Killester home is a ‘Room to Improve’ star and recipient of numerous awards
- €445,000
- 103 sq m (1,100 sq ft)
- 3
- 2
- C1
BILLED as a starter home, despite its €445,000 AMV as it goes to market, is the rather familiar-looking 22 St Brigid’s Road, and really, it’s pretty much only in Dublin that that price threshold is within the hopes and mean of quite a few First Time Buyers.
Set to sell extremely well in any case though, and perhaps as much within the ambit of traders down, is this mid-terraced home with its striking garden room/pergola wing, in Killester, on the city’s northside: it’s a Dublin 5 address, and in a setting about a mile north of the sea and Dublin Bay at Clontarf, with primary and national schools on its doorstep.
No 22 may well indeed have a familiar look to it for anyone interested in domestic architecture and design: this reworked c 1930 mid-terraced and part red-brick house has featured on RTÉ’s Room to Improve, which quite possibly has given it its widest, mass Irish exposure.
But, it has also made it to the glossy pages of quite a few design-led publications, and featured not once, but twice, in the Dublin Open House Event, when the doors of usually private properties open to appreciative (or, just nosey) members of the public to admire, ogle and perhaps get inspiration from.
With its modest-sounding address, 22 St Brigid’s Road Killester has featured in Grand Designs magazine; in the French architects’ journal Arrive; it has been a Highly Commended award winner in Image magazine’s Interiors and Living Design Awards, as well as scoring the Best Small Project award from the Architects Journal.
So, not only does fab No 22 have function, it also has form, and a bit of fame.
Now, it could be yours, and it’s on show this Saturday, Feb 22, 11-11.30 AM.
The owner on the modestly-transformed and wholly uplifted No 22 is moving on, leaving an enviable home of style and character for new occupants, and it’s fresh to market this month with estate agent Karen Mulvaney, who guides the c 1,100 sq ft No 22 at €445,000.
It’s most notable, of course, for its modest addition and creation of a c 400 sq ft rear garden room, with underfloor heating, all super bright with a window set for back garden views. This room is connected to the kitchen and has long internal views from front to back, through the central kitchen of this two-storey, mid-terraced property.
The work was done by young architect David Leech (it’s one of several profile jobs he’s done in Killester alone), and most distinctive is the way the L-shaped room (c 4.5m by 4.6m) links via double doors to an outdoor store across a patio by way of an overhead gridded pergola, made of simple timber planks, and painted in green and pink. Not only is it quite cool-looking in its own right, it also should cast amazing shadows at various times.
The ceiling in this garden room picks up the same timber gridded format as the pergola in dark green, and also painted a deep green are the bespoke kitchen units, framing Miele appliances. The front living room, meanwhile, can be closed off via double doors, looks over a garden, has a multi-fuel stove, and flooring runs on a diagonal pattern, as it does in the adjoining kitchen.
Upstairs are three original-sized bedrooms, and a high-end main bathroom with extensive marble tiling on walls and floor.
The attic is floored, primed for conversion and has the gas boiler, and externally, the C1 BER-rated No 22 has a walled and hedged front garden, very large mature and minded back garden in sections with rear pedestrian access, is close to services and schools, and is within a walk of the DART at Killester, and St Anne’s Park in Raheny.
Has to be seen, enthuses captivated selling agent Karen Mulvaney.
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