Who'd live in a house like this? Part 2

I like the style, and on nice days it would be spectacular. But when grey November rain is beating against those huge windows, not so much. And even on average days, looking out on the grey sea without cliffs - though there is a headland in one direction - to give a bit of perspective, you might as well be looking at concrete.

The Bray apartment would be fabulous for watching the Air Show every year, but on the other 364 days, well, it’s Bray . . . . . .

I was just thinking the exact same thing! If you buy it, can we be friends and I'll visit you

for the Airshow! :-)

You would have to be absolutely mad to buy that place. The cliffs are apparently eroding at about 20cm a year - and you can see the fallen chunks of cliff at the foot of them. The house appears to be about 30m from the cliff so you might get 10-15 years out of the house if you are very lucky, you would not stay in the house as the erosion got within 10m or so, so it could be a lot less. Over a million for the pleasure of watching your garden fall into the sea?

Apparently it's between 22 and 32cm per year now.

And the white house in the background, that seems to be about 15m or so from the edge

Nice spacious apartment with decent out door space, well priced against an equivalent sized house in the area, would feel huge too being on one floor,

11k a year mgt fee is a stinger tho

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/penthouse-4-killiney-hill-park-killiney-hill-road-killiney-co-dublin/4935373

2 of them for the price of the one from Bray yesterday. I know where my money would be going, well my fantasy money 😀

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/cottage-refurbishment-opportunity-on-pucks-castle-lane-rathmichael-dublin-18/4668499

Very strange way of listing - describing it as a cottage refurbishment for €1.35m and not mentioning the 13.74 acres that is actually driving the price in the leading title. It's development land, why not call it what it is.

oh yes

Clearly re-using the AirBnB photos - Maradona died the best part of 5 years ago!

This house caught my eye because when it was on the market a decade ago we went to view it. It was never advertised as such but obvious on viewing in person that it was a repossession or a forced sale. It was selling for the knockdown price of about €360k and on the price register it's actually listed as sold for €320k in 2015. It was like a house that was never lived in, but the owners had got to the point of building and finishing 80% of it, the kitchen was in and most of the bathrooms but there was a few unfinished rooms and no landscaping.

The main thing we remember is that it had a really bad feel, a very bad aura. I'm really not that type of person, or my other half but we both felt it! We passed on it, even though it was a fantastic opportunity as there was lots of land and space and privacy, but only 5 mins to the town. The feeling was inescapable.

Fast forward 10 years and the current owners have gone to town on mismatched wallpaper/carpets/rugs combined with a mix of antique wooden occasional furniture paired with modern reclining sofas and modern coffee tables with throws on everything. Vertical office blinds on the windows and what looks like a bizarre fish wallpaper paired with a very dated bathroom tile and is it planets hanging from the ceiling in pic 24? There's that much going on I actually don't know if my eyes are working properly anymore.

Oh, and a slight price increase from 2015.

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/house-keeverstown-lodge-grangebellew-drogheda-co-louth/6149217

Every room is too 'busy', trying too hard.

I feel exhausted just looking at them.

Yeah, clearly that's meant to be €1750 a month, though that's still ridiculous for a tiny 1-bedroom "house" deep in the suburbs that clearly started out as some sort of wonky granny extension.

Everything is too much. But it's awful too.

Sometimes you can have maximalist decor but there's usually just one style period with an over abundance of colour and prints and it can be too much but on some level it can work.

This is just bad. Bad decoration, bad furniture, even the joinery looks wrong, a monkeys tail period style balustrade paired with modern doors in a dated light oak. But exterior windows and doors all in a dark oak/mahogany. All the woodwork painted or stripped and stained would make a world of difference.