The actual kitchen part looks awful and the utility is like a cramped galley kitchen. Awful planning, either by the architect or the owners.
No, sorry, 😁 I was wondering why there were something like 10 pictures just of the kitchen, as it was nothing spectacular at all.
It's a mad dumb design of a kitchen.
It's supposed to be the utility, the only reason I can think of is to keep the coking smells and noise away from the open plan living room. There is a range in the kitchen though so hard to know. 🤷♀️
The waste of space in all those McMansions is baffling and a disgrace. Big empty halls and landings and then tiny, cramped rooms. It makes no sense!!
And for as that one in Offaly with the kitchen in the hallway..... WTF were they taking when they up with that one??? 😲
It went for €910k according to the property price register
That Offaly house reminds me of the episode of the Simpsons when Homer designed a car. Its all over the place. The kitchen in particular is a shambles
It's not well-worn, it's just a very new driveway, sometime after July 2021 when the most recent satellite photo was taken. Presumably put in place at the time they decided to sell the house. Before then it was accessed via the property.
A couple of interesting things for me about that. The first is almost direct access to the Bog of Allen from the back (zoom out in satellite view)
The second is that it's one of the finer examples of an Irish county enclave. Although it's in Offaly, it's not accessible without going through either Laois or Kildare.
Gotta love the privacy paint here... least, I THINK it's paint.
Maybe that's what the commercial premises behind the house is for? If you can't shoot or burn it maybe dissolve it in acid?
Depends on the level of 'soggyness'. If they are very bad, they mightn't burn. 😁
Well spotted, I didn't notice that. @BattleCorp has shown it's a commercial premises so might be noisy during the day.
Maybe that's what the "furness" room is for?
And change your jocks more often. Don't want them sticking to the sides of the chute on the way down. 😁
Exactly. And I would stay away from the Furness Room too. 😁
All the Random Capitals in The Ad are Doing My Head In. 😁
That shared driveway would put me off. Presumably the house was built by the owners of that business.
The size of the house and they put most of the mismatching kitchen in a hallway. Much of the house is nice but the kitchen/dining/living room area would put me off.
Satellite view shows some sort of commercial property right behind them.
And forgive me, I know this room is out of place in this house but I actually like it.
Who thought this was a good style of toilet to install. Pure ugly.
I don't like how there is a well worn driveway beside your house leading to some property behind your house. If it is a house that wouldn't be too bad but annoying anything else would be annoying.
You just need to be careful when the laundry is being shot in the shoot. 😯
Ah that doesn't seem too bad. It's a bit cluttered and the kitchen is odd but I get the impression it could clean up to be quite a cosy house with a bit of work.
My links won't embed anymore for some reason. Take 2:
Check out this property I found using Daft
Oh, that worked!
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Better value in Offaly, still has steps and Celtic Tiger written all over it.
This includes a "laundry shoot" so you'll never have to wash your clothes again. 🤣
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-bishopswood-portarlington-co-offaly/4000514
,,,in Hugginstown.
I was just thinking the same thing.
You honestly wonder how big the market is in Ireland for mcMansions of €1-2 million.
I really don't like that house. I'm not sure what but like previously mentioned McMansion vibes
I'd see this house before in the thread but feck me, it is stunning. It'd have to be in the running were you to win the lotto. It looks well kept, modern and 200+ acres of land sounds like plenty.
Agreed - the whole place is finished with tacky off the shelf synthetic material twiddly bits. Especially those twisty pillar things on the kitchen cabinets and the whole factory-spray-painted 'timber' components. And agreed about the unnecessary steps and that peculiar room off the living room that doesn't really have space for furniture so they have crammed it full of knick-knacks and a settee across the only decent window.
It still beats me where you put outdoor shoes and coats and schoolbags and car keys in those sort of houses. If you abandon a book or a newspaper it makes the whole place cease to look like a showroom, which would be fine but showroom is the effect they are going for.
Though someone came into my house yesterday and looked around the disaster area that was the living room (I'd been out of commission for about a week) and said something on the lines of - I like this house, it looks lived in. I wasn't sure whether to be offended or amused.
It really is a bit tacky especially when you notice the cheap prints and pictures on the wall. I would say the gate on the stairs is to stop the dog going upstairs which may just be practical for them.
I got as far as the stairs photo and thought no, tacky is the word that springs to mind. I didn't look at any more photos.
Great find for the purpose of the thread though.
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