Belmont Avenue/€2.35m:A mid-terrace redbrick at 47 Belmont Avenue in turnkey condition has an AMV of €2.35 through Sherry Fitzgerald prior to auction on May 2nd.
The five-bedroom property is in impeccable condition, having been remodelled by Mark O'Donoghue Architects. At 209sq m (2,250 sq ft) it feels roomy and spacious, thanks in part to the layout.
A sizeable hall opens into a formal sittingroom with original features and bottom-up blinds that help maximise light as well as privacy. A second room, designed as a much more relaxed family room, is down a flight of stairs. This has French doors that lead out to an external courtyard that connects to the expansive kitchen extension. This room could also be used as a formal dining room.
The courtyard is landscaped with planters of butterfly lavender. Behind them is a row of bamboo that can be backlit to create a whole different after-dark mood in this part of the house.
A limestone walkway leads you into the new part of the property. Utility room storage and a guest toilet line one side of this passage. Opposite them is a large window with a built-in window seat that runs the length of the corridor and is designed to ensure the bright location becomes more than a corridor. The seat is also a large storage space.
The extended kitchen has gloss units with granite worktops, a sizeable island and masses of space for a large dining table and sideboard.
Siemens appliances feature throughout and underfloor heating has been added to this part of the house. The use of sage green on the walls and grey-stained oak furnishings make for a very confident, contemporary looking room. Originally designed to house a living area, as well as cooking and dining facilities, the decision to keep the kitchen couch-free helps make the room feel extremely spacious.
The kitchen's back doors slide open to help bring the 42ft garden indoors. This north-west facing exterior has a limestone patio and is surrounded by deciduous trees that add additional privacy. Heather, rhodendrum, bamboo, pampas grass and a red robin tree decorate the newly planted ground.
Back in the main part of the house, an additional family room has been built into the basement and is ideal as a television room for daylight loathing teens.
Upstairs on the first floor return there is a sizeable double bedroom and a reading room or home office. This could also be used as a fifth bedroom. The family bathroom is also on this level.
The main bedroom is on the first floor. The large twin-windowed room has been cleverly divided to hide a large en suite behind the bed's built-in headboard. The bathroom's false ceiling of satinised glass helps the bedroom retain its original sense of space and its period features.
The double and single rooms, on the second floor, have been set up as a girl and boy's room with a bathroombetween giving the myspace generation room to breathe.
Mount Eden Road: €2.3m
A terrraced four-bedroom house at 19 Mount Eden Road in Donnybrook, Dublin 4, has an AMV of €2.3 million before a Lisney auction on May 2nd.
Mount Eden Road connects Morehampton Road with Belmont Avenue in the heart of Donnybrook. It's a quiet location where houses don't often come onto the market and it's suited to families with girls, as Muckross school is on the road.
Dating from 1900, the 180sq m (1,937 sq ft) house has an extended family room with a high vaulted ceiling and doors to the split-level garden. There is an attractive kitchen with SieMatic units and Gaggenau appliances. At the front of the house is a pretty, light drawingroom with timber floor and an impressive open fireplace. The connecting diningroom is similarly decorated and overlooks the garden. The first return has an attractive Victorian-style bathroom serving three bedrooms. A fourth en suite bedroom is on a higher return.
