Ignoring the obvious, I was not expecting that kind of money being dropped on the interior based on the photos of the exterior.
I get a strong ‘my mate’s company bought too much of this for a project and asked if I wanted it for pennies on the pound so I said yeah, put it fucking everywhere’ vibe
They’re probably not allowed to modify the exterior at all and made the best of it for whatever reason
That’s some real whiplash going from the exterior to the interior
I know right, if you could afford to do that to the interior, why on earth wouldn’t you at least paint your house
It’s in a shitty area. Think of the shitty exterior as camouflage. Burgler isn’t going to bother with the run down shitbox house.
Yeah but if every time you open your door the neighborhood is blinded by the chandeliers reflecting off all that pearly white marble people are gonna get suspicious.
Sleeper hoose
(I am so sorry, please, whatever gods there may be forgive me…)
Whoever sells this is going to lose their marbles.
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“I FUCKING LOVE MARBLE!!!”
Oh yeah? Let me see your ceiling then!
Who are you, William Randolph Hearst?
And fucking hate socks apparently. Unless they’re wearing the grippy kind they have in hospitals.
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There’s a bang of drug money off this.
Somebody found out that ancient Roman emperors used marble and went all in on that McMansion lifestyle.
I love the absolute compromise on the placement of that PS5. And each stair step has its own tiny rug?
Exactly what I came to comment on. Got a TV that’s half way off the wall and a ps5 hiding on the stairs just ready to take someone out.
Can someone in the UK tell me how that home costs £450k? Is real estate that crazy over there or are they trying to recover the £300k they spent for the marble?
40 mins to central London on tube. Lots of green spaces near by. 2 solid square bedrooms, all the cosmetic crap easily stripped out. Hard standing for 2 cars, decent back garden. Semi detached.
The only reason it’s not more is “it’s Dagenham” and the general shabby state of the street.
This’ll get snapped up by professional couple earning 160k+ combined willing to await the inevitable gentrification in 5/10 years.
Amazing what passes for a “decent back garden” in the UK. My “back garden” is a 1/4 acre (1000m^2 ) on a property worth $140k USD including the 1200ft^2 (120m^2 ) house.
On the downside my exterior walls are made of glue and sawdust, and my interior walls are made of paper and powdered gypsum.
Well, decent “for London”. People can easily buy bigger spaces elsewhere in the country but you’re often in the middle of nowheresville.
“Nowheresville” in England is very, very relative.
Oh totally, there are many great places to live in the UK that isn’t the London bubble. I was replying quickly and looking for something that summed not being near London jobs / the West end / art/ music scene etc from the point of view of the two professionals who’d likely drop that kind of money on that house
First: I don’t disagree with you.
Second: England is just too small relative to the overall population to really have places that would be considered “Nowheresville” in the US. For instance, I’m looking at moving to the desert, so I can get away from people. One of the towns I’m looking at has a population of 400 (people, total), and is about 60 miles from any city over 5000 people.
Absolutely, I live a metro area with about 5 million people, it’s not an international hub of anything. It’s big enough to offer most of what you get in a big city aside from public transport, since our population density is wayyyyy lower.
Is it really worth it for your back yard to be 3 feet of sidewalk and a 3ft^2 patch of unruly grass? Why is that grass even there? Feels like an insult to me. Just draw a frowny face on a block of concrete. People aren’t meant to live like that.
Space in London is really a trade off. Many are there just to kick start their career which in the UK London offers far more opportunities than, say, Birmingham or Manchester.
It’s the same as why people put up with small apartments in Manhatten. Or Hong Kong to some extent.
Many live in smaller places early in their career and then when it’s time for marriage / kids they migrate out to the commuter belt where they get larger, nicer places with a more countryside feel and a longer train ride into the city.
I think the kind of professionals who would buy the above are comparing it to a smaller (nicer) 2 bed flat closer into the city in a greener area but with no personal outdoor space. That’s the trade off. They might have started a family and so just want a little outdoor space for toddlers until they move out somewhere bigger for schools.
Or some people like living in smaller urban environments and want to get in early into areas that are “gentrifying”. This has happened over and over in London - move into fairly cramped run down area but with easy commute to work - many other professionals do too - more upmarket shops open locally / cafe culture - streets tidy up, prices explode. Then you sell up and move further out for the country village pad and the train ride to work.
Also, there are many careers in the UK which you can really only pursue in London (or at least it’s where all the opportunities are). Finance / legal / certain arts etc.
That’s London prices for you. That’s likely the bottom end of the price scale.
Not in the UK, but I’m guessing, like real estate anywhere, high population + limited availability?
There are 9 million people living in London. 607 square miles, which means, on average, 14,827 people per square mile.
Compared to, say, San Francisco with 808,000 people in 47 square miles, 17,191 people per square mile.
Globally though, numbers like this aren’t even in the top 25:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_population_density
My “city” is embarrassed. 635,000 people in 145 square miles. 4,379 people per square mile. We’re absolutely porous by comparison.
Reading that I had to check my area, and it’s a whopping 1518 people in 205.11 square miles or about 7 people per square mile. You got us beat by a long shot.
This is one of the areas that London expanded into, it was in Essex until to 60s. It’s not desirable.
That first photo - I though I was looking at a scrap heap that had already been gutted, covered in mould and rubbish and ripped up wall paper, before I realised that was just the tilling… 🤯
The bedrooms don’t look too offensive, but the rest is just so overwhelming and off putting… Those stairs! I wish them luck lol
E: The more I think about it, the more I’m wondering if Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen did a revenge edition of Changing Rooms in there 😂(not just the look, but also the idea that it’s all just cheap mdf painted to look like marble, rather than actual marble)
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Every house should have a fucking closet.
You might be looking at the second toilet, rather than the main bathroom? The actual bathroom certainly is smaller than average, but not really unusual for these kinds of houses unfortunately…
these postwar council houses sometimes have the bathroom and toilet in seperate small rooms, could be the extra toilet was added in were there’d normally be just a bath and sink
Yeah, might be. Looking at the floor plans it seems more likely that the upstairs toilet was the later addition in this case (only because when there’s a separate bath/toilet they tend to be next to each other, not on different floors), but I could definitely be wrong, as far as we know the entire layout could have been changed since it was first built. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
yeah the current owner clearly isn’t averse to radical works
I think even that is an understatement for what we’ve witnessed here lol
Somebody’s been recording home movies!
Much more likely that the agent just didn’t want to be in the photo.
Ha ha, yeah, I forgot the photo would have needed to be taken!
Am pretty stoned, that seems completely fair to me 😂
Wait…who took this picture?! This must be…a vampire’s house!
That price is obscene. That would be £100-150K where I live. It’s this some southern thing?
Inside the M25? It’s almost shocking that it isn’t double the price (not justifying this in any way, just making a point of how obscene housing prices have become, especially in greater London)
probably. according to zoopla it went for 365k in 2021. changing hands for this silly money is especially obscene since it would have previously been sold for a pittance under the right to buy
I would say it’s largely a problem of big cities being where everything has centralized these days, and said cities failing to provide enough housing and/or sufficiently good transportation in and out of the city.
Britain and basically all countries need to stop spending money on useless roads that get backed up with traffic when 4 people want to use them at the same time, and instead invest the money in railways. London is so stupidly huge and important that the metro network should be like twice as large, and it should also have a network of express metro lines extending even further from the city as well as proper high speed rail connecting all the way to Glasgow.
They got the New Jersey package from their contractor
Little Italy
Jesus, that’s insane. Tbh, that’s the kinda house I’d want: unassuming on the outside, extravagant and surreal on the inside.
Veiny
Obviously they skimped out, what with the lack of marble in the bedrooms
