That just screams 'thrown up in the early stages of the Celtic tiger and we didn't have any money for landscaping'.
Just caught up, it's an extension from the last roars of the tiger. Building standards were low so a hard pass.
I love the rectory and would love to have the budget to buy it and restore it fully. Awful PVC windows would be one of the first things to go.
Shower with a plant?
That's beautiful, I'd love that if it wasn't on the back arse of nowhere.
That house has a very harsh feeling to it. Kind of the opposite of hygga
Lovely house but what would you do with it, too big to live in, AirBnB kinda thing in places perhaps…
Plus have you seen how close the M3 is?
I'd say this one will be on the market for a while…
I am struggling to find anything attractive or appealing about this one. It's really awful, IMHO…
https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/havana-dublin-road-celbridge-co-kildare/4830640
That is a prime example of form over function - it would be a very irritating house to live in, unless you were very fond of straight lines and rectangles. You could not have small children in it - those bannister rails just asking to be walked on, and the little pools in the courtyard.
Why oh why would you have a staircase going into the main bedroom?
That Celbridge house looks like they were heavily influenced by the archtect and didn't have the money to furnish it correctly or landscape. It's not the type of house that appeals to me at all, but someone with money could improve it.
Clearly the architect was behind on their work and ended up using their kid's AutoCAD 101 project instead.
TBH it looks more like a house from SIMS 4…!
It's obviously been decorated and staged for sale (I actually thought it was a new build that had never been lived in) - but it's one house that would actually be improved by having some "stuff" in it. It's incredibly plain and angular, with not so much as a bit of coving to soften the angles (the wall/ceiling joins jumped out at me straight away for some reason). It looks like someone designed it with a ruler and graph paper.
Horrible as seen in the ad (well, not horrible, but definitely not attractive), but as I say I'd be interested to see what it looks like when it's actually lived in.
There….that looks better😁
This is an unusual one, a subtle castle theme through some of the house but not all of it. I can't see when it was built either
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/house-keshcarrigan-co-leitrim/6048746
Looks like another Celtic Tiger McMansion…
That Leitrim house has a very twee interior, a D1 BER suggests it's a 90s build or earlier.
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/end-of-terrace-house-1-the-chalets-ballynakilla-beara-co-cork/6051198
Great for someone looking to freeze to death
I can tell you from experience that a juliette balcony like that creates a cold airstream through the house - heat from downstairs goes up and settles at the top of the house, pushing the lower level cold air downstairs. It means you have to completely heat the entire house to the desired temperature. Putting it over the stove like that guarantees that you will not feel the benefit of that stove at all.
If I decided to ever move to Leitrim, that is somewhere that I’d find appealing. It looks like it might have featured on the cover of one of those Enid Blyton books I read years ago.
Which property has Juliet balcony? Can't make sense of what you are saying as none of them have the feature of late. Are you talking about a mezzanine or a regular balcony
I'm guessing they're referring to this mezzanine in the Leitrim house
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/terraced-house-the-four-seasons-main-street-ballinamore-co-leitrim/5598808
Think you get a lot for the money here, seems good value
Love this one, not overly expensive for what you’re getting. https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/dannanstown-house-shanballymore-co-cork/4911846
The problem with those kinds of places is that when you go renovating, you are very likely to find a raft of problems you weren't expecting. It needs a new roof at a minimum. You can see damp in one of the pics and the roof is sagging.
Looks ok for the money though. It reminds me of the art studio in the Hugh Wallace programme a few weeks ago. That was bought for around the same money as this but I think she ended up spending over €200k doing it up, and that was with cheap finishes etc.
Agree with this. You spend 100k on retrofitting to A1 (A1 in a 200 year old house, I'm not seeing it). Thats before you do any other repairs. If you had maybe 2 -3 k to spend on renovations I'd say that's what you would spend. The house doesn't particularly appeal to me but the grounds and outbuildings - on 20 acres - are gorgeous.
Feck, I may hide this from my missus. She'd sell her spleen, kidneys (both of them) etc. for that place. She'd probably sell mine n'all.
You’d need the heating on 24/7 in winter. I wonder could you harness the river for power?
Domestic hydro doesn't get as much research/innovation as wind and solar because there are not as many people living beside rivers so the options are still relatively limited and wind/solar have seen better advances in efficiency in recent years
There's a lad 30 mins away in Kanturk does exactly that.
There's what looks like and old mill house on the property and a ready-made mill race.
Would be a lot less intrusive than wind or solar.
May even be a grant for it.
https://www.teagasc.ie/rural-economy/rural-development/diversification/small-scale-hydro-generation/
Not too many houses in the €2.5m+ category in the West. This has entered the market to rival the much talked about Blue Salmon house from a few weeks back.
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/house-newport-house-main-street-newport-county-mayo/5810107
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