Location Mayangone township Price K130 million, sale Contact (Mya) Panthakin Real Estate Agency Phone : 01-225 395, 099 923 774

FOR K130 million you can buy this austere three-year-old, two-storey house in Mayangone township.

While the layout and features of this house are quite simple, there’s a splash of exuberance – perhaps too much – to be seen in the pink paint job. It’s akin to a plain looking secretary who one day dyes her hair vivid red – some people will love it, while others will recoil.

But the location, close to Pyay Road, is sure to please because it’s close to downtown and a swag of shopping, eating and schooling options.

Sadly too, the painters did not continue their pink blitz onto the external concrete wall, which was once white but is now mouldy and mostly black. Look past the wall and its accompanying black iron gates and there is an uninspiring 3000-square-foot concreted compound, with barely a hint of greenery. But there is a dog kennel in the front corner. Under the house there is a garage of sorts with a sliding metal grill for security.

An open and spacious living room, which is sullied by dirty walls and a linoleum floor, greets guests. Beyond this room is the dining room and kitchen, while there’s a single bedroom close by.

The kitchen is really made for working: It has a steel basin, plenty of wall cupboards and a red-tiled bench that even Jamie Oliver would approve of.

A bathroom and a toilet, which is decorated with green tiles, sit side-by-side next to the kitchen. A kitchen doorway leads into the yard where there is a two-storey granny flat or maids’ quarters.

Upstairs there is another touch of exuberance in the form of deliciously dark pyin-ka-doe flooring.

There are a shrine room, two single bedrooms and a master bedroom on one side of the upstairs level, while the rest is a landing. There is also a bathroom and toilet.

At the end of the land there’s also a small balcony that looks onto Kyaik Wine Pagoda Road.

All four bedrooms have air-conditioners and the house comes with a telephone line, mains water and an electricity meter. The house offers good value and could easily be transformed.