Bright one-bed near the Blessington Basin for €325,000

Just one street over from the Blessington Basin, one of Dublin 7’s best-loved parks with its water fountain as the main attraction, Myrtle Street is well located.

It’s a short stroll through Royal Canal Bank to Phibsborough village or you can be on the TU Dublin campus in Grangeorman in minutes; there is a green Luas line stop at TUD.

Primary school teacher turned interior designer Wesley O’Brien has worked on several houses on this street, most notably number 13. He got planning permission to add an attic room and shower room within the roof cavity. Working with a builder, he turned the one-bedroom home, which had been purchased in October 2019 for €206,000 according to the Property Price Register, into one with a space for guests and a study.

Excluding the attic it measured about 50sq m, and its ground floor had been excavated to gain the additional headroom. It returned to the market asking €435,000 and has been sale agreed at well over the asking price.

This prompted the owner of number 18 to approach O’Brien to stage his home for sale. At 46sq m (494sq ft), it is smaller and on the opposite side of the street.

This means it has a northwest facing back yard that is sizeable for this style of house and there may be scope to enlarge it or to go up into the attic, as per number 13, at a later stage.

For now it gives a single buyer or a couple a lot more options than an apartment of the same size, starting with your own front door.

Inside it opens directly into a smartly laid out, open-plan kitchen-livingroom with space for a dining table.

The kitchen has been set out in an L-shape with a small peninsula dividing it from the living area. This means you can talk to friends as you prep dinner. The owner even managed to fit in a five-burner range cooker into the relatively small space.

The room is painted a pale French grey, a favourite of O’Brien’s, that is made by the Little, Greene Paint Company.

He installed the bookcases on either side of the fireplace. It’s a signature of his. “It gives you space to store books and objects,” he explains.

But he didn’t change the layout. While the double bedroom overlooks the back yard, access to it is via a study, from which you can get to the back yard.

The property, which has a Ber of F, is asking €325,000 through Felicity Fox.