Jesus the stool for the computer chair. My back is aching just looking at it.
I'd be worried about those gutters... and the boundary line? are they overlapping?
Decor can aways be changed.
While I am not sure I would want to live with the way the house is decorated, I don't dislike most of the exuberant bits, makes a change from beige and gold trimmings. The bathroom with the blue ceiling is a bit much though.
The bathrooms ...
“Eye catching Interior” I’d agree with that!
Stairs lead down to the ruck full of junk. You can just see banister sticking out
Walk by it a few times a week. A weird layout, dark and narrow. And doesnt look at all as nice as the pictures. Most of the sq footage is taken up by the bizarre hall/living room.
Also where do these stairs lead to?!
It is right next door to a beautiful villa.
And €1.25million!!
OK, it's big - but that's about all it has going for it.
ETA - wondering how it looks so tidy?? The walkthrough video shows all the (not very well) hidden secrets .....🤣
The hall cum living room is bizarre too.
Ugly inside and out.
To many weird angles and strangely shaped rooms - painted wooden ceilings in the bedrooms and a big shortage of counter space in the long, narrow kitchen (hence the tiny kitchen block on wheels)....
I'd pass.
yeah that sink and bath are really dated. The "inspirational" poster though, ugh.
That is one weird house!
In fairness, I'd take the sauna in the sitting room over the bathroom (specifically the sink and bath surround) any day!
And you've just gotta love the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica on the shelf over the wine fridge - notions, or wha???
https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/fern-house-126-ranelagh-ranelagh-dublin-6/4653132
Talk about squeezing them into those mews houses.
OMG what looks like a sauna in a sitting room. House looks ok until you get to that picture. Bizarre! 😂🤣
Pebbledash walls, lots of security lights, house looks like it has never been lived in, no personalisation anywhere, overpriced. Good parking for vans though….
thats a sauna, right? weird.
I mean seriously, what's wrong with people? Imagine trying to watch Match of the Day with that thing in use...!
Picture 12
I'm a dumbass I went on google maps looking at the back and never even looked fully at the pictures in the ad. I just went through the pictures now an you do have a back garden but you do not own any parking space from the rear since they closed it all off. So for your over 1.5m you have to make do with finding parking on the road crazy considering the price. The even blocked the bungalows from your garden now too, which is a good thing I suppose.
Admittedly they had a great setup for the workers when it was commercial with plenty of parking spaces. And then who ever owned it made a few quid by building and selling two bungalows at the end of the site.
This is a photo of the rear of the property before development.
Even if you have two permits, there is no access to the parking area through the back garden, (at least that could be seen from the listing photos, - see photo 12/17 - and also the mews properties!) which would mean trotting back and forth all the way around to the front. The access lane is also quite narrow. It would just be annoying. What if you forget and leave something in the car and have to run out for it in your jammies?
Parking out front will never be an option - double yellow lines, and a cycle lane directly outside.
Nah, I'd pass.
For that price I would want a back garden. There are parking spaces in the back garden but who owns them I don't know and there is also two bungalows at the back of the garden also. Do they own the parking spaces or is it your neighbour.
I'll be passing on the bike again tomorrow evening - if I have time I'll have a scout around 🤣
Re the parking permits, you get two for residents, and a load of 24-hr scratch cards for visitors. The problem around there would be finding a vacant parking space!
2 parking permits so good luck if you plan on any visitors.
@Citizen Six, I don't know the area but the ad say it's accessed at the rear. I haven't the energy to look at streetview now. That and the mews in the back garden would annoy me no end.
It looks like the house for sale, and the one next to it were both commercial office spaces previously. Both had a shared back yard space. On top of this, two mews building at the back of both. It seems they have split the back garden, and cut off the mews buildings at the back. So pretty much hemmed in on all sides. As for parking permits available, would that work for on street parking, which can only be around the corner, as no parking directly outside?
And yet all the listing says about parking is "2 permits available". Which still means, on street parking only, and no private space on your own property.
For me, that would be enough of a dealbreaker to look elsewhere, especially if spending that kind of money.
Ah, private parking at the rear but they were still class as commercial in October last year. The article does state it would be easy to change and each house could be 5 bed homes.
Edit - there's a muse at the back of 2 of the houses.
Potential to bring period homes back into residential use in heart of Ranelagh
Turns out the whole terrace, including some of the mews houses, were sold "with potential" last year.
27 parking spaces between the lot - no shortage 🤣
It's unusual that there's no rear access given it was obviously used commercially and probably had a good few working there.
On satellite view it looks like there is parking to the rear, shared with the next house (which is also for sale).
I can't imagine getting permission for a driveway to the front, that's a very narrow bottleneck beside pedestrian lights and a junction, it's forever clogged up with traffic (I pass it regularly).
I doubt you'd get planning at the front, there's a footpath and what I presume is a busy enough road.
Someone who knows the area might know if it would be possible at the back, as another poster said it's a heck of a lot of money when you have to leave your car on the street.
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