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...As for the whole doom and gloom no one will ever own their home again thing - you're thinking too short-term, without first time buyers there is no market. Mark my words, as soon as the banks are liquid again there will be a house building boom, yes they'll be crap, but it will rebalance the market. It's already started in Cardiff - 20k new homes underway or soon will be, with another 26k coming over the next 10 years. That's enough for roughly 100k people in a city of 320k
Who needs first time buyers when you've got landlords feeling in the mood for n+1?
Massive tvs over fireplaces. Massive shiny kitchens. Massive freezers. 16 burner ranges and agas.
I dont care if you live in a country estate you are still kidding yourself on. Those annoying wee crystal ornaments that set houses on fire and animal sculptures. Leather sofas. ikea will just evolve and still be everywhere.
Granite worktops, not in our house though, "a fool and his money are easily parted" springs to mind.
Wood burning bloody stoves.
In cities and towns, at least.
Last winter, my suburb of Bristol smelled like an Indian village in the mornings with so much wood smoke in the air.
One day someone on the council will realise that the Clean Air Act applies just as much to wood as it did to coal and will start policing the place.
Does the pile of rusting junk in the shed that used to be a collection of stupidly overpriced bikes with a mind-boggling variety of wheel sizes count?
Any feature with the prefix "period", which the British public, estate agents and the Daily Telegraph use to to justify vast sums of money for poorly built, draughty urban rabbit hutches completely lacking in heat and sound insulation and over-indexing on pointless frilly "features".
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White bathroom suites, the sooner we are back with avocado the better.
Cougar - Moderator
a beautiful park-A (sorry I don't know how it's spelt) floor underneath it
Parquet?
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I wouldn't argue with you - blocks of wood tightly packed together - I love the stuff.
If someone doing a "S****y Refurb" for me
I thought you were a mobile car washer, no?
No.
But even if I was. What on earth. has that got to do with anything?
MDF gets a bad rep. If I told you the major substrate at the core of this is MDf would you be surprised?
No massively surprised really, I realise it's not all crap DIY bookshelves, although it's still not to my taste really.
providing DeadlyDarcy is going to let me choose stuff for my own house, despite the fact I used to be a car valeter, I'll go for solid wood I reckon.
But even if I was. What on earth. has that got to do with anything?
Ah roight. I thought you were coming at it from a Project Manager's or Developer's POV.
Double glazing and insulation....need plenty of fresh air to stop all the man made allergies. The climate change narrative will have moved on by then and we will be vale to get rid of all that nonsense without feeling guilty or being made to feel guilty.
Gas cookers are ace. Hobs I mean.
What I meant was, there will be another source of energy used for cooking that will make our kids boggle that we used gas. It will seem so amazing that we used it.
[quote=thisisnotaspoon ]Any wired data cables.
Hmm - I foresee people wanting more bandwidth. I'm not sure how they're going to manage that wirelessly in anything other than houses built from cardboard (it's already difficult enough getting good coverage in a typical house).
Carpet
Solar power and batteries n stuff will be so good... they'll have Underfloor heating in every room
they'll first fill the skip with your twig-filled vases and wooden letters that sit on the mantlepiece saying 'home' or 'love' or 'relax'. Then they'll peel your sticky back vinyl proverbs off the wall.
Well put, BiscuitPowered.
Probably the 90's kitchen the previous owners put in that I haven't got round to doing anything about myself.
Has anyone mentioned that awful polished concrete and polished plaster that's been all over the last couple of Grand Designs series. Don't know how much of it there is in the real world though.
Recliner sofas with cupholders and speakers.
I'm hoping mine will get round to getting rid of the last of the woodchip wallpaper...
Like they say though: never get rid of the gold-tinted mirrored wardrobes. There's no shame in inheriting a Sex Room, it's just weird to build one.
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When we took over my folks place it was clutter. Took 7 trips with a 3.5T horsebox to the dump to get rid of it all.
Also walls - they'd renovated an old mill and split it up into loads of 'spaces', whereas we ripped them all out and just have it all open-plan.
No idea what my kids will do though.
That wallpaper with giant pattern in dominating colour and glittery bits on the "feature wall" in the bedroom. 😈
My house is pretty much as built in 1920, several generations haven't seen fit to add much other than the kitchen, of this I'm glad, shouldn't need much ripping out.
The fake leaded double glazing, but I'll get to it before them and I'll leave them something nice in it's place.
Agas in Towns and Cities. It's a big storage heater from the 19th century. It means you don't like cooking and read a few too many glossy mags back in the day.
If you have one, and don't own at least one field, have a word with yourself. 😕
Hot tubs - let's be honest they're just swingers' sex troughs.
[i]Agas in Towns and Cities. It's a big storage heater from the 19th century. It means you don't like cooking and read a few too many glossy mags back in the day.
If you have one, and don't own at least one field, have a word with yourself.
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Agree, except anyone who thinks you can't cook with an AGA obviously doesn't know how to cook properly with an AGA (notice I say 'with' rather than 'on').
We've one and it's on all year (have land and an old mill), cooks everything perfectly plus loads of hot water and keeps the house warm.
Hot tubs - let's be honest they're just swingers' sex troughs.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Hmm - I foresee people wanting more bandwidth. I'm not sure how they're going to manage that wirelessly in anything other than houses built from cardboard (it's already difficult enough getting good coverage in a typical house).
While I agree people will need more [s]bandwidth[/s]content I think that the decreasing cost of computing power will actually decrease bandwidth requirements. Think about it, all that content arrives in a single core copper cable, your broadband router then decodes it so you then need a cat5 cable with many more cores to transmit the same data to your PC, then you need a DVI cable with many times more again to transmit that data to the monitor/TV.
Or at the other extreme you can watch a HD film streamed over 4G, same content, fraction of the bandwidth of a DVI cable.
NAS and cabling everywhere will be the Betamax to cloud storage and a fast wireless connection's VHS.
NAS and cabling everywhere will be the Betamax to cloud storage and a fast wireless connection's VHS.
The cloud fixes all problems 🙄
Wires aren't going anywhere, same as magnetic tapes. Wires might become fiber rather than copper however.
I wouldn't be surprised if wireless technology backs off a bit once research into the impact of the radiation on children's brains has a larger sample size. We already know that microwaving your brain with a mobile does 'something' but the sample sizes aren't big enough to draw meaningful conclusions.
[i]Hot tubs - let's be honest they're just swingers' sex troughs.[/i]
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Remember, it's your parents' sex trough though. 😯
Open plan kitchen/diners? Seems like everyone who has an extension or refurb carried out knocks down walls to create a through kitchen-diner.
While it would make my house look modern, having a separate kitchen means you can be busy in the kitchen without an audience
Open plan kitchen/diners? Seems like everyone who has an extension or refurb carried out knocks down walls to create a through kitchen-diner.While it would make my house look modern, having a separate kitchen means you can be busy in the kitchen without an audience
It's the only space in my house I'd have open plan, very sociable - daughter can do homework/chat about her day, guests/family can interact with me whilst I'm cooking. Audience not an issue, I'm only rattling some food together.
Once rented an open plan big modern flat though, that was awful.
having a separate kitchen means you can be busy in the kitchen without an audience
keep it for the bedroom or when everyone else it out!
Agree - open plan kitchen is a good thing most of the time - it's certainly a lot more sociable for most people I know.
anything run directly on oil/gas, because it'll cost a fortune
agas - come on, they're just bad at everything they do.
decking - slippy, rubbish.
laminate floor - unpleasant imitation floorboards.
ive just moved into my a 25yr old house in Milton keynes
as a 'city of the future' every room seems to have its own cable TVs sockets for the old network that used to work accross the city
they are awful unsightly things, infact all sockets are
I expect everything will be fully wireless soon, an end to plug sockets etc !
curtains theyve got to go too, horrible allergen sinks that they are and net curtains- bleaurgh!, smart self tinting glass please
but surely the greatest crime of all, (that you can still see loads of) is that fake lead crap on windows,
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Living in an 1890s Victorian house, I can report that the heating cost is bloody astronomical. I'm paying more than twice that just for gas (hot water, GCH and a gas fire, cooker is electric). Pretty sure that one of the first things my fictional children will rip out is the boiler.
Or, in my case, Boilers. 2 of them. One for upstairs. One for downstairs.
You REALLY wouldn't want my gas bill in a Scottish winter.It's a minor inconvenience though compared to the upside of living in an 1890's Victorian house.
Got to agree with the heating costs. (I'm in a large-ish 1890s terraced house.) Costs an absolute furtune from October through April/May. It also attempts to turn everything mouldy during that period, so walls and ceilings need constant cleaning. The joys of the Welsh climate, maybe?
However, we have loads of space and my bikes are kept inside. On the downside, we have loads of storage space so tend to keep far more junk -total, utter crap mainly.
[i]anything run directly on oil/gas, because it'll cost a fortune[/i]
What, compared to electricity?
Rural living, choices for heating are all expensive.
What, compared to electricity?
compared to solar powered hot water thingummies
compared to wearing jumpers
compared to burning old laminate flooring
[quote=kimbers ]I expect everything will be fully wireless soon, an end to plug sockets etc !
Another Tomorrow's World fan? How do you think your TV etc. will be powered?