Co DUBLIN €1.195m:Fully renovated and ready to walk into, number 1 Booterstown Park has lots of good ideas from its interior designer owner, writes ROSE DOYLE
A stylishly-renovated house in a quiet cul de sac off Booterstown Avenue has come on the market through Lisney asking €1.195 million.
The cul-de-sac is Booterstown Park, located beyond the junction with Cross Avenue if driving up from the Rock Road. The house is number 1, a double-fronted and semi-detached home with four bedrooms, a home office in a converted attic.
It’s a spacious home with reception rooms and a large, open-plan kitchen/dining/family room. The floor area covers 196sq m (2,110sq ft) and there is a 114ft long, delightfully landscaped rear garden.
Built originally in the 1950s, “every inch” has been renovated by the interior designer owner, even to changing the orientation of the staircase so as to put in a second bathroom and bring light to the well in the stairs.
The expansive, open style serves the practicalities of family life well: floorboards are in stained timber, the end of the garden is a child’s playground and, closer to the house, an ancient oak tree has been trimmed and trained to accommodate a swing as well as give shelter.
The well-fitted kitchen has a ceiling light and a wall of windows over the elevated, yellow granite rear patio.
A kitchen island has a walnut worktop, a splash-back of green glass and two sinks. There is a gas fireplace in the family area and French doors from the dining space to the patio.
To the front of the house there is a lovely, intimate drawingroom with an open, limestone fireplace and wide bay window with old-style sills.
The four-panel internal doors look original but are, in fact, clever replacements and, in tandem with wheelchair access features throughout the house, the front door is extra wide and has a split section for access. The garage has been converted to a playroom and given a bay window.
The staircase changes have made for a smaller landing and bigger bedrooms. Walk-in wardrobes in the chimney breasts of two bedrooms are both interesting and extremely practical.
The main bedroom has a bay window as well as a marble floored wet room en suite.
Three Velux windows flood the opened-up attic space with light while kitchen worktops along two walls make for excellent and roomy desks. There is generous eaves storage too.
The gravelled front garden has flower beds and off-street parking for several cars.
1 Booterstown Park, Booterstown, Co Dublin
A four-bedroom house with converted attic and garage, and a 114ft garden
Agent: Lisney
