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Perfect House for sale in Dublin for A Marilyn Monroe Fan

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,221 ✭✭✭pablo128


    I grew up a stones throw from that house. I knew the woman who lived there 20 years ago. She was a fine thing altogether. Dunno if she still lives there.

    You never know what goes on behind closed doors though, do you?:)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    I dont know if anyone has seen this for sale on DAFT.IE - what do you think , think its cool / fantastic or would it give you a headache?


    You'd want to be on acid!


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    pablo128 wrote: »
    I grew up a stones throw from that house. I knew the woman who lived there 20 years ago. She was a fine thing altogether. Dunno if she still lives there.

    You never know what goes on behind closed doors though, do you?:)

    I was just saying earlier on facebook that I would love to know the story of that house and what kind of person lived in there and who done it up. They must have spent a fortune doing it up too.

    I hope the person who moves in doesnt rip it all down and just paint all over it, that would be a shame. Its very bright and quirky.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    pilly wrote: »
    You'd want to be on acid!

    you'd feel like you were on acid even if you wasnt :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,216 ✭✭✭dbagman


    pilly wrote: »
    You'd want to be on acid!

    thats all well and good till the come down


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  • Posts: 3,637 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Unless you had plans to open a brothel in it, you'd spend a fortune stripping, dumping and replacing all of that gaudy junk so you could actually live in the place.

    Tacky, nasty amd utterly tasteless.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭clappyhappy


    It's a cheap buy, if i was in the position to buy a second property to rent I'd buy it. Skip hire and paint biggest expense ;-)


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    you could eradicate the marilyn pictures and paraphernalia and keep the colours no? and the fixtures .. be nice and bright to wake up to on a drizzly wet day :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Fair do's to who ever owns it and made it theirs!


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,881 ✭✭✭TimeToShine


    Looks like decent value, I wonder could you sell off the paraphernalia to make an extra few bob. Would take time but certainly doable!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    I wonder does this decoration has a huge impact on the sale of the house and they asking price and how long it might be on the market for? And I haven't got a clue on what the market value of similar houses up there in that area but a lot are saying its an attractive price for that property


  • Posts: 3,637 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I wonder does this decoration has a huge impact on the sale of the house and they asking price and how long it might be on the market for? And I haven't got a clue on what the market value of similar houses up there in that area but a lot are saying its an attractive price for that property

    No joke, it has to affect the price negatively. A close look at those photos and I reckon there's 15-20k to be spent on painting and decorating to have it anything close to 'normal'. Trying to cover all those horrible paint colours on walls and ceilings will be a nightmare. The carpets are naff, the whole thing looks like a childs colouring book.

    Maybe it's still good value after that, I don't know.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,565 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    The ad forgets to mention that while it is now an "end-terrace" , at some point it will become a "mid-terrace", as the large garden to the left is for sale With Full PP for an "End of Terrace" property..

    Lot 2, Site, 44 Harelawn Drive

    Maybe that also affects the price.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    The tiling is an issue, followed waaaaaay behind by the gold coving which will be a bugger to paint. The rest of it can be dealt with in a weekend and a decent undercoat. Oh and the doors, they will be a bugger too but really it's not a huge amount of work. It wouldn't put me off buying it and you might just get some nutter who comes along and falls in love with it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    pablo128 wrote: »
    I grew up a stones throw from that house. I knew the woman who lived there 20 years ago. She was a fine thing altogether. Dunno if she still lives there.

    You never know what goes on behind closed doors though, do you?:)

    Let me guess, she looked like Marilyn Monroe?


  • Posts: 3,637 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    Let me guess, she looked like Marilyn Monroe?

    Whoever is selling it now appears to have a stand up tanning booth in the kitchen. Somehow I doubt they look anything like Marilyn Monroe!


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    Let me guess, she looked like Marilyn Monroe?

    At the very least dressed like MM? No?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,420 ✭✭✭✭athtrasna


    There's a funny house thread in AH. This thread is more suited to there than A&P.


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