Pool Living Room

Pool Living Room

WANT your home to look like a 1980's porn set? Simply install a swimming pool in your lounge.

This unconventional living room feature was the star of the show in this week's episode of Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer's Love It Or List It.

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A property on this week's Love It or List It features a swimming pool in the lounge Credit: Channel 4

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Owner Christine admits the pool looks like an 80s porn set Credit: Channel 4

Homeowners Tony Congdon and Christine Attwood revealed they bought the bungalow in Purley, South London, 22 years ago as they thought it offered something "different" and "exciting".

The colourful 710 square foot pool, which is situated behind a curtain and adorned with plants, takes up the majority of the living room.

Christine said: "When we describe our house to people, we tell them that our lounge has a swimming pool in it. But basically the lounge is a swimming pool. It does really look like a 1980s porn set."

From the outside, the house looks just like a normal bungalow - but looking around the property, Phil joked it resembled "Hugh Hefner's Surrey retreat", while Tony admitted the pampas grass outside led to people thinking it was a swinger's house.

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Tony Congdon and Christine Attwood bought the South London property 22 years ago Credit: Channel 4

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The swimming pool lurks behind a curtain in their sitting room Credit: Channel 4

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Phil Spencer joked the pool has probably seen 'a lot of action' Credit: Channel 4

It does really look like a 1980s porn set

Christine Attwood

The idea of the programme is that while Phil tries to encourage homeowners to jump ship and find somewhere else to live, Kirstie tries to convince them to stay by carrying out renovations to the property.

Christine is keen to move, explaining they "wanted a party house" when they bought it, but "now we don't".

However, Tony would prefer to stay.

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The homeowners have to decide whether they want to Love It and stay, or List It and move Credit: Channel 4

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Christine and Tony admit they bought the property as they wanted a party house Credit: Channel 4

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Kirstie and Phil have their work cut out transforming the property Credit: Getty - Contributor

At the beginning of the show, Phil jokes that Purley reminds him of 70s sitcom Terry and June.

"The middle-aged couple, move to suburbia, kids leave home, midlife-crisis ensures. It is a classic story," he says.

On encountering the pool, Phil jokes: "I bet that has seen plenty of action."

In Purley, the current average value of a home is £626,442 - almost double the UK average of £310,757.

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Once Kirstie has worked her magic, the pool is filled in and the couple are left with a large living space Credit: Channel 4

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But despite the considerable renovations, the couple decide to sell up Credit: Channel 4

Kirstie's renovations, which cost £150,000, see the pool filled in, giving the couple a much larger living space.

But despite her billing it "the greatest transformation we have ever had", Tony and Christine decide to sell it.

Kirstie and Phil's Love It or List It continues this Wednesday on Channel 4 at 8pm.

Pool Living Room

Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/8441662/bungalow-swimming-pool-lounge-porn-set/