Bright and unfussy in Sandycove for €1.15 million

The period exterior of number 1 Sandycove Avenue East conceals a mostly modern house that was refurbished and extended 12 years ago.

It mixes period details such as the cornicing and centre rose in the front hall, a cast-iron fireplace in the sittingroom and stripped pine doors, with striking modern features.

The result is a very bright house with clean white walls and ceilings, stone-tiled and maple floors, underfloor heating downstairs, recessed lighting and Velux windows everywhere. The 191sq m (2,055sq ft) end-of-terrace house a short walk from the Forty Foot in Sandycove, Co Dublin, is for sale through Lisney by private treaty for €1.15 million.

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Striking kitchen

The house has been extended at the side and most dramatically at the back in unexpected and sometimes quirky ways. The striking new kitchen at the back, built at a slight angle to the main house, is designed to let light flood in through a two-storey glazed wall. It’s dominated by a long centre island with a polished granite counter-top.

A small second kitchen opens off it at the back and a separate door leads into a hall with lots of storage cupboards on one side, and on the other, a utility room and a smart blue mosaic-tiled wet room.

Sunroom and boathouse

At the end of the hall is a garage/boathouse, opening onto a grassy lane.

The kitchen opens onto a large decked area and a lawn, surrounded by old stone walls. At the front of the house, the sittingroom – with a large box bay window – and diningroom, connected by a wide arch, are bright and unfussy.

They open into a cosy sunroom and off it, a separate guest – or maybe au pair – area with a small sittingroom downstairs, a shower room, and up a very steep pine staircase, a bright loft bedroom.

Upstairs in the main house there’s a spa-style bathroom on the landing, with a bath sunk into a raised tiled platform.

A desk is placed in the corner of the landing which looks – and strangely, opens – straight down into the kitchen on the floor below. There are two double bedrooms on the first floor, both en suite and up another steep flight of stairs, a converted attic with en suite shower room, currently fitted out with a sofa and a single bed. There are views of the sea from here.