Gooooooood Moooooorning Househuuuuunnters! What do you fancy today? Let’s start with something huge, screamingly modern and, ahem, definitely in the lottery-winning category.
This modern house, clad in stainless steel, might feature the best bedroom ever. But the rest of it’s pretty nice too as you will see if you come in with me. It’s on the market for £2,850,000 with Hamptons International.
There are six bedrooms and the whole house is arond 5,000sq ft and for those of you to whom that doesn’t mean much I can only tell you that the average home in the UK is around 914sq ft (new builds are even smaller) but you probably got that from the six bedroom bit didn’t you. And the vast open plan living space pictured above.
But those enormous windows all round the building, which has just been refurbished and clad in stainless steel, are incredible aren’t they? Especially this bedroom below. Just imagine waking up in that bed. I think that must be one of hte best bedrooms I have ever seen.
And when you’ve woken up to that view, you get to use this en suite bathroom. Not too shabby.
Another modern house for you now. This time in Highgate, north London, on the edge of the famous cemetery where residents include Karl Marx, Douglas Adams, George Eliot and Malcolm McClaren. Well, I say modern, it was built in the 1880s but was converted into a single house from one with two garages in the 1970s and extended in 2001. It has just over 3,200 sq ft for you to squeeze into and it’s sort of similar to the one above.
Here’s part of the large open plan living space. It’s less industrial that the Surrey one but this is the original part of the house. This studio space wouldn’t be too bad to work in would it?
And, where the other one has a red glossy kitchen, this one is pink.
The bedroom, which has beams like the other, is a rather startling colour but loses on the windows. Mind you the cemetery is so beautiful that it may win on points there.
Finally the bathroom, which is more industrial and less luxurious than in the previous house. I like how the tiles have been chosen to match the windows. So, which one will you choose? This one is on the market via The Modern House for £3,450,000 which sums up London buying perfectly – you just get less for your money.
But we’re not really concerned with filthy lucre here, we’re all about the fantasy, so which will you choose. I am going to say that I want the first house in the second location. What about you?
Let me know your choices in the comment boxes below. Have a great weekend.
Because it’s just around the corner I will take the Highgate house.
Oh my goodness… What an amazing studio…. So much natural light coming in. Love the ground floor bedroom too!
There are so many things to like about the first one, in spite of the fact that from the outside it looks like a strip mall. I expect to see a nail salon sign over one of the doors.
I love the skylights and the floor-to-ceiling windows. That bedroom IS awesome. Though I wonder whether they have electric shutters on the outside to block the sun when it’s hot (I suppose that if you have a 5K square foot house you don’t worry about the environment and just crank up the A/C). The size is rather obscene. The living room looks like they set it up in part of a furnishings retailer that hasn’t gotten all its stock yet.
Houses in the UK don’t usually have A/C. Mind you they don’t usually have to cope with the hot sun much either!