ไม่สามารถเล่นวิดีโอนี้
ขออภัยในความไม่สะดวก
This Edwardian Home Isn't Selling…What's the Problem? | Unsellables UK Full Episode
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.พ. 2021
- John and Anne are splitting up, and want to sell their 100-year-old, four-bedroom, semi-detached Edwardian home in Finchley, North London…But even after dropping the price £65,000, they’ve had just eight viewings in four months, and not a single offer. The couple is perplexed - especially since the grand home features a large garden, extraordinary period details, and a prime park location… However, their Bohemian hangout also features reams of clutter and unfinished DIY jobs, peeling wallpaper, way too many office spaces, and a dated kitchen whose groovy days are long gone.
Enter property experts John Rennie and Sofie Allsopp. They promise to transform the home from seller’s nightmare to buyer’s dream. And while John has a serious chat with the agent and vies for a national marketing campaign, Sofie breathes new life into the kitchen, bedrooms, and living spaces, and reveals the home’s historic charm. Will their plan pay off with a sale?
Subscribe to Unsellables here: bit.ly/2KaAn0q
Watch more full episodes:
Season 1 (UK): bit.ly/3sFxAhj
Season 1: bit.ly/3no6icb
Season 2: bit.ly/3mqfSdk
Season 3: bit.ly/34goGMH
**********************************************************
Can a slick makeover and big sales campaign help desperate homeowners sell their 'unsellable' homes? Packed with practical advice and tips to add real value to your house, this bold series shows viewers how to transform unwanted properties into unstoppable homes.
Unsellables UK - The Bryants - Season 1, Episode 8
#UnsellablesUK
![[UNCUT] เพื่อไทยดันอุ๊งอิ๊งนั่งนายกฯ หลังเศรษฐาถูกถอดถอน | คนดังนั่งเคลียร์ | 15 ส.ค. 67](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/SpprmDJ6QEE/mqdefault.jpg)
Even though I am not moving, I derive MUCH (needed) stimulus, from these episodes, to declutter and clean up my home! 😊
The same. When looking at houses to buy you really notice when people don’t take care of their homes. Refreshing walls, clearing out and small repairs makes a massive difference.
Ditto!
no kidding. sometimes Look and see I am not that bad, after all. Still need all the inspiration I can get. This series. just makes me feel good. Working on the closets, tomorrow..with this in the background....I can do it!
Agree - my sin is mainly papers that I tend to "file" in carry bags and then put the bags in the WIR - I do occasionally purge them but watching this show has also made me realise I have some neatly tucked away large travel bags and suitcases in built in wardrobes - I don't remember what they contain nor have I needed the contents for a number of years - time for a Swedish death clean me thinks 😂😂
Me too.
This is just horrific. Aside from the hideous kitchen, the hoarded rooms, etc, I can only imagine how filthy it is because no one could ever clean with all that junk around. Does the little guy really have to ask the agent why it hasn't sold? I think it's pretty obvious.
I think the agent should have been honest and told him its a cluttered mess
It baffles my mind how messy people are oblivious to their mess.
What's the bathroom looking like? If the kitchen and the rest of the house looks like that.
Agents feel threatened if they have to be honest with homeowners. Everyone puts too much pressure on the agent to sell a disgusting home that is severely overpriced. I see so much greed in these videos.
"little guy" hasn't seen the inside of the place. He has NO clue its hoarded.
Amazing - they had to decrease their asking price £65,000 because they couldn't manage to declutter and repaint. They need to use the money from the sale to create two new households in London, and they just didn't feel like cleaning up. Incredible.
Gould be some resentment there. Not sure but....
It's a mental health issue when people can't declutter. They can't see how filthy things are and can't sort this issue out.
@@UnseenSpirit It couldn't have been much of a mental issue if all it took to get them to clean up was a film crew taping the mess.
@@lesliecas2695 well hoarding is a mental health issue. A film crew coming is quite a big step since how often do people get a film crew to help sell their home?
@Nancy Fox hoarding could be related to OCD, schizophrenia and depression.
I think the house was a reflection of the marriage. Cluttered, dark, worn out... Seeing it painted white, fresh and uncluttered is such a relief.
OMG who can live happy in there!!
Everything looked so much better. I can't believe they were trying to sell that house filled with all that dusty clutter.
But I don't understand why they didn't make the kitchen doorway taller, or remove all the torn stickers from the bedroom door?
The doorway I guess might be difficult, but stickers come off with WD40---super easy fix. Why don't people clean when they want to sell?
I still wanted to redo the redo..
I was looking for this comment!
When they did the price comparison they did say it was 2008
The redo is as hideous as the original do - just with less stuff
And did I see them paint over wallpaper! That's a cheap shot...makes things so much harder.
@@marzymarrz5172Je déteste les makeover car ça donne plus de travail pour le nouvel acheteur. Je préfère voir la maison dans l’état actuel pour bien estimer les travaux à faire. Masquer les problèmes, c’est de l’arnaque😢
What the hell were they thinking! That was a huge disaster of a mess! They must not have really needed to sell it because they didn’t clean up or declutter anything. I’m shocked at how it looked when they were trying to sell it.
It looked like the owners were old university professors who stockpiled everything.
When you're going through a divorce, there's no sense of "home" or "family". I've been there, and this place looks like two people no longer care about each other, and maybe not even themselves. I hope that it all worked out.
@@yesiownfrodo In the midst of all these negative comments, which are pretty easy to blurt out, your comment stands out as astute and understanding. We´re all human and life is messy; I feel for these two and also hope it all worked out.
@@alexsilva-vn7jc Thank you. I feel for them as well. It's terribly sad.
My house was sold within a week, while my neighbors house, exactly the same, had been on the market for over 6 months and they only got lowball offers and couldn't understand why. When they asked, I bluntly told them the truth. That it was a dirty mess with clutter all over the place and nobody likes that. They had trouble believing me. They even had plates with half eaten food on the couch and on the floor! Yeah well she said, you know the cat didn't eat it all so I just left it!! We then offered to help them out and spend a weekend on their house, cleaning, painting and getting them to pack boxes with stuff and have them hire a storage unit. They had new pictures taken by their real estate agent and low and behold the house sold in two or three weeks for their original asking price! I just couldn't believe how they could not see that their house was a complete dump. Even if you had vision it was almost impossible to see the potential. Maybe this couple also just don't realize that their mess puts people off. They are so used to it and maybe attached to the (for them nice) atmosphere so for them it's really no issue.
You are a gem of a neighbor to have helped them like you did.
Kay Nucklehead Thank you! Sometimes people just need a helping hand!
In all fairness in today’s market that “dump” would have sold no problem. These days people just want to move to their desired neighborhood and worry about fixing it later.
People buy on emotion most of the time unless they are professional house flippers. Plus they often have little money to fix it up once they move in. it's common sense. However, common sense is rare these days.
People's norms vary hugely. They prob grew up in similar. I did viewings as a job for years. I'd say 85% got the tidying up thing & it being well maintained repair wise. The remaining 15% had to be shown property details of houses like theirs that were not borderline hoarder health hazards, in order to 'get' the problem.
I'd be ashamed to have my home filmed in such a state. Despite the 'work' it still hadn't sold at the end of 6 weeks. Not surprised. It's had 50+ years of neglect, it was going to take a ton of money to sort it out..
I thought they would open up that kitchen doorway!
Doing any work to that masonry bearing wall would be expensive, messy, and time consuming. First, planning permission would be needed because it affects the structure. That would involve a structural engineer and engineering drawings. That was almost certainly a serving hatch originally, so it was simple to remove the wall below the hatch to create the doorway.
@@michaeltutty1540 pity, it really was a draw back!
Me too!! 🤣
Michael Tutty With that originally being a serving hatch, would there have been a real doorway somewhere else? (. I know that sounds like a really stupid question, but I still am curious.)
big $$$ to start changing walls - thats an owners purvey not exiting
So you took down a big, round, white, vintage glass lighting fixture and replaced it with a big, round, white PAPER fixture? I don't get it.
Exactly. I really question her abilities. Why not paint the cabinets rather than cover them?
And the paper one looks cheap. Who will pay $850k+ for cheap things?
I was thinking they should at least get some nice dining pendant lights over the table
Agreed! That paper light looks like it belongs in a playroom.
I agree. Looks so cheap!!!
"The lack of interest is probably due to the owners' interest in hoarding" 😂😂😂
Do ya think ????
👌👍🤣
1:28 Teenage Snape popping up on the balcony was to funny. 😂
The atmosphere in the house screamed apathy and depression, probably a reflection of the state of the relationship. That alone would put most people off. It looked better after the makeover but the whole place would need a serious overhaul in order to change that dingy feeling hanging in the air.
If I bought that house, I would be upset with all the cheap fixes in the kitchen. Stick-on vinyl? No way.
They put their house on the market 4 MONTHS ago, and haven't packed a single knick-knack? REALLY? What did they think - that the new buyers would pack for them? If you're leaving, why keep all your stuff laying around? How can a place like this even be cleaned properly? Of course the make-over was a vast improvement. But there was still way too much clutter IMHO. And the make-over could have had a little more imagination. Painting everything white is hardly a design theme.
Especially since they would have to separate their belongings 🤣
Leaving chipped paint on the doors, around light switches, cracks on the ceilings in the kitchen, and that duck or knock your head off doorway into the kitchen? How is that "design"?
The owners of these homes always anger me with their inability to even dust their homes, seriously are they afraid of vacuums? They all lack common sense. Just pack up the little stuff, the stuff you aren't using daily, and the stuff that collects dust, and clean. How hard is it?
On this show they paint over ceramic wall tile and paint over wallpaper. They really cut corners here.
Not an expert, but it seems that when selling a house is better been boring and safe with white painting than doing a statement with bright colors. At least the new owners can paint it if they don´t like it
I love that word " knick knack". My grammy had those. I was stuck dusting the " knick knacks" when I was little bc they would collect dust
I'm 5'9" and ducking into a kitchen several times a day would get old real fast.
I thought that was his mother. It greatly annoys me when people who have what should be a beautiful piece of history, disrespect it so much. This gem still needs so much more work.
Yep...i can see why they out grew each other...
Superficial much ??
They just put a coat of lipstick on it! What about bathrooms and we never saw the master bedroom. And the kitchen is so horrible. Deep pockets are required to fix that place.
@@Sunnbuzz Not at all. You don't seem to appreciate historical buildings.
@@momof2momof2 My comment was in regards to you thinking it was his mother
I cant believe they covered the brown with a white that was different from the other white on the cabinets. This whole makeover was abysmal.
just a just clean up and cover up plan. it's a bit scary because you know the half done `DIY attempts were the closest they've come to maintenance too. The bathrooms, plumbing and electric are probably as much of a mess as the kitchen was.
Oof!! THAT MUCH MONEY for a house with painted-over kitchen tiles and vinyl contact paper on the cabinets?? No, thank you.
Boy indeed! You'll have to be completely ignorant on materials not to see right through this cheap cheap cheap cover ups..
You read my mind. Contact paper on the kitchen counters? nd what was that furry stuff on the ceiling they tried to paint over? For how much money? I'd expect top of the line appliances, counter tops, cabinets and flooring. Wonder what the bathroom looks like? A bucket and a brush? This is the most awful makeover I've seen from this show.
Well, remember - they aren't doing this work out of charity. They are limited by the budget of the sellers, and obviously these sellers aren't willing to spend a penny to fix the house up the way it needs to be. At the point when this was filmed (in like 2008), the market for real estate had crashed around the world and we were in a worldwide Recession as a result of the financial fall-out crisis that spread from the US to Canada, the UK and elsewhere in Europe. They sold the house for a bargain price and I'm sure as soon as the market started to pick back up again the new buyers were able to take out a rehabilitation loan and get the place further fixed up. The main thing that Sophie and crew do is get the place at least presentable, even if they're putting bandaids on a lot of injuries; at wounds have been cleaned and dressed for later treatment!
@@jannibal9273 I totally understand and appreciate that, and for the most part, the house looked way better, but the things I mentioned looked better before the makeover, in my opinion. I do think I'd rather have the old tiles and brown cabinets than painted tiles and contact-paper cabinets. However, I think the flooring and backslash looked better after the makeover.
@@ek5384 What bothers me is that the sellers haven't invested in their home! The kitchen will have to be ripped out! They didn't even show the WC nor the basement! We're looking at a £150,000 investment to bring this house up to snuff--not to mention the roof needs to be redone and house painted!
You must have to look pretty hard to find people who are SO Clueless as to why their house isn’t selling!!! Seriously??!!
Being That blind to the obvious is ridiculous!😤😡
I agree with other commenters here, that the other white light was much more suited to the house. It's funny they don't spend any time outside trimming away overgrown bushes and dead branches to allow more sunlight in too.
Buyers DO have imagination. What they imagine in cases like this is the huge mess the sellers will probably leave behind for them to clean up and repair!
and the truth is, all of that is still there, under the gallons of white paint!
Am I the only one who liked the kitchen tiles that they painted over?
No, I was surprised they painted over those tiles, I thought they were beautiful- & they should've removed them, if they didn't like them, not paint them!
I didn't like them but shame to paint over them.
I can’t understand why someone would paint o er tiles either, never heard that before. I don’t understand either why the agents didn’t tell them to tidy and clean before viewings!
This house has simply gorgeous bones. To bring it back from the state it was in after the work would not be difficult. That door from the dining room to the kitchen was more than likely a serving hatch, with wall beneath it. That is a solid masonry bearing wall, so raising the lintel would be time consuming and expensive. I would turn it back into a hatch and free up wall space for more work surface and a more logical layout as part of the kitchen remodel. For decorating, I would hit the Britannia wallpaper books. They have, or had, reprinted papers from the 20s and 30s in a scrubbable solid vinyl wallpaper that is dry strippable. Incredibly easy to hang, and incredibly durable. My folks used a few of their papers back in the 70s, and 40 years on they still looked as fresh as the day they were hung. There was no discolouration or faded patches under the pictures, either, so the colours had remained true.
OMG just knock off the selling price for redecorating and get on with it!! I'd snap that up with a positive structural inspection report in a minute because I can see past their junk!! But I'd definitely want a home inspection report first.
Why don’t you buy it then?
I'm guessing that the house would pass a structural survey easily. There were no cracks in the walls, and there did not appear to be any bowing in any of the walls
@@michaeltutty1540 The kitchen portal is a huge issue though.
@@sherunswithscissors I live in the USA, in a wheelchair for 10 years, it's not exactly handicapped accessible.
they did knock of £65,000 and it still didn't sell, that's why it was on the show
That brown door is still a mess
Maybe if their home hadn’t been in such a mess their relationship wouldn’t have been in such a mess. However, it seems one reflects the other in this case!
Both of them are borderline hoarders. In the beginning they said "They have been living in John's childhood home for the past 20 years." Yeah, it's easy to hoard up a house that you likely didn't have to pay for yourself.
It reflects their life together.
Having just spent a year looking at houses, with a rather astute agent, we could tell when we were looking at a home going through a marriage breakdown. It just didn’t have the same love and attention as a happy family home. I think it is a bit of a vicious cycle, unhappy marriage leads to less interest building a organized and beautiful home together. Shabby home, make you start blaming the other person and dreaming of your own place... and then back to the begining
The state of your home is a good reflection of mood. I worked doing viewings for years. Chaotic house usually means chaotic people who are flakey to deal with.
@@sarahholland2600 - Or serious longterm illness.
I'm doing Swedish Death Cleaning now. I'm at the point that I want to let go of "things".
I bought a house at 1/10th that price with painted backsplash. It looks ridiculous and was the first thing I changed. It was a cheap change with tile on clearance at Lowe's and it only took a weekend to do it.
Obviously not in London.
The idea of this programme is to keep the reno cheap as its not a reno, its a clean/ brighten up onlyand sell the house
This is London, and an historic and large house. If I had the money, I would snap up that house right away, at a discount price compared to similar properties in London. These properties aren't a dime a dozen. Once sold, the couple will of course move out and take all their furniture and belongings with them. Then I'd have an empty Edwardian house which could easily be repainted and wallpapered, with a bit of remodelling in the kitchen etc. A bit of a makeover of the garden etc. and you'll have a great property that will increase in value and could later be sold at a profit.
They should have done a redo themselves. Ex-hubby move to up stairs with a small kitchen in a bedroom. Downstairs ex-wife just add a small shower room with one room as a bedroom. They would be happy and divorced but financially secure forever. Son could have one bedroom in ex-hubby's upstairs abode.
Whoever buys it will quickly see that they need a completely new kitchen because the update is so cheaply done. I suppose it at least shows the house’s potential. I’d be worried about what the rest of the paint is hiding if I were a buyer.
A month and a half and still unsold? It's that kitchen doorway.
I know! Why couldn't they raise the entrance?
@@clemdane it probably wasnt in the budget i believe, i think they only go with 5k or something like that? this would also explain the cheap cover ups and painting over the ceiling etc
@@Shiralyn Yes, I think so as well. If the asking price reflects the cost of needed renovations, it should sell; it was a slow market which is difficult. The main thing was to get the junk out and make it superficially presentable. That's what they did.
@@Shiralyn That's a shame. It seems like the UK show is underfunded compared with the Canadian.
@@clemdane I'm am guessing that there is a good reason the door from dining room to kitchen is as it is. Most likely it was originally a hatch for passing dishes between the rooms. People moving from the one to the other would have to go through the corridor. That is a bearing wall, so the kept the original height and width of the hatch, simply removing the wall beneath the opening. Changing the height of the door would involve some fairly major structural work, as most often in England bearing walls are solid masonry. I would reinstate the hatch, creating more wall space for much needed work surface. I'm betting that someone will spend the money to open up that wall using a steel, creating an open plan (UGH) kitchen/diner that flows through into the sitting room.
Why on earth did they not paint the bedroom doors? It is not expensive, is quick to do and those doors really needed sprucing up.
or just bought MIN-WAX to restain. i did an old home with some very unique, very old wood and put on a coat. that was the very first thing the buyers exclaimed about on this 1920's home. sold within 2 weeks.
My thoughts, too!
"Viewings are up 300%. What? From one to three?
Not interested in talks with realtors or neighbors!!! Just interested in seeing more footage of the guy who does the actual work of remodeling and fixing!
Hate that paper party balloon thing over the living room.
I agree. The glass fitting was so much better
The "paper party balloon" is actually a classic (Eastern) light shade!
@@mtm00 it's a much loved student & first time buyer solution to expensive lightshades. I did viewings for years. You don't see it often in the over 35's homes. ( I did viewings for an EA for years ).
A big house like that needs constant work of renovations. Most people are not aware of that. I think the makeover could have been done better but I guess it was a matter of money. When I was in that situation I would take my personal stuff away, clean everything, paint everything white and put a simple but new kitchen in and you are done. Took a few weeks and maybe 15.000 $ but it would be sold in 1 week.
It was the family home. Unless they have a second mortgage, it should be mortgage free. Lord knows, they haven't put a lot of money into it!
Unsellables always have the same problems: over priced, cluttered / dirty, tacky decor or some combination of all 3
Well, it's still a mess. A better, tidier mess, but while I can see past such things, and to bones of a house, not everyone can, or wants to do the work. In addition to the very sad kitchen, there is the dirty, dinged woodwork and walls, nails sticking out of plaster, filthy walls in the son's "new" room (and check the wall around the light switches at 26:15 - along with the line of dirt below it). We don't know anything about the state of the bathrooms or of the back garden, and the front garden's a mess. Whoever buys this house has a great deal of work ahead of them. I've worked with such things, but the potential must be worth whatever problems an inspection uncovers and the cost of upgrades and repairs. No one wants to buy a "potentially" beautiful money pit.
The baseboards under the front living room window has gaps in it. I'd see that and would be calculating how much it'd cost to repair.
@@happydays1336 And check the kitchen ceiling at 22:03 ...>< Nope. And then she says "It's got just the right ingredients to suit "most" families' discriminating tastes." Uh-huh.
@@happydays1336 oh geez
The important thing is that the asking price reflects the cost of all the renovations. But with so many renovations it would be hard to calculate the cost and buyers just leave saying “it’s too much work”
Sad. They truly lived separate lives in this home. The only thing they have in common now is their son. I hope they happiness on their own..
The door of the bedroom that had been the son's room needs to be painted. There are bits of stickers, dribbles of paint, etc., on it. It sticks out like a sore thumb.
Imagine if you DID buy that house and then watched the show? You’ve got to feel like a chump! Spending so much money and realizing much of it was either smoke and mirrors or inexpensive upgrades that merely looked good enough.
Don't people realize that if they sell their home they will have to pack their stuff and move it out? I started selling and packing a year ago (I'm lazy) and my house isn't even on the market yet. I don't think they really want to leave.
I loved how quirky and eclectic it was before, my own place is rather similar But I certainly wouldn't expect viewers/buyers to see beyond that boho chaos! The after is beautiful, open and airy in every room. Really lovely after 💖
Yes. My aesthetic too but I can understand that you need to depersonalize a space for selling. Love their quirky, eclectic style though.
Okay, I now know where I fit into this world---I adored this house BEFORE the "fix-up". I guess I'm a Boho Artist Craftsperson...
Ann looked sad at the cafe. She couldn’t even look at John.
What is Sophie Allsopp doing these days? she is such a charming person.
She’s awful. Childish, patronising and disrespectful.
I would have refinanced and gotten a roommate to pay off my ex! That house is a vintage heaven!
Just tell most people - in the 6 months before selling, start a major de-cluttering. After getting rid of unncessary stuff (keeping photos of them if you wish), rent a storage unit - taking out 1/3 of furniture and items. Some of the items in this house would make ideal garden decorations. Buy new couches if necessary or stage one or two rooms of the house. At least this time - all signs of children did not have to be taken out - even if the son was older - he was able to keep some of his possessions. And work away at fixing all the small areas ....that don't necessarily take a lot of money, just takes attention to do them.
It's a Beautiful house despite the accumulated clutter, however it's always difficult for the average buyer to be able to see past it.
It looked dirty, dingy and neglected. Now, someone could live in it while finishing the renovations, which are needed throughout. This was all spit and glue to be re-done later. But, a beautiful one-of-a-kind home in a fabulous location will be the result.
These 2008 prices are so much lower than they are in 2021. 4 bed semi detached houses in this area with garden and balcony are worth 900-1.5 million. I like the printed tile back splash, now everything is white! Also should have made the door to the kitchen bigger
If a house is filthy I assume bad maintenance of larger issues. The price has to be really low to spark my interest.
I bet even the holy Buddha couldn't meditate with all that clutter there..
watched several Unsellables... main plan - remove clutter and excess furniture, then add a fresh coat of paint. Due to the time constraints for turn around, guess that is the best you can do... but I saw so many unfinished areas that needed a touch up or repair that were not even touched. Guess only so much you can do in a 20 min. program. If anything it should motivate home owners to finished unfinished touch up areas.
This house was a real disaster! The team did a great job cleaning it up. But I wonder what the bathrooms and other bedroom would be like.
21:45 "The kitchen was a Decor CRIME SCENE" LOL!
Aww but miss Anthony's touch ,I can do without this other guy talking to realtors,no shade just like Anthony's participation better!
This episode is from an older season when they filmed in the UK. Anthony is in the newer episodes in Canada!
I prefer when Sofie takes the homeowners into comparable homes that have sold, rather than this guy
wasting a lot of time talking to random people and grilling the realtor.
@@bookmagicroe9553 absolutely agree!
Yes, I miss Anthony, too!
So this lazy couple wanted 850,000 pounds for a hoarding pile of junk? Unbelievable! I did not like the son's room before or after. Why was the kitchen entrance shorter than the other celings ? These sellers made me mad clinging to junk.
Thank you for the uploads. Love this show.
A lot of the quick fixes would not fly in the U.S. I'd hate to deal with painted tile.
You always say to get rid of religious artwork -- how does that not include the Buddha head, which you apparently really like because you show it in the after several times.
Thank you, her 'religious artwork' statements irked me a lot. Now I know why. This world is going down the toilet. No amount of paint can cover up our foolishness!
It's on trend decor wise so loads of people have it. What they don't have is religious figures & pictures & crosses everywhere.
@@sarahholland2600 buddha statues are religious. Whether or not its on trend is beside the point. Its religious and most people dont think about it when they buy their buddha heads
Dump an agent and run a newspaper ad ... sure .. great advice ... right up there with painting over tiles instead of doing it right and replacing them ... what a joke.
I was wondering where that missing sheet of mine went. Now I see it's on this make over's living room floor!
The tacky, cheap cosmetic treatments alway baffle me. Those would turn me off as much as the clutter.
What's with the paper light shade in an Edwardian house? The original fixture was beautiful. As for the rest, it would cost a fortune to do it up right, especially the kitchen, but they worked miracles for not much money on transforming this horrendous, hoarded, filthy dumpster of a house
Why on earth did they not fix the entrance to the kitchen. You should not have to duck to enter a room! They left the yellow paint in the son's room, why? Also, i am tired of John asking the estate agents why haven't sold the house when you can see that (in this case) it is dirty, dusty, cluttered and in disrepair.
The kitchen is a nono. It's technically usable, but that's it. The door needs to be raised and in my opinion the whole kitchen needs to be ripped out and redone. It looks so improvised with tons of things tacked on.
Raising the lintel in a masonry bearing wall requires structural engineering drawings and planning permission because it affects structure. It would be better to return the opening to a serving hatch. That would allow more work surface on that wall of the kitchen.
You are right. I was under the impression that this was the only entrance to the kitchen. I didn't see the other door.
After declutering, one knew it would sell, the painting was the bonus. Of course the kitchen update was also a plus . Hopefully their new places are kept.tidy.
I've got questions about the floating ceiling in the dining area as well....
I'm confused as to where the homeowners are supposed to be sleeping between the fix-up and sale
since they are moving anyway, why haven't they cleared out the cluter? nightmare!
I did some digging and this house was indeed listed for sale in 2009 but to this day has not been sold.
Are you serious ?!
Yeah, they need all new drywall, BRAND new kitchen, new wood flooring, new windows, crown molding and wainscoting , bring back the vintage lighting, clean it up and hang it properly, a lovely , light color besides white(!) and a couple more period gilded mirrors and maybe then people will pay almost a million pounds!!!
I use to live in a small flat next to this road , the houses and park are great . I’m sure it will have sold , young families who can’t afford hampstead & highgates crazy prices can’t put some Money into this and it will be worth a million in 5+ years
Omg, it still needs heaps of work. Rip out the kitchen and start over and rip out that old, disgusting carpet. Yuck.
Since they dropped the price by 65,000 the new owners have plenty’s of funds to redo the kitchen
21:13 I know this room is a mess, needs work and a declutter but more in style in 2021 than the makeover. Luv that green chair
That bloody hobbit-door into the kitchen...are you yanking my chains? Surely that was never an original feature of this house? Or were the servants all hobbit-sized then?
LOL
I'm guessing that was originally a hatch in the masonry bearing wall. Raising the height would be a major job of work, involving planning consent and structural engineering expertise. Originally anyone going from dining room to kitchen would go by way of the hall. I would reinstate the hatch, giving more wall space for much needed work surface as part of a total gut rehab of the kitchen.
Keep in mind that back in Edwardian times, a middle class family who could afford a home like that would have had a cook/housekeeper, so direct access from dining room to kitchen would not have been a priority when the house was built.
@@michaeltutty1540 I actually thought that it was the cavity for a fireplace, which back then would have been part of the kitchen. But you are probably right about it being a hatch.
One of the (many) things that bugs me about this makeover is that they didn't do anything about that stupid short kitchen doorway!
@@cheekypigg not that much shorter.
The first problem was not have a professional photographer. But man what a difference the after, gorgeous gorgeous home.
Did I miss a fireplace in the living room? Edwardian house would have one. The kitchen doorway is awful. Definately not worth the money!
The chimney breast is still there, so reinstating a fireplace would not be difficult.
get rid of the dude, Sophie don’t need him!
What was the cost. Miss Anthony's explanations. The guy detracts rather than adding. Bright back the Toronto format
HAHAHAHA!!!!! They can't figure out why no one wants to buy a big pile of crap???
They are not selling the "crap". That goes with the owners.
Don't be so sure...
Or that the timelines contracted will be met...
Peiple who list with jammed full houses and old or unfixed areas tend to NOT take all the rubbish out before leaving, and often are STILL THERE when ownership was to transfer...and don't grasp they no longer own it and are squatting with all their stuff in YOUR NEW HOUSE.
Weak or useless excuses abound, from their friend never came to haul away X to they haven't finalized their new location yet.
As if that is on the new owner. 😳
The red flags that come with rubbish and jammed houses and unfinished repairs and lack of drive to sell should always be paid attention to.
I don’t understand why these people wouldn’t just pack up most of their stuff and move it out of the house. They have to do it anyway and it makes a house look so much better.
I'm glad Sofie is a single presenter in the later episodes. She is classy, beautiful and smart.
Over priced! Kitchen is still a wreck and what's with the entrance to it - you have to duck! The internal doors also look a mess. The house does have potential but needs a lot of money spent on it!
I was wondering if anyone else noticed those interior doors....dark colors with stickers and gouges. Why didn't they sand those doors down and slap some paint on them?
Likely sold after tidying up. Great location, wonderful views, large garden, and great Edwardian era architecture with good schools. Buyers at that price point don't want a full redo, instead clean and de-cluttered will do the trick. A buyer will instill their own aesthetic.
@@timhazeltine3256 It never sold (the address is quite easy to find on google maps and house sales are public record) and it's now estimated at around £1.5 million.
If they almost totally MOVE OUT they will sell it!
Umm, all of that and then the child's room was still completely cluttered on the right side.
My friend and I both did a short sale on our homes at the same time in the same place. My relator told me to get it professionally cleaned because it would sell quick and so I did and it sold in 24 hours, she never did and even had cats in there and she was never able to sell hers...
The problem with clutter is that a potential buyer can't see the condition of the walls and flooring.
All that "stuff" can mask some serious problems with the house.
These places for sale due to divorce make me sad. This one seems especially so. People sitting in their domestic disasters hoping for someone to help them lose their homes. Someone needs to write a work of fiction about the stories of the people who end up on this kind of show, because there are definitely things going on that we can't see.
Yes. I could tell that it was a very depressed household and that has everything to do with motivation. I hope they were able to make a better life for themselves and their son.
What an absolute hovel. That looks like it belongs to two ancient old codgers who have hoarded all their lives rather than a couple who appear to be around mid fifties.
Wow. Watching these videos shows me I live very clean and low junk levels. What a feel good video.
Why not fix that entryway to the kitchen? I wouldn't buy the house just because of that.
It could be extremely expensive or even not structurally suitable. It wouldn't bother me, it's gorgeously quirky 😊
I agree. I don't understand that doorway at all. Maybe it wouldn't bother short people.
It’s a really old property, you tend to end up with odd add-ons like that. Often not much can be done without tens of thousands of dollars and special permits for remodeling historic houses.
@@freethegoats I had the same question but freethegoats explanation makes a lot of sense.
Definitely I wouldn't buy that, just based on the kitchen entry. Quirky? Perhaps. But I'd be getting a concussion every time I'd forget about it.
They haven’t even tried to clean up the house when they put it on the market!!! Lazy
That kitchen door would put me off. And what happened to the original downstairs fireplaces?
@ 23:04 the doorway entrance to the kitchen is so low...take a foot or two off the top of that...wonder why it hasn't been done...and why Sophie didn't address it.
They needed a therapist not the Unsellables crew. I bet a huge part of it was not wanting to divide things up.
That view: 5:33 Beautiful.
I don't understand why the owners didn't just put all their things in storage, paint it and stay in an Air BNB while it's getting sold. I wonder if the clutter didn't contribute to the breakdown of the marriage. Maybe if they had decorated it in a cheerful way and got marriage counseling, they wouldn't be selling right now. Unfortunately, men often don't see the need to improve the home, yet the clutter and darkness depresses them, too. Every couple in distress should put their heads together to cheer up their environment before they decide to split.
Still too much clutter. Painted tile doesn't cut it -- some of the repairs will not hold up. When you buy a house you really need to look where folks thought they could cut corners.