You could have hours of fun in that as a kid.
She absolutely would @jaffa20 - in fact in one episode she did show a building with a post office downstairs! I think it was somewhere in Wexford though, it was probably a fine house in it's heyday.
It's like something Maggie would show on cheap Irish homes. Imagine the opportunities for your mortgage to be paid from renting the commercial side.
A little surprise in the last few photos if you don't read the description first!
There was an old wooden kitchen chair in one house I rented.. Man explained it HAD to stay as the previous owner had died sitting on it... Never liked that chair after that..
Gentlemen, if you don't have these shoes, you aren't allowed to enter that house.
Someone really likes orange. Its everywhere.
That decor gave me an instant headache. At first look I thought the green on the walls was mould!
You'd be surprised.
My sister in law has a rental apartment in Spain. A man died there and wasn't discovered for over two weeks. The agent eventually found him when they went to the apartment because he hadn't returned the keys.
They had to bring in a specialist cleaning crew to deal with it, but you'd never know it happened.
Meh, wouldn't bother me - everyone ends up dying somewhere.
I think they use it for storage but not 100% sure on that
I heard somewhere that Big Mickey bought it (yes, Big Mickey, the furniture guy at the other side of Longford!). There was a bit of tidying done on the site a couple of years ago.
Don't think many people would be too keen on this one.
Fountain Blue, it's/was outside of Longford, somehow the building is somehow still standing, no idea why someone hasn't levelled it and used the site for a petrol station over the years
I remember that name Fountain Bleu alright and ikwym about a roadhouse/ function room.
I kept expecting to see JR and Sue Ellen in the house somewhere 😁 because of what freshpopcorn said when he posted it.
That house reminds me of some roadhouse function-room type of place, out in the middle of the country - Fountain Bleu near Mullingar, anyone remember that? I was never in it, but that's the sort of place that immediately sprang to mind.
Some 60's/70's establisment, with some domestic furniture thrown randomly into all the rooms to make it into a house.
That sitting room is the most uncomfortable looking space I think I've ever seen (although I love the roundy leather couch!) - a less inviting living space I cannot imagine.
I have to agree there is something impressive about it, the commitment to a certain era or else they have kept it up very well (probably the latter). It's very dark, if they replaced the dark floors and carpets throughout that alone would give it a hugely different look. Not for me but impressive all the same.
The kind of house you'd either preserve exactly as it is. Or raze it to the ground.
(There's a picture of a bathroom with what looks like quite a distance, relatively speaking, between the toilet and the bidet. Not sure I'd want to trek that far with my bum hanging out just to splash a bit of water on the old chocolate starfish.)
I've never been there, but I feel like I've stayed there. It's got a certain era look and feel to it, but is a fine example all the same. Could be nice renovated, but the shape is working against ya.
Wow, although the Kilkenny house is so dated, I kind of like it. It's so well maintained and like a museum for the period.
I do not like the interior decor. However the location and a 0.4 acre site in any city or large town adds a premium to any property. Ber is not too bad considering all the open fires. Its 3K sq ft . its an imposing site. House has aged badly mostly due to the interior decor. is the site worth 200k+. whoever buys it will give it a serious make over and probable spend 250K+ on it.
Painting a lot of the wooden ceilings and panels would change the look of the house. That fireplace .......actually open it up slaightly for a pellet or log burning stove and lime wash it brillant white. get rid of the carpets change to tiles and/or timber floors, get rid of that green bathroom suite especially but even the other bathroom layouts are dated.
Probably a tad over priced but will make near 700K I expect
It looks like a 1970s' guesthouse that has been well maintained but not updated in terms of style. A nice property but I don't think I'd want to live there without making major changes such as getting rid of most of the carpets and replacing them with tiles and wooden floors.
Love that Waterford house. Not to live in, of course, just to look at
You know a house is retro gold when they have a hot tub in a carpeted bathroom 😂
But seriously.....who'd live in a house like this?
Has anyone noticed most of the photos have been removed on the Portrane House!
A brilliant find for the thread @freshpopcorn 😁.
I got stuck at this point ... it's er...different 😁. Lots more gems but that had me 😳😲😁
It was probably ultra stylish in the 1970s
That's one depressing house. I've never seen decor like it.
Was reading years ago that the owners at the time had to block access from approaching the house. They had no problem seeing multiple people a day doing the truffle shuffle in front of it, but people were also going right into the property, littering everywhere, and in some cases urinating nearby.
Were the obsessed with Dallas or something!(I don't think I like anything)
The yards been cleaned up!
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