Houses for sale

[Kaz]

Shell Mick and I have puzzled over this, but the only thing we think it might be is the odd shaped garden, and the lack of 'green' round the back? Otherwise we're stumped I'd have to take out that old fashioned fireplace though

The bungalow in Wales is nice, you get a lot for your money there Again the fireplace would be on a skip though

[Diflower]

Not sure MM, it is nicely done.
The lounge looks a bit too 'busy' and overfull, with little actual free floor space. Maybe get shot of that pouffe for now, and personally I'd ditch the rug which would help it look less cluttered.

[miasmum]

Its the garden, those photos make it look much bigger than it is. Because it is a corner plot the garden is at the front, and not that much there either. The back garden is tiny and for a 4 bedded family home, useless

[Kaz]

Ah right - that's the thing with extending, you can lose too much garden sometimes. Short of finding someone who hates gardening I think you're right, and it will be very hard to sell

[miasmum]

They haven't extended into the garden Kaz, they extended upwards over the garage and converted what was a downstairs toilet and outhouse at the back of the kitchen into the dining area. They garden was always that small. She lived there with her first husband before they had children. She then had two children who grew up there, but played either in the grounds of the church hall over the road or round the corner in the little park.

[JoM]

The house opposite is now on Rightmove
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-38275099.html
The interior shots are very misleading though, like Di pointed out on her neighbour's house. The living room looks massive, and that's the only room I've seen in (there's a house two doors down that's the same and I peeked in before it sold) but it's actually smaller than ours and it's not got a separate dining room or a utility room where we have both. We did wonder if we should've stretched ourselves a bit and bought one of those styles with it being detached but I'm glad we didn't now I've seen inside, it's a lovely house but doesn't allow so much of the versatility with rooms which we have.
Oh, and you can see our front door in the living room shot, thankfully you can't see our downstairs window with me in it shouting "John, there's a photographer over the road"

[Diflower]

Ooh thanks Jo, lovely to have a nose
I think you made the right choice too
Quite like some of their decor but it's a bit too 'furniture shop display' and not enough 'we live here' for me

[Kaz]

They might well have staged it a bit for selling and put all their clutter away Di - I started off very clutter-free in this house but I'm fighting a rising tide as my lot have a lot of 'stuff' and it tends to spread

That's nice Jo, but I'm not sure the layout makes best use of the space either..........it's a bit of a reverse Tardis - looks bigger on the outside than it is inside We don't have a separate dining room, but that doesn't bother us - we had one at the old house and hardly ever used it We have a utility and that's great, I wouldn't mind a bigger living room TBH but ours is perfectly ok considering we are only three here most of the time - soon to become two The main thing about this house that I love is the amount of light, and the 'flow' of the rooms..........plus the bedrooms are a good size especially ours

I love a good nose on Rightmove - I was looking the other day and H came up behind me and said "Oh no, we aren't moving again!! This house is perfect!" I said not to worry, I was just nosing round the neighbours' houses for the fun of it

[Diflower]

Oh I know they're selling so it has to be ultra-tidy Kaz, but it's the actual over-co-ordinated look that does it to me.

When you go into my cousin's house you could just as easily be in the display of a furniture shop, she never buys expensive and when she feels like it changes the lot. That's what I mean, no individual character, and nothing that's there just because she likes it
And yes, I know lots of people like it like that and I hate clutter, but I prefer a home, one that looks like it's me that lives in it, iyswim...

[Kaz]

Oh I get you now - yes I know exactly what you mean! One of the houses near us for sale is like that, no personality to it