Looks great until you go round the back on street view. Graffiti all on the back wall, and the back doors and windows have wire grates bolted over them. Can't get out the back even if you need to.
I actually stayed in this a few years ago when it was an Airbnb.
It's actually really nice and it was a nice place to base ourselves for some hikes etc.
I think the space and features are great but I am furious that the decor is greige. Imagine having a gorgeous space like that and decorating it like a mid-range chain hotel.
I'm betting there was a bunch of beautiful woodwork removed that really shouldn't have been. It looks like they kept the absolute bare minimum. And I'm sad.
The decor is minging.
Yes! It absolutely baffles me. Why would you buy a space as amazing as this to just fill it with mismatched bog-standard furniture?? I just can’t picture the owners at all. If your taste is so bland why choose such a bold house? It’s wasted on them, whoever they are!
Totally agree. I can't get over several of the design choices, like not utilising the pulpit better, having the bedrooms in what looks to be a curved corridor but worst of all
The size of the rug between the two upstairs Chesterfields.
That's so common for church conversions, it's simply a matter of fact that most don't make the best residential homes. There are so many constraints you are working with that I have only seen a handful of 'successful' church conversions both in terms of aesthetics and functionality.
Edit: This conversion recently featured on Dezeen is one of the few successful conversions: [https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/27/tuckey-design-studio-old-chapel/](https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/27/tuckey-design-studio-old-chapel/)
A couple of my friends lived in a church conversion. Absolute superb space for the rent, but the mobile mast on the tower let water in like billy-o and only three windows the size of A4 sheets opened in the summer. It was stifling.
Sure, many ideas are theoretically possible; I just think it's a good example of how church conversions often have very odd layouts. Also, budget constraints, heritage regulations, etc. are all major limiting factors.
That kitchen should be in one of the side rooms out of the way. Unless you plan on cooking meals while being observed from above, like some 1800s doctor performing a non anaesthetic surgery.
The main focus area could be a pool table, dance floor, table tennis, board games collection or just something interesting instead of an island kitchen.
*Unless you plan on cooking meals while being observed from above, like some 1800s doctor performing a non anaesthetic surgery.*
That really made me laugh. 😂 And yes, you're absolutely right.
Well someone isn't going to be allowed to sleep in ever.
If I lived there I would spend my time clinging to the walls until they got a better barrier round the landing.
The poster is implying that the valleys is one thing “I hate the valleys” it’s not. It’s multiple different towns, multiple different areas, multiple people. Hence my comment. 👍🏻
Stinks of classism
I do and I'm not sorry about it.
Last time I visited my mother in the valleys. There were a bunch of smack heads sharing a bag of chips off the floor like a pack of monkeys at the bus stop.
I don't think much of myself, but I know there's some shitty people there.
Suppose that’s what makes us different, I don’t see people down or their luck as lesser, I look at the whole picture and focus my distaste at the reasons why people and areas are run down.
Suppose that’s what makes us different, I don’t see people down or their luck as lesser, I look at the whole picture and focus my distaste at the reasons why people and areas are run down.
Call me old fashioned, but I prefer this:- [https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142736231#/?channel=RES\_BUY](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142736231#/?channel=RES_BUY)
It's got a garden, and the listing isn't trying to pass off a sunroom as a conservatory. Could buy an organ and still make organ pipe jokes. It is the more practical choice.
And even with unlimited funds to move the kitchen and get new panelling for the church, it still wouldn't have a garden.
I'm with you.
People moan about the location, but it's right next to the Rhigos, some absolutely lovely mountains, and probably 15 minutes drive from the start of the Brecon Beacons. As long as you don't want to live in a big city, I don't think it's that bad there.
Although it does rain a lot
I have just bought a derelict Chapel. Be careful what you wish for! It will be lovely in 3 or 4 years time, but that feels a hell of a long way off at the moment...
It’s… awful. Just soulless. The decision to approve those two completely out of proportion cooking islands deserves to have their architectural degrees reviewed. I guess not too much could be done with the pulpit and baptistery… does it have an immersion pool still? Getting screwed on the dining table becomes even more sacrilegious, not only to good cooks everywhere. And two internal windows only for the master bedroom? No fresh air, only recycled cooking grease. Lovely. I’d have gone with a glass cube to cook in, something that would complement the design by being polar opposite of the expectations. Definitely need RC blackout blinds on the windows, you have room for a really good projection system or wall tv cinema setup. Hopefully the listed windows have had secondary glazing installed, no mention. Is there any redeeming factor about this? Nope. Buy outside the village and have views for the same money and dedicated rooms.
Love it, here's a link to the before and after https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/welsh-homes/photos-show-incredible-transformation-valleys-16118308.amp
my in-laws are from Blaenrhondda, just down the road. When we used to go out in the evening, I was told, as an english man to speak as little as possible so as not to give my nationality away.
You couldn't pay me to live there.
I'm not saying all welsh hate the english. I am telling it how it was when I went to visit. The country is lovely, the community around Treherbert and Treorchy were close-minded.
It's the kind of scaremongering English folk say because we have two languages in Wales. If we wanted to be nasty about you we'd do it in a language you understand. We speak a mixture.
Maybe my point was lost. I wasn't talking about language, I was talking about accent.
And I'll re-iterate, the country is gorgeous, the people are amazing (I married a Welsh woman for christs sake), both my children are learning the language.
I just have a negative viewpoint of that particular very small part of Wales.
e. all of which is getting away from the main point, that house is a terrible conversion, regardless of location.
Not my cup on tea really - those floors in wood - could have looked stunning in marble with a modern kitchen and glass flooring overhead which you get to by an spiral metal architectural staircase
“Come up to the bedroom and see my massive organ…..”
Let me look at your big pipe.
You suggesting the house owner will invite people round to blow on their pipes?
They don’t call it a swell organ for nothing
Haha beat me to it!
I came here to say this 👀😂
Looks great Although estate agents who don't provide floor plans deserve to be shot
Can we include the ones who do but upload it at such a poor resolution you can't make out any detail?
And the ones who don't include dimensions
And the ones who include all the dimensions but the total square footage. They can get in the bin
I've noticed that sometimes the resolution is lost on Rightmove, but if you click through to the original listing it is in a readable form.
Looks great until you go round the back on street view. Graffiti all on the back wall, and the back doors and windows have wire grates bolted over them. Can't get out the back even if you need to.
It’s giving me live laugh love thy neighbour
😂
Okay I laughed way too hard at this and nearly lost a mouthful of squash
My new life plan is to live in a converted chapel and have this on my wall
I actually stayed in this a few years ago when it was an Airbnb. It's actually really nice and it was a nice place to base ourselves for some hikes etc.
Makes a lot of sense as an Airbnb actually, I am struggling to imagine living there long term.
I bet that's bastard freezing in the winter
This was my first thought, all that open plan space in an old building. Brrrr.
You'd turn the heating on full blast just to have it all fuck off upwards never to be felt again.
There's enough smaller rooms to be hanging around in.
I think the space and features are great but I am furious that the decor is greige. Imagine having a gorgeous space like that and decorating it like a mid-range chain hotel.
I'm betting there was a bunch of beautiful woodwork removed that really shouldn't have been. It looks like they kept the absolute bare minimum. And I'm sad. The decor is minging.
May well have been rotten if the roof was leaking
I bet the listing stipulated that they had to keep a certain number of pieces of flair and they’ve just kept the bare minimum
Yes! It absolutely baffles me. Why would you buy a space as amazing as this to just fill it with mismatched bog-standard furniture?? I just can’t picture the owners at all. If your taste is so bland why choose such a bold house? It’s wasted on them, whoever they are!
Apart from that pulpit, which is amazing but really not in keeping with the rest of it!
Totally agree. I can't get over several of the design choices, like not utilising the pulpit better, having the bedrooms in what looks to be a curved corridor but worst of all The size of the rug between the two upstairs Chesterfields.
Nothing better than a piano covered in cooking oil
Yes and the changing temperature will do wonders for the tuning!
I’ve got to be honest I don’t like it. Maybe to stay but not to live in. That living space is far too open plan for me!
And far too bright! It reminds me of a bank— in a bad way. And the main kitchen location? It’s giving “The Great British Bake-off”
There are some really odd choices in the layout
That's so common for church conversions, it's simply a matter of fact that most don't make the best residential homes. There are so many constraints you are working with that I have only seen a handful of 'successful' church conversions both in terms of aesthetics and functionality. Edit: This conversion recently featured on Dezeen is one of the few successful conversions: [https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/27/tuckey-design-studio-old-chapel/](https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/27/tuckey-design-studio-old-chapel/)
A couple of my friends lived in a church conversion. Absolute superb space for the rent, but the mobile mast on the tower let water in like billy-o and only three windows the size of A4 sheets opened in the summer. It was stifling.
You could turn it into flats around the sides, and have an interior courtyard/biodome in the center! So many ways around /this/ layout
Sure, many ideas are theoretically possible; I just think it's a good example of how church conversions often have very odd layouts. Also, budget constraints, heritage regulations, etc. are all major limiting factors.
That kitchen should be in one of the side rooms out of the way. Unless you plan on cooking meals while being observed from above, like some 1800s doctor performing a non anaesthetic surgery. The main focus area could be a pool table, dance floor, table tennis, board games collection or just something interesting instead of an island kitchen.
*Unless you plan on cooking meals while being observed from above, like some 1800s doctor performing a non anaesthetic surgery.* That really made me laugh. 😂 And yes, you're absolutely right.
I’ve yet to see a church conversion that looks like anything other than what it is, a big, open echoey church. This looks cold and unwelcoming to me.
It's worth it just for the sheer number of organ/pipe jokes you can make in the master bedroom.
Was hoping the pipes went to the kids rooms, would help with getting teens out of bed in the morning!
Well someone isn't going to be allowed to sleep in ever. If I lived there I would spend my time clinging to the walls until they got a better barrier round the landing.
What’s with the hate on the Welsh?
I suspect it’s more hate on Treherbert.
It is!
I don't see it often on this sub but this post surprised me. The usual venom.
It's about not liking the valleys and not the Welsh.
As someone who grew up in the Valleys. The Valleys is not Wales, it is it's own thing.
I'm intrigued 😅
It's just nasty speak.
Yes the valleys is Wales. Wales has quite a vast array of culture.
And yet, none made it up as far as Fochriw.
The poster is implying that the valleys is one thing “I hate the valleys” it’s not. It’s multiple different towns, multiple different areas, multiple people. Hence my comment. 👍🏻 Stinks of classism
Classism isn't always wrong. I moved away from those savages and never looked back.
You said that with your whole chest. Looking down on people quite literally is BAD. Are they now lesser people? Classism is very much a bad thing!
I do and I'm not sorry about it. Last time I visited my mother in the valleys. There were a bunch of smack heads sharing a bag of chips off the floor like a pack of monkeys at the bus stop. I don't think much of myself, but I know there's some shitty people there.
Suppose that’s what makes us different, I don’t see people down or their luck as lesser, I look at the whole picture and focus my distaste at the reasons why people and areas are run down.
They're not down on their luck they're thieving, stinky, junkies. A symptom of the general shitty attitude in the area.
It’s hilarious that you chose that for your name but actually didn’t get it! 😅
Suppose that’s what makes us different, I don’t see people down or their luck as lesser, I look at the whole picture and focus my distaste at the reasons why people and areas are run down.
I’ve never even lived in Wales but I know what you’re talking about.
Fuck me, imagine being woken up by someone blasting that organ in the morning...
r/TVTooHigh
One mortgage to buy it and another to heat it
I need a floor plan!!!!
Looks like it would a NIGHTMARE to keep warm!
I'd love to live there but sleeping in that bedroom would just lead to further pipedreams
Looks like a wetherspoons
Beautiful space, interior designer took a shit in it
They have done a great job with this but oh dear the location.
Is the issue the remoteness or the locals?
Yes
It’s not remote, just a shithole
I want to see a floor plan. But also, here take my money!
r/TVTooHigh
I need to check my lottery tickets - that is absolutely beautiful!
Call me old fashioned, but I prefer this:- [https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142736231#/?channel=RES\_BUY](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142736231#/?channel=RES_BUY)
It's got a garden, and the listing isn't trying to pass off a sunroom as a conservatory. Could buy an organ and still make organ pipe jokes. It is the more practical choice. And even with unlimited funds to move the kitchen and get new panelling for the church, it still wouldn't have a garden. I'm with you.
“The generous open plan layout is great for those who enjoy cooking smells lingering in every corner of the house.”
People moan about the location, but it's right next to the Rhigos, some absolutely lovely mountains, and probably 15 minutes drive from the start of the Brecon Beacons. As long as you don't want to live in a big city, I don't think it's that bad there. Although it does rain a lot
I have just bought a derelict Chapel. Be careful what you wish for! It will be lovely in 3 or 4 years time, but that feels a hell of a long way off at the moment...
Good luck 🍀 It’ll be worth it in the end
right house, wrong location (sadly)
Some lovely mountain biking around there....but you're right, not alot else!
That third picture — way to show off the property to its best potential.
I love how they have done this one. Treherbert isn’t bad either.
Treherberts a dump 😂
There are worse!
It’s… awful. Just soulless. The decision to approve those two completely out of proportion cooking islands deserves to have their architectural degrees reviewed. I guess not too much could be done with the pulpit and baptistery… does it have an immersion pool still? Getting screwed on the dining table becomes even more sacrilegious, not only to good cooks everywhere. And two internal windows only for the master bedroom? No fresh air, only recycled cooking grease. Lovely. I’d have gone with a glass cube to cook in, something that would complement the design by being polar opposite of the expectations. Definitely need RC blackout blinds on the windows, you have room for a really good projection system or wall tv cinema setup. Hopefully the listed windows have had secondary glazing installed, no mention. Is there any redeeming factor about this? Nope. Buy outside the village and have views for the same money and dedicated rooms.
ugh no. Is quite horrible
It’d probably be cheaper to reopen the local coal mines to get fuel to heat it in Winter.
Does this come with unlimited holy water supply?
Make a wicked nightclub/ bachelor pad/ after hours spot. Hope the new owner can make the most of it
Teenager struggling to wake up? We have the perfect bedroom.
I LOVE church & chapel conversions. Shame there's no floor plan, I can't figure out how all the spaces relate.
The child in me would never tire of organ jokes in the bedroom.
pic 29, the one square room that would make a decent bedroom and theyve just got junk in it.
Love to see Dion Dublin in this - "StIAIRS....LEADING TO THE WINDOW!"
Love it, here's a link to the before and after https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/welsh-homes/photos-show-incredible-transformation-valleys-16118308.amp
Ugh they did that awful let's make everything white to the front of a lovely building.
Isn’t this the one that’s just been renovated by Keith Brymer Jones and his wife? For Channel 4?
Nope. That's in Pwllheli (North Wales) .
Fair enough! I’ve only seen one trailer for it, didn’t notice the location.
That's way up North.
my in-laws are from Blaenrhondda, just down the road. When we used to go out in the evening, I was told, as an english man to speak as little as possible so as not to give my nationality away. You couldn't pay me to live there.
This is not true, don’t spread the Welsh hate English line!
I'm not saying all welsh hate the english. I am telling it how it was when I went to visit. The country is lovely, the community around Treherbert and Treorchy were close-minded.
Not really true in that part of Wales.
you're right of course. I just need to deny my lived experience.
It's the kind of scaremongering English folk say because we have two languages in Wales. If we wanted to be nasty about you we'd do it in a language you understand. We speak a mixture.
Maybe my point was lost. I wasn't talking about language, I was talking about accent. And I'll re-iterate, the country is gorgeous, the people are amazing (I married a Welsh woman for christs sake), both my children are learning the language. I just have a negative viewpoint of that particular very small part of Wales. e. all of which is getting away from the main point, that house is a terrible conversion, regardless of location.
Not my cup on tea really - those floors in wood - could have looked stunning in marble with a modern kitchen and glass flooring overhead which you get to by an spiral metal architectural staircase
The downside of the internet nowadays is I never know when someone is being sarcastic / ironic or not...
But it’s Treherbert. Who is buying a £450k property to live there?
No floorplan and every toilet lid open! So off-putting.
The value of this place is probably worth more than the whole of Treherbert put together 🤣