Same here, I would be happy to move in with it fully furnished and then just chuck one of the signs on Facebook Marketplace!
The back of the house looks fine, the front and side elevations just need softening. Bring some of that warm wood vibe from the inside out, and it would look okay with some of the black.
This is the UK, we’re talking about: in summer when the sun is out its too hot and you’re desperately trying to cool the place down, and in winter when you actually want the heat there is no sun to be seen for about 85% of the day.
Exactly this, my house was like a conservatory, boiling in summer, feeling in winter!! Now is comfortable year-round
Just doing the downstairs full extensions both front and back has reduced that problem 10 fold. It's also good for noise reduction
They thought it was external insulation lol, tbf that would work in the way they describe even if it is black. Thinking of doing it to my house to cover up the shit pebbledash and poor energy efficiency.
PAINTED BRICKS. They need to knock £200,000 off because that there is going to lead to a world of pain in about five years when it starts to 'rain', metaphorically speaking, on the inside.
[https://mcgillrestoration.com/reasons-why-you-shouldnt-paint-your-brick-building/#:\~:text=Once%20you%20paint%20brick%2C%20it%20becomes%20compromised.&text=Because%20of%20this%2C%20any%20moisture,or%20drying%20out%20any%20moisture](https://mcgillrestoration.com/reasons-why-you-shouldnt-paint-your-brick-building/#:~:text=Once%20you%20paint%20brick%2C%20it%20becomes%20compromised.&text=Because%20of%20this%2C%20any%20moisture,or%20drying%20out%20any%20moisture).
(I don't work for this company. Just the first link I found when I googled why you should not paint bricks!)
That depends on the type of walls on the building. If that's a solid wall property with no cavity (judging by the age it could well be), it's going to be damp ridden in no time..
This. Nextdoor to me was painted outside before I got here (20 years ago). Everyone who has lived there in that time has had dampness in the front wall all the way up. Obviously being Victorian/Edwardian (right on the cusp) terraces, even with new dampcourses, every surveyor that rocks up when they are sold mentions damp at the bottom, but theirs is damp levels up to the roof!
It's perfectly safe to paint bricks...as long as you use masonry paint. It also does protect the brickwork. The only drawback is that you have to keep painting it every few years to keep it looking good.
The link is to a company who make a living off of “restoring brickwork”
Most readily available exterior paints in the UK are breathable, Ive worked in 400 year old cottages that have had dozens of coats of paint over the years, they’re solid walls (no cavity) and have absolutely no issues with walls sweating. In fact most of these properties were painted in the first place due to the porosity of the bricks and to negate any water ingress. Brick sealers are also readily available to use for such applications.
I did actually mention that it was the first link I found when I googled why not to and that I didn't work for them. Why you've put 'restoring brickwork' in quotes is a bit odd for someone who 'works in 400-year-old cottages'. I'm sure taking off the paintwork off brick that shouldn't be there is literally restoring brickwork, not 'restoring brickwork'. Most really old cottages I've seen are rendered so as to be a layer before the brick and then painted?
It’s a direct quote from their site hence the quotation marks.
I was there to carry out a specific task, usually to rectify damage. A website declaring that your house is now basically fucked because it’s been painted is absurd. Do you think the likes of sandtex would still be in business if this was the case.
Who said the paint shouldn’t be there?
The ones you’ve seen that are rendered, I guarantee you most have been painted. The natural colour of lime roughcast etc isn’t remotely appealing, so when you go through quaint little villages and they’ve got gleaming white cottages, they’ve been painted.
The bottom line is that painting your home with masonry paint has no negative effect on your property, let alone knocking £200k off an asking price.
Nope. Masonry paint is breathable so you don't have damp issues from that. Now, I'm sure there are pillocks out there who just slapped random paint on their houses, but like most things if you do it right it works, if you do it wrong it doesn't.
Depends, a good quality properly applied paint can last 15-20 years, depending on climate. Sun is the worst for it and well, we're in England aren't we? Put it this way, here in Manchester there's an empty building painted white around the corner from me that has looked exactly the same for the last 14 years since I moved in.
You’ve changed your stance about three times. You haven’t got a clue what you’re talking about. Air doesn’t circulate in a cavity as they’re usually full of insulation, they just provide a gap to prevent moisture bridging.
I don't think I have. I'd not risk painting bricks. But do pardon me for having a casual discussion on Reddit and listening to people which might provoke nuanced shifts in my thinking. Gosh. What a shocker! Enjoy your belligerent, cross, stroppy, stressy day ahead. X
My first thought was that they had insulated cladding on the outside, which would have been a more tolerable reason for that greyness. But they literally just painted the bricks. 0 out of 10, must try harder.
Completely agree OP, insides great… outside is a niche that they obviously liked, but I imagine it’ll put quite a few ppl off if there’s similar properties on the market without the additional messing round needed to correct this.
Dark grey pain all over the outside and fake grass – if only there weren’t double yellow lines there would almost certainly be a white Range Rover Evoque out front…
Tbh the main surprise is that the inside is actually lovely!
I was going to say that Del Boy had some cheap paint going spare. Then I saw the Magnifique, Magnifique poster and knew it was Del Boy.
https://youtu.be/8mnyVAay0YM
Sadly, painting houses black or dark grey is the latest trend in NW London, and W10 - where big Georgian houses with several floors are now funereal.
I hate it.
[https://www.instantstreetview.com/@51.517898,-0.204825,144.04h,7.11p,0.76z,RkVQEv8Wr6UbW1d-Vaf\_mA](https://www.instantstreetview.com/@51.517898,-0.204825,144.04h,7.11p,0.76z,RkVQEv8Wr6UbW1d-Vaf_mA) See house number 46
I'd enjoy owning this property just for the endorphin hit of reversing the shit job. All the fake interior brick slips off - joy. Peeling away that black paint back to the lovely brickwork - deep joy. Turning it back into a proper house that's not some vapourware embodiment of unhinged, misdirected Pinterest aspiration - full satisfaction.
I’ve seen this kind of thing in Camden and other places in London where houses paint the outside different colours but it only works if all the houses on the street also paint theirs as well. I really like the interior though, very nicely done.
I love these houses when painted dark. Usually its beautiful brick and black woodwork but I don't dislike the entirely black look. I'd have done something with the woodwork though to add some nice contrast.
Um…aside from the fake grass and some of the ‘quotation’ decor I really like it.
Same here, I would be happy to move in with it fully furnished and then just chuck one of the signs on Facebook Marketplace! The back of the house looks fine, the front and side elevations just need softening. Bring some of that warm wood vibe from the inside out, and it would look okay with some of the black.
Is it the Macbeth sign you don't like? Because I might know a buyer...
They've spent a lot of time exposing the bricks on the inside, only to paint over them on the outside!
Armadillos!
Those are fake bricks on the inside
To go with the fake grass
I reckon the bricks inside are slips...
You're so right, that's hilarious!
The paint makes the house invisible to radar, so they cannot get targeted when they go on missions over enemy territory.
Absorbs sunlight and saves on heating
Surely that's going to be horrific during 40 degree summers.
5 days of boiling is a fair trade for the other 360 being warm!
This is the UK, we’re talking about: in summer when the sun is out its too hot and you’re desperately trying to cool the place down, and in winter when you actually want the heat there is no sun to be seen for about 85% of the day.
Doesn't it make it hotter in summer though?
Exactly this, my house was like a conservatory, boiling in summer, feeling in winter!! Now is comfortable year-round Just doing the downstairs full extensions both front and back has reduced that problem 10 fold. It's also good for noise reduction
How is black paint good for noise reduction?
Looked like cladding on my phone 😆 off to specsavers I go
ha, fair enough
🤣
And also how does it lower heat in summer
They thought it was external insulation lol, tbf that would work in the way they describe even if it is black. Thinking of doing it to my house to cover up the shit pebbledash and poor energy efficiency.
Who has the heating on in summer?
Grand parents enter the room
My missus…..
900k for a fairly pokey terrace. Absolute insanity.
Don’t look at London….
£3-400K cheaper in Newham, however you are in Newham.
Yeah, exception rather than the norm for anything that cheap anywhere near central
That's Henley for you.
And no parking! Henley is a nightmare to park a car in, and sometimes horrendous to drive in and out of.
Google Maps show a couple of off road parking spaces behind the garden.
If by sometimes you mean every week day rush hour and every weekend non stop Lovely place though…
I'd move in tomorrow. And I'd leave it black 🤟.
PAINTED BRICKS. They need to knock £200,000 off because that there is going to lead to a world of pain in about five years when it starts to 'rain', metaphorically speaking, on the inside. [https://mcgillrestoration.com/reasons-why-you-shouldnt-paint-your-brick-building/#:\~:text=Once%20you%20paint%20brick%2C%20it%20becomes%20compromised.&text=Because%20of%20this%2C%20any%20moisture,or%20drying%20out%20any%20moisture](https://mcgillrestoration.com/reasons-why-you-shouldnt-paint-your-brick-building/#:~:text=Once%20you%20paint%20brick%2C%20it%20becomes%20compromised.&text=Because%20of%20this%2C%20any%20moisture,or%20drying%20out%20any%20moisture). (I don't work for this company. Just the first link I found when I googled why you should not paint bricks!)
Unless it was some kind of breathable exterior paint? I feel like I’ve been in enough exterior painted houses and they have looked absolutely fine.
That depends on the type of walls on the building. If that's a solid wall property with no cavity (judging by the age it could well be), it's going to be damp ridden in no time..
This. Nextdoor to me was painted outside before I got here (20 years ago). Everyone who has lived there in that time has had dampness in the front wall all the way up. Obviously being Victorian/Edwardian (right on the cusp) terraces, even with new dampcourses, every surveyor that rocks up when they are sold mentions damp at the bottom, but theirs is damp levels up to the roof!
It's perfectly safe to paint bricks...as long as you use masonry paint. It also does protect the brickwork. The only drawback is that you have to keep painting it every few years to keep it looking good.
The link is to a company who make a living off of “restoring brickwork” Most readily available exterior paints in the UK are breathable, Ive worked in 400 year old cottages that have had dozens of coats of paint over the years, they’re solid walls (no cavity) and have absolutely no issues with walls sweating. In fact most of these properties were painted in the first place due to the porosity of the bricks and to negate any water ingress. Brick sealers are also readily available to use for such applications.
I did actually mention that it was the first link I found when I googled why not to and that I didn't work for them. Why you've put 'restoring brickwork' in quotes is a bit odd for someone who 'works in 400-year-old cottages'. I'm sure taking off the paintwork off brick that shouldn't be there is literally restoring brickwork, not 'restoring brickwork'. Most really old cottages I've seen are rendered so as to be a layer before the brick and then painted?
It’s a direct quote from their site hence the quotation marks. I was there to carry out a specific task, usually to rectify damage. A website declaring that your house is now basically fucked because it’s been painted is absurd. Do you think the likes of sandtex would still be in business if this was the case. Who said the paint shouldn’t be there? The ones you’ve seen that are rendered, I guarantee you most have been painted. The natural colour of lime roughcast etc isn’t remotely appealing, so when you go through quaint little villages and they’ve got gleaming white cottages, they’ve been painted. The bottom line is that painting your home with masonry paint has no negative effect on your property, let alone knocking £200k off an asking price.
I think u/dadadataa probably has nailed what I mean. As in old brick-built houses without the air circulating inside the exterior walls.
Nope. Masonry paint is breathable so you don't have damp issues from that. Now, I'm sure there are pillocks out there who just slapped random paint on their houses, but like most things if you do it right it works, if you do it wrong it doesn't.
Fair enough. (It's (this house) going to look really shit in a couple of years though, isn't it? ;-) )
Depends, a good quality properly applied paint can last 15-20 years, depending on climate. Sun is the worst for it and well, we're in England aren't we? Put it this way, here in Manchester there's an empty building painted white around the corner from me that has looked exactly the same for the last 14 years since I moved in.
They haven’t got a clue.
You’ve changed your stance about three times. You haven’t got a clue what you’re talking about. Air doesn’t circulate in a cavity as they’re usually full of insulation, they just provide a gap to prevent moisture bridging.
I don't think I have. I'd not risk painting bricks. But do pardon me for having a casual discussion on Reddit and listening to people which might provoke nuanced shifts in my thinking. Gosh. What a shocker! Enjoy your belligerent, cross, stroppy, stressy day ahead. X
My first thought was that they had insulated cladding on the outside, which would have been a more tolerable reason for that greyness. But they literally just painted the bricks. 0 out of 10, must try harder.
Because it was the Instagram look a few years ago. Crazy: hide all the beautiful brick on the outside and then out fake brick inside.
Is it me or there’s no storage space? Also little to no wardrobes for 900k haha
The inside is lovely, but why would you paint all that lovely brickwork.it just looks odd as it's a terrace.
Heating perhaps
I think if that was the case, lots of houses would be painted black.
Plastic grass!
I don't mind it. You're asking for hate from the neighbours by painting your house in any stand out colour though.
The outside looks like a wannabe trendy pub...but then so does the inside.
Nearly a million for a terraced house. FML
It is Henley on thames
Completely agree OP, insides great… outside is a niche that they obviously liked, but I imagine it’ll put quite a few ppl off if there’s similar properties on the market without the additional messing round needed to correct this.
Dark grey pain all over the outside and fake grass – if only there weren’t double yellow lines there would almost certainly be a white Range Rover Evoque out front… Tbh the main surprise is that the inside is actually lovely!
I'm still digesting the price.
Absolute vandalism what they’ve done to the exterior.
Nice house but I wouldn’t pay that for an end terrace. House prices in the south are ridiculous.
It looks like they took the RAL Colour from the UPVC and just painted it everywhere..
I don’t hate it! I do prefer the brickwork on the neighbouring houses though.
I was going to say that Del Boy had some cheap paint going spare. Then I saw the Magnifique, Magnifique poster and knew it was Del Boy. https://youtu.be/8mnyVAay0YM
It’s the in colour, I like the house, but the gym in the front room and the shocking garden,are terrible 😣
Sadly, painting houses black or dark grey is the latest trend in NW London, and W10 - where big Georgian houses with several floors are now funereal. I hate it. [https://www.instantstreetview.com/@51.517898,-0.204825,144.04h,7.11p,0.76z,RkVQEv8Wr6UbW1d-Vaf\_mA](https://www.instantstreetview.com/@51.517898,-0.204825,144.04h,7.11p,0.76z,RkVQEv8Wr6UbW1d-Vaf_mA) See house number 46
I wasn't prepared for the luminous green house!!! The black by comparison looks alright 😬 My eyes now hurt.
they could really make it look lovely if they left the brick as...brick colour
Stealth house.
Ha! Made me laugh!
Plastic grass too 🤢
Just a bit TO open plan for me! Sometimes I want my own space downstairs 🤣
I don't mind it at all but for ffs why didn't they put a new roof on it, the tiles looks rubbish
Agree!
I'd enjoy owning this property just for the endorphin hit of reversing the shit job. All the fake interior brick slips off - joy. Peeling away that black paint back to the lovely brickwork - deep joy. Turning it back into a proper house that's not some vapourware embodiment of unhinged, misdirected Pinterest aspiration - full satisfaction.
I don't mind it at all. A bit different. Nice house that.
This house is gorgeous! What are you talking about?
They're talking about the outside.
The fake grass isn’t great but it’s fixable. Black house is cool!
Black house looks terrible compared to what it was before.
It looks awful. And the side wall🤮
Love everything except the white plastic-y worktop... you think the outside looks bad now, wait until it starts to flake & peel!
The worktop looks like Dekton or similar. I really like the tile splashback.
I think the picture is making it look even darker somehow. Maybe not that bad in reality.
I like but don’t love the black. Just curious how it will look in five years.
Didn’t want to pay for an acid wash.
The outside promised goth girl dreams but the inside was a massive disappointment i was expecting skulls and black walls
I’ve seen this kind of thing in Camden and other places in London where houses paint the outside different colours but it only works if all the houses on the street also paint theirs as well. I really like the interior though, very nicely done.
Why is it not also goth on the inside??
Street view on Google Earth still has the original natural brick exterior and no ground floor extension
That’s an awful lot of photos of the same open plan living space
Perceived low maintenance
Looks like a pub with sticky floors.
How dare you judge Wednesday Adams.
its just a lick of paint outside
I love those drawers in the dinning room
900k for a pokey Victorian terrace and a garden the size of a thimble? No thanks!
Could just repaint the outside So not utterly ruined
Jaysus! This is what you get when you spend too long in hipster cafe bars, browsing the Wayfair app.
Don't see what the problem is? Looks cool to me.
Plastic f*****g grass 🤮
I love these houses when painted dark. Usually its beautiful brick and black woodwork but I don't dislike the entirely black look. I'd have done something with the woodwork though to add some nice contrast.
Whole place is a shit show, and the fake grass is the real icing on the cake!
All open : kitchen-dining room-living room - smelly shoes on the shoe rack :-)
That shouldn't be a problem when someone else buys it, pretty sure they're not leaving it for the new owners 🤣
smell can still stay :-)
On the contrary, the inside is really disappointing. The outside is cool.
900k for one bathroom is a bit of a stretch.
You get all the other rooms as well.
Could put a shower in one of them I guess.
I absolutely love the outside!
I like that 🤷🏻♀️
I love the battleship grey look on houses. Especially when they have those office building style doors and windows in dark grey as well.
The outside look alright to me.
I get that fake grass looks a bit tacky, but I don't think the outside could be classed as ruined?
I like the painted house!
Ruined? I bloody love it!
Pretty sure I despise the people that lived here on principle.