Owning your own home

What?! That's crazy. I used to live on campus there - that's a fantastic building.

I know right?! Yeah UEA is amazing, doubt I would have appreciated it as a student but do now. Also to note decent curved wall ride, rail hops and cobbled banks.

I didn't ever ride BMX but I used to skate around campus when I was there, and saw plenty of little bikes around. The loading bay at the far end of the teaching wall, near the Sainsbury Centre, was a favourite of mine.

I used to live in Waveney Terrace, the brutalist thing near Colman Road, which they've now knocked down.

My previous flat was at one time entirely furnished from findings in a skip out the back of an architects office in Clerkenwell.

I had at least four Artemide Tolomeo lamps and a Saarinen dining table.

Are all these weird furniture names you guys keep talking about various Ikea product names or something?

I think they're font names, aren't they?

Have you been to the Pineapple in Kentish Town? You'd love it.

As a boast post, yeah.

Until you’ve comissoned, you’ve not made it.

Woo hoo.

I got 3. Eames style chair, Edison lightbulbs, succulents.

amateurs. you think this is a fucking game???

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IKEA is my house.

Dude, you have a sento in your house, you're in a whole different Bingo Hall.

Ur just jelo that you didn't spend 300 notes on an uncomfortable plastic chair!

oh gaaad ive only been in 1 week...

Brass accent
Millenial Pink
Palm leaf print
Mattress in a box
Chunky kit blanket
Plants
Edison lightbulb
Ikea
Pineapples
Succulent

At least the bastard succulent will die

Do things on the list count if you bought them at Tk Maxx?

Dats the bonus round

Was all that pimping just to sell it?

What pimping? The bathroom?

Nope.

Perfect house / location for us came up and we can't pass up the opportunity.

Is a brass accent something that is part made of brass?

It's whether you say brass or brahhhhs

Surely bras or brass?

Structural Surveyors, E17 area, and recommendations? Quite a few folks have told me not to bother and that the usual survey is enough but I dont fancy risking it...

I really wouldn't bother. I didn't with my old Victorian house. Just check the roof is straight, the doors Frames are ok, there are no huge cracks you can get your hand in, the drains and gutters look ok and save the grand for when something serious happens and needs work..

ETA if you are hell bent on getting one done you can either upgrade the mortgage valuation to cover it or go seperate. If you go seperate I've heard good things about London property surveyors based in malvern road Leytonstone.

Yeah. Isn't the problem here that they can't do anything invasive, so they can't really tell you anything you couldn't spot with a keen eye?