Smart makeover near Park

DONNYBROOK €785,000HOUSES ON Home Villas tend to go for prices well in excess of what their square footage might indicate.

It's their location, right beside Herbert Park and a few minutes stroll to Donnybrook village and walking distance to the city centre plus the fact that the well-kept redbrick-lined streets look particularly charming.

This one, 38 Home Villas, last sold in 2000 when the current owners bought a house that was in need of renovation and ideally an extension.

They did both and now the terraced house is modern and comfortable and in walk-in condition for new owners. It has two bedrooms, 62.5 sq m (670 sq ft) and is for sale by private treaty through Felicity Fox for €785,000.

Downstairs is open plan, though the front door opens into a small hall area - always preferable to walking directly into the living room straight off the street.

What would have been two small reception rooms were knocked together and a galley kitchen extension added.

This has been fitted with a run of granite topped maple units. The flooring throughout downstairs is maple.

At then end of the kitchen is a shower room, smartly finished throughout with mosaic tiling. There are glazed doors opening into a small patio.

Upstairs there are two double bedrooms - one average sized, the other a small double - and a small toilet.

Up here the original tongue-and-groove pine doors have been kept and dipped which matches the cottagey look in the slopped ceilinged bedrooms.

Residents can get a permit for on-street parking.

38 Home Villas, Donnybrook, Dublin 4

Two-bedroom terraced townhouse near park and shops

Agent:Felicity Fox