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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,587 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    Huge rooms. I like it, the blue bedroom is funny, that would be changed. you could turn it into a guesthouse.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    It would cost about 10 grand to heat that for a year, it’s massive ! Fukkkk.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]



    Very individual style wise. If you became the owner one could say nothing compares, nothing compares to you.

    Looks like I could fall back on a career as a sub editor if needed :)

    https://www.independent.ie/life/home-garden/homes/nothing-compares-to-sinead-oconnors-wicklowseafront-home-40213382.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,573 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail



    the difference being that you probably cringed a little when you wrote that post. that journalist probably thought they were being clever and original.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    the difference being that you probably cringed a little when you wrote that post. that journalist probably thought they were being clever and original.

    True :pac::pac::pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,321 ✭✭✭ongarite


    Anyone follow crap Irish houses social media?
    There was a hideous Titanic inspired house on it a few days ago.
    Can't find the ad for the place online.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,321 ✭✭✭ongarite


    Ugly Irish Houses from today..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,576 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    That's just plain weird, is that two dog bowls in between the bidet and the toilet, east of the armchair?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,838 ✭✭✭PommieBast


    ongarite wrote: »
    Ugly Irish Houses from today..
    That is bordering on twisted dream material.. :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    That's just plain weird, is that two dog bowls in between the bidet and the toilet, east of the armchair?

    It's the armchair that gets me. Is someone going to sit in it watching someone else doing a poo or jetting their bits in the bidet?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,576 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    Aglomerado wrote: »
    It's the armchair that gets me. Is someone going to sit in it watching someone else doing a poo or jetting their bits in the bidet?

    Maybe it's a canine rest room, which bizarrely would make me feel more at ease with the situation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,367 ✭✭✭Archeron


    You can sit in comfort and smoke a pipe, you can sit by the mirror and do your make up and stuff, you can sit and have a sh*te or you can sit and wash your arse. This is the ultimate sitting room.


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Archeron wrote: »
    You can sit in comfort and smoke a pipe, you can sit by the mirror and do your make up and stuff, you can sit and have a sh*te or you can sit and wash your arse. This is the ultimate sitting room.
    All that's missing is the beer pump and you'll have the perfect bar, one that you don't have to leave at regular intervals!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭kerash


    All that's missing is the beer pump and you'll have the perfect bar, one that you don't have to leave at regular intervals!

    The ultimate sheebeen 🀣

    I love ugly Irish houses on insta, a great service to the nation!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,321 ✭✭✭ongarite


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,321 ✭✭✭ongarite




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,587 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    ongarite wrote: »



    Not a bad price though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    ongarite wrote: »


    Every single room has a different weird thing about it. :pac:


    My favourite is the choice of doors for the shower cubicles in the utility room.


    With an honourable mention to the lone table plonked in what seems to be a ballroom. In a house that also has a room crammed to the hilt with bunkbeds. These people have a strange sense of space :D.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,579 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    1.5m to live in the former Scholars pub/National School in Dublin 8.

    https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/apartment-1-st-kevin-s-place-donovan-lane-blackpitts-dublin-8-dublin-8/2943542

    Its nicely finished inside, but that is mental money for an apartment with no outside space except a small terrace, which is overlooked by the apartments beside it.
    Right next to a few industrial units as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,718 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    retalivity wrote: »
    1.5m to live in the former Scholars pub/National School in Dublin 8.

    https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/apartment-1-st-kevin-s-place-donovan-lane-blackpitts-dublin-8-dublin-8/2943542

    Its nicely finished inside, but that is mental money for an apartment with no outside space except a small terrace, which is overlooked by the apartments beside it.
    Right next to a few industrial units as well.
    That's fabulous!


    I'd say they'll have no problem getting the price, that area has been improving for years - The Warehouse building is right beside it and was commanding seriously premium prices 20 years ago and more.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,587 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    retalivity wrote: »
    1.5m to live in the former Scholars pub/National School in Dublin 8.

    https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/apartment-1-st-kevin-s-place-donovan-lane-blackpitts-dublin-8-dublin-8/2943542

    Its nicely finished inside, but that is mental money for an apartment with no outside space except a small terrace, which is overlooked by the apartments beside it.
    Right next to a few industrial units as well.



    it is weird how they left the cross on the top of the building.


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    pgj2015 wrote: »
    it is weird how they left the cross on the top of the building.


    Don't think so. It's a pleasant decoration.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,579 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    it is weird how they left the cross on the top of the building.

    Its probably a listed building so had to keep the outside structure as is


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,556 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    Aglomerado wrote: »
    It's the armchair that gets me. Is someone going to sit in it watching someone else doing a poo or jetting their bits in the bidet?

    Same here. :D

    Why, what...armchair in bathroom, facing towards toilet... :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭LillySV


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    Not a bad price though.

    view of water and all...probably be going for over 500k down her in galway!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,587 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    retalivity wrote: »
    Its probably a listed building so had to keep the outside structure as is



    what if it "accidentally" fell off while you were fixing something on the roof?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,718 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    what if it "accidentally" fell off while you were fixing something on the roof?
    You'd have to put it back on again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,587 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    You'd have to put it back on again.



    But it broke when it hit the ground, cant be fixed. pity.;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,718 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    But it broke when it hit the ground, cant be fixed. pity.;)
    Get another one made.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,587 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Get another one made.



    lol I doubt you would have to do that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,718 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    lol I doubt you would have to do that.
    That's the reality of renovating or restoring listed buildings.


    You replace like with like, it's up to you to source authentic replacements. Be they roof slates, windows, bricks, floorboards (depending on level of listing) - or rooftop crosses!


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    pgj2015 wrote: »
    lol I doubt you would have to do that.


    You would if/when someone objected. Been on that building a long time. You could still reject in the same way you could continue to ignore a parking fine, but would eventually escalate until you were appearing on the Joe Duffy show complaining about your religious views not being respected


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,587 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    You would if/when someone objected. Been on that building a long time. You could still reject in the same way you could continue to ignore a parking fine, but would eventually escalate until you were appearing on the Joe Duffy show complaining about your religious views not being respected



    I was thinking the same, id say you could get it taken away if you complained about your religious views not being respected.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,718 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    I was thinking the same, id say you could get it taken away if you complained about your religious views not being respected.
    If your religious views are that intransigent, maybe you shouldn't/wouldn't be buying listed former religious buildings.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,130 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    retalivity wrote: »
    1.5m to live in the former Scholars pub/National School in Dublin 8.

    https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/apartment-1-st-kevin-s-place-donovan-lane-blackpitts-dublin-8-dublin-8/2943542

    Its nicely finished inside, but that is mental money for an apartment with no outside space except a small terrace, which is overlooked by the apartments beside it.
    Right next to a few industrial units as well.

    That's a stunning apartment. I wouldn't call the terrace small - it's 80 square metres. That on it's own is bigger than many entire apartments in the city. And as for being overlooked, sure isn't pretty much every urban and suburban garden? There's a second balcony on the second floor too, and it has it's own private entrance, plus secure dedicated parking.

    As for the cross on top, it has a bloody big sign saying it's a National School all across the front of it too. These things, when they have a legitimate historical context, don't have to be taken literally.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,321 ✭✭✭ongarite


    Love that place.
    The idea of having the living areas on upper floors rather than bedrooms is something I'd like to see more of.

    Having bedrooms on upper floors with the best views and privacy makes little sense if we spend most of the daylight hours not being able to utilise them best.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,587 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    If your religious views are that intransigent, maybe you shouldn't/wouldn't be buying listed former religious buildings.



    I like the building but the cross wouldn't be to my taste and I wouldn't want it on the building. anyway we are getting off topic here. lets agree to disagree.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 790 ✭✭✭LaChatteGitane


    retalivity wrote: »
    1.5m to live in the former Scholars pub/National School in Dublin 8.

    https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/apartment-1-st-kevin-s-place-donovan-lane-blackpitts-dublin-8-dublin-8/2943542

    Its nicely finished inside, but that is mental money for an apartment with no outside space except a small terrace, which is overlooked by the apartments beside it.
    Right next to a few industrial units as well.

    I wouldn't call that a small terrace.
    The place is stunning.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,610 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    retalivity wrote: »
    1.5m to live in the former Scholars pub/National School in Dublin 8.

    https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/apartment-1-st-kevin-s-place-donovan-lane-blackpitts-dublin-8-dublin-8/2943542

    Its nicely finished inside, but that is mental money for an apartment with no outside space except a small terrace, which is overlooked by the apartments beside it.
    Right next to a few industrial units as well.

    The company I worked for at the time were gifted that building back in the early 90's. We looked into converting it into independent living for physically disabled adults but it was too much of a reach financially to meaningfully optimise and convert the space. It was about 27 years ago (if I remember right) and we sold in on to a developer for approx. £450k and put that money into new-builds in Dun Laoghaire.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,718 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    humberklog wrote: »
    The company I worked for at the time were gifted that building back in the early 90's. We looked into converting it into independent living for physically disabled adults but it was too much of a reach financially to meaningfully optimise and convert the space. It was about 27 years ago (if I remember right) and we sold in on to a developer for approx. £450k and put that money into new-builds in Dun Laoghaire.
    It was a fine pub, in which I had many a great session, in the late 90's/early'00s. Then it changed hands and went to the dogs altogether.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,298 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Well I think it's a nice property and I have no interest in "cancelling" the buildings history.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,579 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    humberklog wrote: »
    The company I worked for at the time were gifted that building back in the early 90's. We looked into converting it into independent living for physically disabled adults but it was too much of a reach financially to meaningfully optimise and convert the space. It was about 27 years ago (if I remember right) and we sold in on to a developer for approx. £450k and put that money into new-builds in Dun Laoghaire.

    Sold for €2.5m in 2002.
    Sold again in 2011 for €700k, I think to the current owners who redeveloped it.

    https://dublininquirer.com/2015/06/03/blackpitts-rising-developers-dust-off-boom-time-plans


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,610 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    retalivity wrote: »
    Sold for €2.5m in 2002.
    Sold again in 2011 for €700k, I think to the current owners who redeveloped it.

    https://dublininquirer.com/2015/06/03/blackpitts-rising-developers-dust-off-boom-time-plans

    I've texted a friend of mine who worked with me back then. She continued on working there after I left (soon after we agreed the sale) and she reckons it was closer to €800k that Cheshire Homes got for it in probably '94-"95(?).

    I've tried googling that deal but can't find anything on it.


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    retalivity wrote: »
    Floors in the hall would soon be destroyed if you were bringing a motorbike in an out - so there mustn't be any parking space included?

    Beautiful apartment, but I'd pass for that alone.

    (edit) strike that, there is parking to the front (so why would you bring a motorbike into the hall?!?)


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    Floors in the hall would soon be destroyed if you were bringing a motorbike in an out - so there mustn't be any parking space included?

    Beautiful apartment, but I'd pass for that alone.

    (edit) strike that, there is parking to the front (so why would you bring a motorbike into the hall?!?)

    I knew someone who was big in to bikes and kept two of them in his living room. It can be just a personal taste.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,718 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    I knew someone who was big in to bikes and kept two of them in his living room. It can be just a personal taste.
    Bizarre thing to show in a For Sale ad though!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭LillySV


    Floors in the hall would soon be destroyed if you were bringing a motorbike in an out - so there mustn't be any parking space included?

    Beautiful apartment, but I'd pass for that alone.

    (edit) strike that, there is parking to the front (so why would you bring a motorbike into the hall?!?)

    He brings it inside as he knows his Ducati wouldnt be outside in the morn if left out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,130 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    (edit) strike that, there is parking to the front (so why would you bring a motorbike into the hall?!?)

    I know a few people who only ride their bikes on weekends when the weather is good. They’re parked up most of the winter, usually in a shed or garage to protect them from the worst of the elements. If this person wasn’t using theirs for an extended period of time, they may have decided to bring it inside. Of course, it could be a security thing to.


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    Where would you put the telly in that living room?

    Over the fireplace wouldnt really be visible to the rest of the room .... so everyone would be crowded in that corner?


    Would also annoy me if I had to climb the stairs every time I wanted a cold drink from the fridge...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,298 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Where would you put the telly in that living room?

    Over the fireplace wouldnt really be visible to the rest of the room .... so everyone would be crowded in that corner?


    Would also annoy me if I had to climb the stairs every time I wanted a cold drink from the fridge...

    Mount a projector on the wall behind the couches and have a roll down canvas on the awning. Replace the side living couches with a mini bar.


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