Price is madness but looks well looked after even though as you say the decor is old fashioned.
I love finding timewarp houses. I wonder what it must have been like to live there when it was just completed
I'd imagine it was the McMansion of its time. Very few families had homes that size in the 70s and 80s.
That's a very odd wardrobe effect in pic 32, looks like a paper cutout! (weird angle camera effect again).
Wow this is nice!!!
Interesting interior decor. Looks a bit like Wanderly Wagon. On the other hand it's a 4-bed with an AMV of €55k
Funny you'd mention this one! My wife and I went and looked at this place in April, I am not surprised that it's still on the market and they have had to resort to fluff pieces like this to try to find someone to buy it. Sadly, the auctioneer had us drive 4.5 hours each direction to come see the place, only to tell us about the 39-year-old asbestos roof that we'd need to immediately replace, rotting external wooden decks that are in need of rebuilding, and ancient electrical wiring throughout that should've been replaced decades ago after we arrived at the property for a viewing. Apart from the amount of work needing to be done on the house, we thought that the floorplan makes no sense unless you want to sub-let the bottom of the house out, and even then there was not a good separation of spaces; maybe it'd work as a grown child's apartment kind of thing. The grounds were 'nice', in that there was a decent area of woods on the property, but 18 acres is a bit misleading of a number, due to a large part of the land being occupied by marshy pools. We spitball-estimated with the auctioneer that the place would need at least 300k of work put into it, and the floorplan was so strange that we weren't sure how it would ever work as anything other than a sub-let apartment.
It is less than nearby smaller houses were selling for, during the boom years.
Never go to to a viewing without having seen photos of the place!
You could have seen the photos in the article and not be aware that there was asbestos, or the decking needed more than a coat of paint.
It does however have the rather 'fragile' look of a holiday cottage that has been cobbled together over the years, it doesn't really look like the kind of place you would want to spend the winter in.
Whoever lived in that house enjoyed painting their house (badly). They must have been colour blind aswell.
On the plus its a good price and has good size rooms. At only €55K the buyer could really make that a nice house.
Fine house, looks in great condition, no peeling wallpaper is a good sign. A little bit of reconfiguration would make a huge difference.
Also it’ll be bug central as our summers warm up
House is grand, but the choice of patterned carpets and wallpapers in every room would give you a sensory overload
Ouch!
The toilet space - not ideal when you have guests over and definitely no overnight guests 😂
Heavens that's dismal. A toilet and shower in the bedroom? You'd think building regs would have something to say about that! The whole thing can't be more than 15 feet wide.
Hi there! I'm the wife in question. We looked at all the listing photos multiple times, looked at Google images of the property, etc. - we did as much research from the US as we could before we then spoke with the agent on the phone (paying international fees, might I add), AND WE SPECIFICALLY ASKED IF THERE WAS ANYTHING WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE PROPERTY before we agreed to meet with him. We even mentioned things like the property needing work, what the actual land was like, and so forth: We only had a short time in Ireland and we didn't want to waste time seeing a house we weren't interested in. The listing agent is a liar and we wasted an entire day on this BS thanks to him. This was not our fault, it was his. But thank you for assuming that we're blithering idiots. No doubt we are in some ways, but we at least know to look at the listing photos before viewing a property in person.
Interestingly, while we were touring the place, it was devoid of any furnishings and was falling apart in many respects, and it looked as though it hadn't been cleaned in donkey's years. They have either prettied it up to attract buyers, or they are using older photographs; the interior looks pretty run-down at present. I suppose it's possible they've invested in extensive renovations that were completed in the last 3 months, but I doubt it. The agent said the owners were looking to sell as-is, but we all know what his word is worth.
Take out the carpet throughout and sand down some floorboards and strip wallpaper, and the place would be class. I wouldn't pay 1.1m for it, but I have to say I do really like the smoked-glass shower cubicle and cherry-coloured ceramics in the bathroom, just the right kind of kitsch
It's a shipping container, so 8ft wide as standard. And then for conversion, you need to insulate the inside, so you won't get full use of that full width.
I hadnt even noticed that. It is 3 shipping containers that somebody has stacked next to their house.
To be honest, the photos look like there's a decent chance of it being asbestos. So just ask the estate agent what the roof is made of to confirm.
There's lots of issues visible in the photos, that should have any potential purchaser asking questions before thinking about a viewing.
As mentioned, it's nice to see an older house that's been well maintained. Seeing a VCR was gas, it highlights just who owned this house. Along with the wallpaper, lino in the kitchen and multi-colour bathroom fixtures :)
Yeah, shipping containers. I'm not against shipping containers being used like this, but i just think it didn't suit this constrained site, and could have been designed better.
https://containerhomehub.com/the-toronto-container-house/
my issue is more with the price. over a million is just ridiculous.
Apparently, house prices are ridiculous in Toronto at the moment. And on top of that, this seems like a fairly bespoke building method, and needed a lot of planning and permissions to get it done.
Nothing quirky about this, it's lovely. Modern, yet feels cosy and the garden space is gorgeous:
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-evergreen-tara-hill-tara-hill-co-wexford/4042806
That was on here before and described in the same way! 😁
Here is another one for you albeit a bit pricier and not as well maintained: https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/terraced-house-17-sandymount-green-sandymount-dublin-4/4076431
There is something appealing about the Sandymount house - it needs complete redecoration but looks to be in good condition.
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