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

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

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patsypantaloni wrote: »

Not sure if this has already been posted, Felix Dennis's house for sale for 4million - it's certainly unique!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/107618687?fbclid=IwAR16DLrtw7y7oijZMhx6RpEltRodN0W4WBmnJ2VlJUYoAF9PkEKbcOsvThk#/

I love it. Apart from a few strange superficial design choices, the underlying building is superb.

He's even written quite a sweet poem about it

I BUILT MYSELF A HOUSE OF WOOD…
I built myself a house of wood
Where once an apple orchard stood.
On stormy nights I lay in bed
While rafters moaned above my head.

They wept aloud for limbs long lost,
For buds pinched out by early frost,
For wicker baskets piled with fruit,
For phantom branch and withered root.

I caulked the roof and rafter beams,
But still they whispered in my dreams,
They spoke of rising sap and wood:
— And then, at last, I understood.

This spring I planted out a score
Of apple saplings by my door.
Now stormy nights my rafters chime
To cider choirs and nursery-rhyme.

Gregor Samsa

KevRossi wrote: »

I love the quote on the wall in the gym.

"If you want to learn more, keep your eyes and ears open, and your mouth shut".

When frivolous inspirational quotes become deadly serious threats.

KevRossi

some random drunk wrote: »

Another CAB seized property has come to the market. It would be a very brave soul who bought this at any price, never mind the 400k asking.

2 Raleigh Square, Crumlin, Dublin 12

I love the quote on the wall in the gym.

"If you want to learn more, keep your eyes and ears open, and your mouth shut".

Gregor Samsa

He also owned Mandalay Estate on the Caribbean island of Mustique, which was built and originally owned by David Bowie

it has a bigger pool.

Exterior-22.jpg?fit=800%2C535&ssl=1

https://www.mustique-island.com/villa/mandalay/

BattleCorp

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

For a poet and publisher, that's a really odd thing to have. It's not like he was illiterate and just wanted to make it look like he was into books. Unless there's a specific meaning behind it - they're images of shelves from a particular library or collection or something.

Poet, publisher, planter of trees and eater of magic mushrooms it appears.

Truckermal

It's like something you see in a Theme Park plus the Pool is tiny given the size of the Room.

looksee

I quite like it too, not 4M's worth (if I had 4M) but I like a lot of the features. All that timber in the pool area is a bit excessive and makes the pool look very small. The cottages are nice.

Gregor Samsa

Cheshire Cat wrote: »

The fake library wants to make me cry!

For a poet and publisher, that's a really odd thing to have. It's not like he was illiterate and just wanted to make it look like he was into books. Unless there's a specific meaning behind it - they're images of shelves from a particular library or collection or something.

miamee

patsypantaloni wrote: »

Not sure if this has already been posted, Felix Dennis's house for sale for 4million - it's certainly unique!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/107618687?fbclid=IwAR16DLrtw7y7oijZMhx6RpEltRodN0W4WBmnJ2VlJUYoAF9PkEKbcOsvThk#/

I actually really like that aside from one or two features. Like the fake library with the bookshelf wallpaper

At least it is unique anyway!

Cheshire Cat

patsypantaloni wrote: »

Not sure if this has already been posted, Felix Dennis's house for sale for 4million - it's certainly unique!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/107618687?fbclid=IwAR16DLrtw7y7oijZMhx6RpEltRodN0W4WBmnJ2VlJUYoAF9PkEKbcOsvThk#/

The fake library (picture 11) wants to make me cry!

patsypantaloni

Not sure if this has already been posted, Felix Dennis's house for sale for 4million - it's certainly unique!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/107618687?fbclid=IwAR16DLrtw7y7oijZMhx6RpEltRodN0W4WBmnJ2VlJUYoAF9PkEKbcOsvThk#/

josip

Gerry Hutch might buy it for a laugh

gary550

blackwhite wrote: »

Interesting to look at it on Google Maps and see the difference on streetview between 2009 and 2014. Hell of a lot of security equipment added after he bought it

Apparently the windows are bulletproof...

HildaOgdenx

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

No way they will get 400K for that. The planning issues are bad enough but the only people who could realistically buy that are relatives or friends of the byrnes. Nobody else would have peace in that house.

Exactly.
You would need to be paid to live there, never mind paying that sort of money for it.

Gloomtastic!

Is that a dog bed under the castle at about 2:30?

Lockheed

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

750K spent on it on top of the 250K purchase price. He may as well have burned bundles of 50s.

I suppose the idea there was that he never could have bought a house for 1 million without raising a lot of eyebrows. With his connections in construction, and by keeping it off the books this would have been 'the next best thing'.

Still, it was 750k he could have spent on lawyers. It's a complete refurb job for anyone that buys it anyway, those crazy floors and walls on a redbrick semi detached house is just the poorest taste i've ever seen on this thread!

ohnonotgmail

Lockheed wrote: »

The quote that comes to mind there is 'just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't after you'

House is awful. All the money spent on it, and it's a D in efficiency?

750K spent on it on top of the 250K purchase price. He may as well have burned bundles of 50s.

Lockheed

blackwhite wrote: »

Interesting to look at it on Google Maps and see the difference on streetview between 2009 and 2014. Hell of a lot of security equipment added after he bought it

The quote that comes to mind there is 'just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't after you'

House is awful. All the money spent on it, and it's a D in efficiency?

ohnonotgmail

No way they will get 400K for that. The planning issues are bad enough but the only people who could realistically buy that are relatives or friends of the byrnes. Nobody else would have peace in that house.

blackwhite

Interesting to look at it on Google Maps and see the difference on streetview between 2009 and 2014. Hell of a lot of security equipment added after he bought it

Teacher2020

"Liam Byrne lived there in luxury with his partner Simoan McEnroe and their two children. His mother and father, James and Sadie, also live in Raleigh Square as did their late son David before he was shot dead at the Regency Hotel.

David's house is diagonally across from that of his parents. His girlfriend Kelly Quinn was also targeted by CAB and named in the High Court judgement, as was Liam's sister Maria Byrne who lives in a house on Windmill Road behind her parents' home"
The whole family lived in the area. I wonder if the parents and sister still live there? Be a brave person that moves in there.

looksee

It would probably be ok if you completely gutted it. Its that island sink in the kitchen that gets me. Obviously whoever designed that had never washed up after a meal in their life.

blackwhite

"Mansion" ffs. It's a large semi-D with extensions.

AlmightyCushion

some random drunk wrote: »

Another CAB seized property has come to the market. It would be a very brave soul who bought this at any price, never mind the 400k asking.

2 Raleigh Square, Crumlin, Dublin 12

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/semi-detached-house-2-raleigh-square-crumlin-dublin-12/3237037

upload a photo

Some background info here:
Exclusive snaps show sensational moment Kinahan cartel thug Liam Byrne's €1m mansion is seized by CAB https://www.thesun.ie/news/4261815/photographs-kinahan-liam-byrne-crumlin-dublin-house-cab/

Video tour here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tShyW8-nr3w

Seen that earlier and didn't know the story behind it but knew it was a drug dealer's house. All those extensions and decor just screams I have lots of cash that isn't legit. Any one with legit income would have just sold the house and bought a different house instead of doing all those extensions.

some random drunk

Any would be buyer would also have planning permission issues for the extensions and outbuildings. According to this article no planning permission was sought and funnily enough there were no objections from neighbours :pac:

https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/0302/1033514-byrne-organised-crime-gang/

Leg End Reject

some random drunk wrote: »

:cool:

I figured it was a custom made "fantasy style" bed, with a TV on the ceiling.

Classy!

some random drunk

:cool:

Leg End Reject wrote: »

What's the idea of the mock castle effect and the carpeted stairs behind the hobbit door?

I figured it was a custom made "fantasy style" bed, with a TV on the ceiling.

Leg End Reject

All that money spent for hideous gangland chic, I feel sorry for the estate agent.

What's the idea of the mock castle effect and the carpeted stairs behind the hobbit door?

Mullinabreena

some random drunk wrote: »

Another CAB seized property has come to the market. It would be a very brave soul who bought this at any price, never mind the 400k asking.

2 Raleigh Square, Crumlin, Dublin 12

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/semi-detached-house-2-raleigh-square-crumlin-dublin-12/3237037

upload a photo

Some background info here:
Exclusive snaps show sensational moment Kinahan cartel thug Liam Byrne's €1m mansion is seized by CAB https://www.thesun.ie/news/4261815/photographs-kinahan-liam-byrne-crumlin-dublin-house-cab/

Video tour here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tShyW8-nr3w

It shows money can't buy taste.

Ish66

If I was stupid enough to buy that, my first job would be a really good search, Lift floors, Bath covers etc. You could hit said jackpot !