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

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Sure you'd spend your whole life hoovering :pac:

And just the curtains at that, you'd never get to the floors.

Jake1 wrote: »

Apologies, if this has already been posted.

But I'm trying to figure out, how they get 'in' to cook. Do they hop over the counter or come through the front window??

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-mullins-ballyshannon-co-donegal/3235855

It's a pen for the wife, just throw her. in Sure why would she want to leave the kitchen!

Think there's a hatch on the right that the counter lifts like a bar hatch. Bizzare in a house.

Could they not have given the toilet a bit of an ol' scrub before taking the photos?:o

Jake1 wrote: »

that would be too much of a hindrance for me. Lifting a hatch and moving the press underneath away, with your dinner plates in hand

Yea it's ridiculous. You'd just end up leaving it up all the time. I used to just swing under it most of the time in the bar!

The falling through the bar in Only Fools and Horses springs to mind.....

flazio wrote: »

I'll tell you something though. €355k is an absolute steal for a lakeside property like that. You'd be looking at near 2 mill anywhere within an hour of Dublin. Kitchen can be refitted, even the toilet can be replaced. As long as the broadband infrastructure is there it looks like the perfect permanent Work from home set up.

It’s not really lakeside though is it? Looks like there is a road and then another house directly between this one and the lake. It does mention a 15m strip of private access to the lake, but there’s no pictures of it and no indication on the map of where it is. You’d think it would be something they would make a big deal of if it was a major selling point, but it’s definitely not like the gardens flow down to the lake edge or anything like that.

Fine "Lake adjacent" so
I still maintain that a 4 bed with a separate office building for well under half a mill isn't exactly rip-off Republic. It'd just depend on the facilities surrounding Ballyshannon. Schools, shops, roads etc.

Google maps says that the current owners run a business called October House Designs so who knows, maybe there's other properties with that penned off kitchen design.

HildaOgdenx wrote: »

This house belonged to Daniel O'Donnell at one time.
He sold it in 2007.

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-donegal-shore-house-cruit-lower-kincasslagh-co-donegal/3245303

Sold to who, the King of the Travellers? :D:D

Jake1 wrote: »

Apologies, if this has already been posted.

But I'm trying to figure out, how they get 'in' to cook. Do they hop over the counter or come through the front window??

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-mullins-ballyshannon-co-donegal/3235855

Southern style!

HildaOgdenx wrote: »

A bit more about it in the attached. Sold for almost 3m at the time, and apparently Daniel designed the house...

https://extra.ie/2021/05/27/property/daniel-odonnell-mansion

really obvious why he is the former boss.

The Donegal property was sold during the height of the boom in 2007 for almost €3 million.

The eight bedroom and eight bedroom house is on the market now for less than €1 million.

Former Irish Psychics Live Boss Tom Higgins bought Donegal Shore House, at Cruit Lower of Kincasslagh on the coast of Donegal

Jake1 wrote: »

Apologies, if this has already been posted.

But I'm trying to figure out, how they get 'in' to cook. Do they hop over the counter or come through the front window??

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-mullins-ballyshannon-co-donegal/3235855

"I aim to keep the bathroom clean... your aim will help"

So original :rolleyes: I just regard that sort of stuff as penis envy :pac:

and that barcode carpet is fecking horrible

KevRossi wrote: »

We fitted a kitchen with a hatch like that before. It was to keep the dogs out of the kitchen. A huge lummox of a Labrador and a Jack Russell. The Labrador stole the pizza that we ordered one evening when working late trying to get the job done, so I got what they were doing.

:D

That house wee Daniel used to own is colossal in size, 900sqm so its about the same floor size as owning 8 three bed semis. iirc the house he is in now that he renovated on Room to Improve was about 350sqm so I guess he was 'downsizing'

The Irish Psychics Live fella Tom Higgins made an absolute mint n the 90s and early 2000s from his phone lines. I think it was something like £4 a minute and people were spending small fortunes ringing up these psychics. Higgins himself was once trying to be Irelands first man in space, he paid Richard Branson a deposit for a seat on Virgin Galactic but not sure what happened, he might have gotten caught up in the crash. Bill Cullen was also hoping to go to space but he definitely got wiped out by the crash.

KevRossi wrote: »

We fitted a kitchen with a hatch like that before. It was to keep the dogs out of the kitchen. A huge lummox of a Labrador and a Jack Russell. The Labrador stole the pizza that we ordered one evening when working late trying to get the job done, so I got what they were doing.

Likewise, we resisted all suggestions that we should open up the kitchen into the adjacent living/dining room, and we have a kitchen with a door. We also have cats.

No, wouldn't have the least urge to want to live there, even redecorated.

KevRossi wrote: »

It was for sale 2 years ago for €2.5m. Owned and designed by a developer, surprise, surprise. https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/new-to-market/noughties-pleasure-dome-in-a-sandymount-castle-for-2-5m-1.3973243

Article on it in today's Indo. https://www.independent.ie/life/home-garden/homes/golden-penthouse-tops-glitzy-tower-with-3m-price-tag-in-dublin-4-40477543.html

It would make for a very upmarket knocking shop.

Muahahaha wrote: »

Looks like they weren't 'All in this together' during the 1870 smallpox pandemic. Out to sea you sickos!

In fairness, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near smallpox!

colm_mcm wrote: »

I think I had similar ones for my patio a few years ago.

They're very like plastic patio furniture, I'd hate to hear what they cost!

That is one outstandingly ugly dining table and chairs set!

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

That is one outstandingly ugly dining table and chairs set!

TBH, it was more the dining room I was posting about. Who lives in a house like this in Dublin? One that can not only accommodate an 18 seat table in their dining room, but could probably comfortably fit another. What must the rest of the house be like, and how big is it?