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For people who don't like stainless steel appliances

If you lived here you, too, could put magnets on your fridge! Yes! You could! It’s not one of those no-magnets-here fridges!

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  1. K2-Judgment Day says:

    I like the washing machine in place of a dishwasher in the kitchen. It makes it that much easier to wash a load of clothes whilst whipping up a nutritious meal for the family.

    The only thing missing from that refrigerator is a magnet featuring a merman named ‘Clint’. All kitchens should have one of those.

  2. Anonymous says:

    Why DO agents do this? Ok, ok, yes, I get that that’s the whole point of this blog: it’s weird, and possibly inexplicable. But seriously, does anyone have any clue why anyone would bother putting up a photo of stuff on the fridge? Is there some rational reason, like it’s supposed to show what kind of people live there? “Oh yes, owned by a little old lady who only left the house to go to church on Sunday”?

  3. apronk says:

    You mean “people who don’t like *expensive* stainless steel appliances.”

    The cheap stainless fridges are magnet friendly.

    • Mark. Gooley says:

      Either they’re fake, regular steel with some sort of brushed-stainless look and some plating, or perhaps they use actual magnetic stainless steel. Yep, some alloys are magnetic. You sometimes find them used for induction-stove cookware, though I think it’s more usual to have a layer of iron sandwiched in there and use the non-magnetic stainlessfor the rest of the pot.

      I’d bet that the cheap fridges are fake stainless, though.

  4. nikkicrumpet says:

    It defies logic

  5. Heather says:

    I actually like this house. Not only would we still be able to use our magnets, but my hubby and I could have our separate beds and wash clothes while we do the dishes.

    It’s lovely! I’ll take it!!! :D

  6. Gamzulatov says:

    I’m with apronk on this one. Any surgical grade (400 series) stainless will hold a magnet.

    Please try to verify all ferous and non ferous properties before posting.

    A lot of people look to this blog for information and opportunities for house flipping. When you quote misinformation you realy skew the market.

  7. K2-Judgment Day says:

    You tell her, Gamzulatov! That’ll teach her to not research the properties (and their appliances) completely before posting them on her blog!

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  8. thedomesticfringe says:

    I have stainless, but it’s covered in magnets and school papers too. At least I don’t need to clean it that way.

  9. Linnee says:

    OMG! I thought you had zoomed in on a picture of the frig and the magnets! Wow! It was an actual photo in the listing. Lovely, indeed.

  10. The Honorable Mayor of Bethville says:

    OMG! It’s my grandparents’ refrigerator in 1986.

  11. The Mef Thing says:

    Now that’s a selling point. I’m in.

  12. K. says:

    Interesting choice of magnets. Not much of a leprechaun fan, but the evil president of Jamestown (as portrayed in Disney’s Pocahontas) is lovely.
    Are they trying to get the first-time homebuyers with their memory-inducing magnets?

  13. Charlene says:

    k2-judgment day, it’s very common in the UK to have the washing machine in the kitchen, usually unaccompanied by a dryer. Most British houses were built before the existence of washing machines and dryers; the middle class who would have lived in these places sent their laundry out. So these houses don’t have laundry rooms, and quite often it’s much cheaper to retrofit a washing machine to sit beside the sink because that’s where the pipes are. Dishwashers aren’t all that common and aren’t taken for granted as a necessity.

    To me it’s insane that they don’t have clothes dryers right beside the washers. If York is anything like where I live, clothes can only be dried outside for two or three months a year. What do they do the rest of the year?

  14. Shira-chan says:

    My family has a huge collection of fridge magnets that we’ve accumulated over the years from every place we’ve ever visited – hence we have fridge magnets from all over the world. It’s one of those random collections that some people make, I guess, and it’s considerably larger than the one in that picture. When we needed to buy a new fridge, we even made an effort to hunt for a fridge that would allow us to continue sticking our magnets while giving us the usual functionality needed from a fridge.

    That being said, as fellow fridge magnet collectors, we really don’t see the point of exhibiting them in a real estate listing. Unless they’re saying that the fridge magnets come with the house, in which case we still wouldn’t want it anyway. =P

  15. Emma says:

    Yay another of my finds on the blog!!

    As a quick note most homes in the UK don’t have a laundry room. It’s very common for the washing machine to be in the kitchen – generally the place with best access to water.

  16. Anonymous says:

    They are just looking for the right magnet aficionado for a buyer.

  17. fposte says:

    If it’s like my friend’s, it’s not just a clothes washer, it has both a wash and a dry cycle.

    Though if it has no dry cycle, perhaps the fridge magnets hold the clothes up for interior drying?


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