Dublin 6/€780,000: Bernice Harrison visits a refurbished four-bedroom family home in a sought-after area

Pre-war semi-ds in well-established areas are always much sought-after as family homes especially when they have been totally refurbished and are presented in walk-in condition.

Number 10 Glenayr Road in Dublin 6 off Bushy Park Road is a quiet road of a dozen or so houses which were built in the early 1930s. It has four bedrooms and is for auction through Lisney on March 25th with a guide of €780,000.

The house has changed hands in the past 10 years and the owners in the early 1990s did all the work renovating from top to bottom and building on a small, mostly glazed extension at the back which makes for a very good, and particularly sunny eat-in kitchen.

The current owners who bought nearly five years ago had little to do except repaint in their own colour scheme and whoever buys it this time round will likely feel the same although they could consider converting the integrated garage into another room as there is planning permission for such a change of use.

Off a bright hallway the two good-sized reception rooms interconnect through sliding doors and there are French doors opening out from the back reception room. In the kitchen an old cream-coloured reconditioned Aga now separates the kitchen from another room which was probably the original scullery but is now a useful children's play area with access via double doors out to the back garden.

Upstairs there are four bedrooms, one small single, one large single and two spacious doubles.

The main bedroom benefits from having a large, curved bay window. The bathroom is small but it has been nicely done with a maple floor and smart looking tiles. To the front of the house is a typical sized front garden with off-street parking for one car and the back is particularly nice because it is south-west facing, maturely planted and bordered by tall old walls. A useful feature is the large wooden deck area just outside the kitchen.

A definite attraction for family-minded house hunters is that while this house is already roomy there is still space to expand. Apart from the potential of the garage, other houses in the road have gone into the large attic. The house currently has 147 sq m (1,590 sq ft) of living accommodation.