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Would you like to live in a mansion?

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    #32
    jimgoose
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    Jaysus Christ. wrote: »
    Ya can’t beat an aga.

    Woman is obsessed with Agas. As far as I'm concerned an Aga is a big pig-iron box with a coal fire under it. :pac:


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    #33
    D3V!L
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    Well this is a little awkward.....


    That's actually my house for sale in the OP.


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    #34
    theteal
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    How can a house that big only have 4 bedrooms??? My 4 bed house is probably less than half the size.

    I have this possibly weird, dislike for wasted space. If a room is way bigger than it needs to be I feel uncomfortable. I hate large bedrooms (possibly a consequence of growing up in a 1950s box room) like the one pictured. That kitchen isn't a bad size but the styling wouldn't be to my taste.


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    #35
    [Deleted User]
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Every week I see the kinds of properties below listed on the Journal, and commenters below praising how wonderful they are, and I just can't get my head around why anyone would want to live in such an enormous abomination, unless you're a character in Dallas?

    https://www.thejournal.ie/the-paddocks-east-cork-5234066-Oct2020/

    What are the advantages of living in a massive house like this? It must be a nightmare to keep clean! And why would you want a lawn that big? It's a bit pointless really, surely a few trees wouldn't go amiss.
    You also have to drive to get anywhere. These are all over Ireland, including not too far from me in North County Dublin there are loads. I understand you might like the peace of being in the middle of nowhere, but why would a house ever need to be that big?

    I just don't get the appeal, is it just me?

    I’d hate a big cold soulless hole like that. One more bedroom than you need, a utility room, a good big shed, and no garden. Perfection.


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    #36
    JustAThought
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    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    I’d hate a big cold soulless hole like that. One more bedroom than you need, a utility room, a good big shed, and no garden. Perfection.

    Mountjoy - precision designed for you.


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    #37
    Jaysus Christ.
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    I could see myself holding midweek soirée there.
    And swinger parties at the weekends.


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    #38
    cannotlogin
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    I'll take it if no one else wants it but won't be paying the amount to live in any house in Cork.


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    #39
    Frankie Machine
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    JustAThought wrote: »
    Lots of spite filled begrudgers here- I wonder where you all live that you are so bitter and angry about this house?

    Well, some of us live in the countryside, where so much of this architectural inappropriateness abides like sore thumbs.

    I wonder where you live that you are so spiteful about people who may simply be more sympathetic to their surroundings than yourself, or may simply have different taste ?

    Fwiw, I live in a five-bed house in the country, with amazing views across the surrounding hillsides, on an acre whose levels my better half has landscaped very pleasingly indeed.

    So it doesn't look like that, and it didn't cost that either. Or anything like it.


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    #40
    IAMAMORON
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    cannotlogin wrote: »
    I'll take it if no one else wants it but won't be paying the amount to live in any house in Cork.

    You couldn't pay me to live there either.


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    #41
    Frankie Machine
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    Jaysus Christ. wrote: »
    I could see myself holding midweek soirée there.
    And swinger parties at the weekends.

    I have a sheet with holes in it, and a fruitbowl for car keys.

    Count me in.

    For the weekends.


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    #42
    Jaysus Christ.
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    Frankie Machine wrote: »
    I have a sheet with holes in it, and a fruitbowl for car keys.

    Count me in.

    For the weekends.

    The sheet with holes in it is for the kkk meetings.
    Tuesdays 7.30pm.


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    #43
    Frankie Machine
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    Jaysus Christ. wrote: »
    The sheet with holes in it is for the kkk meetings.
    Tuesdays 7.30pm.

    :D


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    #44
    tonycascarino
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    I know a builder and a farmer who are 460000 and 525000 euros in debt respectively with houses like that one so I am not really surprised to see this kind of a house for sale.

    It is nearly always the same end result with these newer built houses from ''owners'' with big ideas who probably couldn't really afford it in the first place.


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    #45
    pgj2015
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Well yeah but so many people seem to aspire to that, I just don't get it. Ireland is peppered with these in every county.




    I know a guy who is as tight as you can get, he built a house like this one though, apparently he built it so big because his in laws have a big house, so he had to build a bigger one. very sad to be like that in fairness. he doesn't seem to have any money now because the house cost him so much to build, he is literally living on bread and water now it seems.


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    #46
    Odyssey 2005
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Every week I see the kinds of properties below listed on the Journal, and commenters below praising how wonderful they are, and I just can't get my head around why anyone would want to live in such an enormous abomination, unless you're a character in Dallas?

    https://www.thejournal.ie/the-paddocks-east-cork-5234066-Oct2020/

    What are the advantages of living in a massive house like this? It must be a nightmare to keep clean! And why would you want a lawn that big? It's a bit pointless really, surely a few trees wouldn't go amiss.
    You also have to drive to get anywhere. These are all over Ireland, including not too far from me in North County Dublin there are loads. I understand you might like the peace of being in the middle of nowhere, but why would a house ever need to be that big?

    I just don't get the appeal, is it just me?

    Peasant ;)


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    #47
    Mister Vain
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    Fecking sure I would. More room to shoot pornos.


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    #48
    bb1234567
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    What bothers me most about these developments is the aversion to forming any kind of coherent streetline or contributing towards creation of any kind of urban community for people to rely on and partake in.

    Set back a ****in mile from the road (so you can praise it in all it;s beauty on your trek up the front door), set so far back they don't even have room for a garden in the example in the OP and instead a useless enormous sterile front garden. I dont get it but irrational planning and design logic is what defines these kind of housing developments so no surprise

    Howver the interior of the particular example posted is not the worst. At least it's not cluttered with crap nor does it have an overly deep floor plan, it is pretty bright and feels generous in the room proportions without being overwhelmingly large and lost in space


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    #49
    Seamai
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    Watched Dermot Bannon in Canada last night, I have little interest in seeing the houses of the rich and famous. Most of the houses on last night did little for me except the setting of the first one and the log cabin with the extension at the end of the programme. On an earlier trip to Sweden he was introduced to the concept of "Lagom" (just enough) which resonated with me a lot, it's all about not going over the top building a house bigger or flashier than needed but with emphasis on comfort and cosiness.


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    #50
    pgj2015
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    Not a tree or shrub plated on this huge site, shows you the kind of muck savage that lives there. no appreciation for nature.


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    #51
    Strumms
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    If i have someone to do the cleaning and lawn mowing then maybe

    Exactly If you have staff which you could do if you could afford that gaff then you wouldn’t have to lift a finger.

    I’d just have them in on say Mondays and Thursday to do a deep clean inside... it’s happy days. Everything else and in between I’d do...

    Garden I’d take care of myself, ride on mower. Kill an hour.


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    #52
    mfceiling
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    Hate to break it to you OP but that's not a mansion.


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    #53
    Thelonious Monk
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    mfceiling wrote: »
    Hate to break it to you OP but that's not a mansion.

    To me it is, it's a monster of a thing like JR's house. I just don't get the desire to have a house that big.


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    #54
    Jaysus Christ.
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    Bigger the house.
    Smaller your willy.


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    #55
    AMKC
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    Ms


    It's no where near a been a mansion nor is it Vulger looking. Sure my Parents old house had 6 bedrooms in it and it was built in the 70s there new one has 7 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms well had they made changes since then. My own house has 3 bathrooms and that enough. If I won the lotto sure I would live in a big house with cleaners too but it would look very different to an ordinary boring house. I think I would hire a Canadian architect to design it and it would be out of this world cool and a passive design too so warm in winter cool in summer.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



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    #56
    Wolftown
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    The spite, jealously and begrudgery is surprising in this thread! Going by the majority of replies we should all be living in sheds, driving the cheapest/crappiest cars and wearing rags. Coming from a semi-d owner, I would love to have the space offered in that house. Anyone running it down is just downright jealous, it's kind of laughable and sad at the same time. Sure why would you want space for more than 2 chairs in your garden? Why would you ever want space for more than 2 cars in the driveway? Why have more than 1 bathroom? Because it's nice to have, that's why!


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    #57
    Thelonious Monk
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    Wolftown wrote: »
    The spite, jealously and begrudgery is surprising in this thread! Going by the majority of replies we should all be living in sheds, driving the cheapest/crappiest cars and wearing rags. Coming from a semi-d owner, I would love to have the space offered in that house. Anyone running it down is just downright jealous, it's kind of laughable and sad at the same time. Sure why would you want space for more than 2 chairs in your garden? Why would you ever want space for more than 2 cars in the driveway? Why have more than 1 bathroom? Because it's nice to have, that's why!

    Didn't see any spite and jealousy? I'm just trying to understand the mindset of owning such an enormous house, when something much smaller that takes up less land would suffice. I'm more of a less is more person so I'm just wondering why anyone would want something so big.


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    #58
    3d4life
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Every week I see the kinds of properties below listed on the Journal, and commenters below praising how wonderful they are, and I just can't get my head around why anyone would want to live in such an enormous abomination, unless you're a character in Dallas?

    https://www.thejournal.ie/the-paddocks-east-cork-5234066-Oct2020/

    What are the advantages of living in a massive house like this? It must be a nightmare to keep clean! And why would you want a lawn that big? It's a bit pointless really, surely a few trees wouldn't go amiss.
    You also have to drive to get anywhere. These are all over Ireland, including not too far from me in North County Dublin there are loads. I understand you might like the peace of being in the middle of nowhere, but why would a house ever need to be that big?

    I just don't get the appeal, is it just me?

    I wouldn't fancy it.

    Looks could easily be improved with some shrubs & climbers

    I would have use for a much larger garden area ( OP broaden your horizons - take a look at the gardening forum)

    Seems to lack a greenhouse

    There are many people paying much more for terraced / semi detached houses in the suburbs of Dublin. I bet a lot of them wish they could figure out how to work from east Cork :D.

    Its not a mansion

    If you want to see something that approaches a modern day mansion look up Fingal planning ref F17A/0182


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    #59
    JimToken
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    Skeetur wrote: »
    Exactly. And sure why would you need a roof when you can just carry an umbrella around with ya?

    And sure why you need a door when you can just have an opening?


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    #60
    A2LUE42
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    I misread it, thinking it was 7 Acres, It is on a .7 Acre site. That is tiny for out in the country.


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    #61
    Thelonious Monk
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    3d4life wrote: »
    There are many people paying much more for terraced / semi detached houses in the suburbs of Dublin. I bet a lot of them wish they could figure out how to work from east Cork :D.

    Why do people have this belief that everyone in Dublin and other cities wants to live in a house this big?!


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