Dublin 4: €3.5m: A period house on one-third of an acre has had a lavish makeover, writes Orna Mulcahy, Property Editor.

Number 55 Claremont Road, Sandymount is a lavishly refurbished two storey over basement house on a third of an acre that previously belonged to the garden designer Verney Naylor.

Lisney is guiding €3.5 million for the five-bedroom house which has been imaginatively extended to include a guest apartment. It goes to auction on June 22nd.

This is a fantasy house and its 278sq m (2,990sq ft) interior has lots of surprises, including a crimson room where even the plasterwork has been painted red, a dramatic aubergine coloured kitchen with matching four-door Aga, a ceiling studded with colour changing fibre optic lights, and an outdoor livingroom complete with plastic sofas.

The wine red exterior and steel 55 say it all - in the heart of conservative Sandymount, here is something completely different. Anyone who is tired of pale, safe neutrals will applaud its wildly exotic interior and fashionably madeover garden where the bird song is so loud, that looking out from the top floor timber deck it's almost like the tropical rainforest down there.

At garden level there's the gleaming crushed grape and stainless steel kitchen with a large glassed-in dining area leading to a patio with steps up to the garden. Off the kitchen is a neat utility room where the Corian sink and counter top show just how much money has been spent.

A handmade sliding glass door with broad bands of colour and texture opens to the rest of the ground floor - a cave-like TV room, a guest bedroom and a bathroom.

Upstairs are two reception rooms - the bright red room and a superb drawingroom running from front-to-back of the house. Here, and in most rooms of the house, the walls have been finished in ruinously expensive glazed plaster.

Step through a door in the drawingroom and you are through to a delightful guest suite with a bedroom at the front, a neat little shower room and a sittingroom that's a glass box looking out over the garden.

The stairs to the upper landing are lit by a high arched window that offers a glorious view of the garden, and then there are gleaming fibre optic points overhead. Upstairs, there are three bedrooms - two with smart en suite shower rooms. The main bedroom takes up one side of the house, and is a lavish cocoon of a room leading to a dressingroom and the bathroom which has the private deck.