Number 118 Rathgar Road is a fine late-Victorian terraced house that artist Susan Mackay has made a showcase for her work.
She works mainly with seascapes and the nautical blues have inspired its decor, especially in the marine-blue selected for the walls of the elegant interconnecting reception rooms.
Painted up to the very fine cornicing, the rooms have a matching blue carpet.
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The dining room is to the front, meaning the TV room to the rear, with its trio of well-upholstered sofas, has great garden views.
Murano glass chandeliers hang from the ceiling. The hall is a creamy butter-yellow.
The green-and-white gingham carpet on the stairs and hall won’t be to everyone’s taste but it could be easily updated.
Overlooking garden
There are three bedrooms on the first floor. The two to the front share a Jack and Jill bathroom and the rooms are remarkably quiet given they face out on to busy Rathgar Road but the house is set back about 40 feet from the road.
The master bedroom overlooks the garden. The fourth bedroom is on the hall return and has a shower.
At garden level, the ceiling height is about eight feet. The front door opens into the utility with the washing machine and drier closeted under the granite steps.
There is a painted brick sitting room that has an open fire and plenty of sofa space. At the far end of this floor is an office that overlooks the patio and there is a small guest WC under the stairs.
This room could be used as a bedroom.
To the rear is the kitchen, which Mackay overhauled three years ago, installing underfloor heating and hiring Newcastle Design to custom-build smart cream in-frame units that complement the Falcon range.
French doors open out to a patio and beyond it is a pond filled with fish and a decent-sized lawn area that comes as a complete surprise as it really isn’t visible from the patio.
It’s big enough to kick a ball around and is shielded by trees to make it feel really private.
The propertyis asking €1.395 million through agent Sherry FitzGerald.
Number 85, a four-bedroom terraced house 230sq m /2,476sq ft in size and on the other side of the street is asking €1.25 million through agents DNG.
The house shares its driveway with 118A and its owners have a right of way through the driveway of 118.
