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

RacoonQueen wrote: »

Saw this on the 'ugly houses' instagram story...real or not?

Be handy to be able to open the door to guests while in the bath.

"Hi John, come in .... Jesus, don't fall in on top of me!"

RacoonQueen

Saw this on the 'ugly houses' instagram story...real or not?

It looks like a 1980's function room in a 30 bed hotel in Leitrim.

humberklog wrote: »

I really like the Art Nouveau wall lamps that are in the kitchen but they're using them to "frame" an extractor fan flume?

The brass surround in the piano room door, the handles on kitchen cabinets and the oven colour all give it a dash of a 1990's Changing Rooms make-over vibe.

Fortunestown, which is not Jobstown.

Barony: Newcastle.

Jobstown ends at Jobstown Road and there are a couple of estates that divide Jobstown and Ard Mhor, Swiftbrook, Russell Court, Brookview and MacUilliam among them.

@Nullzero, I haven't been up to visit my friend in Ard Mhor since Christmas 2019 (covid) so its been a while! I agree it has gone very downhill since it was built.

Gregor Samsa

Deleted User wrote: »

Ard Mhor is not Jobstown. (Why do people insist on labelling everything within 30 minutes walk of Jobstown as Jobstown?)

Ard Mhor sits between Brookview estate, which is Brookfield, and Citywest.

According to the Property Registration Authority's landdirect.ie, Ard Mor, and the house in question, is in Fortunestown:

nullzero

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Ard Mhor is not Jobstown. (Why do people insist on labelling everything within 30 minutes walk of Jobstown as Jobstown?)

Ard Mhor sits between Brookview estate, which is Brookfield, and Citywest.

IIRC Ard Mhor was originally built as either affordable housing or shared ownership. Some Respond housing association units in there too, have a friend (who ironically works for SDCC housing section) living in a Respond apartment there.

One does not simply walk into Ard Mhor.

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

wait, liberace wasn't a lady?

Well, i suppose he might as well have been ...

Duke of Schomberg

nibtrix wrote: »

I can't get over this house...

The weird columns . . .

I think the columns are structural, and part of the original industrial building - the bottoms of them seem to be in the TV-room-cum-gymnasium (why are the supports for the weights positioned so that the bar will is directly in the way of anybody trying to get in/out of the sofa and directly in the line-of-sight to the TV - you're stuffed if there's a heavy set of weights attached and you can't lift the bar off the get to the seats.

And how close is the top of those stairs to the ceiling? - all the ceilings look quite low actually. And there seems to be a distinct lack of electrical sockets around the place.

The last time I saw something like this was in 2005 when the film Downfall was released - the one set largely in the Fuhrerbunker during the last days of the Third Reich (without all the shag-pile obviously).

ohnonotgmail

Leg End Reject wrote: »

I'm a lady! A very refined, piano-playing-in-my-dreams lady.

wait, liberace wasn't a lady?

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

actual picture of Leg End Reject

I'm a lady! A very refined, piano-playing-in-my-dreams lady.

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Apart from calling it CityWest.

It's Fortunestown/Jobstown, the Lidl at the end of the road is the one that got looted and demolished in the snow a few years back.

Ard Mhor is not Jobstown. (Why do people insist on labelling everything within 30 minutes walk of Jobstown as Jobstown?)

Ard Mhor sits between Brookview estate, which is Brookfield, and Citywest.

IIRC Ard Mhor was originally built as either affordable housing or shared ownership. Some Respond housing association units in there too, have a friend (who ironically works for SDCC housing section) living in a Respond apartment there.

ohnonotgmail

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Oh, I can't play! I just like the look of it.

I'm sure I'd master chopsticks quickly enough though and I could dress up in elegant evening gown and tinkle away.

actual picture of Leg End Reject

Leg End Reject wrote: »

I'm not on Instagram so put up a few screenshots.

Don't worry, we'll come up with some comments ...

Challenge accepted :pac:

ongarite wrote: »

Brass fittings back in fashion.....!

Its very topical.

Copper has antiviral properties and as there is copper in brass it too has antiviral properties.

Thus front doors were fitted out with brass as a matter of hygiene !

maxwell smart

Deleted User wrote: »

SuzieMcAdam?

More like Tarmacadam

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Oh, I can't play! I just like the look of it.

I'm sure I'd master chopsticks quickly enough though and I could dress up in elegant evening gown and tinkle away.

Which comes first : The Piano or The Player ?

humberklog

Deleted User wrote: »

I really like the Art Nouveau wall lamps that are in the kitchen but they're using them to "frame" an extractor fan flume?

The brass surround in the piano room door, the handles on kitchen cabinets and the oven colour all give it a dash of a 1990's Changing Rooms make-over vibe.

Deleted User wrote: »

The photographer could have saved himself a few pennies by simply using monochrome film!
No one would notice.

When was the last time anyone used film for photographs ?

0lddog wrote: »

+1 to this

With so many people living in apartments I wonder would it be an idea if some of the bigger libraries had 'music rooms' that could be booked

Wonder what Catmanic's take on this would be...

Oh, I can't play!

I just like the look of it.

I'm sure I'd master chopsticks quickly enough though and I could dress up in elegant evening gown and tinkle away.

Any number of halls looking like that in the country.
Cold, draughty ol' places they are too.

Brrrrr

* Shivers *

ongarite

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Brass fittings back in fashion.
Pain in the hole to keep pristine unless you lacquer them, especially in high moisture area.
The door architrave made from brass is insane!