All is well in Spring Well courtyard development

Tommy Barker says early bookers can get the benefits of an interior designer with Ballyard scheme.

SPRING Well Gardens will have an appeal to the cash rich, but who are time-poor. Buy in early enough and you’ll get the services of the interior designer who will detail every last item if needs be, all thrown into the purchase price.

It is one of the unusual selling points of the scheme of just 31 individualised homes in this Ballyard, Tralee scheme which is proving popular with Kerry traders-up.

Set near the town centre, in an area with a fair sprinkling of period Georgian and Victorian houses, it hits a safe but stylish note of paying homage to past designs, without aping them completely. Its real visual strength is the way it gets proportion right, always a tricky challenge, even when working to a centuries’ old palette.

Credit goes thus to the Architectural Design Company, based in Tralee, and Siobhan Sugrue, wife of the developer/builder Liam Sugrue of Farnes Construction, keeps the tone up with the interior design and finishes.

There’s a strong courtyard feel to much of the layout of the 31 houses and apartments on this four acre site, though there’s a share (seven) of large detached houses as well, these latter homes ranging from 2,750 sq ft to 3,100 sq ft.

Most of the houses, or all sizes, are three storeys, and just about every house is individual in one way or another: even internally, the changes are rung, so that each bathroom in each single house is different in style.

Join selling agents are Ger Carmody, and Darragh Ó Sé of Property Partners Daly Ó Sé: sports fans might recognise the latter’s name or face, but he won’t be too sales focused this All Ireland football final weekend.

Prices range from apartments at around €300,000 to the big detached homes at €765,000 to €850,000, and every level in between, and construction is traditional masonry with stone features, and painted hardwood, but low-maintenance windows from Munster Joinery.

Internally, decorative features include superb joinery, with painted panelled sections under the stairs, and American-style skirtings and architraves.

Floor coverings run from porcelain tiling to hardwood and Navan wool carpets, and the most any new owner will have to supply will be the free-standing furniture: most other things are built-in, and thought of from day one of design.

The specification continues into areas you can hardly see, but will hear or appreciate in other ways, such as broadband/IT connections throughout, surround sound and multi-room audio to overcome the slighest hum that might emerge from the central vacuum system. In addition, there’s a multi-distributed TV with 20 free-to-air channels, alarm system, CCTV in the development, hardwood floors, a pressurised and zoned heating system and underfloor electric heating in the bathrooms.