Retro 1970s house on sale for £285k looks normal from outside – but it’s got an incredibly unusual extension
A HOUSE stuck in a 1970s time warp is up for sale and while it may look perfectly ordinary from the outside it has a very unusual feature.
Heavily patterned carpets and wallpaper may have been all the rage in British homes many decades ago but have long been out of fashion.
A bungalow in Bethesda, Gwynedd, North Wales, has now gone on the market for £285,000 and features some odd stylings both inside and out.
Facing the entrance to the property, nothing really looks out of place and all looks fairly mundane and ordinary, but once through the front door it’s a very different situation.
To the left of the entrance hall is the lounge, which photos show is decorated in garish wallpaper and comes with startling blue and yellow striped sofa while the carpet also competes for contention, patterned with dark green flowers.
If that was a sight for sore eyes, then the dining room is no better.
Flowery white wallpaper, which matches the curtains, is contrasted with blotchy black and yellow carpet.
‘Unusual detached property’ is one of the biggest understatements I’ve ever read
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The bedroom is no better which is decorated with a pink ceiling and styled with patterned wallpaper.
Outside, there is a “large garden plot,” according to the description on Rightmove, but this appears to be very overgrown in places and would need some serious hard work to clear it all.
Despite all that though, the property’s most startling feature is the extension which appears to have been built on two long metal rods and tacked on to the end of the roof.
It features four windows at the rear and has brickwork along the top half and comes with its own roof.
An urban planning account on X, formerly Twitter, took to their page to comment on the design of the house, writing: ”Business in the front, one hell of a party in the back!”
Others took to the site to voice their opinion about the property’s interior.
One commentator said: “’Unusual detached property’ is one of the biggest understatements I’ve ever read.”
Another posted: “Career home inspector here. Have inspected over 50,000 homes in 10 states.
“Can say for sure I have never seen a frame mansard addition on 4×4 metal stilts.”
While a third wrote: “What was the brief? It’s so monstrously bad I’m slightly impressed”
A fourth chipped in with: “That interior! If someone has lost the 1970s, we found it for you.”
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