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

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  • #3122
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,046 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Cilldara_2000 wrote: »
    This. These architects always go for form over function. The only thing from the ****e modern architect that never works in practice checklist they didn't go for was open plan kitchen/dining/sitting room.

    And it's a bad layout too as well as the space wasted between the hall and the landing. Who wants the utility room right beside the sitting room? It would be great fun listening to the washing machine spinning when you're watching TV of an evening.

    Modern washing machines can be pretty quiet. With a decent bit of sound proofing you probably wouldn't notice it but even still why do it. Also, cloakroom is nowhere near the front or back doors. Maybe it is just for general storage but if it is for storing jackets it should be near the front or back door.


  • #3123
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,401 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    The architect* in Clonakilty got so excited at putting in 5 different roof elevations that he forgot to leave proper head space on the landing. He then lost interest in the project, stuck up some swingy lights in the ceiling and walked away.


    *I doubt it was an architect.


  • #3124
    miamee
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 11,989 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    The walls in this house are paining my eyes https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/end-of-terrace-house-9-ard-mor-avenue-tallaght-dublin-24/3162601


  • #3125
    hots
    Registered Users Posts: 5,200 ✭✭✭hots


    miamee wrote: »
    The walls in this house are paining my eyes https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/end-of-terrace-house-9-ard-mor-avenue-tallaght-dublin-24/3162601

    it's like they left the paint with the kids for the weekend and let them at it! At least the EA acknowledges it.


  • #3126
    Ronaldinho
    Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭Ronaldinho


    hots wrote: »
    it's like they left the paint with the kids for the weekend and let them at it! At least the EA acknowledges it.

    Love the description. None of the pretentious shyte they normally run with.


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  • #3127
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭cml387


    In a seller's market they can afford to be realistic:
    "Commands outstanding views of a halting site and waste dump"
    "Requires extensive renovation of a sort only a fool would undertake"
    "Massively overpriced for what is a typical Celtic tiger thrown-together shack"


  • #3128
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,905 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Ronaldinho wrote: »
    Love the description. None of the pretentious shyte they normally run with.

    Pfff! Any real estate agent worth their salt would have made a feature of the "roof garden".

    548905.png


  • #3129
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users Posts: 11,469 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Ronaldinho wrote: »
    Love the description. None of the pretentious shyte they normally run with.

    Apart from calling it CityWest.

    It's Fortunestown/Jobstown, the Lidl at the end of the road is the one that got looted and demolished in the snow a few years back.


  • #3130
    blackwhite
    Registered Users Posts: 8,460 ✭✭✭blackwhite


    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    Apart from calling it CityWest.

    It's Fortunestown/Jobstown, the Lidl at the end of the road is the one that got looted and demolished in the snow a few years back.


    Clicking the google street view link in the ad brings up a gable wall, and the remains of a burnt-out wheelie bin lying in the road


    https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2875731,-6.4174639,3a,89.9y,0.45h,89.84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1si_qGu0Qb7nvI3coKp3ZjPw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656


  • #3131
    Greentree_uk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭Greentree_uk


    love the painted sockets lol


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  • #3132
    AlejGuzman68
    Closed Accounts Posts: 125 ✭✭AlejGuzman68


    I always wonder from looking at different houses, why there is sofas in the kitchen area. I know the kitchen is the heart of a home but a sofa is a bit extreme imo.


  • #3133
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,905 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    AlejGuzman68 wrote: »
    I always wonder from looking at different houses, why there is sofas in the kitchen area. I know the kitchen is the heart of a home but a sofa is a bit extreme imo.

    My wife moved a sofa into our kitchen at one point. It ended up being a shelf for coats and bags. Moved it back out pretty quickly.


  • #3134
    gary550
    Registered Users Posts: 638 ✭✭✭gary550


    miamee wrote: »
    The walls in this house are paining my eyes https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/end-of-terrace-house-9-ard-mor-avenue-tallaght-dublin-24/3162601

    I love the OSB board side gate, really gives the place that rustic feel


  • #3135
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,905 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    This bit of grass outside would annoy me. It's not a front garden. It continues on along the side outside the wall of the property. The listing doesn't mention a front garden or driveway - just a "parking space" outside. And according to the land folio (below), it's not part of the property.

    Yet it's in the exact place a front garden should be.

    548926.jpg

    548927.png


  • #3136
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,178 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    AlejGuzman68 wrote: »
    I always wonder from looking at different houses, why there is sofas in the kitchen area. I know the kitchen is the heart of a home but a sofa is a bit extreme imo.

    Any house I've been in that has a sofa in the kitchen they generally spend there day and evening in the kitchen and would rarely venture into the living room.


  • #3137
    josip
    Registered Users Posts: 13,631 ✭✭✭✭josip


    I hope that they at least used marine ply in the side door.


  • #3138
    gary550
    Registered Users Posts: 638 ✭✭✭gary550


    josip wrote: »
    I hope that they at least used marine ply in the side door.

    That's OSB, if you look at the listing its held up about as well as you'd expect raw OSB to hold up in the outdoors, I.E its a gust of wind away from being open planned.


  • #3139
    Mollyb60
    Registered Users Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    AlejGuzman68 wrote: »
    I always wonder from looking at different houses, why there is sofas in the kitchen area. I know the kitchen is the heart of a home but a sofa is a bit extreme imo.

    A huge bugbear of mine is sofas in the kitchen. It's in nearly every new development brochure I see these days and it just boggles my mind. There's never enough room in the kitchen for a sofa plus a dining table. If I'm in there I'm either cooking or eating, neither of which takes place on a sofa.


  • #3140
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Mollyb60 wrote: »
    A huge bugbear of mine is sofas in the kitchen. It's in nearly every new development brochure I see these days and it just boggles my mind. There's never enough room in the kitchen for a sofa plus a dining table. If I'm in there I'm either cooking or eating, neither of which takes place on a sofa.

    definately a generational thing , we dont have one in our kitchen , my mother has one in her house and sits on it a lot more than the one in the living room


  • #3141
    flazio
    Registered Users Posts: 12,799 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Loving the carpet in the sitting room.

    https://www.daft.ie/share/dun-na-coiribe-headford-road-headford-road-co-galway/3165908

    And this is a room share rent, not a buy so that carpet ain't going nowhere.


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  • #3142
    AlejGuzman68
    Closed Accounts Posts: 125 ✭✭AlejGuzman68


    flazio wrote: »
    Loving the carpet in the sitting room.

    https://www.daft.ie/share/dun-na-coiribe-headford-road-headford-road-co-galway/3165908

    And this is a room share rent, not a buy so that carpet ain't going nowhere.

    Carpet and curtains are lovely. The rest of the house is meh.


  • #3143
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    calfmuscle wrote: »
    https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/semi-detached-house-ojai-cottage-kilpedder-co-wicklow/3150888

    Damp, needs gutting, no parking, no garden, really a 1 bed as the 2nd bedroom is a wardrobe with a water tank in it. The extension is self build, unfinished and needs pulling down. 230,000 euro.
    That's lovely. A short drive to the Dart station, for easy access to Dublin. I'm not seeing the issue.

    Maybe I lived in Dublin for too long.


  • #3144
    calfmuscle
    Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭calfmuscle


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    That's lovely. A short drive to the Dart station, for easy access to Dublin. I'm not seeing the issue.

    Maybe I lived in Dublin for too long.

    To sort the damp and the extension and modernise is going to cost 80 to 100k approx. Then you're left with a property that has cost you 300k to 330k that has 1 bedroom, no parking and no garden.
    Access to Dublin is 90 minutes each way door to door. 15min drive to the park and ride, 10 min from car to dart, 55 min on dart then walk to office.

    300 to 330 you could get a bungalow in the same area that is modern and has garden front and back.


  • #3145
    Yellow_Fern
    Registered Users Posts: 2,570 ✭✭✭Yellow_Fern


    calfmuscle wrote: »
    https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/semi-detached-house-ojai-cottage-kilpedder-co-wicklow/3150888

    Damp, needs gutting, no parking, no garden, really a 1 bed as the 2nd bedroom is a wardrobe with a water tank in it. The extension is self build, unfinished and needs pulling down. 230,000 euro.

    Don't seem damp. A lot of damp can be solved by digging a trench around the perimeter and filling with gravel which can be done for free. I don't see why it needs gutting, aside from that extension which might be very fragile.


  • #3146
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    calfmuscle wrote: »
    To sort the damp and the extension and modernise is going to cost 80 to 100k approx.
    Ah I dunno. When I moved into my first house I discovered there was damp, and most of the back had no foundations. It didnt cost anywhere near 100k to fix, it was a small fraction of that.

    I wouldn't mind, but it was an an aunt who sold it to me. Just goes to show, always get a surveyor in!


  • #3147
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Any house I've been in that has a sofa in the kitchen they generally spend there day and evening in the kitchen and would rarely venture into the living room.

    Of course not, that’s where they cook. :-p


  • #3148
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,178 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    The fussy fascia on the outside is normally a good tell!

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    MDcyOGNhMTdmZTkxYTliMzY1NzNiYTNhOTk5ODFlODZsozHXxVk5b_kOavy-MD--aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1ldS13ZXN0LTEuYW1hem9uYXdzLmNvbS9tZWRpYW1hc3Rlci1zM2V1LzYvYi82YmY0ZTQzNTI4NWY3Y2JlNTRkNDE5Njc1MDFhZTAyZS5qcGd8fHwxMjAwfHx8fHx8fA==.webp


    https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/terraced-house-587-carnlough-road-cabra-west-cabra-dublin-7/3165525


  • #3149
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,758 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    The fussy fascia on the outside is normally a good tell!

    YzU1ODg2NmJjMjAxOGRhYmRkN2VjODZiMDQzZmM0MjLaByrdSTk3utALwrxAzke1aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1ldS13ZXN0LTEuYW1hem9uYXdzLmNvbS9tZWRpYW1hc3Rlci1zM2V1L2MvOS9jOWUwN2FkODk1MzNjMTI4YzczYjNkMzk4OTdmOTc0NS5qcGd8fHwxMjAwfHx8fHx8fA==.webp
    MDcyOGNhMTdmZTkxYTliMzY1NzNiYTNhOTk5ODFlODZsozHXxVk5b_kOavy-MD--aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1ldS13ZXN0LTEuYW1hem9uYXdzLmNvbS9tZWRpYW1hc3Rlci1zM2V1LzYvYi82YmY0ZTQzNTI4NWY3Y2JlNTRkNDE5Njc1MDFhZTAyZS5qcGd8fHwxMjAwfHx8fHx8fA==.webp


    https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/terraced-house-587-carnlough-road-cabra-west-cabra-dublin-7/3165525

    Where do you park the caravan trailer or keep the piebald? :D


  • #3150
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,791 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    I can't figure that house out at all.

    Did they split the living room in two, creating what looks like an altar or something in one bit, and a telly room barely wider than the couch in the other?

    No wonder they haven't provided a floor plan!


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  • #3151
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,178 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    I can't figure that house out at all.

    Did they split the living room in two, creating what looks like an altar or something in one bit, and a telly room barely wider than the couch in the other?

    No wonder they haven't provided a floor plan!

    One of the things does look like a strange baptism font.


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