Beach Hut ideas
Tim Baber
This is the £40,000 view you are buying. Remember this is a day hut...no sleeping allowed.You sit or suspend yourself in a 7 foot by 7 foot space with a hinged shelf behind you and two small side ledges either side of the door. In front of you is a 7 x 13 foot verandah with steps to the side. The 7 foot by 5 foot (window and door) one piece shutter acts as a sun shield but the vista is Eastwards and I rarely got there in the morning. This hut was overlooked and considered worthless until I started to wax lyrical about it. Huts before I started my newspaper were going for £20,000, in five years my publication saw them fetch 140,000 in 2005, and we sold up, my newspaper ceased publication on the beach the next year. I tried to add value to the huts by writing about them, referencing them with desirable connections and reaching back into the community's knowledge base to a time of innocence everybody sought, or seeks, but which passed with my childhood...or arguably before.
My website has dozens of memories from different decades in the last century. Most of them are delicately nostalgic. This place was at its best before the second world war, in most estimations I have read or published.
Nevertheless, people buying in now are getting exactly what is on offer now. It is what is says on the can.
One 15 x 10 foot hut recently sold for £170,000. It was at the "nicest" end of the beach, was purpose freshly built, but in 1995 it could have been had for £20,000. I blame myself..words can add value to anything...try it out on your girlfriend, fiancee or wife. If you were to do a blog celebrating their life, well...it is just an idea.
I think I am still alive because I could persuade an Ambassador from a country where they do not suffer fools gladly that what I was telling him was innocent...and if he only saw through the deceit he would see my case was a genuine one. My case was, really, of trying to limit the damage of the worldly vulnerabilities he and others were facing that I had spotted and decided to whistle-blow. An innocent man in a hut, like a hermit, saint or repentant of old, has little by way of agenda and deserves to be heard. His words are his furniture.
the view....