New homes: smart layout ticks all the boxes

Judging by the number of serious viewers at Wellfield, a development of six four bedroom semi-detached homes on Churchtown’s Braemor Road, this is a new build that ticks a lot of boxes.

The cedar-clad properties are situated on the site of the once prominent Texaco garage opposite St Nathy’s House, a set of corporation flats, at the Dundrum end of Braemor Road. About a five-minute walk to Dundrum Luas stop these carefully planned A3 rated homes were designed by Howth-based architect Joe McSweeney.

The interior design is smart and contemporary in feel. Executed by Suzanne Walton it impressed the house hunters who viewed the property on Saturday many of them trailing one and two generations of their family in their wake.

Sliding doors

An open tread staircase greets you in the hall where the guest toilet is also located.

The formal sitting room and open plan kitchen/dining/family room interconnect with glass panelled sliding doors in place to divide the spaces.

A large stone-topped island, part of the kitchen by Kube, acts as breakfast bar and room divider and is part of the standard fit-out. So too are the workhorse appliances by Siemens. Off the kitchen is a utility room. Sliding doors from the living area open out to the back garden which is small and north-facing.

On the first floor there are two bedrooms, two doubles each with great internally lit wardrobe storage. The single bedroom in the showhouse is set up as a home office and has a pull-down bed secreted into its wardrobe space, a guest room idea that buyers might want to borrow for their own home.

The bathrooms are first rate. The good size family bathroom has a separate bath and shower and a window set high in the wall that allows you to accommodate all the sanitaryware without it feeling cramped.

The master bedroom is on the second floor and takes up the lion’s share of that floor with a wall of wardrobes big enough to indulge even the worst hoarder. The other wall is entirely glazed, with floor to ceiling glass doors opening onto to a fine south-facing sun terrace that looks across to the Dublin Mountains.

Despite the loud roar of traffic on the busy road below it is the best spot in the house. The house is triple glazed front and back so when the windows are closed you can’t hear a thing.

Each property measures 181sq m (1,950sq ft) and is asking €795,000 through joint agents SherryFitzGerald and Kelly Walsh. The company behind the project Highgate Properties, was set up three years ago and has worked on a couple of refurbishments in Sandymount.

Two of the six homes are already sold.