Tasteful Friends , a Georgian house in Devon, got it from same outfit that listed the Tudor joint Henry VIII gave his ex

All that carpeting. Oh, dear.

Perfect place to read Jane Austen, the Brontes, before going on to Dickens and Trollope. On a dark and stormy night, curl up with Wlikie Collins!

Love the kitchen...love everything about it. While the Tudor job could be pokey and dark, this house is lihjt, airy, and cheerful.

Why are the Dachshunds in the photos? Does a relative of the Kaiser own it?

What a beautiful setting for a home. I really like the L.R. windows, too. Whoever lives there ( or gets to live there) is very lucky.

For me the real prize of the place is the semi-octagonal room at the middle of the house with the huge windows. It's a lovely, bright room and good proportions. The entrance hall and main stair where we see some wood floor here and there are very good, too. The rest of the house is not bad, it's just that very plain Late Georgian/Early Victorian look. You could decorate the hell out of it and end up with a beautiful house, but it would be more in the decoration than in the architecture for me and that's its shortcoming in my eyes.

Where it should have a good layered country house look, for me it's a little tentative and flouncy at the same time, lacking confidence in doing something with a collection of rather plain rooms. I prefer a stronger house that doesn't need so much to rely on curtains and acres of laid carpeting and mediocre furniture. It's that they didn't have enough money to pull off the decoration.

All that could be fixed, I'd just rather start with a house that had more presence of architecture.

R4 the rest of the house is a bit plain for my liking too, but as you say, can be fixed by decorating the everlasting fuck out of it. Very few places have perfect architecture, but this is mostly pretty damn nice

One incidental (though not inexpensive to correct) fault. Of the six or 7 rooms where chandeliers and hanging lights are shown, every single one is vastly underscaled and in most cases ugly.

It's a common mistake, but the house is a textbook example of why you should always buy a chandelier that looks a size or two too large - and never the one that looks one-fifth large enough for the space.

I think it's perfect as is.

Evelyn Waugh on the bathroom that connected the bedrooms of Charles and Sebastian in 'Brideshead Revisited.'

[quote]We shared what had once been a dressing-room and had been changed to a bathroom twenty years back by the substitution for the bed of a deep, copper, mahogany-framed bath that was filled by pulling a brass lever heavy as a piece of marine engineering; the rest of the room remained unchanged; a coal fire always burned there in winter. I often think of that bathroom — the water colours dimmed by steam and the huge towel warming on the back of the chintz armchair — and contrast it with the uniform, clinical, little chambers, glittering with chromium-plate and looking-glass, which pass for luxury in the modern world.

R8 was meant for yet another TF thread, about a small terraced house in Islington. But such a room would be welcome here among the too many bedrooms.

The grounds and surrounding countryside are so beautiful.

Two utility rooms, must be a former live-in staff bedroom and sitting room as there’s a bathroom nearby with a bathtub.

What is the unlabeled room to the right of the snug? Just a box room? because I can’t find the “study” on the floor plan.