it's quite possibly the same listing that was working fine when it was posted here before, and the EA may not have known it had become corrupted?
i'm sure they don't monitor every listing they have every day to make sure they're still 'healthy'.
The ad copy is cringe. If I was vendor I would not want that irrelevant adjective rimdde. blurb on the ad. So few photos of the inside of the property.
All points to an absolute money pit.
I would hazard a guess that it's two possible reasons: a - they can fit more properties in
b - they appeal to some owners as there's less work for them to do, less to be taken care of
I was going to post a pic of that, the curtains craic me up.
The whole thing is an eyesore.
The big issue I see with it is that if you get an electric car you'd have to run cables over the footpath. We really need to make it easier to get charging stations installed on the road.
What happened to getting charging points put on lampposts?
yes sometimes there are some people who just park outside houses and yes it's very annoying for home owners.
The lampposts fell down in the storm.
You can buy a arm type installation where the cables don't go on the path but overhead when pulled out.
AFAIK you can't run cables over a public footpath, and you'd be taking a risk of being sued by the first person who trips over the cables if you did.
No driveway = dealbreaker for me. I simply wouldn't buy a house that didn't have one.
That, and somewhere that didn't have space for wheelie bins and a washing line!
I ran out of steam before getting through all of the photos, but my goodness, there's not much to like there.
Do houses like that ever sell? What prospective buyer who can afford a mortgage of $1.8m is going to buy such a hideous house?
That dashed finish is hideous, and totally without precedent in this type of house, nor is there any precedent for the two-sector, half-circle window. The vaguely classical window reveals aren't bad, and would have been expensive, but a hood mould is the right type for the style being aimed for. The angled turret is Victorian or later, and again not appropriate.
They were obviously going for Tudor Revival or Tudorbethan here, but anyone who looks at a genuine Tudor Revival house can tell that wooden casement windows with leaded glass would be called for here, not double-hung sashes.
The balcony is like a giant trough that cows would drink from. Again, columns are wrong, and don't belong here, and you can't have a grand house built to a certain established style with plastic windows and doors. It just doesn't work. Neither does double glazing.
What has happened to the profession of architecture? It appears to be completely broken.
Its not so much the profession of architecture as the fact that the person paying the piper wants this, this and this, and the piper sighs and does it. I doubt the people who built the house had the faintest idea what Tudor or Elizabethan meant and turned up with print outs from Pintrest, saying I want this general shape but windows like this and one of these tower things.
Being picky about the design is not going to pay the bills for the architect, but he probably would not put it in his portfolio. Though, on the other hand, I have come across some pretty poor architects. Somebody is 'designing' the macMansions around the place.
you can't have a grand house built to a certain established style with plastic windows and doors. It just doesn't work. Neither does double glazing.
that presumes they were aiming for 'a certain established style'. of course they can have a grand house built with a mishmash of styles - they've done it!
i kinda understand/don't understand the pearl clutching when something like this is done. it's like people objecting to dylan going electric.
There's nothing wrong with making a mansion that's a blend of architectural styles, or even it's own unique thing, but with many of these hideous McMansions, there's simply no thought that goes into their design whatsoever. Whoever put that monstrosity up there together clearly doesn't understand the theory behind the various styles they were trying to emulate (poorly), or why things are done certain ways in those various styles, and has no sense of proportion or symmetry and no idea how to truly combine all of those varied elements into a coherent whole. They're like a toddler building a gingerbread house; just gluing all of the shiniest bits of random sweets all over the thing willy-nilly…which is grand for the toddler, since they're two years old. Whoever came up with that mess up there should have been old enough to know better.
" What prospective buyer who can afford a mortgage of $1.8m is going to buy such a hideous house?"
For every seller there is a buyer.
For every buyer there must be a seller.
They both think they are doing the smart thing.
don't get me wrong - i don't like the house at all. but it's because it's garish and OTT, not because it's mixed different styles.
what i'm trying to get at is the difference between something looking 'authentic' because the cues are historically congruent, and something along the lines of '**** yeah, crenellations cos i think i'm rich'
I just think there's something gone fundamentally wrong with a profession when for the last 100 years it has hardly produced a single house that could or should be put on a list of protected structures. Though I'd give some credit to the more recent developments in and around towns. They seem to have better shapes and proportions, and are at least not laughably hideous.
Here's another example, on sale in Kildalkey, Co. Meath at the moment for €695,000.
Where does one begin! And they used this design more than once in this development.
Two self-contained corridor-like rooms sticking out the back of your house, leading to the garden!
Yes, that is pretty awful. How did they come up with that? Lol
First 6 mins or so of this covers house hunting programs in Australia. Turns out that they were showing people houses and the people already owned them. Wonder if that happens here too.
"Reverse engineer the house hunting process"…..FFS
His and Hers conservatory's ?
This has been known for a while and is the same with the US shows. "Love it or list it" is obviously similar with people never really going to buy the houses they are looking at
I can't understand why people watch those. They're all fake. Well, actually, I can. It's like they said on Seinfeld - People don't watch a TV programme because it's good. They watch it because it's on TV.
Those house hunting shows are always ridiculous. "John and Mary are looking for a beach house with a pool, so I've brought them 10 miles inland to an apartment I think they are going to love..."
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That’s and insane amounts of money for what feels repulsive
The “Minecraft” filter in photoshop
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/semi-detached-house-1-manor-walk-rose-hill-kilkenny-co-kilkenny/6012611
i hope that's a leaf in pic 7.
I'd have loved to have lived in a three story house when I was a kid. Poor me had to make do with a two story. 🤔
I'd hazard a guess and say the builder was the owner and most of the unique features are architectural salvage.
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