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Re: Strange & Unusual Houses

Posted: Fri May 01, 2020 8:12 am
by sally maclennane
Yeah, it's all a bit slapdash as Ella says!

Re: Strange & Unusual Houses

Posted: Fri May 01, 2020 8:19 am
by indigo
Bat Macdui wrote: Thu Apr 30, 2020 7:48 am You'll all enjoy this, it's AMAZING.

Lytham
Is the giraffe wearing a hat? :mog:

Re: Strange & Unusual Houses

Posted: Fri May 01, 2020 8:54 am
by ParisGal
indigo wrote: Fri May 01, 2020 8:19 am Is the giraffe wearing a hat? :mog:
Of course!

That metals house is made even more strange by whatever they've done to the photos that makes them all look like a virtual rendering rather than an actual photo. Are those copper risers on the stairs too?!

Re: Strange & Unusual Houses

Posted: Fri May 01, 2020 9:33 am
by Duophonic
That's a house that doesn't know what it wants to be. Needless to say I hate it.

Re: Strange & Unusual Houses

Posted: Fri May 01, 2020 10:36 am
by smalex
The filter is really weird, I agree

Re: Strange & Unusual Houses

Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 7:39 am
by smalex
https://www.onthemarket.com/details/6425109/

When I was at university my head lecturer bought and converted this chapel. He wanked on endlessly about it and eventually hired a coach so we could all go and see it :lol: . There was a tv programme on C4 in the mid 00s called Britains best home or something and the judging panel really slated it. No one liked him very much so we were all greatly amused. I'm not sure if he owns it now or not. Anyway, its beautiful from the outside but really quite unpleasant inside. Where the piano is he planned to be a 'gallery space' , the pretentious wanker :mog:

Re: Strange & Unusual Houses

Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 7:43 am
by Ella77
The decor is awful. Bits of it look like a killing room.

Re: Strange & Unusual Houses

Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 7:46 am
by Squirrel
It’s such a mishmash! Part corporate away-day venue, part old people’s home.

Re: Strange & Unusual Houses

Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 7:47 am
by indigo
Ella77 wrote: Sat May 09, 2020 7:43 am The decor is awful. Bits of it look like a killing room.
:mog:

It could be so beautiful though. Although I don't think I could live somewhere that would have seen such grief within its walls.

Re: Strange & Unusual Houses

Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 7:50 am
by smalex
Ella77 wrote: Sat May 09, 2020 7:43 am The decor is awful. Bits of it look like a killing room.
:mog:
For context he was a bit of a perv and had been married 3 times. His first two wives had died :look:. Obviously this sent us wild with speculation


The thing I remember from the tv assessment was that it looked like an office development inside and it really does! It looked a bit odd then and its dated abysmally

Re: Strange & Unusual Houses

Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 7:52 am
by smalex
indigo wrote: Sat May 09, 2020 7:47 am
Ella77 wrote: Sat May 09, 2020 7:43 am The decor is awful. Bits of it look like a killing room.
:mog:

It could be so beautiful though. Although I don't think I could live somewhere that would have seen such grief within its walls.
The garden is basically a graveyard (they moved the headstones i think).

I'm rarely, if ever, a fan of chapel conversions for lots of reasons.

Re: Strange & Unusual Houses

Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 7:58 am
by Estrella
Ella77 wrote: Sat May 09, 2020 7:43 am The decor is awful. Bits of it look like a killing room.
Oh, god, yes. That bedroom with the single bed and satin bedspread. I really don’t understand what is going on in photo 4 either.

Re: Strange & Unusual Houses

Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 8:01 am
by smalex
Tbf, I don't think he owns it anymore, some fb stalking says he lives somewhere else now. So hes probably not responsible for bed spreads.

From memory photo 4 was some built in storage/display around the mezzanine area. Its unbearably ugly!

Re: Strange & Unusual Houses

Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 8:08 am
by Estrella
It’s so strange inside. And totally at odds with the exterior.

My parents owned a flat in a church redevelopment and theirs looked relatively normal. They were on the ground floor and had a great window in the living room.

Re: Strange & Unusual Houses

Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 8:27 am
by Kenickie
The bit with the purple carpet totally looks like an office.

It's been done horribly but I'd love to live in a church conversion.

Re: Strange & Unusual Houses

Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 8:48 am
by Mayday
I don't think I've ever seen a good church conversion.

They all seem either a weird layout, or poky rooms or windows in odd places or done in a way that makes them look dated almost immediately.

Re: Strange & Unusual Houses

Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 8:50 am
by smalex
That's what I always feel too. Too many compromises a lot of the time.

Re: Strange & Unusual Houses

Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 1:31 pm
by Duophonic
There is a beautiful church conversion near me.

The interior looks so cheaply done, like everything has been constructed in MDF.

A local architect has built his own home, he's changed the original roof and is now being ordered to take it down. The house is so fugly but I laughed at the comment that it's not in keeping with the local area. The local area for context is an ugly overpriced (paying for the view) eighties new build estate with no local amenities.

https://www.inverclydenow.com/new-gouro ... ng-appeal/

Re: Strange & Unusual Houses

Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 1:34 pm
by smalex
It really is terrible!

Re: Strange & Unusual Houses

Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 3:38 pm
by sally maclennane
That is bloody awful and looks like an office block.