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

KevRossi · 12-04-2021 7:37pm

Lockheed wrote: »

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/semi-detached-house-17-maudlin-vale-trim-co-meath/3170410

What on earth happened in this house?

Some sort of eviction or repossession. Doesn't look too bad. Sand and paint the front door, new doors for kitchen and wardrobes from IKEA, new white goods, carpets, curtains, borrow a mower, rent a skip and a couple of days cleaning up would sort out most of that. Not sure if that white stuff on the tiles cleans off easily.

No idea what the area is like, but you could be saving a fair few grand for a few days graft.

flazio · 12-04-2021 7:40pm

Is it a trick of the camera or is the toilet really that shape?

12-04-2021 7:41pm

flazio wrote: »

Is it a trick of the camera or is the toilet really that shape?

It's the standard estate agent's lens, look at the other photos and most things are misshapen!

Lockheed · 12-04-2021 7:43pm

KevRossi wrote: »

Some sort of eviction or repossession. Doesn't look too bad. Sand and paint the front door, new doors for kitchen and wardrobes from IKEA, new white goods, carpets, curtains, borrow a mower, rent a skip and a couple of days cleaning up would sort out most of that. Not sure if that white stuff on the tiles cleans off easily.

No idea what the area is like, but you could be saving a fair few grand for a few days graft.

The estate is right behind a halting site, decent schools nearby though. Trim prices are crazy but its the one estate that's still reasonably priced

Gregor Samsa · 12-04-2021 7:52pm

Lockheed wrote: »

What on earth happened in this house?

Occupants burned the kitchen cabinet doors for firewood? Seems to be a load of sawdust around the twin crying chairs. All the stuff that's missing is wood (wardrobe doors, bed frames, dining room table as well as the kitchen stuff).

Although there's a lot of ceiling lights just ripped out too.

12-04-2021 8:16pm

tea and coffee wrote: »

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/ringcurran-cottage-ardbrack-kinsale-cork/4485016

How come so dear? The location?

Kinsale.

Rows Grower · 12-04-2021 8:28pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Kinsale.

The entrance pallet is such an unpretentious statement.

Shabby chic on mushrooms.

inforfun · 12-04-2021 8:57pm

0lddog wrote: »

Beats the socks off that house in Malahide

What do The Dutch do in the way of rates / property tax ?

Depends on where you live but to give an idea: 0,1280% on the value of the place. And it is the tax office that decides the value

13-04-2021 12:03am

tea and coffee wrote: »

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/ringcurran-cottage-ardbrack-kinsale-cork/4485016

How come so dear? The location?

But BER Rate G? I thought the BER only went as low as F. An estate agent quotes F as meaning "An older property, barely a shell with single glazed windows and no insulation."

What's G? A field with a strong gate?

Yes, the location is good. But you'd have to demolish the house, which at 72sq.m. is already so small it seems to almost occupy the whole site. And you can't build up, the neighbours (whose houses face the site) would naturally object against blocking their sea view/light.

Kinslae is nice, but not this nice.

SineadSpears · 13-04-2021 12:34am

Lockheed wrote: »

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/semi-detached-house-17-maudlin-vale-trim-co-meath/3170410

What on earth happened in this house?

I love the bedroom door in pic11 :pac:

My mam still wallpapers her house and there is lots of cool 'art' still on the walls from when we were kids.

plenty of those Super S's on her walls too

Mad_maxx · 13-04-2021 8:15am

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

But BER Rate G? I thought the BER only went as low as F. An estate agent quotes F as meaning "An older property, barely a shell with single glazed windows and no insulation."

What's G? A field with a strong gate?

Yes, the location is good. But you'd have to demolish the house, which at 72sq.m. is already so small it seems to almost occupy the whole site. And you can't build up, the neighbours (whose houses face the site) would naturally object against blocking their sea view/light.

Kinslae is nice, but not this nice.

a G house might mean two open fireplaces, single glazed windows, almost no insulation, house could be perfect otherwise and not that difficult to bring up to D which many perfectly good houses are

tara73 · 13-04-2021 8:19am

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

But BER Rate G? I thought the BER only went as low as F. An estate agent quotes F as meaning "An older property, barely a shell with single glazed windows and no insulation."

What's G? A field with a strong gate?

thanks for that, laughed a lot..:pac::P

Mollyb60 · 13-04-2021 8:43am

Lockheed wrote: »

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/semi-detached-house-17-maudlin-vale-trim-co-meath/3170410

What on earth happened in this house?

Poltergeist?

Mr. CooL ICE · 13-04-2021 10:50am

inforfun wrote: »

https://www.funda.nl/koop/beekbergen/huis-41521372-berg-en-dalweg-32/

These kind of places really don't help me trying to convince people we are not all on drugs in The Netherlands.
Expected it to be designed and built in the 70's but it is relatively new from 2007

From the outside, it looks like a cafe and gift shop building in the middle of a zoo

HildaOgdenx · 13-04-2021 10:56am

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Yes, the location is good. But you'd have to demolish the house, which at 72sq.m. is already so small it seems to almost occupy the whole site. And you can't build up, the neighbours (whose houses face the site) would naturally object against blocking their sea view/light.

Kinslae is nice, but not this nice.

Exactly. I wouldn't have a clue in relation to what it would cost to do something with that, but that's a heck of a lot of money, imo, just for the house / site, as it is.

cml387 · 13-04-2021 11:21am

On a point of order, a question was asked about the origin of the word McMansion

I put forward the theory that it's really derives from a Sunday Times (Ireland) article from about ten years ago about what they called a "Muck Mansion"

This is a farmer who with some land with road frontage during the Celtic Tiger would throw up a tatselessly non designed house with ofch and 8 bedrooms with the expectation of selling it for €€€'s

ohnonotgmail · 13-04-2021 11:25am

cml387 wrote: »

On a point of order, a question was asked about the origin of the word McMansion

I put forward the theory that it's really derives from a Sunday Times (Ireland) article from about ten years ago about what they called a "Muck Mansion"

This is a farmer who with some land with road frontage during the Celtic Tiger would throw up a tatselessly non designed house with ofch and 8 bedrooms with the expectation of selling it for €€€'s

the word has been around since the 1980s in the US.

Grayson · 13-04-2021 11:27am

cml387 wrote: »

On a point of order, a question was asked about the origin of the word McMansion

I put forward the theory that it's really derives from a Sunday Times (Ireland) article from about ten years ago about what they called a "Muck Mansion"

This is a farmer who with some land with road frontage during the Celtic Tiger would throw up a tatselessly non designed house with ofch and 8 bedrooms with the expectation of selling it for €€€'s

According to wikipedia it originated in 1980's LA.

Related terms include "Persian palace", "garage Mahal", "starter castle", and "Hummer house".

Although the houses you described are probably the first McMansions in Ireland.

KevRossi · 13-04-2021 12:39pm

cml387 wrote: »

On a point of order, a question was asked about the origin of the word McMansion

I put forward the theory that it's really derives from a Sunday Times (Ireland) article from about ten years ago about what they called a "Muck Mansion"

I first heard it abroad when an Austrian tourist used it in one of his holiday blogs after travelling around Ireland. That was around 1999/2000.

inforfun · 13-04-2021 2:52pm

"Garage Mahal"

I like it.

lintdrummer · 13-04-2021 3:22pm

inforfun wrote: »

"Garage Mahal"

I like it.

Must be pronounced in an American accent for full effect

PommieBast · 13-04-2021 4:07pm

Mad_maxx wrote: »

a G house might mean two open fireplaces, single glazed windows, almost no insulation, house could be perfect otherwise and not that difficult to bring up to D which many perfectly good houses are

Having seen someone come around to do a BER survey on my (then) apartment, I question the value of the whole system. Only actual measurements were room and window sizes. Seems like a lot of potential improvements are gaming the algorithm rather than anything that will actually save money.

inforfun · 13-04-2021 4:34pm

lintdrummer wrote: »

Must be pronounced in an American accent for full effect

Linguistic miracle as i am, i did give it a French flavour. Works well too.

Lockheed · 13-04-2021 5:42pm

PommieBast wrote: »

Having seen someone come around to do a BER survey on my (then) apartment, I question the value of the whole system. Only actual measurements were room and window sizes. Seems like a lot of potential improvements are gaming the algorithm rather than anything that will actually save money.

Our house was purchased under the idea that insulation and energy saving was decent enough, as it was energy rating C2, turns out there are massive voids in the walls of a splay which drain heat like crazy and there is seriously inadequate ventilation in other places, get damp at times etc, un lagged hot water cylinder - but all the windows are very big and are triple glazed, and the oil boiler is very new. Thats what gave it a c2 I suppose Whole system is very open to manipulation

What.Now · 13-04-2021 7:26pm

inforfun wrote: »

https://www.funda.nl/koop/beekbergen/huis-41521372-berg-en-dalweg-32/

These kind of places really don't help me trying to convince people we are not all on drugs in The Netherlands.
Expected it to be designed and built in the 70's but it is relatively new from 2007

Is it a house.jpg

Squint the eyes!!!

HeidiHeidi · 13-04-2021 7:37pm

Mr. CooL ICE wrote: »

From the outside, it looks like a cafe and gift shop building in the middle of a zoo

Is it half thatched??? :eek: I was NOT expecting that!

I sooo want that pink chair! And I soooo don't want that "matching" sofa in the same room.... my back is twanging just looking at the picture!

The bathrooms are a bit clinical looking, but other than that it's kinda funky - with some stuff around the place it'd be cool, I like it!

Mad_maxx · 13-04-2021 7:51pm

PommieBast wrote: »

Having seen someone come around to do a BER survey on my (then) apartment, I question the value of the whole system. Only actual measurements were room and window sizes. Seems like a lot of potential improvements are gaming the algorithm rather than anything that will actually save money.

Agreed

Navy blue · 13-04-2021 8:03pm

https://www.daft.ie/14398855

The upstairs bathroom!!! It would be like doing your business in a coffin!

colm_mcm · 13-04-2021 8:11pm

Did that used to be a pub or something?

HeidiHeidi · 13-04-2021 8:17pm

Navy blue wrote: »

https://www.daft.ie/14398855

The upstairs bathroom!!! It would be like doing your business in a coffin!

That is just the weirdest house!

I couldn't figure out if it must have been something else in a former life - half the ground floor is taken up with that huge hallway, with a serving hatch to nowhere, it seems to have 2 kitchens one of which isn't mentioned at all, one of the rooms doesn't seem to have any windows.....

and then there's the stairway to heaven in the back garden

The whole thing just gives me the shivers!

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

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