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Win a Million Pound House

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Blinko Thu 11-Aug-22 21:34:20

Imagine all that expanse of glass in this heatwave...

NotAGran55 Thu 11-Aug-22 16:13:40

I’ve never seen any of these draws - where are they?

lemsip Thu 11-Aug-22 15:47:28

yes, I ve done it twice and would sell straightaway if i won. I paid £10 which gives you 15 entries

£25 gives you 40 and so on but ten pound is what I spent

Doodledog Thu 11-Aug-22 15:31:11

Yes, the windows are always huge, but looking onto a beautiful view. I enjoy looking at the adverts and always zoom in to see if they provide curtains or blinds, as there are usually acres of glass.

Someone on here talked about self-cleaning glass, which is a new one on me, but would take a lot of the work out of it.

Shinamae Thu 11-Aug-22 12:11:40

I’ve entered it a couple of times but not recently.Nearly all these houses have huge windows which would be a bugger to clean so I reckon I would sell it and buy a small holding in North Devon…

Doodledog Thu 11-Aug-22 12:11:10

They do seem to be similar in style, with lots of windows and all the rooms running into each other, but they look gorgeous in the ads.

I did see one of them in an estate agent ad from before it had been bought and styled by Omaze though, and it didn't look anywhere like as good - I suspect that a lot is very clever photography and furniture placement.

I wonder how much they cost to run. The council tax on a £3million house must be high, as well as water rates and so on. Even if you kept it locked up except for your holidays it would surely be cheaper to rent it for a fortnight than to keep it up for occasional use. I'd probably sell too, but it seems a shame to get something like that free and not use it.

Overthink? Moi? grin. (I don't buy tickets either, so this is all entirely hypothetical!)

Hellogirl1 Thu 11-Aug-22 12:03:52

I don`t enter the draws, but if I did, and won, the first thing I`d do is put it up for sale. The locations are lovely, but the houses are a blot on the landscape, they``re so modern and ugly, look like factories from outside.

Doodledog Thu 11-Aug-22 12:00:01

What do you make of those draws to win a luxury house, with added cars and cash prizes?

At my age I could sell up and relocate to Cornwall (where the current house is sited) I suppose; but younger families can't just upticks and move to the Lake District, or the Cotswolds or wherever the prize is, and running houses like these as second homes is going to cost a lot of money. I'm not sure that I want to move away from friends and family though - without a job to go to or contacts in the area, starting again would be difficult.

Do you enter the draws, and if so, what would you do if you won? The ads say that you can sell them or rent them out if you don't want to live in them, but that's another responsibility I'm not sure I want. The houses do look lovely though.