Tasteful Friends: A Noteworthy Pre-Georgian 16th Century Town Centre Residence in Wales...

I burst out laughing when I got to the bathroom pic. I don't even know what to say. The ultra modern Mondrian kitchen is a bit anachronistic compared to the rest of the house, as well.

I was just in Conwy a few months back. It's lovely and charming, but just a tiny little village.

Whore house! Whore house!

Looks like a Bed & Breakfast.

A very naughty Bed & Breakfast.

All great till that bathroom

I thought Kylie Minogue was going to be in one of the many, many closets.

"I want it to be like I'm naked and sat in a giant stiletto when bathing" is certainly an insight into someone's mind.

Someone needs to be spanked.

Looks like the type of little village where someone gets murdered coming home from the pub and the recovering alcoholic cop has to investigate numerous quirky townspeople, with the aid of his Black or Asian junior policewoman.

I did too, r1. Who can anticipate some people's tastes? Can you imagine the villagers standing around commenting as the giant stiletto was being delivered to the house? Most excitement for the week if not month. They're probably still talking about it.

The realtor needs to put those pictures in order.

That picture series was quite a ride. I'm reeling. I went from loving the outside view to simply disagreeing with their taste (things that would be removed before I moved in) to losing faith in god and understanding that nothing could redeem this place.

In picture 15, there is a shower in there, just in the room with the bed. Why?

what possessed them to do the kitchen and bathroom like that? Everything else I love but those two rooms should be criminal.

And now we all know why I’ll never win the lottery.

I’d buy this house for my Army Of Lovers retrospective. I’d fly in any breathing member of the band. I’d be hope to hook up with the Blond, but I’d get stuck with the dark haired queen. He’d be awesome in bed, but he’d also be one of those prisses who doesn’t let you touch his dick once you’ve fucked him - “too sensitive!”.

For some reason, I’d prepare Texas chili with cornbread for all those attending.

That was like entering a very benign schizophrenic's medicated mind. Nothing scary. Nothing violent. But just... off.

If someone who knows what to do with it buys it then it would be gorgeous

How do they know the name George hadn’t been invented yet when that apartment building was made?

R12 Well done.

Although if it's today, and you are inviting the band back, know that there is no longer blond nor dark-haired members.

Back to the house... is that really white vinyl tile in the lower floor?

I hate those weird little shower cubbies.

On-target R12 makes me want to draw a bubble bath and listen to "Crucified" on repeat.

I like the decor but not the house itself. I wonder if it would be possible to remove the decor, demolish the house, put up a new building, and then reinstall the decor in there?

Starts off great but quickly descends into madness.

[quote] Between 2008 and 2015, the property was completely and comprehensively gutted and renovated with full Listed Building and planning consents. The present owner who oversaw the undoubtedly mammoth task, had an unswerving vision and an obvious love of historic buildings and their heritage.

Not so obvious, actually.

[quote] The renovation displays a highly individual and visionary taste in certain quarters, extravagant in some respects, yet purposely made to create a home that’s not short on flair, glamour and presence.

Oh, yes? And which respects are those?

Omigod! A beautiful, little historic home ruined by furniture and decorating!

The furniture is too large and too much for such a tiny home. A pulpit in the bedroom? Every time I went down on a man, I'd have visions of 16/17th century prelate condemning me to hell from it!

What was the inspiration for the bathroom? Beautiful Mount Airy Lodge in the Poconos?

And a Mondrian kitchen? R1 you are too kind. It looks like the inspiration was a Rubik's Cube. To open the fridge, you'd have to get the panels in the right sequence.

Lick my ass!

[quote]Starts off great but quickly descends into madness.

Story of my life.

Luxurious Bathroom 👠

It looks like it's fairly close (just across the bridge) to a major commercial area (there's a Tesco!). And until I looked at the map, I didn't realize how close that part of Wales is to Liverpool.

I'm quite taken with the gold shag carpet on the stairs adjacent to horrid oversized medieval furniture.

Take out all the furnishings, gut the modern kitchen and baths, and potential remains.

The setting is great, I like the house itself but hate the decor and modern additions.

The Rubik's Cube kitchen. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

The first thing I thought about the kitchen was Partridge Family bus.

I thought Studio Line by L'Oreal

I thought Mondrian.

British design at it's best!

Under "key features":

A Highly Individual Home With A Definite Splash Of Glamour

Looks like where Vlad The Impaler would’ve wanted to stay if visiting the Isles.

Why do you think that? Too many wood surfaces absorbing his shit and then some.

OP A yw'r dodrefn yn dod gydag ef?

The interior taken all together looks like the set of a mid-80s rock video.

[quote]A beautiful, little historic home ruined by furniture and decorating!

Exactly that, R23.

The house is easily salvageable, though it would take some money to undo some of the jazzed up finishes and replace the kitchen and bathrooms and do some planting in the sea of gravel outside.

The interiors though. The owners never met a bogus and showy 'antique' they could refuse. To be fair, it's fairly sparsely furnished, but the furniture is so bold and overscale and arranged in a spare white on white setting. You might expect the Louis XVI fauteuils from 2001: A Space Odyssey, but not, it's a more Gothic survey of Western Europe: a very theatrical 20thC interpretation of a pair of Savonarola chairs; a pair of seats fashioned to look like choir stall elements, rebuilt and tarted up with new timber and fancifully painted in imitation of verdure tapestry, maybe (the verdure tapestry on the wall is the one nice thing in the house) fitted out with a conventional chair under a canopy; a table that has no age at all except maybe the top pieced together from odd bits of other tables. The 'good' furniture is a mess, to be charitable. But of course the good news, the sellers can be made to take it with them. A smart buyer would insist on the same for the bathrooms at least.

Could it be Welsh chanteuse Bonnie Tyler's place?

Well, every now and then, something falls apart. It is an old house.