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

Lockheed

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

750K spent on it on top of the 250K purchase price. He may as well have burned bundles of 50s.

I suppose the idea there was that he never could have bought a house for 1 million without raising a lot of eyebrows. With his connections in construction, and by keeping it off the books this would have been 'the next best thing'.

Still, it was 750k he could have spent on lawyers. It's a complete refurb job for anyone that buys it anyway, those crazy floors and walls on a redbrick semi detached house is just the poorest taste i've ever seen on this thread!

Gloomtastic!

Is that a dog bed under the castle at about 2:30?

HildaOgdenx

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

No way they will get 400K for that. The planning issues are bad enough but the only people who could realistically buy that are relatives or friends of the byrnes. Nobody else would have peace in that house.

Exactly.
You would need to be paid to live there, never mind paying that sort of money for it.

gary550

blackwhite wrote: »

Interesting to look at it on Google Maps and see the difference on streetview between 2009 and 2014. Hell of a lot of security equipment added after he bought it

Apparently the windows are bulletproof...

josip

Gerry Hutch might buy it for a laugh

patsypantaloni

Not sure if this has already been posted, Felix Dennis's house for sale for 4million - it's certainly unique!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/107618687?fbclid=IwAR16DLrtw7y7oijZMhx6RpEltRodN0W4WBmnJ2VlJUYoAF9PkEKbcOsvThk#/

Cheshire Cat

patsypantaloni wrote: »

Not sure if this has already been posted, Felix Dennis's house for sale for 4million - it's certainly unique!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/107618687?fbclid=IwAR16DLrtw7y7oijZMhx6RpEltRodN0W4WBmnJ2VlJUYoAF9PkEKbcOsvThk#/

The fake library (picture 11) wants to make me cry!

miamee

patsypantaloni wrote: »

Not sure if this has already been posted, Felix Dennis's house for sale for 4million - it's certainly unique!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/107618687?fbclid=IwAR16DLrtw7y7oijZMhx6RpEltRodN0W4WBmnJ2VlJUYoAF9PkEKbcOsvThk#/

I actually really like that aside from one or two features. Like the fake library with the bookshelf wallpaper At least it is unique anyway!

Gregor Samsa

Cheshire Cat wrote: »

The fake library wants to make me cry!

For a poet and publisher, that's a really odd thing to have. It's not like he was illiterate and just wanted to make it look like he was into books. Unless there's a specific meaning behind it - they're images of shelves from a particular library or collection or something.

looksee

I quite like it too, not 4M's worth (if I had 4M) but I like a lot of the features. All that timber in the pool area is a bit excessive and makes the pool look very small. The cottages are nice.

Truckermal

It's like something you see in a Theme Park plus the Pool is tiny given the size of the Room.

BattleCorp

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

For a poet and publisher, that's a really odd thing to have. It's not like he was illiterate and just wanted to make it look like he was into books. Unless there's a specific meaning behind it - they're images of shelves from a particular library or collection or something.

Poet, publisher, planter of trees and eater of magic mushrooms it appears.

Gregor Samsa

He also owned Mandalay Estate on the Caribbean island of Mustique, which was built and originally owned by David Bowie

it has a bigger pool.




https://www.mustique-island.com/villa/mandalay/

KevRossi

some random drunk wrote: »

Another CAB seized property has come to the market. It would be a very brave soul who bought this at any price, never mind the 400k asking.

2 Raleigh Square, Crumlin, Dublin 12

I love the quote on the wall in the gym.

"If you want to learn more, keep your eyes and ears open, and your mouth shut".

Gregor Samsa

KevRossi wrote: »

I love the quote on the wall in the gym.

"If you want to learn more, keep your eyes and ears open, and your mouth shut".

When frivolous inspirational quotes become deadly serious threats.

patsypantaloni

patsypantaloni wrote: »

Not sure if this has already been posted, Felix Dennis's house for sale for 4million - it's certainly unique!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/107618687?fbclid=IwAR16DLrtw7y7oijZMhx6RpEltRodN0W4WBmnJ2VlJUYoAF9PkEKbcOsvThk#/

I love it. Apart from a few strange superficial design choices, the underlying building is superb.

He's even written quite a sweet poem about it


I BUILT MYSELF A HOUSE OF WOOD…
I built myself a house of wood
Where once an apple orchard stood.
On stormy nights I lay in bed
While rafters moaned above my head.

They wept aloud for limbs long lost,
For buds pinched out by early frost,
For wicker baskets piled with fruit,
For phantom branch and withered root.

I caulked the roof and rafter beams,
But still they whispered in my dreams,
They spoke of rising sap and wood:
— And then, at last, I understood.

This spring I planted out a score
Of apple saplings by my door.
Now stormy nights my rafters chime
To cider choirs and nursery-rhyme.

looksee

Love the poem!

ohnonotgmail

patsypantaloni wrote: »

Not sure if this has already been posted, Felix Dennis's house for sale for 4million - it's certainly unique!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/107618687?fbclid=IwAR16DLrtw7y7oijZMhx6RpEltRodN0W4WBmnJ2VlJUYoAF9PkEKbcOsvThk#/

you would need shares in Ronseal

coffee_cake

patsypantaloni wrote: »

Not sure if this has already been posted, Felix Dennis's house for sale for 4million - it's certainly unique!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/107618687?fbclid=IwAR16DLrtw7y7oijZMhx6RpEltRodN0W4WBmnJ2VlJUYoAF9PkEKbcOsvThk#/

I've a headache looking at that. Jaysus.

PommieBast

patsypantaloni wrote: »

Not sure if this has already been posted, Felix Dennis's house for sale for 4million - it's certainly unique!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/107618687?fbclid=IwAR16DLrtw7y7oijZMhx6RpEltRodN0W4WBmnJ2VlJUYoAF9PkEKbcOsvThk#/

Pic 22 looks useful though

HeidiHeidi

coffee_cake wrote: »

I've a headache looking at that. Jaysus.

Me too!! :eek:

Not for me, thanks!

Neyite

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

When frivolous inspirational quotes become deadly serious threats.

I dunno, it's a refreshing change from the twee "Live, Laugh, Love" decals.

nibtrix

Interesting house in Cork posted on the Journal property magazine - https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-6-the-hermitage-sallybrook-glanmire-co-cork/3167693

Mostly looks very nice BUT... is that a frosted glass window between the home bar and the weirdly elongated shower enclosure? :eek:


Check out the wall on the left with all the bottles on shelves:


and then the wall at the end of the shower room:

ILikeBoats

Guessing it's the swimming pool shower? Still weird!

Do they have 4 ovens too?!

BattleCorp

nibtrix wrote: »

Mostly looks very nice BUT... is that a frosted glass window between the home bar and the weirdly elongated shower enclosure? :eek:

Nice enough furniture and then you have a home made bar made from a couple of pallets that looks like someone in Transition Year built it.

That pool shower room looks dirty, especially with the cleaning products up against the glass wall. I assume they did that to let in some light but it looks poxy and is a bad design.

What's the white thing in the right hand corner corner against the glass?

Cheshire Cat

ILikeBoats wrote: »

Guessing it's the swimming pool shower? Still weird!

Do they have 4 ovens too?!

Looks like 2 ovens, an in-built coffee maker and a warming drawer. I'm having kitchen envy!

Gregor Samsa

ILikeBoats wrote: »

Guessing it's the swimming pool shower? Still weird!

The shower room is nearly as big as the pool!

Cheshire Cat wrote: »

Looks like 2 ovens, an in-built coffee maker and a warming drawer. I'm having kitchen envy!

The kitchen is gorgeous (as in the units themselves). Not so gone on other bits in the house.

looksee

Look at the length of the wall in pic 15 (with the bookcases against it) compared with the same wall in pic 16. These deceptive estate agents pics will hopefully go out of fashion as people learn how to read them.

knucklehead6

patsypantaloni wrote: »

Not sure if this has already been posted, Felix Dennis's house for sale for 4million - it's certainly unique!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/107618687?fbclid=IwAR16DLrtw7y7oijZMhx6RpEltRodN0W4WBmnJ2VlJUYoAF9PkEKbcOsvThk#/

God... When looking through the first few pictures of that all I was thinking was the fake tan brigade would be all but invisible there, their tangerine tans would blend in perfectly with the lighting, especially the cinema and games rooms.

Leg End Reject

ILikeBoats wrote: »

Guessing it's the swimming pool shower? Still weird!

Do they have 4 ovens too?!

There's a glass door from the sitting room into the shower too for some reason.