Not for me despite location.
Nine steps to climb to front door immediately puts me off.
Beautifully photograhed kitchen and dining rooms look nice but I reckon they are going to be quite dark, sunken as they are
Open plan living area is super but how to separate a piano?
Four flights of stairs would make gym membership redundant.
No photo of cellar so perhaps it remains in original state from 1877.
Am I being harsh?
Noticed daughter's rose in three stages of bloom
@Steve-Miller said in I found the perfect house:
Sweet! Lot looks a bit It tight for $10 mil?
Location location location but yes; an eyewatering £1.66mil/bedroom
There are some spectacular properties currently on the market in England.
For £25million you could buy either Osea Island(low tide causeway access) or the Kirkham Estate near York in lovely countryside.
However for a mere 10mil, this, with park & R.Thames views is pretty nearly perfect for us. I'd have to do a little to the kitchen and there's no pool for MrsA, but hey, leave that piano:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/160269137#/?channel=RES_BUY
I just watched it for a fourth time, a visual masterpiece and that music is immediately that film!
And some other blooms I came across (help me with names please)
Red hot poker
Judas plant?
And a stunning bottle brush(?)
Iris are so beautiful, ours aren't flowering yet, while in old Londinium they're all but finished.
Except these two from my early dog walk around Woodford
They're not mine alas, just walking the dog in London admiring some gardens near our flat.
@wtg said in Why flamingos are weird eaters:
"Flamingos are doing everything wrong
I disagree, they make super wrapping paper 
Yes congrats, love the photos.
Even the small areas around street trees are flourishing. Here self seeded poppy and malva(?)
In London for daughters birthday and it's summer here. Roses...
Exquisite.
A Suffolk tithe barn, what a privilege to own, restore, furnish and inhabit.
And such a lovely couple.
(What Christmas decorations...)
Philip pans past a corner cabinet and a very old looking grandfather clock. Then it's a sensory overload of paintings, ancient beams, acorns capping every newel post.
Everywhere objects of interest.
I've never stopped a video so many times wanting to zoom in at antiques.
OMG their paintings.
As I understand it, anything done structurally or cosmetically to the building has to be in keeping, sympathetically undertaken and effectively not change it architecturally.
You retain the character or can return it to a more original condition. And ought to maintain it appropriately. Hence the Virginia creeper was doomed.
Once listed grade 1 (highest with most restrictions) or 2 there are statute laws to be obeyed.
But there may be even more rules e.g. in one case/area I know about, a committee had to be consulted.
You can't replace victorian patterned wood parquet flooring with practical industrial hospital type lino. It will have to be new same parquet that costs a fortune and takes weeks to lay, as happened in the Library in the same building with the v creeper on the outside wall.
Of course H&S and Equality means you can, with permission, install new lifts (elevators) and ramps.
You probably have something similar in the US.
It remains a classic show to watch and she was a superb foil for the boys.
And Norm from Cheers also died earlier this month 
This makes me happy, so simple, rather complex musically, so easy to join in.
The world needs more people like Mrs Haskell
Nice. Mind virginia creeper if given a chance in the wrong place is a monster...
There's a University building four floors high and 5 rooms wide, the walls were completely and beautifully covered in the stuff, not a stone nor brick to be seen. A verdant arch over the large double door entrance.
Looked really lovely in central London.
However the building is Grade 1 listed and so one Christmas holiday, inevitably, it got the chop.
Chocolate and chocolate covered biscuits. Get my fix buying drinking chocolate and making mocha.
And our Sky satellite TV contract is terminated end of this month.
Reckon we were paying £50 for two channels as the others are available free. Had to update out coaxial aerial connections around the house.
@Steve-Miller said in Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?:
Beautiful rose! Do you know what kind it is?
It was from David Austin roses but can't recall the name
