My dream home in Dublin 15??

wandererz

Holy bejasus!

It turns out that my dream home actually exists in Dublin 15 of all places.

Just need a €2.3M mortgage.

https://touch.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-6-homeleigh-porterstown-castleknock-co-dublin/1157875

LorelaiG

wandererz wrote: »

Holy bejasus!

It turns out that my dream home actually exists in Dublin 15 of all places.

Just need a €2.3M mortgage.

https://touch.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-6-homeleigh-porterstown-castleknock-co-dublin/1157875

Sorry. That's mine.

It has been on and off the market for about two years now.

anewme

Something off about that property. House completed to a very high standard, but all interiors; couches, pictures, chains, seem to be cheaper than cheap both in cost and taste.

To me, looks like something a gangland type person would own.

Zaph

The hall looks like an entrance to an office block rather than a family home. And you'd need binoculars to see the TVs they're so far away from all the seating.

OneMoreBabadee

anewme wrote: »

Something off about that property. House completed to a very high standard, but all interiors; couches, pictures, chains, seem to be cheaper than cheap both in cost and taste.

To me, looks like something a gangland type person would own.

Nope. The guy who owns it is a consultant for renewable energy projects in Africa. He plays golf in the Castleknock club beside the hotel.

italodisco

A cold soulless house,

Even if you had 10 kids it would still feel empty.

wandererz

OneMoreBabadee wrote: »

Nope. The guy who owns it is a consultant for renewable energy projects in Africa. He plays golf in the Castleknock club beside the hotel.

How do i apply for a similar job? (when Covid-19 is over)

wandererz

As a matter of interest, how many other houses in the area have a basement swimming pool?

Something like this in London for example would be £10M, £20M, £30M or more?

Mellor

anewme wrote: »

House completed to a very high standard,

It's a big house, with expensive windows and stone lobby.
But I don't think it's a high standard at all. Especially interior. Very disjointed from a design POV.
Kitchen looks like it came from their old house. Bathroom, bar, wardrobes very dated. In fact the whole house looks like they just stretched out a previous house. Which is why the rooms feel so hollow.

90s style with Celtic Tiger money.

Rubberchikken

If that's the actual furniture they used then God help them.

If not, it looks like someone went around à few second hand shops for any old stuff to pad the rooms out.

I kind of like the house. It's not the worse I've seen but not the best either. And location is blah. Imo.

wandererz

Houses in Ireland don't get sold fully furnished AFAIK.
So that needs to be budgeted for. As well as renovation costs for upgraded kitchen etc.

Another €300K - €500k should do the trick.

eviltwin

It has a very corporate feel to it. Looks like the interior of an office rather than a family home

SEPT 23 1989

It could be converted into a high end nursing home easily enough

Mellor

wandererz wrote: »

Houses in Ireland don't get sold fully furnished AFAIK.
So that needs to be budgeted for. As well as renovation costs for upgraded kitchen etc.

Another €300K - €500k should do the trick.

I'd ssume somebody dropping 2million on a house has their own furniture, and if not that are aware that they need to factor get it regardess

lawred2

wandererz wrote: »

Holy bejasus!

It turns out that my dream home actually exists in Dublin 15 of all places.

Just need a €2.3M mortgage.

https://touch.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-6-homeleigh-porterstown-castleknock-co-dublin/1157875

grim

OneMoreBabadee

Imagine the heating bill in winter

Nijmegen

If Celtic Tiger was a building... They've been trying to shift it for years. Here's a property section write up from October 2017. Columns imported from Egypt, 5 bedrooms over 8,000 square feet, and a bar taken from an establishment on Dame Street. I'm not surprised it hasn't sold, it represents a very, very niche type of taste for form over function. It's a real "Look at me" house that looks like it has very little comfort or warmth to it. There's pictures of bedrooms that look like they'd have echos.

The owner mentions he was influenced by so much time spent in hotels. That pretty much sums up the place... The Grand Hyatt Somewhereorother. Not home.

theteal

How can a pile of bricks that big only have 5 bedrooms? My entire house could probably fit in that ridiculous dual sided living room and I've got 4.

I'd be very uncomfortable in rooms that big, no cosiness at all. I'll pass

I could see conor mcgregor living there.

Not a decent TV in the place either.

Zaph

Zaph wrote: »

The hall looks like an entrance to an office block rather than a family home. And you'd need binoculars to see the TVs they're so far away from all the seating.

Fine so- I’ll take it :P

It’s actually not a bad price- I’d say quality throughout is top notch

Spanish Eyes

Have a look in Dalkey, Killiney and surrounds. ( I know your post was tongue in cheek BTW).

Nothing wrong with D15, there are pockets that are absolutely lovely. But re bang for your buck..... need to go South by the sea!

Spanish Eyes

This is more bang for buck with sea views also. Lovely.

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/woodbine-saval-park-road-dalkey-co-dublin-a96a500/4382238

RoryMac

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

This is more bang for buck with sea views also. Lovely.

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/woodbine-saval-park-road-dalkey-co-dublin-a96a500/4382238

If you stand on your tippytoes in the attic

But yeah that's a much nicer home

wandererz

OneMoreBabadee wrote: »

Nope. The guy who owns it is a consultant for renewable energy projects in Africa. He plays golf in the Castleknock club beside the hotel.

You're right. Turns out he was the club captain last year.

Spanish Eyes

Great to have a natter about anything but the C thing.

Larbre34

What a monstrous gaff that is. I think it has been on the market either continuously or frequently for the past 6 or 7 years. It is nothing more than a Celtic tiger w@nk, a venue, not a home. But if you like that atmosphere of suburban accounting firm office or cosy small airport terminal to live in, you'll probably get it for a song at the moment!

OneMoreBabadee

Would might a great "foreva home" for Jacinta and her 5 childer if the council bought it.

HildaOgdenx

The size of the rooms! There seems to be an awful lot of empty space everywhere.

StupidLikeAFox

The bar/games room looks like something you would see beside the reception of a 2 star Spanish hotel

StupidLikeAFox

Maybe the whole thing was modelled on a Holiday Inn they stayed at:

angel eyes 2012

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

This is more bang for buck with sea views also. Lovely.

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/woodbine-saval-park-road-dalkey-co-dublin-a96a500/4382238

Ah but Saval Park Road isn't a 5 minute drive from Krispy Kreme and Mr Price.

NIMAN

No photo of the pool?

Lurching

It looks like an apartment building.
I'd be pretty confident of finding a nicer place for €2.5m

PhoenixParker

This one is far more like it:

https://www.thejournal.ie/mansion-castleknock-property-daft-1986124-Mar2015/

wandererz

One could move to 131 acres in Shhligo for €1.5M.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/new-to-market/media-magnate-s-sligo-estate-on-131-acres-for-1-5m-1.4065899%3fmode=amp

angel eyes 2012

OneMoreBabadee wrote: »

Imagine the heating bill in winter

The owner is in the renewable energy game according to previous posts. I'm sure he has the oul lagging jacket sorted in the hot press.

kravmaga

Souless house, empty feel to it.

Why is the owner flogging it, if they spent so much on the high end finish?

wandererz

kravmaga wrote: »

Souless house, empty feel to it.

Why is the owner flogging it, if they spent so much on the high end finish?

Fancies a move to the countryside and doesn't need the convenience of 15mins to the airport any longer.

Zaph

PhoenixParker wrote: »

This one is far more like it:

https://www.thejournal.ie/mansion-castleknock-property-daft-1986124-Mar2015/

Tbh I wouldn't fancy that one either. Apart from the pool, which I'd have no interest in anyway, it's a bit too Victorian for me.

OfflerCrocGod

For this kind of money I'd rather buy a plot, hire a great architect and interior designer and be involved in building a modern, stylish family home. The houses in the thread are all awful, not just the first one. I don't find old mansions in the least appealing. All I want is the plot of land. You can keep your crappy ancient building.

RoryMac

Zaph wrote: »

Tbh I wouldn't fancy that one either. Apart from the pool, which I'd have no interest in anyway, it's a bit too Victorian for me.

The pool and gardens look amazing but the house not so much. Kitchen is awful

thisistough

This house is all walls, doesn’t look like it’s been designed for living in at all.

Reminds me of the Western Gateway building in UCC before they threw a few plants in there to soften it up a bit

stabaak

PhoenixParker wrote: »

This one is far more like it:

https://www.thejournal.ie/mansion-castleknock-property-daft-1986124-Mar2015/

How has the Navan Road and Ashtown now become Castleknock??

PhoenixParker

stabaak wrote: »

How has the Navan Road and Ashtown now become Castleknock??

The thread title and forum is Dublin 15.

The house is in Dublin 15.

The journal describes it as Castleknock, but that's their problem not mine. Its possibly in the Parish of Castleknock, I haven't checked the boundaries.

Edited - seems to qualify :
https://www.townlands.ie/dublin/castleknock1/

heffo500

I'd go one of these:

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/creggan-rugged-lane-porterstown-dublin-15/4345240

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/overlook-rugged-lane-castleknock-dublin-15/4376123

https://touch.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-the-old-school-house-strawberry-beds-castleknock-co-dublin/1400989

wandererz

heffo500 wrote: »

I'd go one of these:

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/creggan-rugged-lane-porterstown-dublin-15/4345240

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/overlook-rugged-lane-castleknock-dublin-15/4376123

I've got to take a drive to Rugged Lane. Seems like quite a few high end pads.

LorelaiG

wandererz wrote: »

I've got to take a drive to Rugged Lane. Seems like quite a few high end pads.

That first link isn't even built yet.

The old school house looks fab but I'd love something more modern

heffo500

LorelaiG wrote: »

That first link isn't even built yet.

The old school house looks fab but I'd love something more modern

Correct there was house where that new on is to be built but I think it was knocked down in the boom and then never rebuilt.

beauf

Rubberchikken wrote: »

....
I kind of like the house. It's not the worse I've seen but not the best either. And location is blah. Imo.

Why do you think the location is blah?