Bright, A3-rated four-bed a short walk from vibrant main street
that was revamped and extended about seven years ago. Panels in the large open-plan kitchen/living/diningroom conceal a bar and a wine fridge, while bookshelves in the library push open to reveal a hidden study.
The house is about two-thirds of the way up busy York Road from Dún Laoghaire’s main street; it’s nearly opposite the tall granite building that was once the Bird’s Nest orphanage, which closed in the 1970s. (Six years ago it wasNew phase of Leixlip development named after 18th-century mill founder from €460,000Number 44 has space to park two cars behind an electronic gate in the gravelled front garden.
A panel next to the kitchen units turns out to be a door into a sittingroom painted a vivid red. Like the library off the front hall, it has an open fireplace with a white mantelpiece. Bookshelves in one corner of the library double as a hidden door which opens at a push into a small home office – a room which also connects into the sittingroom.A good-sized utility room off the hall has unusual – and useful – wall-hung drying racks that extend across the room.
Two bedrooms at the front of the house share a Jack-and-Jill en suite shower room and have an extra pane of glass added to their windows to minimise the sound of traffic on York Road. The smart main bathroom is part-tiled – with white tiles bordered in green – and has a large shower and a claw-foot bath.The attic has been converted and is used as a gym, but could be a home office or small bedroom.
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