When the owners of 10 Ormond Road, situated just off exclusive Palmerston Road, bought the house in 2011, paying €525,000 for it, according to the Property Price Register, it was in six bedsits but had great proportions and was light-filled. They credit a subscription to World of Interiors magazine with helping them see its potential and enlist Gottstein Architects to repurpose the house into a family home.
The firm designed the spa at the Europa Hotel in Killarney, Co Kerry, and Dunne and Crescenzi in Sandymount. The property was shortlisted in last year’s Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland awards in the “extension to a protected structure” category and it’s easy to see why. The house has a wide and welcoming hall with fine cornicing, a mood carried into the grand but not overly formal reception rooms. The interconnecting doors fold back out of sight. In the bay-fronted sitting room, there is a trio of matching linen-covered sofas in warm pink, adding a soft wash of colour, a theme that runs throughout the house.
French windows lead from the dining room out to an internal courtyard, maintaining the original feel of these rooms.
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The house has a second living space, to the rear, in the sizeable kitchen/dining/living room where there are pistachio-green units, siltstone counter tops, polished concrete floors and a fine iroko wood dining area, with storage secreted under seating and in alcoves. There is wood-pressed concrete on the ceiling and the industrial contemporary look is softened by the use of red brick, including an outside bench that echoes the one in the dining area.
Large doors pivot open, one out to the garden and another to the internal courtyard, creating a great sense of flow throughout the ground floor.
The south-facing garden, with concrete seating areas, is so sunny the owners had to remove the lavender they had planted as it was attracting too many bees. Upstairs there are four bedrooms, a lovely double on the return, a single that interconnects to the master bedroom, ideal for anyone with babies or small children, and another sunny double to the rear.
The house, which measures 201sq m (2165sq ft), is asking €1.45million through agents SherryFitzGerald.
