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

JDD · 13-10-2023 8:09am #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 8:19am

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 8:22am

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 8:25am

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 8:28am

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

phormium · 13-10-2023 8:34am

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 8:35am

It's not the worst in fairness.

brokenbad · 13-10-2023 8:37am

I would have migraines from the loud colour scheme.

Cal4567 · 13-10-2023 8:40am

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 8:41am

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 8:47am

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

RichardAnd · 13-10-2023 8:47am

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 8:47am

Manky. Not worth half what is being asked.

awec · 13-10-2023 8:50am

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 8:55am

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 9:15am

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 9:20am

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

JDD · 13-10-2023 9:29am

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 10:16am

Avant Garde!

Viscount Aggro · 13-10-2023 10:22am

Lansdowne Place, D4.

These are "hot" properties

RichardAnd · 13-10-2023 10:27am

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

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

MrMusician18 · 13-10-2023 10:42am

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 11:36am

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 11:46am

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 12:30pm

It is without a doubt, Vulgar.

thehairygrape · 13-10-2023 12:37pm

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 12:48pm

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 12:59pm

MORE BEIGE!

Be right back · 13-10-2023 1:04pm

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

AngryLips · 13-10-2023 1:09pm

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 1:19pm

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.

The Continental Op · 13-10-2023 1:21pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121232438#Comment_121232438

Reminds me of the joke about the prostitute who while on the job is lying back thinking BEIGE I think I'll paint the ceiling BEIGE.

RichardAnd · 13-10-2023 1:22pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121232489#Comment_121232489

I just looked over it again. I missed this on the first pass:

This is the interior decor equivalent of gold teeth.

Strumms · 13-10-2023 1:39pm

It’s totally putrid.

years ago my folks built a house. Commissioned a well renowned architect who got in an interior designer who consulted with both parties at length and the results were excellent….

this however is a type of Haute Couture impractical design…. Speaking of Haute Couture, thats crap that generally goes from catwalk to back to cardboard box, people ‘wow’ and applaud but wouldn’t be seen dead in it… with an apartment you have to be seen dead in it, you are living in it.

Ezeoul · 13-10-2023 1:48pm

It is horrible, in my opinion.

But at least its not wall to wall and ceiling to floor shades of grey, which seems very fashionable at the moment.

elperello · 13-10-2023 2:06pm

If you're not in the market for a €1.75m apartment move along please.

If you are in the market for a €1.75m apartment and you don't like this one move along please.

Lewis_Benson · 13-10-2023 2:09pm

Looks like it was decorated for filming porn.

SEPT 23 1989 · 13-10-2023 2:11pm

so many philistines on boards

xabi · 13-10-2023 2:28pm

If its the couple I think it is then they have a Gold painted house in Cork, it was black too recently, they also have a gold car and a black car to match.

thehairygrape · 13-10-2023 2:37pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121232489#Comment_121232489

The door between the bedrooms bothered me too! A Murphy bed. Like something from a dingy NY flat in the seventies. But sure, good luck to them.

Iwantone · 14-10-2023 8:05am

Each to their own and good luck to them. One standout for me was the colour of the toilet clashed with the wall.

For me an aspect of property buying is you end up renovating nearly every room over time, no matter how nice it is.

From what I’ve read the owners of this property don’t have to worry as to whether this sells at all.

KaneToad · 14-10-2023 10:04am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121231666#Comment_121231666

I see what you did there...

😉

whisky_galore · 14-10-2023 10:09am

Great Gatsby chic meets Traveller Chic meets CAB seized property chic.

amacca · 15-10-2023 10:31am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058317962/is-this-the-ugliest-new-money-apartment-you-have-ever-seen

If any of you ever watched gomorrah...its like an even worse version of the decor on a mid level drug dealers gaff in that.

SharkMX · 16-10-2023 7:15am

I'll have it if none of you guys want it.

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

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