The pink kitchen 😱
That TV placement is shocking.
The interior is beautiful, but even in Galway I fail to see how a two bed terraced house can be worth (nearly) 400k. No doubt they have spent a fortune on it but one of the main rules of redecorating/refurbishing is - be aware of the ceiling value of any house. You might get maybe 50k max over the average price on an estate or in a street but there are always limits. And no off-street or dedicated parking for your money? I doubt it will make the asking price.
Not a lot of options when it's a long narrow house
https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/3-o-donoghue-terrace-woodquay-galway-h91-y9ep/4564682
I love the Stepaside House. It wouldn't be how I'd have it but the interior design is consistant and strong. A lot of times something with such "personality" can be very schizophrenic to the outsider's eye. That gaff flows, baby!
The Galway one is a bit too Dermot Bannon Bland for my liking.
IMO a TV over a fireplace is low brow and cheap looking but if I bought that I would.
That fire could have been put at floor level and the TV on it.
I'd assume it's on a movable bracket and can be pulled/angled out when you're watching it
Going from no seats facing it to an arm chair facing it from 5m away and 2 seats you cant use.
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Those paintings are beautiful, worth a few quid on their own I'd say.
The price!! 🤯 Lovely house and looks amazing, but sizewise and location?
I thought €395,000 seemed high and had a look to see what sort of price any around that area go for, and found that one has been sold at least twice since 2016.
Sold for €140,000 on 12th August 2016 and then Sold for €275,000 on 16th October 2020
That 2nd jump of another €120,000 is only in 14 months.
Healthy profit for the neighbours that held on to theirs around the same time.
EDIT -
I went down a rabbit hole, I read a bit about the history of the area and past residents, and the village looks a great place to live too, growing fast by the looks of it.
For context, this house is next to the most prestigious street in Belfast, houses there would sell for millions. And this house therefore could be considered a steal for £495k....... but the state of the house is SHOCKING. I audibly gasped when I saw the kitchen. Built in 1924 and obviously hasn't had a penny spent on it since then. Which is so sad coz it could be a stunning house.
I dunno, if I was going to buy a fabulous house - and that is a very fabulous house - unless I could afford it all done up (and maybe not even then, would it all be totally to my taste??) I'd nearly prefer it in that state - all emptied out and ready for the builders, and you can really see the size and quality of the rooms. I'm a total sucker for dual aspect rooms.
That kitchen should be donated to a museum! My granny's houses both had one of those presses (or versions of them) - they're a real country thing.
Oh don't get me wrong, if I had a bottomless pit of money and no urgency to move I'd be 100% buying that to do it up. You cannot beat the area. It's stunning.
As an auctioneer would say, "It retains all it's original features". 😁
That's it - it truly hasn't had any work done since it was built in 1924. You can tell though that it was once a fabulous house and the original work done to it was of a very high standard for that era.
You would have the keep the sinks when you did it up, along with the toilet with the top cistern. We had one of those in our outside toilet when I was a kid.
I'd never had put it as a 20s house going by the exterior. It's like you dressed a centennial in the latest smart fashion.
The front door is amazing! Zebra print would have to go along with the chandlers. Not a fan of pink kitchen but that is a pretty amazing house.
It is so unbelievable bland and fake. I would say a interior designer staged it because it is cheap prints with clique images. It is done to look like a catalogue but not how the people live there. Either rented interior or stock they will return after the sale of the house. Money well spent because it will really wow buyers. They may even offer to sell all the furniture as part of the sale. Staging isn't common in Ireland outside a show house for an estate but that is what this. It has great appeal and many people wouldn't notice.
I'm always a little bit sad though to see houses like that, and think that someone once lived there - it's so bleak looking, iykwim.
And in some cases, left loads of money after them while living with no basic comforts for themselves. I know of more than one case where that happened. Not even the most basic stuff in the house, and a lot of money there after them, for nieces and nephews or whoever.
Anyway, I'm gone on a bit of a tangent there. I love that house.
What paintings? They are mostly prints to convey a theme
I kept scrolling through the pics waiting for the kitchen til I arrived back at the start. Then I realised that green room wasnt a big bathroom...
Some of the floors in the Belfast house were never carpeted, they had rugs. The floor is painted black around the edges and the rug centred on it. Very 1920's/30's.
I love it.
Even the bins in the Belfast house are from the 1920s
Great potential in the Belfast house but so much wrong with it. Seems to be some significant leaks from the roof/guttering/whatever and it probably needs rewiring, no heating, a few cracks and a good bit of damp. It will soak up a hundred k minimum.
Strange/mental positioning of the lights in the rooms. Most light fittings are in the corners of the rooms and not in the centre.
The interior certainly doesn't match the exterior. The exterior looks so much more modern. So much so that I'm questioning if it's the same house.
Austin would not approve:
No shagpile rug
No mirrors on the ceiling
No hot-tub
The Belfast house needs a huge amount of work. If I won the lottery I'd buy it
I was just thinking the same thing.
I would need the euro millions. I would love it.
