Those bricked-up (stoned up?) gaps between the houses would really annoy me. Not big enough to do maintenance - and how were they even built? They are just messy and mean looking.
Nice inside. Looks like a shed at the bottom of a garden from the outside.
Same thoughts here. Ugh.
Definitely not for me.
At the very least they could have waited for a sunny day!
Never ceases to amaze me how little effort some estate agents make when selling a unique property like that. Photos with an iPhone, no floor plan .. bizarre
Looks alright from outside, if a bit neglected. Manky on the inside.
The first thing that occurred to me while flicking through that ad was, how would you even hang a picture properly?
And i know it's been neglected, so not looking at its best, but could it be any more dreary, dark or depressing?
Awful, awful!
I'd imagine they built it and then realised everything to furnish a house is mostly square in shape. Those bendy walls are giving me OCD nightmares and the openness of it feels like a pure waste. Don't like it.
One word;
FUGLY!
I gamble it if I was looking for a place with a bit on vooomp... It B1 energy rated and 4k sqft. It's on 3.5 acres. Building costs are 150ish/ sqft at present. So a build cost for something similar is probably near 600k.
Ya you will have to redo windows and external woodwork in the short term. Biggest expense would be the windows. Put in decent triple glazing PVC will probably set you back 60-80k but that about 50% of your total refurbishment.
The shed is 700sq ft replace the timber cladding with steel or pvc cladding.
Its quirky and I like quirky, but that's just depressingly dark and unfinished. Whatever you pay its going to be the guts of another 150k to make it reasonable.
Full of notions, lacking in taste and practicality. It's one weird house that looks like it was left to fend for itself.
I like it....very Hobbity!
However I'm 4'11" and could probably stand in all those sloped ceilings without maiming myself.
There's a lot of wasted space alcoves that would just give way to clutter if I was in charge.
People in the celtic tiger era building extragant houses and then not having enough money to finish it. Same as that other odd house made of wood this wood hasn't been treated either and just left to the elements.
I'm depressed just looking at this. I live in this area and wouldn't give the colour of that price for it.
You wouldn't want to hold onto your car for many years either As the sea air would rust your car quicker. But I suppose if you have over a million for a house surely you have a few quid more to change your car every couple of years.
Wow, didn't know that!
Not to mention all of your furniture getting sun bleached and artwork getting destroyed by UV rays.
I had a couch in a sun room for a couple of years and you wouldn't believe the change in colour between the part that was always in direct sunlight versus the shaded side.
That fireplace alone would knock 50 grand off the price for me.
A bit pricey??? I was expecting 700-850k not guts of 1.3m.
I didn't think skerries was that sought after tbh.
It's been years since I was there but always thought anything past malahide was more on the rural side of things.
I know technically it's a detached house but it's doesn't have the land you'd expect around a detached house it's very terraced in appearance.
I can't believe they're looking for that price considering the reputation the houses in that row have. Years of issues with cracking. Mica etc was ruled out so it's nearly worse, because they're not part of any redress scheme.
Reference:
https://extra.ie/2021/08/11/property/residents-red-island-skerries-dublin
Pricey but great location
I really like it but all the wood needs so much maintenance.
Interesting design but ultimately I hate it. The garage is far enough away from the house that on a cold, wet or windy day it will be a pain in the hole getting to and from it. I'm from Sligo so it probably has similar weather which means it will happen often enough. They should have had the garage attached to the house.
Also, you spend all that money on a new built with tonnes of room to build on and yet you still have a load of rooms upstairs where the ceiling is angled (is there a name for that). I hate rooms where the ceiling is angled like that. It's not as bad in this house as some I have been in but I always end up banging my head off them. Why not just increase the height of the house or change the angle of the roof so that you don't have to deal with that shíte.
Also, I don't like how the stove is so far out from the wall.
Beside the new road too which would have a bit of noise pollution.
I like it in theory. In fact that sunroom would be a bit of a liability in the summer - I have some small, south facing skylights in one room and in the end I had to give in and put some muslin 'blinds' over them as they would blind you as the sun moved round.
I'm intrigued by the lampshades in pics 34/35 - they were all the rage from Kilkenny Design in the 70s but I thought they were long gone!
You'd need sunscreen and shades in the living room!
This is a mental design for a home. Bigger isn't always better.
Anybody buying that house will be doing a complete refurbishment. When that house was build there was probably no regulation's regarding site lines on exits. It's there long enough that if it was an issue it would be highlighted
Ya if you are going to bid on it you need to check planning, drawing etc.
On the water treatment when planning was granted originally it was on the basis of a four bed house. Therefore any new stipulation regarding that are limited. Anyway it's a 2.5 acre site.
Biggest issue could be buying a lawnmower big enough to cut the lawns
Apart from the hole in the roof and consequent damaged stonework, plus whatever else inside, the peculiar mess of badly applied lining paper on the walls - what is it covering? The cheapest possible timber, panel doors, rads, windows, half installed electrics, diy presses, very bottom of the range flooring and so forth, you have an arrangement of block walls with services, sort of. Does it have a currently acceptable water treatment system? And how did they get planning permission to put an entrance on that bend? Still, it does have a couple of acres of land and is handy enough for Ennis.
