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Rightmove Voyeurism

DaveH said:
How are you supposed to do anything?

I feel stressed just looking at that house.

Want to get into the front garden? You have to open a massive gate, which just look mental compared to the rest of the street:
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Note the bins are not permitted inside and are lined up outside for the inconvenience of everyone else. So when you empty a bin, it is right out to the front street and through the gates.

Want to come through the front door? You need to move two bar stools because there is a mini cocktail bar where you can sit cramped facing a wall. If you have a bag, make sure you do not clear all the glass crap.
Want to watch the telly? You have to shift at least 3 cushions to sit down, and then do you just put up with whatever the hell it is in the middle of the table blocking your view?
Want to make a sandwich? You have to shift a whole load of "display clutter" off the kitchen bench, just to make a tiny bit of space.
Want to have a shower? You have to move loads of random shit like a bowl full of spray painted pine cones
Want to go out the conservatory door, edge past a table covered in clutter
Want to go to bed? You have to clear a load of soft toys

You just can't move in the house or basically live any form of life without having to move clutter and put it back, or not knock stuff off while moving about.

Someone has bought their formal council home, spent a fortune on gaudy decor and furnishings, filling the place with an obsessive amount of clutter and then hope to sell it for £50k more than what it seems to be worth. At the end of the day, take all the shit out, take a wall paper stripper to it and get rid of that OTT fireplace, and you are left with an average house on a Wigan council estate.
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I like it! Obviously not my taste but we should celebrate eccentrics. Life is hard and often grim, why not have your house exactly how you’d like it
 

Copacabana said:
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Absolutely lovely house for the price, seems to be a lot of good value property around that area. This we be 450 to 500k in the areas i am currently looking at. (North shields, Monkseaton)
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I think the location, on a semi busy cross roads will put a bit of a ceiling on the price.

Tastefully decorated, a bit like a Barker & Stonehouse catalogue that wouldn’t stay like that for two minutes if my family were let loose.

Also, these open wardrobes with no doors. Surely you’ll spend longer arranging your clothes so it doesn’t look a clip that if you actually got doors & didn’t have to arrange clothes in colour order.

In short, it is nice enough, but it’s like they’ve got a cleaner & an some kind of interior design/planner in there before the photos & I’m seeing the catalogue version that’s not quite reality. A bit like a picture of a Big Mac vs an actual Big Mac
 
Copacabana said:
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Absolutely lovely house for the price, seems to be a lot of good value property around that area. This we be 450 to 500k in the areas i am currently looking at. (North shields, Monkseaton)
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The person/s who own that house have wonderful taste. It’s very elegant.
Longy said:
I think the location, on a semi busy cross roads will put a bit of a ceiling on the price.

Tastefully decorated, a bit like a Barker & Stonehouse catalogue that wouldn’t stay like that for two minutes if my family were let loose.

Also, these open wardrobes with no doors. Surely you’ll spend longer arranging your clothes so it doesn’t look a clip that if you actually got doors & didn’t have to arrange clothes in colour order.

In short, it is nice enough, but it’s like they’ve got a cleaner & an some kind of interior design/planner in there before the photos & I’m seeing the catalogue version that’s not quite reality. A bit like a picture of a Big Mac vs an actual Big Mac
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This too! It’s very stylised like a Sunday supplement but it’s very nice IMHO.
 
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Longy said:
I think the location, on a semi busy cross roads will put a bit of a ceiling on the price.

Tastefully decorated, a bit like a Barker & Stonehouse catalogue that wouldn’t stay like that for two minutes if my family were let loose.

Also, these open wardrobes with no doors. Surely you’ll spend longer arranging your clothes so it doesn’t look a clip that if you actually got doors & didn’t have to arrange clothes in colour order.

In short, it is nice enough, but it’s like they’ve got a cleaner & an some kind of interior design/planner in there before the photos & I’m seeing the catalogue version that’s not quite reality. A bit like a picture of a Big Mac vs an actual Big Mac
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The missus showed me this one. If you could move it closer to barnes park, it would be topper.
 
tonyfromalnwick said:
Nice gardens

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Lovely, but there are a few odd things for me.

The principal bedroom is huge, with a massive bathroom and a dressing room. Together they take up as much space as two bedrooms, plus corridor and utility room. It feels like you could make it a 5 bed house cutting down on wasted space, and for that price I'd be wanting another room or two.

Then the other larger bedroom is the only way into the gym. That needs either an external door or a way in from the garage.

The bedroom doors are big glass panels, which have not been bought with privacy in mind.
 
toxic tracksuit said:
I have a kayak and use it 5-10 times a year when weather is nice. I cannot comprehend the justification for a swimming pool in Newton Aycliffe
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Ive always thought (dreaming) that if I ever got a house with a pool in England it would have to be covered like, by a dome or retractable roof of some sort. The maintenance alone would be a nightmare nevermind open to the elements
 
Longy said:
I think the location, on a semi busy cross roads will put a bit of a ceiling on the price.

Tastefully decorated, a bit like a Barker & Stonehouse catalogue that wouldn’t stay like that for two minutes if my family were let loose.

Also, these open wardrobes with no doors. Surely you’ll spend longer arranging your clothes so it doesn’t look a clip that if you actually got doors & didn’t have to arrange clothes in colour order.

In short, it is nice enough, but it’s like they’ve got a cleaner & an some kind of interior design/planner in there before the photos & I’m seeing the catalogue version that’s not quite reality. A bit like a picture of a Big Mac vs an actual Big Mac
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“It’s been “dressed” is the expression you’re looking for.
They charge tens of thousands down here. Either put the dressing companies sale or return furniture into an empty/newly refurbed/extended/decorated house or put the sellers furniture into storage and put the dressers sale or return furniture in. There’s then two prices quoted for the house: empty or dressed (with which you get all the furniture viewed). High end could easily contain £1m worth of new furniture. Any dressers furniture you don’t like they’ll take away for nowt but there’s no price reduction.
These gaffs are £50m+ and it’s amazing how many super rich just buy em dressed to save the bother of thinking about stuff like chairs, tables, beds, towels etc. They’ll only be actually living in them for a few weeks of the year anyway so what’s the point of shopping or caring or thinking?
Johnny Alpha said:
The person/s who own that house have wonderful taste. It’s very elegant.

This too! It’s very stylised like a Sunday supplement but it’s very nice IMHO.
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It’s lovely apart from the grey. I’d be interested mesel as I like the area but there’s no sun in those backyards.
vidal baboon said:
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Ower grey. It’s a scaled down model of the gaffs every builder/designer/architect has been churning out for 25yrs now apart from the grey that is. That went out ten years ago.
League Wan said:
Barbados anyone

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Givower man I’m on here looking for possible retirement back to the NE style houses not lottery winners dream homes ferchrissakes
 
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Wilfy said:
The missus showed me this one. If you could move it closer to barnes park, it would be topper.
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Aa an ex Victorian house owner I'm seeing big spaces and small radiators and no fire ( in front) . Then they've opened it up . Nice big log burner but thats no good for the hour before work in January .
Loved mine but glad to move out after 15 years of fixing and window wiping and parking war's
riffraff said:
“It’s been “dressed” is the expression you’re looking for.
They charge tens of thousands down here. Either put the dressing companies sale or return furniture into an empty/newly refurbed/extended/decorated house or put the sellers furniture into storage and put the dressers sale or return furniture in. There’s then two prices quoted for the house: empty or dressed (with which you get all the furniture viewed). High end could easily contain £1m worth of new furniture. Any dressers furniture you don’t like they’ll take away for nowt but there’s no price reduction.
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I'd call it Staged . Same thing but never heard the phrase dressing on the stuff I watch.
Million dollar listing( Ny and La ) was my guilty pleasure for years .
Don't mind the grey ,black ,white thing as the idea is you add colours to suit
It's the Tarantinos look that's horrendous
 
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