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Pictures of what a house is made of

These are photographs of interiors — bay windows, stair halls, kitchens and a verandah — chosen for the character of the office. They are not a portfolio of properties for sale, not one of them is on this agency's books, and none of them can be walked to from here.

The pictures

A long verandah room with a tiled floor, shuttered openings down one side and cane furniture at the far end.
Plate 01A verandah room in an albumen print from the 1890s. A room built for a climate rather than a fashion usually still works a century later, which is worth more in a valuation than any fitted kitchen.
A tall bay window in an upstairs room, photographed square on with the shutters folded back.
Plate 02A bay recorded for a building survey. A bay is the cheapest daylight a house has and the most expensive thing on it to put right, which is why an agent looks at the sill before the view.
A wide period room with tall shuttered windows, a patterned floor and dark timber furniture set against pale walls.
Plate 03A period interior kept rather than refitted. Rooms like this are valued on what survives — floor, joinery, shutters — and not on what has been added since.
A stair hall with a curving flight, a painted balustrade and daylight falling from above.
Plate 04A stair hall in Bucharest. The stair is the one part of a house nobody moves, so its handrail, its rise and its going date the building more reliably than the paperwork does.
A plain working kitchen with a black range, a deep sink and open shelving along one wall.
Plate 05A kitchen with nothing hidden in it. A fitted kitchen conceals the pipework and the wiring that decide what a refit costs; this one shows both, which is what a surveyor would rather see.
A dining room bay window seen from inside, looking west into bright daylight across the sill.
Plate 06A bay looking west. Which way a room faces changes what it is worth to live in far more than its floor area does, and it is the first thing a written appraisal states.
A landing at the head of a staircase, with panelled doors off it and a moulded cornice running round the ceiling.
Plate 07The landing above plate 04, in the same Bucharest house. A landing is circulation and counts for nothing in a floor area, which is exactly why it is the first space an unhappy conversion eats.
A drawing room window bay in close detail, the shutters, sash and panelled reveal all in one frame.
Plate 08A window bay recorded down to the reveal. Shutters, sash and panelling that all match were fitted together, and a bay where they do not tells you the room has been opened up.

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