Dublin 7/€365,000: A stroll from the Phoenix Park, 31 Montpelier Gardens will attract followers for its proximity to the city's green heart. It also has a most beautiful interior - entering the front door is like stepping into the pages of an interiors mag.
Sherry FitzGerald is quoting €365,000 by private treaty for number 31, which is in a quiet location off Infirmary Road in Dublin 7. The owners have taken a perfectly ordinary end-terrace house and spent time and money transforming it into an up-to-the-minute town residence.
For young couples on the way up the housing ladder, acquiring this 104 sq m (1,123 sq ft) three-bedroom house could represent a sound move. Paint colours throughout are in soft neutral hues, easy for a new owner to live with.
The sittingroom has a restored period cast-iron fireplace and deep ceiling coving. There is also a timber-floored study with double doors opening to the breakfast area.
Airy, open-plan and very chic, the linking kitchen and diningroom areas have solid wood flooring, sleek pale units with maple worktops and integrated appliances.
Duck egg blue kitchen walls give way to a soft neutral-toned dining area with two sets of French doors to a colourful terrace. A Velux window set into the painted tongue and groove ceiling shafts natural light to the dining table below.
Upstairs, the two largest bedrooms have original cast-iron fireplaces and a third single room has built-in cupboards. Recognising the importance of bathrooms, the owners have installed a thoroughly modern designer suite, with bath, power shower, marble wall and floor tiles and underfloor heating.
Outside, a walled south-facing patio garden complements the interior. This is partly decked and paved, with a raised flower bed, a copper cherry and jasmine and honeysuckle on the walls.
The neat railed front garden has a lawn, weeping willow and a clematis over the porch. A family of thrushes are nesting in a blue basket beneath the eaves.
