Room to Improve.

LirW

I love the main living area, I think it's beautiful.
I'm not too keen on the garden. I appreciate the idea with low maintenance pollinator friendly plants but this is quite literally the most awkward way to get from top to bottom.
At least you're getting your 10k steps per day in I guess.

lawred2

I like it..

ShamoBuc

290k is a tight budget.....ok

Atlantic Dawn

€25k +VAT for the garden, jaysus.

gmisk

The builders did a great job in fairness.

The garden would be great for a family with older kids..but a waste as it is those lads will be playing on a tiny concrete square constantly kicking the ball into Dermots big giant picture windows!

Franz Von Peppercorn II

harr wrote: »

Finished house is ok .. not his worst but I don’t like the different levels in kitchen.
That garden is shocking..meant to low maintenance the weeds will be a foot high in no time .. they will be weeding it forever and no room for the lads to play a bit of ball

No such things as weeds in that kind of garden.

Unless they actually got rid of the hill I couldn’t see the kids playing rugby there.

the_pen_turner

mugsymugsy wrote: »

100% agree. Obviously tough site to use with the garden but no way they could have made it practical for the kids.

very easy to put a retaining wall and make a much larger area at the bottom. the gardens either side look a lot lower from the drone shots

prunudo

Client, we want low maintenance and we're not really into the garden.
Designer, no problem, heres a tiered garden planted with herbaceous planting.

hurikane

€700,000 house. Hell of a lot of money. Before furnishing it.

mugsymugsy

Unless they inherited the site / house I just can't work out why you would choose that with the way the garden / set up is.

Again you have to think what could you have bought in the area for the total sum they spent for including purchase and for a lot less hassle.

Charlie19

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

€25k +VAT for the garden, jaysus.

I had to rewind it to hear it again, I now need to lie down.

youcancallmeal

Great job but doesn't seem particularly family friendly with all the different levels and zero grass. I think the concrete island would've been nice but they were right not to go with the pergola.

gmisk

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

€25k +VAT for the garden, jaysus.

And not a pergola in site!

Sarn

Charlie19 wrote: »

I had to rewind it to hear it again, I now need to lie down.

I wasn’t surprised. A bit of gardening is shockingly expensive.

the_pen_turner

i like the balistrade on the stairs. it blocks the view at an angle but then open up as you look through it.

i like the way the kitchen units transition into the tv stand

Hoboo

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

€25k +VAT for the garden, jaysus.

Big Dermot windows, saw them coming a mile off.

Charlie19

Sarn wrote: »

I wasn’t surprised. A bit of gardening is shockingly expensive.

I know its expensive but look what they got. Zig zag pathway and a few flowers.

gmisk

Sarn wrote: »

I wasn’t surprised. A bit of gardening is shockingly expensive.

It does tend to be and it is a huge space in fairness...but still seemed high to me...

gmisk

Charlie19 wrote: »

I know its expensive but look what they got. Zig zag pathway and a few flowers.

I'd say shocking amount of time and effort to move earth out of it.
I have a small garden they took 40 wheelbarrows out of it.

LizT

The gardens in the houses on either sides look way more low maintenance.

the_pen_turner

Charlie19 wrote: »

I know its expensive but look what they got. Zig zag pathway and a few flowers.

just over 30 k with 23% vat. for a garden that goes nowhere. the top bit is just left bare ground with a hole in it. that will be distroyed in weeds very fast.

FFVII

Missed it.... repeat anytime?

MisterAnarchy

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

€25k +VAT for the garden, jaysus.

Ah look thats nothing ,didnt yer man Gavin charge a fella 100k a few years back for a mound of earth in the shape of a woman covered in grass.

This crowd got value for money .

A low maintenance garden ,a tight budget ,all said with a straight face .
Its the emperors new clothes syndrome .

Gavlor

the_pen_turner wrote: »

just over 30 k with 23% vat. for a garden that goes nowhere. the top bit is just left bare ground with a hole in it. that will be distroyed in weeds very fast.

The entire garden will be destroyed by weeds very fast!

Bodhran

RTE Player

That gradient would be fun come a snowy winter I bet for for the kids...... oh wait all that glass for them to slide down into :pac:

Dcmb1984

They wanted a low maintenance garden. Should have grassed it and bought a robot the keep it cut. A high end robot is 3k.
The amount of weeding they have to do is huge

Franz Von Peppercorn II

Dcmb1984 wrote: »

They wanted a low maintenance garden. Should have grassed it and bought a robot the keep it cut. A high end robot is 3k.
The amount of weeding they have to do is huge

What exactly would a weed be in that kind of garden?

appledrop

I loved what he did with the house. I adored the dark kitchen, bedrooms everything really.

I think people are being a bit harsh about the garden. It was a massive hill. Never going to be a lovely level lawn. I'm baffled as to why anyone would buy a house with a garden like that but they did. I think they did a good job considering the site.

splinter65

Charlie19 wrote: »

I had to rewind it to hear it again, I now need to lie down.

Even that bit of landscaping, paving and the plants would be easily that. I would have expected it to be that.
The bloody plants cost a fortune and they needed a truck load of them.