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Picture No. 20 love the picture on the wall !
If you’ve seen other properties with strange pictures on the wall, or just quirky please add.
Blenkett Farm, Jack Hill, Allithwaite
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/119563124
One of those rooms is not like the others. Did they start a renovation project, do the bathroom and then run out of money I wonder?
Did they start a renovation project, do the bathroom and then run out of money I wonder?
It would have been a very short episode of Grand Designs where the contestants really did only have £10k and didn't somehow magically manage to to the remaining £1m development budget on credit cards and loans from relatives.
One of those rooms is not like the others. Did they start a renovation project, do the bathroom and then run out of money I wonder?
imagine how bad it was if they thought that might be the room that puts people off... going by the rest of the house and my experience as a former hose clearer... that room had a very dead body in it.
When I was 19 and sold insurance door to door (what a job!) I sat chatting to a married couple about life insurance while their front room had a series of pictures of the woman dressed in just stockings and suspenders. All arty and tastefully done but rather disconcerting
Kind of a strange room when it's the whole 'flat"
https://www.mylondon.news/news/property/londons-smallest-flat-up-sale-23002109
I used to have a room in a grand old house. There was one room sandwiched between the kitchen and master suite that had a sub 5 foot ceiling. It was just used for storage but known as the jockey's bedroom.
I was looking at house near me that was a converted former schoolhouse. It was the sort of thing that could have been done really beautifully ... but wasn't - the first thing you noticed were all the bedroom windows were all at shin height.
What was weird though is it had a nice big kitchen with a room off. In that room.... a kitchen - not a utility, but another fully spec'd kitchen. Upstairs you had bedrooms, some with their own en-suite, plus a bathroom.... and another kitchen.
In that room…. a kitchen – not more cupboards etc, but another fully spec’d kitchen.
My wife watches US millionaire property shows. This is quite common there. The large kitchen is for show and socialising. The smaller kitchen is where your private chef prepares the meals.
2 kitchens might be for Kosher reasons. Mo mixing of meat and milk.
Yeah I remember going to a party in massive old house with two kitchens, one boarding on commercial style the other country homes shaker style. "Here is something I made"..
We went to look at an old farmhouse in Rossendale that had obviously been used as a brothel.
Wild West themed too......
Didn't buy it.
Ha ha, that room in the OP isn't a patch on our place when we bought it. All but one room was covered in 'individual' decoration.
Crayon drawn borders everywhere, compass orientation above every doorway, wrapping paper used as wallpaper (mostly cartoon characters), every cheese label stuck on the kitchen wall, tiles with new patterns painted over the top, murals on doors and that's just some of the stuff that comes to mind.
I also bought it without my wife viewing it until we got the keys.
I'll try and post some pictures, the bathroom was truly special.
Removing a wall here was easier than dealing with two sides of sketchy decoration, wax crayon is a pain to clean off for painting.
I once viewed a house that was very odd. Couple with two kids but no photos of the kids. Doesn’t sound too bad until you add the fact that there were professional photographs all over the house of the couple with their dog. One was about 3ft by 2ft and hung in pride of place in the living room
The house in the op, look at the floorplans, and the location of the bathroom, makes it even weirder.
TBH the thing I found weird was the size of the bathroom.
(sneaky edit)But your spot on, that's a well strange place to put one.
The house in the op, look at the floorplans, and the location of the bathroom, makes it even weirder.
Has the agent just put up a picture from a different house?
We went to look at an old farmhouse in Rossendale that had obviously been used as a brothel.
Wild West themed too……
So many questions.....
We went to look at an old farmhouse in Rossendale that had obviously been used as a brothel.
My friend bought a flat in a complex that historically had a bit of a reputation for prostitution. Chatting to one of his elderly neighbours one day she mentioned that his flat had 'a bit of a reputation'. "Do you mean there were ladies of ill repute?" "No dear - yours is the one that went on fire"
We rented a house where the previous tenant was a strip club owner. There was a large parcel delivered shortly after we moved in that I put in a cupboard. A couple of years later I decided to chuck it out, so I opened it. About 50 identical polyester dresses that were very easy to rip...
Has the agent just put up a picture from a different house?
I don't think so, the roof beams appear in some of the photos as well.
now requires cosmetic works of modernisation to all but the ground floor bathroom
Er, right. I thought from the outside it looked like fun. Those pictures suggest otherwise. And that bathroom would have to be redone.
Very nice town house OMG I'M TOTALLY PEAKING MAAAATE
No pictures, but we once looked at a house that had a toilet and a bidet. Nothing too odd about that, except that they were in separate rooms on opposite sides of the landing to each other…
When we were first looking (back in pre-mobile phone days so no pics) one of the houses had mirrors everywhere. Yep, even there!
It must be more common than you'd think.
We looked at a house that used one of the bedrooms as a gun room. This meant hugely reinforced medieval looking door, bars on the windows both inside and out, bolted to the floor and wall gun cabinet that looked like a wardrobe. Interestingly this was the room that they also put a trap door in. To where? I didn't ask .....
OMG I’M TOTALLY PEAKING MAAAATE
WTAF? All normal period stuff, and then those two rooms. Bonkers.
Top tip when advertising your house - remember to take photos from an angle that don't show your pig...
I once viewed a house that was very odd. Couple with two kids but no photos of the kids. Doesn’t sound too bad until you add the fact that there were professional photographs all over the house of the couple with their dog. One was about 3ft by 2ft and hung in pride of place in the living room
Sounds like my in-laws :-/
that room had a very dead body in it.
Highly likely, bathroom looks like its been done with wheelchair/walker in mind (and is also ground floor). So occupant of house likely died just after the bathroom was done!
WTAF? All normal period stuff, and then those two rooms. Bonkers.
Imagine the rest of the house done like that.
Very nice town house OMG I’M TOTALLY PEAKING MAAAATE
Yer b'stard, wife now wants us to buy it.
Edit: you really should see the pics if you haven't already looked.
Lulu Lytle?
Yer b’stard, wife now wants us to buy it.
If you go for a viewing, straighten that bloody lampshade will you?
Most houses would have had a dead body in them at some time. Especially mine built in 1893
I guess the house we lived in when i was a kid would have qualified. In a masterstroke of late 80s real estate madness timing we moved from a standard detached house in SE England to a big tasteful Edwardian pile in the East Midlands with lots of chimneys, a hidden doorway in a wooden panel, etc... for less money. My older sister was just entering a heavy metal phase which seemed to require her painting her entire bedroom black except for a maaaaaaaaasive yin yang on the ceiling. What a pain that must have been to paint over!
My wife watches US millionaire property shows. This is quite common there. The large kitchen is for show and socialising. The smaller kitchen is where your private chef prepares the meals.
This is becoming a think in Oz apparently. Not sure about the private chef, though.
We went to look at an old farmhouse in Rossendale that had obviously been used as a brothel.
When i lived in Brisbane the old lady a few doors up invited some of the neighbours around for a Sunday roast. She was telling us all the history of the street, which included revealing that her house was a former knocking shop. She then provided a tour explaining how the rooms were partitioned etc. It was pretty funny.
Be sure to get my collection of weapons in the photos and the loft/music room/doll storage/ vertical mattress room, won’t you?
Honestly failing to find anything controversial let alone interesting there.
Skate bowl house
I'd take that over Zwift!
Very nice town house OMG I’M TOTALLY PEAKING MAAAATE
Is it bad to admit I quite like that. I wouldn't want to live in those rooms but I do quite like them.
What I find more shocking is the effort from the estate agent, I get that there's differences in property prices one area to another but jeebus, I wouldn't expect you to get that amount of work for 10 times that price.
That skate bowl house is awesome. I'd totally go for that if I needed to move.
Also, was that a Giant Box One? I had one of those...
The bike is intriguing. I thought it was a Mountain Cycles of some sort (not a San Andreas) or perhaps a Foes, then a Trek VRX. I recognise it but haven't the foggiest what it is.
I thought it was a Mountain Cycles of some sort (not a San Andreas)
Mountain Cycle Shockwave I think.
Skate bowl house
Yup it's a a first generation Mountain Cycle Shockwave, Circa 1999 ish.
Love the skate house, dude must have the world's most tolerant spouse and I'm frankly jealous.
My house used to be a public zoo. Not many photos unfortunately. I do occasionally wonder if there's a desiccated lemur or something hidden in a wall cavity somewhere.
Just stumbled across this house for sale in Harrogate with a room full of skulls (possibly the owner’s family?).
https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=dZzQ6X1UVEJ&sr=-.34%2C-.22&ss=4
The estate agent thoughtfully made a 3D scan of the whole place. Suggest panning around to find the lamp made from a spinal column.