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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,532 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    This isn't the right thread but I had a look at one of the Home of The Year judges house on Instagram. It's amazing and I'm filled with envy!

    I'm not on Instagram so put up a few screenshots.

    Don't worry, we'll come up with some comments ... :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭SineadSpears


    nibtrix wrote: »
    The weird columns, the carpeted steps leading to... what? Are crying cubbies the new crying chairs?

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    I think they were going for the minimal look.

    because why have a bed clutter your bedroom when instead you can have a set of awkward steps leading to your sleeping quarters in the wall


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,532 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    I think they were going for the minimal look.

    because why have a bed clutter your bedroom when instead you can have a set of awkward steps leading to your sleeping quarters in the wall

    Maybe Harry Potter visits?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I'm not on Instagram so put up a few screenshots.

    Don't worry, we'll come up with some comments ... :p

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,789 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    nibtrix wrote: »
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    All the white reminds me of Dennis Quaid's son's bedroom in the crap movie Horsemen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,532 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    :D

    I'm not a fan of the cooker or kitchen countertops. Overall it's too fussy for me but it works.

    I now want a piano room.
    *stamps feet*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭Cheshire Cat


    I'm not a fan of the cooker or kitchen countertops. Overall it's too fussy for me but it works.

    I now want a piano room.
    *stamps feet*

    Kitchen and Dining Room don't do it for me. Hall and piano room are lovely!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    .....
    I now want a piano room.
    *stamps feet*

    +1 to this

    With so many people living in apartments I wonder would it be an idea if some of the bigger libraries had 'music rooms' that could be booked

    Wonder what Catmanic's take on this would be...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,279 ✭✭✭ongarite


    :D

    Brass fittings back in fashion.
    Pain in the hole to keep pristine unless you lacquer them, especially in high moisture area.
    The door architrave made from brass is insane!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    Any number of halls looking like that in the country.
    Cold, draughty ol' places they are too.

    Brrrrr

    * Shivers *


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,532 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    0lddog wrote: »
    +1 to this

    With so many people living in apartments I wonder would it be an idea if some of the bigger libraries had 'music rooms' that could be booked

    Wonder what Catmanic's take on this would be...

    Oh, I can't play! :p I just like the look of it.

    I'm sure I'd master chopsticks quickly enough though and I could dress up in elegant evening gown and tinkle away.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    The photographer could have saved himself a few pennies by simply using monochrome film!
    No one would notice.


    When was the last time anyone used film for photographs ? :D


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,580 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    :D


    I really like the Art Nouveau wall lamps that are in the kitchen but they're using them to "frame" an extractor fan flume?

    The brass surround in the piano room door, the handles on kitchen cabinets and the oven colour all give it a dash of a 1990's Changing Rooms make-over vibe.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    Oh, I can't play! :p I just like the look of it.

    I'm sure I'd master chopsticks quickly enough though and I could dress up in elegant evening gown and tinkle away.


    Which comes first : The Piano or The Player ? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,939 ✭✭✭maxwell smart


    :D

    SuzieMcAdam?

    More like Tarmacadam


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    ongarite wrote: »
    Brass fittings back in fashion.....!

    Its very topical.

    Copper has antiviral properties and as there is copper in brass it too has antiviral properties.

    Thus front doors were fitted out with brass as a matter of hygiene !


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I'm not on Instagram so put up a few screenshots.

    Don't worry, we'll come up with some comments ... :p


    Challenge accepted :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Oh, I can't play! :p I just like the look of it.

    I'm sure I'd master chopsticks quickly enough though and I could dress up in elegant evening gown and tinkle away.

    actual picture of Leg End Reject

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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    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.

    Ard Mhor is not Jobstown. (Why do people insist on labelling everything within 30 minutes walk of Jobstown as Jobstown?)

    Ard Mhor sits between Brookview estate, which is Brookfield, and Citywest.

    IIRC Ard Mhor was originally built as either affordable housing or shared ownership. Some Respond housing association units in there too, have a friend (who ironically works for SDCC housing section) living in a Respond apartment there.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,532 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    actual picture of Leg End Reject

    liberace-compressed.jpg

    I'm a lady! A very refined, piano-playing-in-my-dreams lady. :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    I'm a lady! A very refined, piano-playing-in-my-dreams lady. :p

    wait, liberace wasn't a lady?


  • Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭Duke of Schomberg


    nibtrix wrote: »
    I can't get over this house...

    The weird columns . . .

    102662_WellLane1LowFellGateshead_IMG_44_0000.jpeg

    I think the columns are structural, and part of the original industrial building - the bottoms of them seem to be in the TV-room-cum-gymnasium (why are the supports for the weights positioned so that the bar will is directly in the way of anybody trying to get in/out of the sofa and directly in the line-of-sight to the TV - you're stuffed if there's a heavy set of weights attached and you can't lift the bar off the get to the seats.

    And how close is the top of those stairs to the ceiling? - all the ceilings look quite low actually. And there seems to be a distinct lack of electrical sockets around the place.

    The last time I saw something like this was in 2005 when the film Downfall was released - the one set largely in the Fuhrerbunker during the last days of the Third Reich (without all the shag-pile obviously).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,532 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    wait, liberace wasn't a lady?

    Well, i suppose he might as well have been ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,424 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    Ard Mhor is not Jobstown. (Why do people insist on labelling everything within 30 minutes walk of Jobstown as Jobstown?)

    Ard Mhor sits between Brookview estate, which is Brookfield, and Citywest.

    IIRC Ard Mhor was originally built as either affordable housing or shared ownership. Some Respond housing association units in there too, have a friend (who ironically works for SDCC housing section) living in a Respond apartment there.

    One does not simply walk into Ard Mhor.

    Glazers Out!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,089 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Ard Mhor is not Jobstown. (Why do people insist on labelling everything within 30 minutes walk of Jobstown as Jobstown?)

    Ard Mhor sits between Brookview estate, which is Brookfield, and Citywest.

    According to the Property Registration Authority's landdirect.ie, Ard Mor, and the house in question, is in Fortunestown:


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Fortunestown, which is not Jobstown.

    Barony: Newcastle.

    Jobstown ends at Jobstown Road and there are a couple of estates that divide Jobstown and Ard Mhor, Swiftbrook, Russell Court, Brookview and MacUilliam among them.

    @Nullzero, I haven't been up to visit my friend in Ard Mhor since Christmas 2019 (covid) so its been a while! I agree it has gone very downhill since it was built.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    humberklog wrote: »
    I really like the Art Nouveau wall lamps that are in the kitchen but they're using them to "frame" an extractor fan flume?

    The brass surround in the piano room door, the handles on kitchen cabinets and the oven colour all give it a dash of a 1990's Changing Rooms make-over vibe.

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    :p


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


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    It looks like a 1980's function room in a 30 bed hotel in Leitrim.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    Saw this on the 'ugly houses' instagram story...real or not?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,532 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Saw this on the 'ugly houses' instagram story...real or not?

    549543.png
    Be handy to be able to open the door to guests while in the bath.

    "Hi John, come in .... Jesus, don't fall in on top of me!"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 790 ✭✭✭LaChatteGitane


    Identity of 'LaChatteGitane' confirmed :p

    549423.jpeg

    :D:D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,814 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Saw this on the 'ugly houses' instagram story...real or not?

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    I sort of like it.
    If somebody comes to the door you can nearly open the door whilst in the bath and you can also keep an eye on your dinner cooking.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    The worst thing is, as soon as I saw it I didn't think 'jesus the bath and toilet are in the main area' Instead I thought 'the angle of that bath wastes space a bit'

    Well believable that this is real and I need to find out if it is or not :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 336 ✭✭What.Now


    Saw this on the 'ugly houses' instagram story...real or not?

    549543.png

    It's a movable bath. Once you've finished you can bring it over to the sink and wash your dishes in it and then back over to the toilet and dump the contents down the Jack's.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,154 ✭✭✭✭josip


    The worst thing is, as soon as I saw it I didn't think 'jesus the bath and toilet are in the main area' Instead I thought 'the angle of that bath wastes space a bit'

    Well believable that this is real and I need to find out if it is or not :pac:


    I'm not sure it's real.
    Wouldn't the wall mounted light switch in the wet zone be in breach of regs?
    Either the plumber or the sparks (cowboys or not) would be hung out to dry as well as the landlord if anyone got zapped from that set up.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    josip wrote: »
    I'm not sure it's real.
    Wouldn't the wall mounted light switch in the wet zone be in breach of regs?
    Either the plumber or the sparks (cowboys or not) would be hung out to dry as well as the landlord if anyone got zapped from that set up.

    I reckon (hope) it was an April fools joke or something and is still going round...but if it was just posted on some dodgy FB group, could very well be real. I mean, the rental market is so bad, that it is believable.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,364 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    '...with easy access to the front door' :D


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Oh my God look at this :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,532 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Oh my God look at this :D

    :D:D

    Excuse me, I need to artfully display my knickers along the wall.


  • Registered Users Posts: 336 ✭✭What.Now


    Oh my God look at this :D

    Fantastic Darling.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭rain on


    Oh my God look at this :D

    I think I've been in that house! Or there's more than one in Cork with that decor..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,532 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    rain on wrote: »
    I think I've been in that house! Or there's more than one in Cork with that decor..

    Did you hump the sink?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,789 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Aside from the dodgy sink and knickers on the wall, I can never understand having carpet in a bathroom. I can nearly smell the mould/p1ss etc. from here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,154 ✭✭✭✭josip


    :D:D

    Excuse me, I need to artfully display my knickers along the wall.


    Trophies/Mementos


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,532 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    josip wrote: »
    Trophies/Mementos

    That's surely a woman's bathroom? A fan of burlesque and Dita Von Teese I'd imagine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,089 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Not a good sign when you throw your underwear at the wall, and they stick.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,154 ✭✭✭✭josip


    That's surely a woman's bathroom? A fan of burlesque and Dita Von Teese I'd imagine.


    And couldn't they still be trophies/mementos ? :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,532 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    josip wrote: »
    And couldn't they still be trophies/mementos ? :)

    Do you know many men or women who do that?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,154 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Do you know many men or women who do that?

    I've heard a few (male) claim to do it, but only one I can be sure about who I used to share a house with.
    Although he never did wall mount them.
    Most of his victims either didn't realise/mind, but there was one who suspected what he was at and kicked up an awful fuss about having to go home commando.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,532 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    josip wrote: »
    I've heard a few (male) claim to do it, but only one I can be sure about who I used to share a house with.
    Although he never did wall mount them.
    Most of his victims either didn't realise/mind, but there was one who suspected what he was at and kicked up an awful fuss about having to go home commando.

    I don’t think I'd like a collection of worn underwear lying about! :D


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