VIDEO: High-spec home at Cahercalla, Ennis is backed up with high-tech luxury
ALL the bells and all the whistles that you can imagine — and more — have gone into putting a luxury finish on this detached house in .
Everything from the landscaped exterior with water features and sandstone patios to the porcelain tiled floors and the interior designer’s stylish cream and gold colour scheme, demonstrates a ‘no expense’ spared approach to house decoration.
An ihome integrated home entertainment system with smart controls, a fully equipped gym and an en suite with a tranquility bath and his and hers crystal sinks are just some of the non-standard features to be found in this 3,500 sq ft home.
Auctioneer Cormac O’Sullivan of DNG O’Sullivan Hurley says it would not be possible now to build a house with this high quality finish for the asking price of €590,000.
“It’s probably one of the finest houses to come on the market in Ennis this year,’’ he says.
Back in 2007 he sold the property, which was then a 2,000 sq ft dormer bungalow with a red bricked front, to the family which now owns it.
“They extended at the front and the rear, kept the original interior walls and replaced the red brick frontage with stone and a smooth plaster finish,” says Cormac O’Sullivan.
Inside Cahercalla, the owners put down marble flooring in the entrance hallway and added an L-shaped marble staircase leading up to the first floor.
They also turned the living area into a huge open plan space consisting of a reception room, a kitchen and a dining room all with solid cherry wood flooring, integrated mood lighting and ceiling coving.
The bespoke kitchen has ivory units with granite work surfaces, a long centre island with feature cherry wood ends and a range of appliances which includes an eye level coffee machine and a wine cooler.
The reception room adjoining the kitchen has a modern gas insert fire under a timber-panelled wall as well as French doors opening into the gardens at the rear.
“There’s probably 1,000 sq ft of living area in these three rooms — it’s a fantastic space for entertaining,” observes Mr O’Sullivan.
The gym isn’t just a room with fitness equipment — it’s a cherry wood-floored room with upholstery paneling on the walls as well as floor-to-ceiling display mirrors which allows all those exercising in it to observe themselves while doing so.
Other rooms at this level include a 30’ by 7’ utility room with porcelain tiled floor and wall-to-wall built-in units as well as a carpeted study and a marble bathroom with a free-standing bath.
Ground floor accommodation is completed by a large en suite guest bedroom, with carpet flooring, upholstery paneling on the walls and wall-to-wall built in wardrobes.
On the upper level of the house there are three large carpeted bedrooms including two with en suites.
The very generous sized master bedroom has slide robes; a ceiling mounted camouflaged TV and French doors leading out to a balcony overlooking the garden.
It is here that viewers will find an en suite with crystal sinks and a tranquility bath. (Apparently a tranquility bath involves a bath within a bath so that the inner bath can be filled to overflowing for an extra luxuriating soak.)
Fitted with oil-fired central heating and double glazed ivory coloured PVC windows, the house has a high B3 energy rating.
Enclosed by high walls and mature tree, the property has half an acre of low maintenance gardens with automated gates, paved and gravelled areas, some shrubbery and two small fountain style water features, one at the front and one at the side.
Carefully landscaped gardens have been designed both for ease of care and for entertaining.
To the rear there’s a built-in BBQ which you could probably find in a Carlsberg ad. This has a brick finished counter topped by a granite worktop with a sink and a double unit BBQ, all of which is protected by an automated canopy which provides shelter from the rain at a touch of a button.
The garden area around the BBQ is made of astro turf, which means that no mowing is required.
Mr O’Sullivan says this is a smart home which uses a high level of technology in the both the garden and the house.
“You could put dinner in the oven and turn it on from anywhere with your smart phone,’’ he says .
The property is located within a five minute walk from the clubhouse at Ennis Golf Course and is just next to the tee box on the ninth hole, although the course isn’t visible through the mature trees and high walls which surround the garden. The distance to Ennis is two kilometres.
Mr O’Sullivan says viewings have been good and that much of the interest has come from people who are working in Shannon who are currently renting high-end executive properties.
Within a short time of going on the market the house got a first bid of €495,000 and Mr O’Sullivan says viewings are now continuing.
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