[Closed] A Daily Mail article worth clicking on

I'll take your word for it.

No. No Daily Wail is worth clicking on.

Stunning house design that.

😛

That is stunning!

They could've done a hell of a lot more with that space on an £800k spend.
Lazy tbh.
Lazy

hope they've got good drainage! 😆 it's alright, bit more like an office than a home though.

A but meh tbh. Doesn't look like it's potential was lived up to.

Here's the house on [url= http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-44592423.html ]Rightmove[/url]

[url= http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54062893.html ]Avoiding the Daily Mail here's a link to rightmove.[/url] Beaten to the line........ 😥

It's OK. I like the sunken element of the design (despite it being a very uneconomic way of building), but the whole place looks like it was designed as a school, or academy 😉 not a home.

Interesting idea, badly designed.

Phew!

Hmmm! Not sure about that how much light we it actually get?

mikey - it was already a chuffin great hole!
They just took the lid off it.

(despite it being a very uneconomic way of building)

Edit: gah, beaten to it!

reminds me of an underground version of my head office at work

horrible

Not keen either. The internal fittings are horrible as well.

Floor plan looks like the Millennium Falcon.

That floor looks like laminate. Even if it's real wood, it looks like laminate.

Looks like a business park with units to rent, rather than a home.

But as long as the owners like it, I'm sure they doesn't care what the rest of us think 🙂

You are living in a hole. I like a view of the countryside, here you have a view of the other rooms in your house.

I will be interested to see what it sells for.

For all the promise inside is very bland... thankfully no need to hit the clickbait

No, not for me.

Sold. To uncle Owen and aunt beru.

Looks like a really bad copy of the teletubbies house!

mikey - it was already a chuffin great hole!
They just took the lid off it.

Maybe so, but you've still got to tank it, make external walls retaining and put in suitable access.

Isn't that one of the failed designs for the glentress peel 🙂

Love that fact that they have a roof gap jump

The bit I love is that direct links on here to The Daily Mail have been blocked as "we find it an abhorrent publication". Nice one chaps, don't mince your words 8)
To be fair, Saxon Rider did at least warn us of the Daily Mail content but at least those of us who'd rather not be giving the Mail any clicks won't be doing so inadvertently.

The mail get money from your clicks, so you're actually funding them by sharing links, not just giving them patronage.

So try and find alternative links to the same story (there will be loads) rather than linking.

Re the gaff - like it.

whatever floats people's boats

800K do up and now listed for 895K ooft

800K do up and now listed for 895K ooft

😆 😆 😆

Bet that gets damp...

The Mail will be wanting their cut for the publicity.

But as long as the owners like it, I'm sure they doesn't care what the rest of us think

Well, they were trying to sell it for £1.25M, I suspect they do care now they're down £350k!

I like it, but then I quite like industrial architecture with big open spaces and can't stand this country's obsession with little red brick boxes. Not £1.25M like it, but it's still nice.

Maybe so, but you've still got to tank it, make external walls retaining and put in suitable access.

I presume that it being a big empty reinforced concrete tank at the start probably helped.

When the sun goes down and it's time to shut the blinds, how long does it take? Is it like the forth bridge, where you just end up going round in circles opening or closing blinds?

For £900k I'd expect electric blinds!

OTOH, with no neighbours and decent glass, apart from the bedroom (if you're not the only people in the house) do you really need curtains?

I just dislike having a big black space on the wall, even if nobody can see in. My wife says I'm a bit weird about shutting the curtains, however, so perhaps it's just me...

I just dislike having a big black space on the wall, even if nobody can see in. My wife says I'm a bit weird about shutting the curtains, however, so perhaps it's just me...

I'm like this. Makes the place feel cosy. Plus it helps keep the heat in.

Mikey - it is/was a steel tank - just buried.
No need to build retaining walls - they just cut a hole in the existing one.

An energy greedy horror. If we all lived in places like that the country would need another six Hinkley Points.

Gopping

Literally just over the road from my inlaws. I'm going to go for a snoop at some point!
I seems they've had it on the market on and off for 4 year s now and dropped the price by £300,000 or so.
I like it in an 'industrial chic' kind of way, but not sure I'd like to live there.

Now for something a bit more interesting in the same area - Kev the Cob's cob mansion (as seen on Grand Designs)....

[url= http://www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk/project/zero-carbon-house/ ]Dingle Dell[/url]

His old place...
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Work in progress...
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What it'll look like when finished...
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I'd rather live in this passivhaus:

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Our retrofit beats most new builds but still needs a wood burner.

House schmouse....best thing about the article is the journalists name, Rory Tingle 🙂

Is the roof astroturf? Why look like grass but not use it. I though turf was used to help insulation I'd have thought astroturf wouldn't be any good as an additional insulator.

[url= http://tinyhouseswoon.com/we-got-schooled/ ]I'd prefer this[/url] 🙂

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I'd rather live in this passivhaus: