Tasteful Friends. Presented without comment. Make of it what you will

Oh stop it v8fairy...I'm just picking myself up off the floor!

Did you find Lady Fairford under any of that fru fru?

100% hun.

Embarras de richesses ersatz. This thread will be fun.

Several masterpiece objets. The disco-ball mirrored floor vase. The pair of giant diamond bracelet wall clocks. (To which city times are they set? London and Baku?) The helpful and dazzling rhinestone W A S H plaque in front of the sink.

It has to be among the cheapest and dreariest houses in the UK.

I assume it is an immigrant trying to look chic with all that horrific Chanel garbage strewn about. And all that pink netting tied around shit, it looks like it was all made with a hot glue gun. Burn it down and start over,

[quote] I assume it is an immigrant trying to look chic

Funny, I assumed the exact opposite.

I thought the back yard was a nightmare and then I saw the inside.

I'd have to do massive renovations before I could tolerate being in that space for more than five seconds. What a horrid, awful place. The person who did all that needs some serious therapy.

"Make of it what you will"

A factory for Bibi Gallini?

The massive "live, laugh, love" on the wall really is just the kicker.

R2 I'd credit Nicolas Fairford with better taste than this. He wouldnt do the Live Laugh Love horseshit for a start

Removing all of the chavvy crap, and viewing the photos with an eye to remote the furniture and tacky accessories (like the stone lions out front), because those won't come with the house - it's a decent house for the area. A quick commute into Liverpool's business district, and 15 miles from Manchester. It appears to be well-kept and in good shape.

The whole interior looks like one of Sandra Lee's tablescapes threw up

Live.

Laugh.

Puke oneself to death.

Chanel should show a capsule collection in this house and its garden, to develop some gritty street cred.

They don’t mention how many sq meters the interior has. Most US homes for sale give you the square footage.

Omg. If this was in my city here, I'd swear it was my friend Katie's house. She has horrible taste but thinks she's "classy". She's got glittery, rhinestone shit everywhere, cutesy pillows, and flowers and garlands everywhere. Sweet girl but her apt always looks overwrought and cluttered. Her tables are always set with placemats and dishware, collecting dust

stacked hatboxes and a ring stand (eleganza) on the stove.

Thank you, v8fairy!! I needed a laugh so much this morning. I'm truly grateful.

Do colored people live here?

I haven't figured out the total inattention to the "garden" design after the Petite Palais was completed.

Since r12 thinks it’s not completely hopeless…

Listed as 3 bedroom but I’d turn it into one with a box room. Although no half bath on the ground floor is bad.

No grass to mow? How do you stop various weeds coming up through the gravel?

Something sinister lurking in the back yard.

What year would this have been built?

"Minnie Mouse: Crackwhore. Tonight on Disney Crime."

If it weren’t for the fact that he’d never be caught in a place so low-rent as the suburbs of Liverpool, I’d swear this was an original Bobby Trendy design.

It's those pink bows around the dining room chairs that make me question reality. What the fuck does the owner think they are for?

If Hello Kitty was a serial killer she would live here.

Obviously decorated by a woman with no kids who is pathologically nesting her way into a shopping addiction.

A man lives in that little bijou jewel box too, poor thing. A game console in the master bedroom seems to be the only thing that’s his in the house, other than the television aerial laying in the back garden.

The Daisy Duck bows on the chairs are a nice touch.

Did a Beatle grow up there?

I'm reading 'Day of the Triffids' and this house reminds me of the flat the mains take refuge in early in the novel.

[quote]A man lives in that little bijou jewel box too, poor thing. A game console in the master bedroom seems to be the only thing that’s his in the house, other than the television aerial laying in the back garden.

R27 maybe he doesnt live there full time and has a bedsit or something he can escape to, and the game console and some personal effects are all he keeps there. I hope so for his sanity

the backyard chairs are all shitfaced from shame.

Perfection.

W A S H

the screaming kitchen cherubs look positively anguished.

A constant viewer of Lifetime movies idea of "classy".

Like being unstoppably force-fed candy floss.

Where's "LIVE"

It needs to be knocked down and the earth it stood upon should be salted. There is evil in that house. EEEVIIIIIL I TELL YOU!!!

And on first sight I thought that silly writing on the wall said 'LIVE LAUGH LOSE'.

It's on the floorplan, R16.

Somebody alert this guy!

R39, it would have said "HELP ELEANOR COME HOME" but she had already died in the church and was buried along with her name.

Gypsies probably

I'm finally seeing the inside of Tarquin and Sheridan Bucket's lovely home!

Putting all of the wretched interior design aside (please!) it's not terrible. I wouldn't choose black lacquer cabinets, but again, not terrible. The floor plan and size is workable for a small family, but would be tight for more than 1 child, particularly that it has but one loo. I would use the conservatory as a dining room and would turn the entire lounge into a comfortable living room with two functional seating areas, and the small bedroom (#3 on the floor plan) as an office or maybe a huge closet/dressing room. I don't see laundry in the listing or in pictures, but it's hard to tell with all of the pink/mirrored surfaces stuffed full of crap. The price seems on the high side given the comps, but the listing does report new heating equipment and the space looks recently redone.

Interesting to note that the broker (Purplebricks) offers "free" sales, but does point out that the owner is responsible for the photos, showings, open houses, et. al., but does offer these services for a fee. It appears all the realtor does in this instance is handle the paperwork which must be substantial; perhaps one of our UK readers would chime in with how sales such as this are usually handled and if this type of brokerage is common.

I want the table and chairs in the kitchen.

It would be the perfect wedding gift for my ex-husband.

998 sq.ft. with just one bathroom. No wonder the owner has gone mad.

It killed itself, R38. I don't blame it.

What's the difference between a semi-detached and a duplex?

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If I squint right, I see Jersey.

[quote] What's the difference between a semi-detached and a duplex?

In most places a duplex is a 2 floor apartment. A 3 floor apartment is a triplex. In other places (especially the south) a duplex is simply a single building with 2 units side by side.

A semi detached is a term you mainly hear in the UK. It's an end of terrace (aka row house in the US) unit only connected to another unit on one side.

Welcome to the home of Barbara Shartland.

Living in a semi-detached in the UK is seen as a sign of some level of class. Of course a huge percentage of people in the UK live in council houses (aka section 8 public housing in the US) so being lucky enough to score a semi detached unit doesn't mean a whole lot other than you're slightly higher trash than your neighbors.

I love the "semi detached" wording , its either attached to the house next door or it isnt . Youcan't have it both ways .

Everyone knows semi-detached means one shared wall. Sheesh.

It's a non-sense phrase. A oxymoron.

It's like calling yourself a "semi-virgin".

Dig in your heels, but you're no linguist.

I like the Chanel rug with the Versace Greek key border.

Uh... um... uh... er... hmmm.... Well. It could be... no... um.............

What do I make of this???

I thought semi-detached means two separate houses each with a garage where their garages shares a single wall i.e. the houses themselves are detached but not completely.. A house like this at the end of a row of terraced houses is called “end of terrace” and the listing is “getting above itself” by saying it is semi-detached, to quote Kath & Kim.

How many bottles of spray tan have visited this home?

This kind of Tasteful Friends is low-hanging fruit.

The owners of this house might be Turkish. I live in London in an area with a fairly large Turkish community, there is a big shop on the high street that sells all of the crap in that house. When you see it all together in a showroom, or in this case a house, you can hardly believe what you are seeing, it is so cheap looking, tacky and trashy.

Imaging being a visitor and having to pretend that you like it. Let’s face it, you could hardly just not mention it. They must be the laughing stock of the neighbourhood.

As crazy as it is, it has life, I bet she throws a great Prosecco Party with delicious appetizers. You could turn that mirrored vase into a disco ball with the right lighting. It reminds me of that Italian-American party palace in Altoona we saw a while back.

Once you throw everything out, it's a perfect blank slate. I'd love to get a bunch of hunky immigrants to move all that gravel around and make a garden.

I don't understand those grey window shades with the square holes

I absolutely love the interior of this house!!!

R64 actually that figures. Or Middle Eastern in general. They like their tacky blingy crap like that

R45 I guess there is an OK home under all the shit. I see one hint of beauty amongst it all, the period mantlepiece on the right in pic no 4. Would be interesting to see what this place looks like empty. I still hate the black kitchen, that'd have to go. I think the house is 50's or 60's, it was originally a pebbledash exterior like the one next door, so not exactly a great base to start from, when the UK has so many beautiful old Victorian/ Regency houses available that would be better from the get go

Dead Common!

They're selling because the husband asked for a divorce after turning gay right ?

R67 you’re not going to get a Victorian/Regency for this price though.

I live at the end of a row of four two-level townhomes ... attached on one side. I call mine an "end unit." (This is in California, not the UK.)

[quote] you’re not going to get a Victorian/Regency for this price though.

R70 it depends on location, found this one around the same size for 200K. They are out there, will need some work but then so does this

R54 Huge? According to the last census in 2021 17.1% (4.2 million) were in the social rented sector, for example through a local council or housing association. That's not even a majority.

I went to Prescot once. But then I died.

Weird Barbie’s place.

the walls are too low

Are these middle class or lower class homes? The prices re super cheap but they are so small. Everything looks so dad outside. Is grass only reserved for the wealthy or something? Where is the color?

R77 Working class and the tackiness of the interior design only adds to that. You won't get many middle class people wanting to live in that area.

[quote] —Miss Shirley Brahms, Detached house dweller and former shop girl

Only because they knocked down the houses on either side.

I like the Chanel bed set. That's about it. And that's a guilty pleasure kind of thing!

The sashes around the chairs are a mystery.

One detail that seems to have eluded everyone is the white van parked in the driveway. In the UK, this just tells you everything you need to know about the occupier of the house. And explains everything.

R82, can you elucidate? I assume it means the person is a contractor?

^ yep a Tradie.

Owned by gypsies/travelers