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

James 007

Love the layout of the place, its compact, but it has everything I would need. The only thing that puts me off renting it is the requirement to put on a harness before you put meals into the microwave & take them out again. I know the landlord is looking out for your safety.:rolleyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aza-s-uuaY8

Wake_Up_Donnie

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-4-5-portland-drive-newcastle-west-co-limerick/3167904


I think the house is lovely - just needs some redecoration but this bathroom... I love the bathmat on top of the carpet - for extra moisture retention

HeidiHeidi

HildaOgdenx wrote: »

https://www.daft.ie/for-rent/flat-cabra-road-phibsborough-dublin-7/3193063

It's er, cosy? :rolleyes:
It looks like it's on a landing, with the 'kitchen' partly over the stairs.

1 double bedroom?


You'd really want to love each other......

Leg End Reject

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

1 double bedroom?


You'd really want to love each other......

And keep the heads down ... :cool:

HildaOgdenx

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

1 double bedroom?


You'd really want to love each other......

Only one crying chair though...

Leg End Reject

HildaOgdenx wrote: »

Only one crying chair though...

One of them could sit on the end of the bed and make the tea.

It's a very versatile space.

Duke of Schomberg

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

does it not go to the bathroom?

But the Yale lock is on the outside of the door - so you'd have to take a key in with you every time you entered, in case you shut the door after yourself and locked yourself in . . .

I see there's a clothes-horse on top of the "bathroom" (I use the term broadly because I can't see anything other than the heads in there) wardrobe - where the bloody hell is there space even to unfold it?

Hotblack Desiato

Leg End Reject wrote: »

You're right! You must have to go down stairs to the loo/walk in wardrobe and hope you don't impale yourself on the 2 feet of extra handrail sticking up in the air.

Look at the angle of that handrail. That's not a stairs, it's more like a permanent attic ladder!

Place is a death trap, probably no fire exit in the "en suite wardrobe" so only way in and out is the main door.

Gremlinertia

Is it BER exempt because it doesn't bloody exist?

Purple Mountain

HildaOgdenx wrote: »

https://www.daft.ie/for-rent/flat-cabra-road-phibsborough-dublin-7/3193063

It's er, cosy? :rolleyes:
It looks like it's on a landing, with the 'kitchen' partly over the stairs.

"Studio apartment" is code now for hell hole obviously.
But hey...they're obviously looking after your safety with the fire blanket!

Leg End Reject

Seriously though, imagine living there? No where to put your TV, no room to move around, not able to sit up in bed and look at the kitchen, dicing with death going to the loo/wardrobe and paying €850 a month.

HeidiHeidi

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Seriously though, imagine living there? No where to put your TV, no room to move around, not able to sit up in bed and look at the kitchen, dicing with death going to the loo/wardrobe and paying €850 a month.

Ah, now, in fairness - you could ask the pot plant (nicely) to shove over a bit and share the shelf....

The rest..... you may have a point.

Leg End Reject

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Ah, now, in fairness - you could ask the pot plant (nicely) to shove over a bit and share the shelf....

The rest..... you may have a point.

No, I'm afraid that shelf is where brain cells go to die when you absentmindedly stand up off the crying chair.

Username here

Purple Mountain wrote: »

"Studio apartment" is code now for hell hole obviously.
But hey...they're obviously looking after your safety with the fire blanket!

If you zoom right in, you can see the elbow of whoever took the photo!

Seriously though - I wouldn't live there for free. The STATE.

BattleCorp

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Look at the angle of that handrail. That's not a stairs, it's more like a permanent attic ladder!

Place is a death trap, probably no fire exit in the "en suite wardrobe" so only way in and out is the main door.

Yep, illegal stairs alright.

Does anybody go around inspecting these places? I mean there are people going around looking at conditions dogs are kept in, who does it for humans?

seamus

Yeah, no way that thing can be legal. That is definitely a stira, or at least some custom crap cobbled together for a stairs.

That cabinet over the bed...is that a gas boiler?

That's also not a double bed. It's a small single.

Trigger Happy

That microflat is a shocker. If ever there was a need for a magical Estate agent widening photo lens then this is it.

That cabinet over the bed...if you jolted in the middle of the night you would knock yourself unconscious on the bottom of thing.

Mollyb60

I can't believe they missed out on the opportunity to call it a duplex apartment. Very poor of the estate agent.

Wabbit Ears

thing is some agency will stick a migrant worker fella in that monstrosity and wash their hands with it. Lived in a houseshare years ago with a converted garage that served as a bedroom that was poxy freezing and the local nursing homes used to place staff there all the time, no questions asked.

duffman3833

HildaOgdenx wrote: »

https://www.daft.ie/for-rent/flat-cabra-road-phibsborough-dublin-7/3193063

It's er, cosy? :rolleyes:
It looks like it's on a landing, with the 'kitchen' partly over the stairs.

The advert is gone, i missed it. Was there other pictures or that just it

Kerry25x

Wow this place is one of the worst I've seen, I would really love it if the media picked it up and gave it more widespread redicule. How on earth they have that advertised as a double is beyond me, clearly a single bed. No place to eat your meals, you can either stand over the kitchen counter or sit in the chair and balance your plate on your knees. They also have a washing machine and dryer listed, no sign of either in the photos.

Anyway, I see the add has been taken down now. Probably got some poor desperate sap to take the place.

freshpopcorn

seamus wrote: »

That cabinet over the bed...is that a gas boiler?

That's also not a double bed. It's a small single.

I think it’s the gas boiler.

Maybe the apartment is so big the bed appears small.

chewed

It's nice that they've provided a seating area so you can wait and watch for the microwave to finish!



https://www.daft.ie/for-rent/flat-phibsborough-d7-phibsborough-dublin-7/3182161

mikhail

chewed wrote: »

It's nice that they've provided a seating area so you can wait and watch for the microwave to finish!

https://www.daft.ie/for-rent/flat-phibsborough-d7-phibsborough-dublin-7/3182161

I quite like how the single mattresses overhang the tiny bedframes.

Kerry25x

Maybe its because I'm still reeling from the last place but this one doesn't seem that bad.

seamus

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I think it’s the gas boiler.

I mean, it's legal to have a boiler in the bedroom, but I'm not sure what the regs say about it being 3 inches from your face while you're asleep.

Ubbquittious

This one is nice, apart from the price


https://www.jaap.nl/te-koop/zuid+holland/oost-zuid-holland/nieuwveen/2441ee/zouthuissluizermolenpad+1/15904541/overzicht?search=/te-koop/zuid+holland/oost-zuid-holland/nieuwveen/2441cw/oude+nieuwveenseweg+48+a/15765574/overzicht

seamus

Kerry25x wrote: »

Maybe its because I'm still reeling from the last place but this one doesn't seem that bad.

I would put good money that that was originally one smallish double bedroom carved into two tiny singles to make more money.

Like you say, it doesn't seem terrible except that it's in a shocking state of repair. The kitchen looks like it was reclaimed from a skip.

If you put the bedroom back the way it's supposed to be and renovated it, it would be a semi-decent little one bed worthy of €1k a month.

Ubbquittious

Ubbquittious wrote: »

This one is nice, apart from the price


https://www.jaap.nl/te-koop/zuid+holland/oost-zuid-holland/nieuwveen/2441ee/zouthuissluizermolenpad+1/15904541/overzicht?search=/te-koop/zuid+holland/oost-zuid-holland/nieuwveen/2441cw/oude+nieuwveenseweg+48+a/15765574/overzicht

You couldn't get more Dutch than living in a former windmill... okay, living in an active windmill might surpass it.

HildaOgdenx

duffman3833 wrote: »

The advert is gone, i missed it. Was there other pictures or that just it

There was a photo taken from the opposite angle, in the same part of the landing apartment. And a photo of a toilet in front of a wardrobe.