Dublin 4: €1.8mA house which wears its many period features well, number 5 Wilfield Park, Sandymount, Dublin 4, combines its reality as a comfortable, welcoming family home with more than a little of the style and mood of its mid-1930s' origins.

The latter is seen particularly in the bow windows, arched red-brick front porch, wood panelling in the entrance hall and lovely curves to the wall as it goes upstairs.

Lush, creatively planted gardens front and back give a sense of mood and time too: even to seeming an intimate part of the house.

On a quiet road close to Sandymount Dart station, the house is semi-detached and, over some 158sq m (1,700sq ft) of floor space, has three bedrooms, two reception rooms, kitchen and separate breakfast/diningroom.

It is for sale by private treaty through Elliott & Fitzgerald and has an asking price of €1.8 million.

A latter-day extension allowed for a renovated kitchen and extended the one-time diningroom to make a family/sunroom in which the rear garden is a focal point.

In the front drawing room there is a bow window, timber flooring and a fine, Art Deco style fireplace with curves of wood to either side and inset tiling typical of the era. The extended adjoining family room is contemporary in style and has a wall of wood-framed windows opening into the garden.

Marble flooring in the creamy-yellow kitchen and in the subdued burgundy breakfast/diningroom is heated from underneath.

The colours in the breakfast/diningroom combine with built-in bench seating and darkish furniture to give a period feel.

A window on the turn of the stairs has coloured, leaded glass and gives lots of light to the good-sized, squarish main landing.

The bow window in the main bedroom has a sill wide enough to sit on and wardrobes and a vanity until fill a wall.

The large en suite has a window to the front and may once have been a fourth bedroom.

Both of the other bedrooms are to the rear, one in use as a study. The other one has an original, tiled fireplace.