Tasteful friends: 4 bedroom Mews House in London

[quote]the price is 😲.

ridiculous!

there are hardly any windows, you're just paying for that ghastly "decor".

Looks like the office of a very expensive plastic surgeon. Kudos for the Trump Troll art, though 😂

did you see where it is? at the end of some truly crappy mews.

stuff of nightmares.

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Who in tarnation would want that monstrous painting in their home?

This listing could serve as a stealthy ad for an AbFan revival: AbFab Apocalypse: Monsoon Season!

FUN FACT: the front of the mews was the location for Real World London.

It feels like the interior of a mod spaceship from a 1960s scifi movie. More clinical-techno-space age than comfy.

What moronic interior designer chose that Dump Troll 'art'? Or did the current owner choose it? That alone points to extremely poor taste.

The house is too modern and cold. ugh

Are we sure the troll doll isn't Boris Johnson?

R8 The circles around the eyes and the tiny hands make it certain.

No, it isn't R8. The creature on that picture is far too beautiful to be Boorish. It clearly is his American cousin Orange Dump.

What is a mews?

Nothing about that place looks cozy. Sterile and echoey, yes. Cozy, no.

R11, they were houses usually built over two or three floors: the ground level was for either horses or vehicles and the upper levels were servants quarters. They were usually built close to luxurious townhouses or mansions in major cities in the UK, where space limitations would prevent the owners from having large stables and gardens.

Since they tend to be in areas that are highly sought after, mews houses are usually VERY expensive and are remodelled to be as spacious and luxurious as possible, since the original spaces tend to be very small and unappealing.

Its HIDEOUS. Claustrophobic, feels like a luxury cell for keeping a VIP prisoner. Possibly on a spaceship or underground or under the sea. The finishes are HEAVY and threatening.

Like every expensive dwelling in London, stripped of any interest or coherence and turned into a modern blank box. I guess that’s what the 1% want. Hard to find anything nice with a historic patina in London anymore.

Now THIS is a mews house. It was built in the 1840s, but it's technically part of the One Fifth Avenue co-op in Greenwich Village.

A characterless mews house with a mostly subterranean (or may as well be) floor plan with a terrible circulation scheme (unless maybe you like hosting multiple, intimate parties simultaneously), and, in place of any architectural distinction whatsoever, some metal screens from a Chinese restaurant.

I couldn't sell this place fast enough if it were given to me. I prefer historic houses but if a house is to be modern, it has to display some architectural finesse and there's none here, just some marble bathroom vanities over ordered from some marginally 3-star-plus hotel job.

Who wants a dumpy modern mews house that looks like a garage with a couple AirBnB units for that enormous sum? For less half the price I'd prefer a real house, above ground, with some glorious rooms and windows and architecture - the money saved will buy all the car service you could want and you'd live in a house that didn't look like the laundry rooms of a middle class Dubai house.

@r11, In the US we call them carriage houses

It a fantastic refurb but is monster overpriced!

Cozy as an Airport Sheraton!

I like it. I would redo some of the styling and furnishings so it doesnt look so pristine and cold, but it looks perfect.

Massively overpriced for the location.

i like it. kinda james bond.

i love the groovy media room.

Massively overpriced ? Its under 10 million US dollars...and a few blocks from Kensington Palace. I would say its very reasonable. The poster who linked something similar in New York is priced at 9 million, is smaller, has no garage, and comes with an almost 5,000 dollar monthly maintenance fee.

Hate the pool. Too much like the HS or Y pools. Echoey and sterile. I love a nice landscaped, lagoon pool.

Much prefer the house @ R17.

[quote]Are we sure the troll doll isn't Boris Johnson?

Aren't Drumpf & Boris politically one and the same?. Except Boris is highly educated and possibly more interesting? Drumpf is a totally empty vessel.

Mews houses don't have windows in the back because the rich douchebags in the big house didn't want poor eyes looking at them while they frolicked in the yard. Excuse me, "garden".

R25 the pool is about the only thing i DONT hate in this place. That they have managed to fit a pool into it at all is a bit of an achievement. Its a pity the rest is so cold sterile and institutional, it'd be like living in a hospital, or a mid range hotel with pretensions. I actually dont mind the layout but I'd want to gut it and start again, but the underlying architecture looks pretty grim to start with, looks to be 60's or 70's. There is simply nothing attractive in the whole place bar the pool. The garaging appears to be stacked which is quite a clever use of space.

For the cost of completely gutting it and redoing the interior I'd rather just buy something like the one in R17 and use the money saved for any upgrades or additions I'd want. Its not only just over half the price but a far nicer piece of architecture to start with. The house n R17 just needs a few light fixture changes and other minor tweaks.

[quote] Aren't Drumpf & Boris politically one and the same?. Except Boris is highly educated and possibly more interesting? Drumpf is a totally empty vessel.

As human beings, besides being messy-haired bleached blond populists they are quite different.

But as political entities...it's remarkable how linked they and the UK/US have turned out to be.

Xenophobia and nationalism led to Brexit, an unlikely and self-destructive election result. That led to Trump over here. Trump caused chaos and always came out on top against all odds. Boris did the same, surviving a recall election that endorsed his madness. Trump had a spectacular downfall. Boris followed with a spectacular downfall. Both were elected against odds, both wreaked havoc and became more popular and powerful, both were reckless megalomaniacs, both caused absolute chaos within their respective political systems and both were booted out and left like angry little boys being sent to their bedrooms. So bizarre how complementary the two countries have been during this era of insanity.