Who'd live in a house like this? Part 2

redcup342 · 28-01-2019 04:26PM

BattleCorp wrote: »

€102k average salary. That means that a lot of people working in the docklands area are on more than that.

I'd imagine that house isn't aimed at the average dude/dudette working there.

Yeah but it's not exactly aimed at mr fancy pants either.

No 24/7 security, no secure parking, no guarded entrance, people can knock on your front door/look in your window at your Banksy you have hanging on the wall.

Come on ffs

average salary is higher here in Dusseldorf than Dublin and for that money you would be getting something fairly amazing (to the point where it's probably not possible to find it online)

vrusinov · 28-01-2019 04:26PM

People around me who earn over 100k are usually smart enough not to pay 4k/mo rent out of their own pockets.

Grayson · 28-01-2019 04:34PM

Here's an interesting story about a ghost estate of mini castles in Turkey

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/28/fate-of-castles-in-the-air-in-turkeys-151m-ghost-town

ButtersSuki · 28-01-2019 06:14PM

chewed wrote: »

The pink tiles in the grey Kitchen are worse!

Grayson wrote: »

And i figure this must be some kind of corporate let.

https://www.daft.ie/dublin/houses-for-rent/ringsend/gordon-street-ringsend-dublin-1905056

4k a month for a two bedroom house. It's nice but still, 4k?

I know those houses - they are tiny. I didn't even look to check this but I'd bet you'd get way better value if €4K was your budget in Sandymount or some other area nearby. Not as hipstery as Ringsend maybe but certainly a better area for anyone with a modicum of cop on.

BBFAN · 28-01-2019 08:08PM

Grayson wrote: »

That was the reason i was thinking it was a corporate let.
We have people in the US who have to travel over here for a month or more. last year I travelled over there for a month. When you're travelling that long it's cheaper to rent a place for that much than it is to rent a hotel room for 200-300 a night. Especially when the office is paying for it.

Has to be a corporate let. One of the big multi-nationals could put two people in there rather than paying for hotels all year round.

Thargor · 28-01-2019 10:17PM

Grayson wrote: »

Here's an interesting story about a ghost estate of mini castles in Turkey

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/28/fate-of-castles-in-the-air-in-turkeys-151m-ghost-town

Better than the ghost estates that spring up all around Tehran:

Cheshire Cat · 31-01-2019 09:46AM

Featured in the Irish Times today.

https://www.daft.ie/12023769

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/new-to-market/bungalow-bliss-in-exceptional-connemara-cottage-for-550-000-1.3773362

Weird looking cottage conversion, looks like a wall is running through it and features a bathroom with a floor to ceiling window.

BattleCorp · 31-01-2019 09:57AM

Cheshire Cat wrote: »

Featured in the Irish Times today.

https://www.daft.ie/12023769

Weird looking cottage conversion, looks like a wall is running through it and features a bathroom with a floor to ceiling window.

Nah, it's not my cup of tea.

Graces7 · 31-01-2019 12:23PM

BattleCorp wrote: »

Nah, it's not my cup of tea.

I would be happy with the wooden cabin in the garden.. and imagine the window cleaning bills!

abcabc123123 · 31-01-2019 12:24PM

Cheshire Cat wrote: »

Featured in the Irish Times today.

https://www.daft.ie/12023769

https://www-irishtimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/new-to-market/bungalow-bliss-in-exceptional-connemara-cottage-for-550-000-1.3773362?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&mode=amp&usqp=mq331AQCCAE%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Flife-and-style%2Fhomes-and-property%2Fnew-to-market%2Fbungalow-bliss-in-exceptional-connemara-cottage-for-550-000-1.3773362

Weird looking cottage conversion, looks like a wall is running through it and features a bathroom with a floor to ceiling window.

It's weird because the architect did amazing work and then apparently left the decorating to be done by someone with no clue. The tiling in the bathroom is hideous and who thought it was a good idea to cover the place in the same cheap laminate? Every wall has the same fake wood pattern repeating over and over, like someone just discovered the clone brush in photoshop.

HeidiHeidi · 31-01-2019 12:27PM

abcabc123123 wrote: »

It's weird because the architect did amazing work and then apparently left the decorating to be done by someone with no clue. The tiling in the bathroom is hideous and who thought it was a good idea to cover the place in the same cheap laminate? Every wall has the same fake wood pattern repeating over and over, like someone just discovered the clone brush in photoshop.

I'm guessing by the look of it, and the price sought, that's it's far from cheap laminate.

I still think it's horrible, but I very much doubt it was cheap!

PARlance · 31-01-2019 12:38PM

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I'm guessing by the look of it, and the price sought, that's it's far from cheap laminate.

I still think it's horrible, but I very much doubt it was cheap!

Solid wood and tiles... Don't think anything cheap went into that house. Wouldn't be my cup of tea either.

It looks like that master bedroom is in the hallway on pic 27... a sliding door (pic 28) closes the room off. Definitely not for me.

check_six · 31-01-2019 12:48PM

Not sure about the huge floor to ceiling window on the bathroom either. There are some things which are better done in private!

Graces7 · 31-01-2019 01:14PM

check_six wrote: »

Not sure about the huge floor to ceiling window on the bathroom either. There are some things which are better done in private!

maybe one way glass?

check_six · 31-01-2019 01:20PM

Graces7 wrote: »

maybe one way glass?

If it's one-way, it's the wrong way. Check out picture three.

skooterblue2 · 31-01-2019 01:21PM

BattleCorp wrote: »

Nah, it's not my cup of tea.

Its a freakin' eyesore. You took something appropriate and natural looking and made it into a penthouse apartment. Oh I can see the money but there is no taste.

Sardonicat · 31-01-2019 01:32PM

The grand piano and the chandelier in the home office area is an 'interesting' way to make a normally dull space come to life.

wildlifeboy · 31-01-2019 02:47PM

check_six wrote: »

Not sure about the huge floor to ceiling window on the bathroom either. There are some things which are better done in private!

thats just a splash protector for the shower

BattleCorp · 31-01-2019 02:56PM

wildlifeboy wrote: »

thats just a splash protector for the shower

Check out pic 22.

2ndcoming · 31-01-2019 03:38PM

check_six wrote: »

Not sure about the huge floor to ceiling window on the bathroom either. There are some things which are better done in private!

I'd imagine that's to amplify the sense of tranquillity and peace. Or so the architect would have said. In fairness you don't need a little frosted window if there is no one for miles.

Not gone on the place as a whole, everything is too plain and uniform. I love the wood panelling but jebus you don't have to put it everywhere! An architect's dream but very little character or personality.

Graces7 · 31-01-2019 03:49PM

check_six wrote: »

If it's one-way, it's the wrong way. Check out picture three.

There are no words!

Wonder if the designer would ever actually live there. He should be made to for a year

Lovely gardens though.. yearn

check_six · 31-01-2019 03:51PM

2ndcoming wrote: »

I'd imagine that's to amplify the sense of tranquillity and peace. Or so the architect would have said. In fairness you don't need a little frosted window if there is no one for miles.

Not gone on the place as a whole, everything is too plain and uniform. I love the wood panelling but jebus you don't have to put it everywhere! An architect's dream but very little character or personality.

I'm just not interested in having some squirrel eyeballing my when I'm sitting on the loo.

Also, even if you are miles from anywhere, the sliding door exiting from the living room to the garden is right next to the bathroom! Don't invite any guests around!

skooterblue2 · 31-01-2019 04:08PM

check_six wrote: »

I'm just not interested in having some squirrel eyeballing my when I'm sitting on the loo.

Also, even if you are miles from anywhere, the sliding door exiting from the living room to the garden is right next to the bathroom! Don't invite any guests around!

It could be worse than that ...... imagine you invite all your posh friends from the pony club and suddenly , you feel a bit queezy after that mad Vindahloo form the night before..... "and I am tolkin' scortches the orse offa ye" as Billy Connolly put it.

The dump with the squirrel doesnt seem so bad now does it?

BattleCorp · 31-01-2019 04:16PM

skooterblue2 wrote: »

It could be worse than that ...... imagine you invite all your posh friends from the pony club and suddenly , you feel a bit queezy after that mad Vindahloo form the night before..... "and I am tolkin' scortches the orse offa ye" as Billy Connolly put it.

The dump with the squirrel doesnt seem so bad now does it?

There are blinds on the bathroom window so it's not like you are certain to be spied upon when you have your kacks down around your knees.

That said, I'd like to think that I'd build something a bit nicer than that with half a million euro.

skooterblue2 · 31-01-2019 04:22PM

BattleCorp wrote: »

There are blinds on the bathroom window so it's not like you are certain to be spied upon when you have your kacks down around your knees.

That said, I'd like to think that I'd build something a bit nicer than that with half a million euro.

If you were feeling that bad, you wouldnt care about the blinds at that stage.

Yeah I think the is far better VFM (value for money) out there

BBFAN · 31-01-2019 08:56PM

Looks like a Dermot Bannon job, windows windows everywhere.

Chorcai · 02-02-2019 01:48AM

https://www.daft.ie/louth/apartments-for-sale/drogheda/5-bachelors-lane-drogheda-louth-2025651/

Gem of a place!

https://imgur.com/TiExTXx
https://imgur.com/4yC4aXX
https://imgur.com/gKQS2c6
https://imgur.com/Yg2KWFI
https://imgur.com/V1aTQFR

check_six · 02-02-2019 03:08AM

Chorcai wrote: »

https://www.daft.ie/louth/apartments-for-sale/drogheda/5-bachelors-lane-drogheda-louth-2025651/

Gem of a place!

https://imgur.com/TiExTXx
https://imgur.com/4yC4aXX
https://imgur.com/gKQS2c6
https://imgur.com/Yg2KWFI
https://imgur.com/V1aTQFR

So, the bathroom consists of a toilet and no room for anything else. The kitchen consists of a sink and no room for anything else. And the living room/bedroom/ hallway has not enough room for a bed either.

Where do I sign up?

Surely this can't be fit for human habitation? (I've been surprised before!).
Also, "extending to 24m Sq."? The Estate agent that wrote that is a cruel b*****d. Also generous with the measurements.

NIMAN · 02-02-2019 06:51AM

Smaller than some caravans.
For €55k !!

redcup342 · 02-02-2019 08:43AM

check_six wrote: »

So, the bathroom consists of a toilet and no room for anything else. The kitchen consists of a sink and no room for anything else. And the living room/bedroom/ hallway has not enough room for a bed either.

Where do I sign up?

Surely this can't be fit for human habitation? (I've been surprised before!).
Also, "extending to 24m Sq."? The Estate agent that wrote that is a cruel b*****d. Also generous with the measurements.

Looks like an office space

Who'd live in a house like this? Part 2

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