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

Ken.

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Old thread https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056170773&page=667

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flazio

Sinéad O'Connor's gaff in Bray is up for sale.
https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/montebello-strand-road-bray-wicklow/4467683

For Forks Sake

wonski wrote: »

Disclaimer:

Nothing wrong with the place, but this thread used to be about photos rather than sad state of affairs of property market before the name was changed...

This thread lacks of a crying chair, this one is just perfect

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/apartment-65-de-vesci-court-fairgreen-portlaoise-co-laois/2554552

Pictures 1 and 2.

You'd need a crying chair if you fourd yourself living in Portlaoise to be fair.

Yellow_Fern

ongarite wrote: »

These type of houses make me sad for the original owner.
Very elderly owner without the money for upkeep or modernisation of their own proud home.
Probably moved to nursing home on Fair Deal scheme with house idle/rotting away until they die.

Place needs to be gutted & extended out of the back. It has an outhouse with toilets!!

I dont get the frame of thought. Yes it lacks the latest chipboard shaker style units but it hardly needs to be gutted. The quality in old buildings is often higher and things last longer. It needs plenty of maintenance and decoration and there is a lot of things that could be done to upgrade it (Iwould get rid of those awful aluminium windows and the draught lobby) but would not have to be done based on the photos. I am very against gutting beautiful old houses like this.

BattleCorp

RacoonQueen wrote: »

Spiral staircases are never a good idea. Even sober I'd be terrified going up and down that.
Growing up, my aunts house had a spiral staircase, I was always so nervous going up and down it as a kid. Used to shake too. Horrible things.

Have you ever tried a wooden stairs in your socks?

That would be a fairly thrilling experience on a spiral staircase with no handrails.

RacoonQueen

seamus wrote: »

Only a non-drinker could think that a spiral staircase without a handrail is a remotely sane idea.

Could you imagine trying to climb into bed with six Guinness in your belly? Or worse, rush out of the bed and down the spiral dying for a pee.

Spiral staircases are never a good idea. Even sober I'd be terrified going up and down that.
Growing up, my aunts house had a spiral staircase, I was always so nervous going up and down it as a kid. Used to shake too. Horrible things.

wonski

Disclaimer:

Nothing wrong with the place, but this thread used to be about photos rather than sad state of affairs of property market before the name was changed...

This thread lacks of a crying chair, this one is just perfect

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/apartment-65-de-vesci-court-fairgreen-portlaoise-co-laois/2554552

Pictures 1 and 2.

Yellow_Fern

humberklog wrote: »

There's also a pilot project being rolled out at the moment where the upstairs and downstairs of fairly normal 3 bed semis that are converted into s/c flats.
My parent's neighbour (widowed and living alone) had it done. The house is in Elm Mount (if you want to get the idea of the type of house it's being done to). She was approached by some government housing body with the proposal. She loves it and indeed it is a nurse living on the 1st floor now.
Her house conversion was designed by Dermot Bannon and although I don't think it's going to be on his RTE programme there were camera crews there now and again.

That Nidge gaff would probably be ideal for such a conversion. But at €750k? Hmmm, I dunno.

Splitting one house into two is very expensive as you have to fit all sorts of noise, fire, heat, plumbing, electrical separations that dont easily fit in.

[Deleted User]

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/terraced-house-195-windmill-park-crumlin-d12y2r1/2947719

That grey door is the back door. Hopefully no-one walks in on you while you're having a shíte.

Handy for quick ventilation though.

AlmightyCushion

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/terraced-house-195-windmill-park-crumlin-d12y2r1/2947719

That grey door is the back door. Hopefully no-one walks in on you while you're having a shíte.

[Deleted User]

SuperS54 wrote: »

It's styled after a Japanese or Korean room. There are a lot of "asian" touches around the house however Asian's tend not to have this type of stuff in their houses so I'm guessing it's owned by someone who spent time in Asia as an expat or a very homesick Asian!

Apparently it was owned by the Director of the Arts Council and his wife. He has now passed away. They bought it in 1976, and the raised level in the living room can be removed and the original flooring is still beneath it.

His widow is now downsizing into a house they also owned on the other side of the back garden.

flazio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOVmH5H60Vs

[Deleted User]

robindch wrote: »

perfect place to bring vegans :pac:

To stuff and mount? I wouldn't put it past them.

duffman3833

robindch wrote: »

perfect place to bring vegans :pac:

[Deleted User]

robindch wrote: »

Oregon, $29m:

Still not as creepy as the lad with the mannequins.

robindch

Ever wondered what would happen when world-class money meets world-class absence of taste?

Wonder no more!

For US reporter, Steven Dennis, has taken the time out to visit US property site zillow.com to find the most expensive property for sale in each state.

https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/1369855431103967232
https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/1369880131767046144 (thread continues).

Oregon, $29m:

Alaska, $8m:

South Carolina, $10.8m

SuperS54

retalivity wrote: »

Its the former Arts council director's home, who 'spent some time in Asia'

I get to be right once in a while! A lot of the décor is the equivalent of a Japanese lad hanging old bicycles and farm implements from his ceiling due to the Celtic influence of having spent some time in Ireland...

retalivity

SuperS54 wrote: »

It's styled after a Japanese or Korean room. There are a lot of "asian" touches around the house however Asian's tend not to have this type of stuff in their houses so I'm guessing it's owned by someone who spent time in Asia as an expat or a very homesick Asian!

Its the former Arts council director's home, who 'spent some time in Asia'

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/new-to-market/former-arts-council-director-s-colourful-rathmines-home-for-1-65m-1.4473005

Arthur45

The Asian interior is too colorful and stairs in the middle of the room... hum

SuperS54

Deleted User wrote: »

Everything else I'd rip out and re-do. What is with the weird raised level in the front living room?!

It's styled after a Japanese or Korean room. There are a lot of "asian" touches around the house however Asian's tend not to have this type of stuff in their houses so I'm guessing it's owned by someone who spent time in Asia as an expat or a very homesick Asian!

[Deleted User]

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-17-charleville-road-rathmines-dublin-6/2897315

For €1.6 million I can't quite wrap my head around this place. It's not completely antiquated looking. Neither is it modern, there are elements of hippiness and the sleeping quarters look kind of odd.

Kitchen and bathrooms are quite nice. Garden is absolutely stunning.

Everything else I'd rip out and re-do. What is with the weird raised level in the front living room?!

flazio

Wouldn't be an issue. You wouldn't get back into the house anyway with those steps at the front.

retalivity

Re: that rathmines house - Pick one style and stick to it ffs.
A mess of different Asian/Modern/Classic Irish redbrick styles.

hurikane

seamus wrote: »

Only a non-drinker could think that a spiral staircase without a handrail is a remotely sane idea.

Could you imagine trying to climb into bed with six Guinness in your belly? Or worse, rush out of the bed and down the spiral dying for a pee.

I was thinking, how many times would I fall down that in the middle of the night, while going for a piss, before I smashed the thing to bits.

gary550

seamus wrote: »

Only a non-drinker could think that a spiral staircase without a handrail is a remotely sane idea.

Could you imagine trying to climb into bed with six Guinness in your belly? Or worse, rush out of the bed and down the spiral dying for a pee.

I was thinking the same myself, a few jars and that would be a neck injury

Years ago a childhood friends parents did the same to their gaff only their one was going from the second floor to the attic out over the main stairs so at the highest point it was about a 15 foot drop down onto a flight of stairs. They also had the brainwave of leaving it without a handrail. No idea if anyone ever took a tumble from it as they moved out about 6 months later..

Muahahaha

That wardrobe at the end of the hallway is freaking me out now. You just know thats where the scary clown with the sharp knives is in hiding ready to pounce

Gregor Samsa

seamus wrote: »

Only a non-drinker could think that a spiral staircase without a handrail is a remotely sane idea.

Could you imagine trying to climb into bed with six Guinness in your belly? Or worse, rush out of the bed and down the spiral dying for a pee.

At least there's two chairs for an audience to watch you fall down it.

seamus

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-17-charleville-road-rathmines-dublin-6/2897315

Only a non-drinker could think that a spiral staircase without a handrail is a remotely sane idea.

Could you imagine trying to climb into bed with six Guinness in your belly? Or worse, rush out of the bed and down the spiral dying for a pee.

Lady Haywire

Deleted User wrote: »

And it must have been in use as a shop until relatively recently.

I lived close enough to there 10 years ago but can't remember it. It wouldn't be the nicest area in Ballina so I wasn't down that way too often :pac:

[Deleted User]

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

My childhood dream: An abandoned house with its own sweet shop:

'God be with the days...'

And it must have been in use as a shop until relatively recently.

[Deleted User]

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-17-charleville-road-rathmines-dublin-6/2897315

For €1.6 million I can't quite wrap my head around this place. It's not completely antiquated looking. Neither is it modern, there are elements of hippiness and the sleeping quarters look kind of odd.

Nice enough house, but the price is driven by three things Location, Location and finally location.