Is this the ugliest new money apartment you have ever seen?

JDD · 13-10-2023 9:09am #1

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/5-the-templeton-lansdowne-place-ballsbridge-dublin-4/4723263

The shiny walls. The blood red shower. The gold porticos. It’s like Donald Trump vomited over the place 🤢

it’s clearly very much the owner’s style, which I would kindly say as “niche”. Who is going to pay 1.75m for that?

houseyhouse · 13-10-2023 9:19am

Haha! It’s decorated by Kingston Lafferty according to the ad. They’re probably the biggest name in interior design in the country right now!

Not to my taste either..

Kintarō Hattori · 13-10-2023 9:22am

I certainly don't have that kind of money so spend but I like quite a lot about it, thought not everything. There's a cool 70s chic about it.

Baybay · 13-10-2023 9:25am

I’m sure it cost a fortune to have that done to the inside of it but it wouldn’t be for me, even if I could afford it. Too many colours & patterns, not to mention angles & shapes, it almost made me dizzy just looking at the photos.

TheIrishGrover · 13-10-2023 9:28am

Jesus Christ. Money cannot buy taste. That's horrific. Good luck dropping your phone in any of the main rooms

phormium · 13-10-2023 9:34am

I love colour, none of that grey everywhere stuff for me but this is taking it to the extreme, might live with the kitchen but that would be about it!

artanevilla · 13-10-2023 9:35am

It's not the worst in fairness.

brokenbad · 13-10-2023 9:37am

I would have migraines from the loud colour scheme.

Cal4567 · 13-10-2023 9:40am

Progress folks. Mixed density and the norm in western cities and large towns.

Yes, a million miles away from the village type atmosphere that the Dundrum types want to protect.

If you want to live in a village, go and live in an actual one.

screamer · 13-10-2023 9:41am

I would imagine a lot of the furniture is for staging so that won’t be there when purchased. Don’t like the bathrooms, but the rest is ok. Not 1.75 million ok though. It looks like a place someone bought who doesn’t live there much as in travels a lot and they just told the interior designers to do whatever they wanted…..

awec · 13-10-2023 9:47am

The only room I really dislike is the red living room tbh.

RichardAnd · 13-10-2023 9:47am

It gives me an idea for a film. A drug dealer is ambushed by a rival gang who ritually execute him before being attacked by an alien monster that is seemingly invisible...oh wait.

JPCN1 · 13-10-2023 9:47am

Manky. Not worth half what is being asked.

awec · 13-10-2023 9:50am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121231114#Comment_121231114

It's owned by Dan and Linda Kiely, who founded Voxpro.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2023/10/13/kielys-temple-of-opulence-ballsbridge-apartment-put-up-for-sale-at-175m/

RichardAnd · 13-10-2023 9:55am

I honestly don't understand why very wealthy people spend money on things like that apartment. For 1.7 million, I'd buy myself a nice old house in Dublin and do it up in a classic style and invest the remainder into something more useful than a glam rock palace. I suppose to some people, however, 1.7 million is an impulse buy.

John_Rambo · 13-10-2023 10:15am

Ballsy in Ballsbridge. How dare they!

It's opulent to the extreme, but it's self contained in an apartment. I've seen much worse vulgarity in Ireland.

Sad to see the sale ruined by people on this thread that would have otherwise bought it!

OEP · 13-10-2023 10:20am

That is horrendous. What's more surprising is that most people here don't mind it!

JDD · 13-10-2023 10:29am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121231287#Comment_121231287

😀 Lols.

I'd be freaked out by seeing myself in the shiny walls all the time as i walk past.

I've been learning a lot about sensory input recently. E.g. some people need to work with background music, some people hate that. Some people crave bright light during the day, some can't leave the house without sunglasses etc etc. I guess it's no different with colours. Some people would find the standard muted colours in a house don't give them enough visual input. So they decorate their house in bright colours and that gives them the level of visual input they need to be comfortable in the house.

The clashing colours from room to room, the brightness of them and the reflecting surfaces would give me far too much visual input, which I think is why I am so adverse to this design. It actually makes my skin crawl. But there'll be others who love it. There'll be others again who aren't particularly put off by it, but are attracted to the apartment because every euro that was spent on it is so clearly on display, and they like the ostentatiousness of that.

In every way, not for me.

newmember2 · 13-10-2023 11:16am

Avant Garde!

Viscount Aggro · 13-10-2023 11:22am

Lansdowne Place, D4.

These are "hot" properties

RichardAnd · 13-10-2023 11:27am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121231374#Comment_121231374

This. There's too much "noise" to the place.

MrMusician18 · 13-10-2023 11:42am

There's a high level of craftsmanship on show there, just a shame that many elements are gaudy in the extreme.

John_Rambo · 13-10-2023 12:36pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121231318#Comment_121231318

I don't get this. I don't mind how anyone decorates their homes interior. You shouldn't let this sort of thing get to you.

Hurrache · 13-10-2023 12:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121231144#Comment_121231144

Same as myself. I like the art deco style throughout but the living room is the only letdown.

herbalplants · 13-10-2023 1:30pm

It is without a doubt, Vulgar.

thehairygrape · 13-10-2023 1:37pm

It’s interesting anyway. Don’t think I could deal with that much colour and I’d definitely develop constipation if I had to use that bathroom, but I admire the sheer vulgarity in a way.

the complex itself looks nice. Way, way out of my league.

mickdw · 13-10-2023 1:48pm

Looking at the thread title, I thought how bad could it possibly be.

It's Bad. Needs to be ripped apart.

John_Rambo · 13-10-2023 1:59pm

MORE BEIGE!

Be right back · 13-10-2023 2:04pm

It gives me a migraine just looking at those patterns and awful colour schemes..

AngryLips · 13-10-2023 2:09pm

It's not that bad. But for what they probably spent on it, it's not great either. It's not a livable space and it looks like no one lives there. Why is there a door between the two bedrooms? Why are there seats in the living room that look like they've been designed to torture guests? Why are there fake plastic plants hanging on the ceiling? Why is everything in the kitchen designed like they're ashamed about owning a kitchen?

The Continental Op · 13-10-2023 2:19pm

It does have a particular style but imo a bloody awful one. It looks like the remit was to take the most expensive materials and jamb in as many in as many different colours as possible.

With a little less effort to use so many expensive materials and with a little more style that could have been made a very effect modern Art Deco style.

Is this the ugliest new money apartment you have ever seen?

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