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FINDING THE RIGHT home can be a daunting task, so each Friday we handpick a collection of houses for sale at a particular price, to give you an idea of what your hard-earned savings can buy you.
Today, we’re considering the more luxurious properties around the €500,000 mark. Here’s a peek at what you could get your hands on for that amount.
These brand new detached four-bedroom houses in Douglas, Co Cork have high ceilings, oak internal doors, stainless steel ironmongery, contemporary grooved painted architrave and skirting and a oak handrail on the stairs.
The houses are A3 rated for energy efficiency. They have air-to-water electricity heat pumps and a central hub wired for phone and satellite TV to the main living areas and the master bedroom. They’re on view this Saturday from 12pm to 2pm.
This two-storey detached four-bedroom family home on the outskirts of Termonfeckin village extends over 251 square metres (2,700 square feet) and was constructed by its current owners in 2008.
The light-filled house has several open-plan living areas, four reception rooms and four spacious double bedrooms, all of which are en-suite. Outside, the large gardens extend to over 0.75 acres, entered by wrought iron gates and approached via a tarmac driveway.
Located in an exclusive development in Wicklow town, these three-bedroom semi-detached and four-bedroom detached A-rated family homes and include a modern, fully-fitted kitchen, tiled bathrooms and built-in wardrobes.
Situated on an elevated site, the houses have panoramic sea views of the Wicklow coastline, with easy access to Dublin city just 32 miles away, close to the M11, Wicklow train station and the 133 Bus Eireann route through Rathnew.
These detached five-bedroom homes contain large, contemporary kitchens with high quality gloss doors and island units, bright generously-sized bathrooms, nine-foot ceilings on the ground floor and large fully-fitted premium quality wardrobes.
Energy-efficient features include photovoltaic solar panels, Demand Control Ventilation (ensuring fresh air in your home without heat escaping) and high performance windows, designed to maximise light in the house.
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Mattress amnesty- they’re taking the Mick.
@John Jones:
He’ll be OK. His compadres will spring him.
Would make more sense if it was a collection service for those who have no way of transporting bulky items like mattresses .
only clean mattresses. ..the problem is it’s old &dirty mattresses people want to get rid of
This kind of innovative thinking makes me proud to be Irish. I couldn’t even imagine a better way to blow €200,000. Unless of course we spent it providing everyone with a little of the same drugs Naughton is taking. The whole thing might make a bit more sense then to everyone else who might have thought it was a brain fart of an idea that should never have made it past the underpants naughton should be wearing on his head.
Mattress amnesty I’m really confused.
Mick is turning himself in – for crimes against advertising.
Any locations in Cork?
I forked out €90 for 3 single mattresses at my local amenity centre, no wonder there being illegally dumped on a regular basis
@Noel Martin: you think they’re cheap for the council to get rid of? They’d half fill a skip. Not an excuse to illegally dump.
@Noel Martin: the more people are charged the more they will dump, when will this get through to the thick FG mind?
@Noel Martin: I can see a mattress levy been introduced on all new mattresses, there putting it on everything else.
Oh give it a rest and put this issue to bed
@Shoot Thepiano: very true. Important to sleep on it when making decisions like this
I’m sure the people who manage to find a way to transport mattresses to dump them in remote rural locations can find a way to transport them to an amenity centre.
In Australia they have a kerb collection once a year where you can put out what you normally can’t get rid off and the council picks it up works quiet well
Mattresses being dumped illegally are done so for a reason. Accepting only clean dry mattresses won’t solve dumping. All mattresses no matter what condition should be accepted.
Reactionary decision, should’ve slept on it.
They are probably collecting the mattress for their homeless hubs!
I don’t get it. One can break down a mattress in about 15 minutes with a stanley blade and cutters. Once the springs are cut apart, the mattress doesn’t take up much space.
Standard mattress of course, one of those memory foam ones would be a very different story.
Where, apart from Tuam, are the Galway collections? I could do N.Tipp too…
@Jane Alford: bummer. It was on Saturday. Journal on the spot as usual…
Why do it during the Summer? They should wait until Spring comes.
What sort of people dump mattresses? A joke. What about a dog crap amnesty while they are at it.
the going rate is 50 euro to remove a mattress , this is the reason they are dumped and cause litter problems across the country they should have a markup to recycle , http://www.mattressmonkey.ie
I hear they would make good flower beds lol
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