Owning your own home

Come to Plumstead

Garden use comes and goes (and not just with the seasons). We have our own bit of garden but as we're a share of freehold (a big house cut up into flats) we have to walk across our downstairs neighbour's garden to get to ours. Not a problem as we get on well with them and lease provides access rights, etc.

We used our garden (9m x 13m) quite a bit before kiddo was born. Then we rarely went into it until she was about 18 months old. From then we used it quite a bit until she got to 4 or 5 and football/cricket meant the balls were constantly going over the fence so we would take a ball to the local park instead.

The main pain was that it was a 5 minute faff if you'd forgotten something from inside. Walk back to the house, through a gate, up the stairs, in through two doors, get stuff, down the stairs, out and back. Having a piss-up/BBQ requires a constant stream of people going in to go to the toilet. You just take this stuff for granted if you have a garden you can walk straight out into.

When kiddo was 8yo the new downstairs neighbours moved in with a 6yo and a 7yo (previous family that lived downstairs had 23yo, 21yo and 18yo kids who'd all gone off to Uni) and she's down there all the time and now we're out in our garden quite a bit more too. This is mainly why we're spending a chunk of money getting it redone so we can enjoy it, we'd planned on doing it before lockdown but having it finished in a couple of weeks will be awesome. Nowhere near #40kkitchen territory. Just some patio laid to replace the fucked decking, new lawn and raised beds with some hard-to-kill flower/shrub type stuff in them.

Outdoor table tennis table though.

This is impressive - a home with absolutely no soul at all.

Like living in a wedding venue

What am I missing?

It's a redecorated house with no furniture or furnishings.

Smashing shit up gets old quickly.

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If that lime plaster? Marginally more pleasant that gypsum, at least.

I spent far too long digging up a whirlygig[1] post earlier today from the garden. It needs to be built in to the new patio that's being laid soon.

1. We'll see how many people have no idea what that is and how many just go "Well, that's obvious what it is."
   

You need a garden for your wood fired pizza oven, obvs. Can't be using that indoors.

Floorplan shows a study with no windows, lovely. Don't know why they didn't swap that and the utility tbh. At least then you could have smashed a doorway into the wall and got the kitchen > utility flow down from the half-mile trek it currently is.

That house layout is a total heap of shit - I can only assume it was solely constructed for rentals/airbnb. I'd imagine you could quite quickly make sense of it though

Yep. It's hard work though. Especially lugging it down 2 flights of stairs to a skip.

You gotta feel for career laborers. How would you do this into your seventies???

It looks great - that's the 'posh bit.'

Just across from the train line are the arches with a bar and cafe in, and around the station there's a couple of good pubs and cafes.

Anything on that side of Woodgrange Road between Capel Road and Windsor Road is great, with the possible exception of Sebert Road (too busy and a bit grim at the station end) and the very end of Claremont Road.

The worst thing is that everything looks new - so you'd have to rip out a load of brand new but horrible stuff to make it acceptable.

Yeah that's Winchelsea road right - arch rivals, burgess and hall etc?

How cold and leaky is this combo of flat roofs, dorma and attic conversion going to be?
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-93589016.html

Turns out I want to be the youngest person on the street by 40 years

Yep. It's hard work though. Especially lugging it down 2 flights of stairs to a skip

I raise you >2 tonnes of the wet stuff

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OK thanks! Think I need to pop over there and have a look.

I think ‘agricultural outbuilding conversion’ would be a better description.

I was thinking of the arches between Cranmer Road and Avenue Road with Tromso, Tracks, the boxing place and the yoga studio.

Station Road/Winchelsea has those places you mentioned, now Wild Goose as well.

We need people to move to East Ham though so some hipsters will come and open somewhere with good pizza.

Do you or anyone else kno or suspect if there’s blanket planning restriction around there? Satellite view shows loft conversations but few extensions / returns

the wanstead tap is also quite a cool venue ^^ on that same road

I think it might be a conservation area but I'm not sure exactly what the restrictions would be.

Edit: https://www.newham.gov.uk/planning-development-conservation/conservation-areas-listed-buildings-newham/6?documentId=57&categoryId=20147

I like the idea there are "negative buildings" in the area. The inhabitants must be so proud.

Speaking of which:

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