The owners of a cottage set among rolling hills have been criticised for laying an artificial lawn in their garden. A five bedroom property, stone-built Upper Dalveen boasts five bedrooms and the same number of bathrooms and is surrounded by countryside in Dumfries, Scotland.
Listed for sale on RightMove with a £500,000 price tag, the property came under fire when views of its fake lawn appeared on X, formerly Twitter.
The X account S*** Lawns, which showcases the “hideous” trend of plastic grass, shared a picture of the garden, commenting: “Here’s a homeowner that deserves to look out the window at a brick wall and nothing more…”
That prompted a wave of criticism, with fellow X users slamming the look as “dreadful” and “plastic crap”.
One X user wrote: “That is just so dreadful, in so many ways.” Another commented the owners “don’t deserve to have that view”.
A third said: “Beggars belief.” As a fourth asked: “How could they?”
X user @Athirty4 said of the plastic lawn craze: “Artificial lawns, concreted gardens. What is going on in some people’s heads?”
Another X user observed: “Seeing a lot of this in Cumbria for AirBnB/holiday lets as ‘easy care’ garden areas. There’s some by my parents that back onto a fragment of temperate rainforest (home to red squirrels no less), built on an old marsh, & lots of the new houses have paved or fake grass gardens.”
@Jude_est82 wrote on the platform: “Fingers crossed the new owners rip out the plastic crap.” A seventh X user said: “What the hell, why would you do this? They have ruined the surroundings. Absolutely mind-blowing behaviour.”
The Band F property is in a remote part of Dumfries, with the nearest train station almost eight miles away and the closest shop more than five miles distant.
It was advertised on RightMove, but has since been removed, with the property website advising potential buyers to contact the estate agent’s directly.
The detached property has been run as a £270 per night holiday home and praised for its “breathtaking mountain views from every window”.
Others who have stayed at the secluded property have praised it to the hilt. One woman wrote: “What truly set this holiday home apart was its secluded location nestled between mountains and a river.
“It exuded a sense of peace and magic, providing a serene escape from everyday life.”
Express.co.uk has approached the owners via the viewing agents, 99Home.
