On the Market Lily Killeen Rounds up the Best Homes Currently on Offer
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The Sunday Business Post June 12, 2016 2 Property Property Plus On the market Lily Killeen rounds up the best homes currently on offer ▲ 46 CASTLEpaRK ROAD, DaLKEY, CO DUBLIN Price: €895,000 What: this smart semi-detached spans 118 square metres and has a west facing rear garden of 110ft laid mostly in lawn. Black and white tiled floors line the entrance hall and there’s a bright kitchen/breakfast room with access to the garden, intercon- nected living/dining room, utility room, guest WC, two double bedrooms, two single bedrooms and a family bathroom. Where: close to Sandycove and Glasthule villages and Dalkey’s upmarket specialty shops, bars, restaurants, churches and schools. The number 8 bus stops close to the house and the Glenageary Dart station is a ten-minute walk. ▲ 415A BALLYOULSTER, CELBRIDGE, CO Agent: Sherry FitzGerald Dalkey at 01-2751000. KILDARE Price: €595,000 What: at 219 square metres, this spacious detached house sits on a site of 0.43 acres of manicured gardens and has an open-plan living/ dining room, a kitchen, utility room and two ground-floor bedrooms, one en suite, with three more bedrooms, two of which are en suite, and a family bathroom upstairs. There is a separate home office at the side of the house and ample off-street parking. Where: just off the Dublin Road, a short stroll from Celbridge village. The nearby N4 motor- way offers easy access to the city centre and to Maynooth. Hazelhatch train station is also a short drive away for commuters connecting to Heuston Station. Agent: DNG Celbridge at 01-6288930. ▲ SUNCROFT, MART LANE, FOXROCK, DUBLIN 18 garages. It also comes with full planning permission for a detached four-bed home of another 228 square metres on 0.2 Price: €1.95 million acres. What: designed by Sir Richard Orpen in the Arts and Crafts Where: off Westminster Road and a short walk to shops, style and set on more than a half acre of south-facing mature restaurants and bars in Foxrock. It’s also close to Cornelscourt grounds, this charming, four-bed detached home of 228 square Shopping Centre, the QBC on the N11, the Luas at Carrickmines, metres boasts original features, wood panelled ceilings, an a number of schools, churches and leisure facilities, and the M50. ornate carved staircase, feature fireplaces and two detached Agent: Finnegan Menton at 01-6147900. ▲ 2 GLENARD HALL, CLONSKEAGH, DUBLIN 14 161 THE RECTORY, ENNISKERRY ROAD, STEpaSIDE, CO DUBLIN Price: €650,000 What: this bright terraced four-bed spans 118 Price: €495,000 square metres and has a south-facing back gar- What: at 122 square metres, this well-presented semi den. Set in an enclave of 14 houses with a large has a private, sunny rear garden with two sandstone central green area, the well-presented family patios. The house offers a living room, kitchen/dining home has a kitchen/dining area, utility room, area, utility room, guest WC and three generous double family/dining room, living room, guest WC, four bedrooms, the main en suite, a single bedroom and a bedrooms and family bathroom. family bathroom. There is off-street parking to the front Where: off Roebuck Downs, itself off Goatstown on the house. Road and a short stroll from local shops and Where: a short walk from Stepaside village. Cabinteely Clonskeagh Village, Mount Merrion and Dundrum. and Marlay Park are both nearby, along with a number The Luas is at Windy Arbour, UCD and a number of sports clubs. The Luas is less than 15 minutes’ walk of top schools are in the area. away and there are a number of buses to and from the Agent: Lynam Auctioneers and Estate Agents at city centre. 01-9014048. Agent: Sherry FitzGerald Foxrock at 01-2894386. 22 ELM PARK TERRacE, ▲ 15 PRIORY DRIVE, BLackROCK, CO TERENURE, DUBLIN 6W DUBLIN Price: €295,000 Price: €765,000 What: this bright two-bed What: this four-bed semi has a 143 ft long cottage measures 55 square south-facing rear garden, an adjoining garage metres and has an entrance and a side entrance giving the 118 square hall, an open-plan kitchen, metre home piles of potential to extend dining and living area, two and transform into a stunning family home, double bedrooms and a family (subject to planning permission). shower room. Where: close to Stillorgan and Blackrock vil- Where: off Terenure Road lages and minutes from the N11 with regular North, this house is within busses, the Dart in Blackrock and the Luas in walking distance of Terenure, Stillorgan, all offering easy access to the city Rathgar and Rathfarnham with centre. There are a number of good schools a wealth of restaurants, shops, in the area. bars and cafés to choose from Agent: Beirne & Wise Blackrock at 01- and Bushy Park is nearby. 2880900. Agent: Sherry FitzGerald Terenure at 01-4907433. kitchen sink but a huge op- opt for thinner vertical ver- glass area by going down I would love if our relation- and patio spaces much more A sun salutation to portunity missed. sions, or if the budget will wide enough to facilitate ship with our gardens could often, not just when the sun Try to keep as much of the stretch, perhaps invest in a door, a connection to the be reflected in how we design is splitting the stones. external wall free from built- underfloor heating. There is outside. and lay out our homes. bring more light in items as possible. Perhaps absolutely nothing like the As the sun circumnavi- With the right connection Dermot Bannon is an architect locate kitchens on the oppo- choice of being able to eat and gates your home, look for forged with the outside of your and the presenter of RTÉ One’s into your home site wall to the external one. hang out inside or outside a areas where you can lower home, you will use the garden Room To Improve And by putting an island in room with the sun stream- the windows to seat height, from page 1 ity of time in is the kitchen/ front of it, your main work- ing in. then widen out the window spend most of your daytime in dining space. In these spaces, space will look back out to- If the budget isn’t there to board, turning it into a sun- – the kitchen and living spaces we tend to clutter by lining the wards the garden if you open put in a large opening on an filled window seat. If the – as close to where you will external walls with kitchen up as much of the external external wall, perhaps look window is large enough, you sit outside. units, built-in furniture and wall as possible with sliding, at enlarging the existing win- could perhaps put in a small If you have achieved this, radiators where there is huge bi-fold or traditional french dows by dropping them to sliding glass door or window, Glass finishes create a you need to look at how the potential for opening and con- doors. the ground. That means you so it may feel as though you welcome transition to the room is laid out. For most of us, necting to the outdoors. There If you are stuck for wall are not interfering with the are sitting outside when you outdoors the room we spend the major- may be a good view from the space for radiators, perhaps structure but enlarging the take a break..