5th December 2024
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Gotta love a genuine Tudor bungalow with original beams from the Mary Rose hehe

Kowalski655

15,017 posts

153 months

Friday 6th December 2024
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RedWhiteMonkey said:
EmBe said:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/149724461

Ever wanted a house with it's own Sex Garage (tm).....(pic 14)

Wouldn't want to sit in those armchairs.
Perhaps they run Blind Date theme nights?

"Contestant number one is behind door number one, she likes knitting and BDSM."
I was thinking more of the Monty Hall problem, which puts a COMPLETELY different slant on what kind of sex party they hold there !
biggrin

mike80

2,307 posts

226 months

Friday 6th December 2024
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What an odd place! Needs a few more doors...

Nezquick

1,566 posts

136 months

Friday 6th December 2024
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It's certainly a bit weird, but the house just needs a bit of work and the massive, well kept back garden which isn't overlooked is great. I actually think that could be a nice house.

gobuddygo

1,438 posts

195 months

Friday 6th December 2024
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Daily Mail have been stealing from this thread again, tut tut.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14165789/...

DodgyGeezer

42,546 posts

200 months

Friday 6th December 2024
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littlebasher said:
JD said:
I just can’t work out how this came to be?

Was it an office for the site?

It’s essentially a 1 bed flat above a garage, but completely detached in the middle of 2 car parks.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/154223348
That will become hell on earth, once some of those other houses get rented out and inevitably the car park turns into van parking / scrapyard.
this ^^^ you just know that you're going to blocked in with depressing (and increasing!) regularity "...only be a few minutes maaaayte..." and then more houses built t'other side of you.



Cotty said:
ro250 said:
dxg said:
Porsche-worm said:
Bonefish Blues said:
Notable only for the selling agent pleasuring himself (bound to be a bloke) with some fine hyperbole.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148013336#/...
600k for a bloody jazzed up caravan, no thanks.
And no mention of how long the lease is, or what the annual park fee is.

Still, Chesil Beach, though. Doesn't quite have the forelone tension of opportunities missed and promise lost like the film did...
Cleverly photographed so it looks isolated until you realise it's on a caravan park (sorry, "holiday park and spa"!)
Secluded
looks like a massive game of 'pick up sticks' eek


dxg

8,996 posts

270 months

Sunday 8th December 2024
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Okay, so this one...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/152201636#

How do you live in it?

It's sole defining characteristic seems to be that it is big. Every room is big. But the layout makes no sense, the bigness robs it of any sense of homeliness, and - the ultimate sin - you can't fit a car into the fake double garage.

It makes no sense unless all you want to do is tell people that your house is bigger than theirs...

Bonefish Blues

30,246 posts

233 months

Sunday 8th December 2024
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Who among us hasn't wanted to live in a village hall?

FourWheelDrift

90,024 posts

294 months

Sunday 8th December 2024
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Fisheye lens makes the rooms look way too big and unpleasant to imagine furniture in them.


Sporky

7,837 posts

74 months

Sunday 8th December 2024
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I think that's eminently fixable with a bit of interior design, maybe some room dividers. Probably a new wall for the kitchen.

The vaulted ceilings are nice. It suffers from being empty.

Escort3500

12,476 posts

155 months

Sunday 8th December 2024
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Bonefish Blues said:
Who among us hasn't wanted to live in a village hall?
My reaction too. Interior and exterior shout community facility.

hidetheelephants

28,423 posts

203 months

Sunday 8th December 2024
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dxg said:
Okay, so this one...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/152201636#

How do you live in it?

It's sole defining characteristic seems to be that it is big. Every room is big. But the layout makes no sense, the bigness robs it of any sense of homeliness, and - the ultimate sin - you can't fit a car into the fake double garage.

It makes no sense unless all you want to do is tell people that your house is bigger than theirs...
It's 20' square and has what looks like a double up and over door; what's wrong with it?

dxg

8,996 posts

270 months

Sunday 8th December 2024
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I'm looking at the floorplan.

Sporky

7,837 posts

74 months

Sunday 8th December 2024
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dxg said:
I'm looking at the floorplan.
That's definitely wrong - on satellite view you can see both sides of the house are the same length, and the description says the garage is 7m x 7.14m.

DodgyGeezer

42,546 posts

200 months

Sunday 8th December 2024
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hidetheelephants said:
dxg said:
Okay, so this one...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/152201636#

How do you live in it?

It's sole defining characteristic seems to be that it is big. Every room is big. But the layout makes no sense, the bigness robs it of any sense of homeliness, and - the ultimate sin - you can't fit a car into the fake double garage.

It makes no sense unless all you want to do is tell people that your house is bigger than theirs...
It's 20' square and has what looks like a double up and over door; what's wrong with it?
indeed...


ColdoRS

1,853 posts

137 months

Monday 9th December 2024
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DodgyGeezer said:
hidetheelephants said:
dxg said:
Okay, so this one...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/152201636#

How do you live in it?

It's sole defining characteristic seems to be that it is big. Every room is big. But the layout makes no sense, the bigness robs it of any sense of homeliness, and - the ultimate sin - you can't fit a car into the fake double garage.

It makes no sense unless all you want to do is tell people that your house is bigger than theirs...
It's 20' square and has what looks like a double up and over door; what's wrong with it?
indeed...

Places like this are fairly common in rural Scotland. Hugely proportioned but not luxury houses. Often built by farmers for their children or for themselves when they move out of the farmhouse.

The budget and subsequent value of the property is rarely huge because of location but they offer country house lifestyle for the average man - lots of space for dogs, vehicles, workshops and an Aga. These aren't built by Essex types who want to look fancy and show off their huge house, no fancy materials or architects running wild.

Cotty

40,701 posts

294 months

Monday 9th December 2024
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hidetheelephants said:
dxg said:
Okay, so this one...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/152201636#

How do you live in it?

It's sole defining characteristic seems to be that it is big. Every room is big. But the layout makes no sense, the bigness robs it of any sense of homeliness, and - the ultimate sin - you can't fit a car into the fake double garage.

It makes no sense unless all you want to do is tell people that your house is bigger than theirs...
It's 20' square and has what looks like a double up and over door; what's wrong with it?
Sporky said:
dxg said:
I'm looking at the floorplan.
That's definitely wrong - on satellite view you can see both sides of the house are the same length, and the description says the garage is 7m x 7.14m.
I was having trouble figuring out where the garage fits in, even comparing it to the floorplan. So I build it, I find it easier to see in 3D and with cut away walls.



Hope this helps working out where the garage fits in






Edited by Cotty on Monday 9th December 09:48

Sporky

7,837 posts

74 months

Monday 9th December 2024
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The floorplan is wrong though - if you look at the satellite image the north wing extends back behind the middle of the house, just as the south wing does.