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A Celtic Tiger Icon?.

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  • 13-10-2011 12:05pm
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    Paddy Samurai
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    Check out the inside http://www.hillcottage.ie/index.php


    A bit over the top for my taste.If I ever gave my parents a house like this they would be afraid they would break something.:D
    No expense was spared and no relevant paint shade left untested by the family who built this luxurious, marble- floored home for their parents. Now it’s for sale for €1.75 million
    IF DONATELLA VERSACE ever wants a bolthole in Ireland she need look no further than Hill Cottage outside Straffan, Co Kildare.
    The grey field-stone front gives the impression of a modest enough bungalow – one that she might drive by without a second glance – but inside there’s more than 585sq m (6,296sq ft) of mesmerising opulence spanning three levels with acres of marble floors, lashings of antique gilt and a surfeit of chandeliers – there’s even one in the little powder room.
    While it’s relatively restrained by usual Versace standards, there’s more than a passing resemblance to the interiors on versacehome.com (click on Interior Design), from the wall panelling in every room to the lavishly set dinner table and the positioning of the massive cream leather sofas .........
    Damn I miss the Celtic Tiger.......another decade and we would all have been living in houses like this.;)


    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2011/1013/1224305702254.html


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    foxyboxer
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    That's a class house alright. Cheap (relatively speaking) too.

    No crying chair though. :(


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    orourkeda
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    Paddy Samurai wrote: »
    Check out the inside http://www.hillcottage.ie/index.php


    A bit over the top for my taste.If I ever gave my parents a house like this they would be afraid they would break something.:D

    Damn I miss the Celtic Tiger.......another decade and we would all have been living in houses like this.;)


    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2011/1013/1224305702254.html

    And then some people would have spent the next 40 years pissing and moaning about their mortgage repayments.


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    Badgermonkey
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    Garishly opulent.

    It's like Marie-Antoinette and Robbie Savage designed their dream home.

    Less is more etc.


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    Biggins
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    Everything white while looks good, is serious job to maintain and keep clean looking.
    It would be a full-time job just looking after the place.


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    squod
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    Current owner is on HRT and has a Barbie penchant. Is obviously overweight and spends her weekends in Dublin night clubs.


    Who lives in a house like this? Not me anyway.


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    My name is URL
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    The building itself is lovely but the interior is rancid


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    paddyandy
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    With a place like that there's always some bother...you'd need servants ...security....and people to make it feel lived in...With that sot of money i'd move to a type of hotel where the management do everything for you.Everything brings bother bother bother..Wealthy people make an awful fuss over the tiniest of detail...and Marble is very cold looking too.


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    ejmaztec
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    The building itself is lovely but the interior is rancid

    Donatella Versace coincidentally enough, is probably the opposite, she being rancid on the outside.:eek:


    http://photos.posh24.com/p/1017509/z/tara_reid/donatella_versace.jpg


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    mike65
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    UGH! Nowt worse than a fake olde worlde country pile full of expensive tasteless tat.


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    Kojak
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    With all the inside white, any speck of dirt will be seen a mile away. It would be impossible to keep clean, even for the hired help..


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    Badgermonkey
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    The building itself is lovely

    Hmmmm......


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    OneArt
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    Its too small for one thing, where on Earth would I put all my staff?


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    up for anything
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    Hideous... money can't buy taste unfortunately. You'd need an army of cleaners in every day... all that glass, those mouldings, every item in it would need dusting every single day. Life is too short.

    I hate gilt anyway. :rolleyes:


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    mconigol
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    My eyes........:eek:


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    ejmaztec
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    up for anything wrote: »
    Hideous... money can't buy taste unfortunately. You'd need an army of cleaners in every day... all that glass, those mouldings, every item in it would need dusting every single day. Life is too short.

    I hate gilt anyway. :rolleyes:

    A gilt complex?:(


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    Biggins
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    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Donatella Versace coincidentally enough, is probably the opposite, she being rancid on the outside.:eek:


    http://photos.posh24.com/p/1017509/z/tara_reid/donatella_versace.jpg

    FCUK - thats horrible! :eek:


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    Lando Griffin
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    You would need to wear welders goggles 24/7 to live in that place.


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    Paddy Samurai
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    mike65 wrote: »
    UGH! Nowt worse than a fake olde worlde country pile full of expensive tasteless tat.

    A perfect example of the boom years,put your wealth on display.Imagine having the mates around to watch the match with beers and pizza,...........curry on the carpet.:D
    Thought it was interesting that the family built it for their parents.Freud would have a field day.


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    ejmaztec
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    Biggins wrote: »
    FCUK - thats horrible! :eek:

    The usual celebrity story, resorting to cosmetic surgery to save her looks.









    :pac:


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    Biggins
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    ejmaztec wrote: »
    The usual celebrity story, resorting to cosmetic surgery to save her looks.

    :pac:

    Her and Pete Burns are well matched!
    Maybe they should meet up and get it on! There's one porn video I NEVER want to see! :eek:


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    Millicent
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    Hill Cottage?! By what stretch of the imagination is that beast of a place a cottage?!

    This is a cottage. I don't know what the feck that place is. Suppose "Hill McMansion" doesn't have the same ring to it...


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    sgb
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    Not one telly to be seen, not a home


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    squod
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    Hill Billies


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    My name is URL
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    sgb wrote: »
    Not one telly to be seen, not a home

    There's a 'cinema' room.


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    Napper Hawkins
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    Biggins wrote: »
    Her and Pete Burns are well matched!
    Maybe they should meet up and get it on! There's one porn video I NEVER want to see! :eek:

    I do.


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    amacca
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    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Donatella Versace coincidentally enough, is probably the opposite, she being rancid on the outside.:eek:


    http://photos.posh24.com/p/1017509/z/tara_reid/donatella_versace.jpg

    eeuugh!

    repulsed but yet transfixed................like seeing the face of pure evil or in this case ugliness for the first time.

    this...this is my new bench mark for hideousness.......that picture sort of reminds me of Earthworm Jim for some reason.


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    Nforce
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    amacca wrote: »
    eeuugh!

    repulsed but yet transfixed................like seeing the face of pure evil or in this case ugliness for the first time.

    this...this is my new bench mark for hideousness.......that picture sort of reminds me of Earthworm Jim for some reason.


    If you find that pic shocking then The Duchess Of Alba's gonna make you hurl :eek:


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    The Snipe
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    Thats not a home! Wheres the 'homely' mess!


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    Chuck Stone
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    It looks like a bit like an old school house on the outside and it's trying to be like a french palace on the inside.

    Doesn't work for me and a cottage it certainly is not.


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    bonzodog2
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    Tacky.


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