After showing the upstairs guestroom options in an earlier post, here comes the master bedroom locateted downstairs. The couple wanted something light, simple, airy and Scandinavian. The walls were painted and one of them was wallpapered by Cole and Son's Woods. Actually only the walls were left during the reno and everything else was demolished and built again with better materials. The house was originally built in the 50's and some adjustements were made in the 80's so the condition wasn't the best possible. A heated floor was installed and all the windows in the entire house was changed.

There's nothing extra in this bedroom. It's kept simple and functional with big wardrobes with sliding doors. The colour scheme is greyish with a hint of deep golden yellow, and of course, lots of white.

ps. this was the starting point:

Here you can see some other parts of the downstairs while it was still in progress, click!

And here are the upstairs guestrooms, click!

ps. always remember the importance of home insuarance! Just found out that Allianz has a great option, check it out here.

House By The Lake Balaton

It was the last house of the seven houses by Lake Balaton that my friend and her fiancee chose.

The asking price was 47 million HUF (€157 000) and they ended up paying 34 million HUF (€113 000) for it!!!

As I mentioned before it's in a pretty bad shape, so all the heating, electricity etc must be redone. The good thing is that most of the walls can be removed or demolished.

What they liked most was the location. It's in Balatonboglar, on the south side of the lake Balaton, on a quiet street, but near the beach, walking distance of the shops, restaurants & railway station, so it's easy for friends and family to come & visit even without a car.

The first step after all the paper work is done is to make the renovation plan. Can't wait to get started!

ps. you can find the other house option here, here, here, here, here and more about this house here.

Lake Houses part 7

 Nice view, isn't it?

 This is the last house of lake house hunting at Lake Balaton. Located in Balatonboglar, walking distance from the lake, built in 1955, added some extra space in the late 80s. I would say it's a real retro piece inside out. Condition is pretty poor but that's how it is usually in the houses of that era. People live there but probably are so used to it that don't see that maybe some changes would do good. Or maybe it's a money issue. Who knows.

Lots of space, two levels, big garden, nice neighborhood, near shops & restaurants, but still on a quiet street without almost any traffic.

Upstairs in the middle the rooms have yellow glass ceiling windows... 

View to the side.

Asking price 47 million Hungarian forints (€157.000).

So there were 7 houses to choose from...

Option 1

Option 2 & 3

Option 4

Option 5

Option 6

Next time I'll tell you which one was chosen & bought!

Lake Houses part 6

 This house is situated in Balatonboglar. Found out that it's a real fixer upper with a spacious garden. There are 2 kind of small houses and the other one had gone trough a not so well done reno in my opinion. The smell in the yellow house told that there's a pretty bad humidity problem there. The location is quite nice, it's by a quite road, walking distance to the lake, near the shops etc, but...
Hard to believe that someone was/is actually living there. 

So this one was already sort of renovated.

Asking price 30 million Hungarian forints (€100.000)

Lake Houses part 5

Continuing the series of houses for sale at Lake Balaton.

This is a huge 2-story corner house, which is actually consisting 2 apartments, so either downstairs or upstairs could be a rental unit.  The rooms were kind of, hmm, staged. Everything seemed to be in a pretty good condition, so not a perfect fixer upper, yet the style was too 90's. There were other downsides as well - such as no views,  too challenging yard, busy road and railway just opposite the house.   

Asking price 28,9 million Hungarian forints (€96.300)

Just a house - without any character.

If you like to check the other lake houses at Balaton, click here, here and here.

There are still coming up a few houses...