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Challenge for a DIY enthusiast.


Byline: By Maureen Messent

AchArming challenge for a keen DiY-er ready to update a traditional detached home with integral garage in the popular handsworth Wood Coordinates:

Handsworth Wood is a loosely defined area in the north west of Birmingham, England. It is also a ward within the formal district of Perry Barr.
 area.

Number 17 Underwood Road stands on a corner plot offering a shaped lawn, conifers and flower beds in the front with a driveway to the side.

The stairs rise from the reception hallway, which has oak wood flooring Wood flooring is a type of flooring made from the timber of hardwoods, or of spruce or hard pine. There are two basic manufactured types of hardwood. Wood flooring comes unfinished, and once installed is sanded, then finished on site.  and under stairs storage space.

The first reception room has a bay window looking over the front garden, while the second looks to the side of the property and has a French door to the rear garden and focal fire surround.

The dining/kitchen caters for all family needs with space to eat, integrated electric four-ring hob with extractor fan, fitted oven/grill and space for all appliances.

There's a lobby at this level with door to the garage and side veranda and, in turn, this latter has a door to both front and rear gardens.

There are three good-sized bedrooms off the landing and an interesting dressing-room-cum-study.

There's a family bathroom with panelled bath and shower unit above, and a hand basin and bidet bi·det  
n.
A fixture similar in design to a toilet that is straddled for bathing the genitals and the posterior parts.



[French, pony, bidet, probably from Old French bider, to trot.
.

The low-level flush lavatory is separate.

The back garden has a shaped lawn, herbaceous her·ba·ceous  
adj.
1. Relating to or characteristic of an herb as distinguished from a woody plant.

2. Green and leaflike in appearance or texture.
 borders and conifers, plus an outside lavatory.

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17 Underwood Road, Handsworth Wood, is offered for sale at over pounds 270,000 by agents Bairstow Eves on 0121 5514001.
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Publication:Birmingham Mail (England)
Date:Oct 17, 2008
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