Edinburgh flat with workshop

I just watched some USA TV program with something similar on a vintage workbench. Possibly taps for gas (Bunsen burner type usage).

Rear entrance ? :-)

Our house used to have a 'tunnel' to the back garden - the owner was an early adopter of motor vehicles at the turn of the last century. The sirt of things you see in old pubs - archway through to a yard.

A previous owner blocked up the archway and made the 'road' part of the living room. So the floor is half concrete and half boarded. The arch is still visible as part of a window on the inside. The hinge pins for the gates are deeply embedded and still there.

The back of the 'road' is now a conservatory, nicely tiled with offcuts from Victoria Station.

The home reports needed to be scrapped. They were a pointless waste of paper that no-one paid the slightest attention to. Most of the so-called surveyors were totally unqualified. It was a socialist gravy-train of the worst kind.

No-one with any sense would ever trust the *sellers* opinion of the property.

Then why isn't it 'offers over £675,000', bizarre. Effectively it is a game of poker, because any buyer has to try and second guess how many other buyers there are, and what their offer was.

At least with the English system you have the 'benefit' of the lying estate agent hinting that someone has made a higher offer, or that an offer for the full asking price has been made.

Maybe the workshop used to be the coal store ?.

random thoughts

What is really strange is that everything looks so pristine. While you can flats houses really clean nothing can stop the gradual fading of paintwork and fabrics and the small bits of damage to furniture carpets etc. But that flat looks as if it was fitted out yesterday from some

The beige decor in hall looks like you'd imagine a *luxury" Russian Hotel of the 1960's might look . Same as the sitting room.

The workshop looks too small for things like woodwork. More like clock making watch repairs, jewellery. electronics maybe. Except there seems to be no provision for lighting over the benches which would be a priority. Same as the solitary power point. Also there seems no provision for dust extraction.

The benches look more like chemistry lab benches more than workshop benches. Supported maybe by the gas outlets on the wall. There are two built ins - the cupboards in the workshop itself and the corner dressing table in bedroom three which look as if they were custom made which might otherwise have been made in the clearly unsuitable workshop.

There are striking incongruities. Brown radiators in two or three places which stick out a mile, and red door handles in only three places the workshop, one of the bedrooms and on the cooker in the kitchen. The door handles elsewhere being wood finish.

The set of seven wall mounted shelves in the workshop don't go right back to the wall but are only relatively shallow for some reason. After all the trouble that's been taken in fitting out the workshop with custom made cupboards and shelves its all ruined by screwing shelf brackets to the walls two of which - the small shelf brackets don't even match. Same as the shelves on the bottom right mounted on crude supports.

The kitchen is strange. Having built in cupboards over a cooker aga or boiler is bad for two reasons. Safety - having to reach up over said cooker aga etc and the effect of heat on the contents of said cupboards and the cupboards themselves unless they're airing cupboards.

There must be story behind this, A family home in the 60's. The man a professional chemist. He dies the kids leave home, the woman, a teacher, takes in lodgers. While deep cleaning the flat every two months and replacing all the 60's and 70's fittings and wallpaper possibly sourcing retro stuff on eBay . She dies and one of the kids puts the flat on the market.

michael adams

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Someone with £675,000 to burn, plus the cost of renovations.

And it only gets direct sunlight from about May 21st to July 21st early in the Morning too in that location.

Savills man must have got up at the crack of dawn to take that external photo.

The windows face North and east, so very little direct sunlight gets into it, apart from a brief early morning period in mid summer.

It could have been owned by someone who lived abroad most of the time.

I don't know what commission Savills charge, but they only seem to sell nice properties.

Owain