80 thoughts on “‘In Need Of Some Modernisation’”

    1. Paolo

      Looks like some really high quality finishes in there. The OP clearly knows nothing about building or DIY.

        1. LiamZero

          The bedrooms are very disappointing too. I would expect cushioned walls and mirrored ceilings at the very least.

  3. JimmytheHead

    screw you guys, i would live the crap out of this place. that coke-dust stained bar… the C shaped couch that could never fit in any room ever made… plastic hall furniture…. <3

      1. Drogg

        I am not being sarcastic i really like it and i actually like the jarring colours. Only thing i dislike is the electric fire on the wall, i am more of a real fire man.

  4. elsie

    I love this, looks like something from a Clockwork Orange,
    almost a pity to redecorate it, should be transferred to a museum of 20th century!
    most people are so unimaginative with their beige and magnolia blah….

  10. italia'90

    Oh dear!
    Was there an Italian-American from New Jersey or Long Island involved in this crime scene?

    1. missred

      It does look a little bit Jersey Shore. Good for a holiday stay, think you’d get sick of it after a while

  13. bertie blenkinsop

    Unusual to see decor like that without the accompanying “Peter Osgood shows us around his new home” headline.

    1. scottser

      shame you can’t get the smell of hai karate round the place, or see the moustache clippings in the bathroom sink. hopefully there’s still a pair of ball-hugging sta-prest slacks still hanging up in the wardrobe..

  14. JunkFace

    Great Gaff! I agree with the Clockwork Orange comparisons.

    Someone needs to make a short film there, it would look great

  15. case

    Looks like a magical house mind you! The front door is 2 panels wide on the outside but 3 panels wide on the inside? Damn Estate agents at their trickery again…

      1. case

        fair enough, but clearly the photos have been stretched to make the place appear bigger than it is, Estate agents do it all the time. the door from the outside just doesn’t match the door on the inside:)

        1. neil

          The photos aren’t stretched, the home is photographed with a wide-angle lens. Otherwise all you’d see in each photo is one wall of a room, and have absolutely no concept of how the house is laid out etc.

  16. missred

    Aside from a smidge too much green which can be removed/painted over, and the patterned tiles in the kitchen which hurt your eyes, it’s a pretty decent spot. Well, for holding enormous three-day shindigs. Don’t fancy cleaning up after

  24. dubhman

    Dont act like you’re not impressed……cos it makes me feel like i’m in a glass case of emotion.

    1. Spaghetti Hoop

      Plenty of mansions up there in the border areas. At least this one doesn’t resemble Southfork.

    2. missred

      Kitchen is nice, hall is a bit tacky. The first double bed is weirdly placed though, why in full view of a couch area and a huge window? It looks like an open-plan honeymoon suite minus the mirror above the bed. Overall ok, but it is like something bought by John Gilligan then bought over by Charlie Haughey for one of his offspring

  31. ex pat

    Seems priced right at €350 a square foot, €150 a square foot would get all that crap out of it and see new services into it; €500 a sq ft all in is not a stretched valuation, unless oil and copper at Fupp Russia levels take the global economy off a cliff or a lunatic government takes office..

  32. Always Wright

    The room with the pool table has a mirror on the far wall. Where is the photographer’s reflection?
    That’s not even the weirdest thing going on in those pictures.

  33. Je Suis Frilly Keane

    That’s a savage gaff
    Love it

    Although I couldn’t live with all that green

    And its a bit too Suth C***y Dublin for me

    But good luck to the vendors
    I hope it does well for them

  34. Kieran NYC

    As far as leftover 70s decoration still plaguing Irish households go… This is not at fault.

    It’s the burnt orange curtain/brown carpet/brown everything else/’three flying ducks on the wall’ combo that you can cry over.

  40. Formerly known as @ireland.com

    I can see a market for this type of place. Someone should sell replicas of each room. It seems people might be keen on having a bit of the 1970’s in their own home.

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