Plain three-bedroom house ‘frozen in time’ could be yours for £57k – but there’s a BIG catch

ON the surface, this three-bedroom house on the market for a mere £57,000 could be the bargain of a lifetime. Any potential buyer ought, however, to look more closely because there’s big catch that might make them think twice. The house is set in pleasant woodland with shops within walking distance The property is set in woodlands in rural Finland and the outside of the single floor is pleasing enough on the eye. But open the door and visitors are greeted with a riot of garish colours and that make the house look as if it has been frozen in time from a 197Os porn movie set. Floors and walls are painted luminescent pink and even the bed has a a nightmare inducing pink headboard, Elsewhere, the pink of furniture in the living room is illuminated with orange lights in the around the ceiling Dotted around the house are Venus De Milo – style statues of naked women to add to the seedy feel. There’s no escape in the bathroom, though, which has ‘I’m singing in the rain room’, painted on the wall, also in pink. The estate agent describes the décor as “spectacular”, which is one way of putting it. Most read in News TRAGIC TWIST Little girl, 2, found dead in 'builders’ bucket' in garden of London home PRESSING TIMES Boris Johnson threatens Russia with sanctions & says STOP Ukraine invasion MIX UP Mum's fury as 'shambolic' Argos sent £500 sofa with each half a DIFFERENT colour 'BLACKMAIL' PLOT Woman sent ex pics of her bound & gagged demanding £2k in fake kidnapping INFERNO HORROR Four pulled from blaze as 70 firefighters battle flames in block of flats RAILWAY SLEEPERS Signalmen controlling trains to ­2nd-busiest station seen SLEEPING at work On the other hand, the shops are only 600 yards away and the sea, lakes and national park “within walking distance”. As The Sun reported last year, another property on sale also appeared to have been untouched since 1970s. The terraced house appears to have been left totally untouched and came complete with pattern-clashing wallpaper and carpets. On the outside it looks no different from neighbouring houses, but inside potential buyers are being transported back 50 years. The one-of-a-kind “time capsule” house, on Hillaries Road, Erdington, comes complete with headache-inducing wallpaper, patterned carpets, pink ceilings and floral curtains. While the property appears to have been frozen in the decade taste forgot, another time warp house that was on sale was stuck in the 1870s. The previous owner, artist Tim Chitty, who died earlier this year, preferred to wash in a tin bath and never installed a bathroom. He snapped up a former worker’s cottage in Stoke-on-Trent and wanted to preserve its original features after stumbling across the house one wintry day in 1987. He said he spotted it when he noticed there were no footprints in the snow by the front door and he twigged the house was vacant, managing to buy it for £4,000. Tim’s terrace was in a row of three workers’ cottages, built in the 1870s for employees of a pottery company. The inside of the house is less pleasing on the eye The bed has a pink illuminated headboard Erotic statues are dotted around the house There’s no escape from the decor in the bathroom