Offer: Accepted.

octatonic · August 2013

We offered on a house a couple of days ago.

Offer was accepted.

Semi on the Acton/Chiswick borders with a 2 car garage which will be my guitar building workshop.

Moving 200m from where we are now.

Still have to sell ours.

VERY excited.

viz · August 2013

Awesome! price and pics, thanks.

octatonic · August 2013

That is the place.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-27813879.html

You really don't want to know what we paid.

If you look on the map you can see a street right about the house called Berrymead Gardens.

That is where we currently live.

300m away.

stickyfiddle · August 2013

Awesome. Chiswick's lovely (at least it was the last time I was there a couple of years ago!)

octatonic · August 2013

Thanks Mike.

Technically it is Acton, but a nice bit of Acton (well nicer than the bits that are permanently on fire).

Chiswick is over the rail track, 350m away.

boogieman · August 2013

Congrats on the new house.

Prices in London have gotten crazy over the years. I checked up on my very first house a little while ago. We paid £11k for it in 1982... ok it was ex council and we got a discount as my ma-in-law had lived there for donkey's, but it was still only actually valued at £21k. An identical place two streets away is up for half a million now. :-O

ddlooping · August 2013

Congrats, it's bloody fantastic, even if in need of some serious redecorating.

Drew_TNBD · August 2013

Congrats dude! I'll have to swing by sometime and try out your sex dungeon masquerading as a guitar workshop!

viz · August 2013

Jesus that's a bloody excellent house! Well done sir. I love the chickenfoot on the front gable!

octatonic · August 2013

boogieman said:

Congrats on the new house.
Prices in London have gotten crazy over the years. I checked up on my very first house a little while ago. We paid £11k for it in 1982... ok it was ex council and we got a discount as my ma-in-law had lived there for donkey's, but it was still only actually valued at £21k. An identical place two streets away is up for half a million now. :-O

Yeah it is nuts at the moment but it only seems to go up in the long term.

The place we are selling has doubled in 4 years.

VimFuego · August 2013

octatonic said:

Thanks Mike.

Technically it is Acton, but a nice bit of Acton (well nicer than the bits that are permanently on fire).
Chiswick is over the rail track, 350m away.

coolio, so you'll be on the wrong side of the tracks?

Saw a grade 2 listed farmhouse with 20 acres for sale recently round here for about that asking price.

octatonic · August 2013

ddlooping said:

Congrats, it's bloody fantastic, even if in need of some serious redecorating.

Oh yes- it needs everything doing to it.

At least this one is clean- we've renovated some real shit holes in the past.

octatonic · August 2013

VimFuego said:
coolio, so you'll be on the wrong side of the tracks?
Saw a grade 2 listed farmhouse with 20 acres for sale recently round here for about that asking price.

Sort of.

Acton is being slowly gentrified, like most areas in London I guess.

The same house in Chiswick would be 1.5million.

3 streets away.

Phil_aka_Pip · August 2013

Will the neighbours hear your stereo or your music makings if you do them in any of the rooms with adjoining walls?

I'd be tempted to put my lounge or music room in one of those that don't join onto the neighbours house, but then it would leave me with (a) not enough space in those rooms 'cos they're too small and (b) wasted space elsewhere.

However your requirements may well differ from mine, and being an older house the adjoining walls may be thik enough anyway.

Wishing you well in your new place.

octatonic · August 2013

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Will the neighbours hear your stereo or your music makings if you do them in any of the rooms with adjoining walls?

I'd be tempted to put my lounge or music room in one of those that don't join onto the neighbours house, but then it would leave me with (a) not enough space in those rooms 'cos they're too small and (b) wasted space elsewhere.

However your requirements may well differ from mine, and being an older house the adjoining walls may be thik enough anyway.

Wishing you well in your new place.

It will be ok- I'll be in the end bedroom on the first floor- no shared walls there.

I tend not to mix that loudly though.

The house we in now has shared walls- it isn't a huge problem- people tend to be cool if you keep them onside I find.

frankus · August 2013

you got a semi in Acton?? Pics or it never happened

boogieman · August 2013

octatonic said:

VimFuego said:
coolio, so you'll be on the wrong side of the tracks?
Saw a grade 2 listed farmhouse with 20 acres for sale recently round here for about that asking price.

Sort of.
Acton is being slowly gentrified, like most areas in London I guess.
The same house in Chiswick would be 1.5million.
3 streets away.

I lived just down the road in Brentford until recently. That's also slowly getting the upmarket treatment and prices will no doubt go ballistic very soon. Makes me laugh that all the new builds don't mention Brentford, they're all Kew Bridge West, Kew Gateway etc. Maybe something to do with Brentford actually being a bit of a shithole?

)

octatonic · August 2013

frankus said:

you got a semi in Acton?? Pics or it never happened

http://media.rightmove.co.uk/71k/70253/27813879/70253_S380_IMG_00_0000_max_620x414.JPG

Fretwired · August 2013

That's a lovely house ... good luck selling yours. That's a nice part of the world ..

Fretwired · August 2013

And it has a cool man shed ... every house needs a man shed for man time .... :-)

frankus · August 2013

that's quite an erection

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