Stoneybatter home with animal attraction for €390k

Cool, clever and very nice to be in, 6 Sullivan Street is artfully designed to maximise light, space and easy living. White walls, ceilings and floors give both height and flourishes a chance to flaunt themselves without distraction.

The atrium-style rear kitchen area, a mezzanine/bedroom with quasi window and irregular, bespoke floor-to-ceiling shelves and storage all come into their own and make it easy to see how comfortably 21st-century lives can be accommodated in this remodelled, 19th-century Dublin Artisan Dwelling Company house.

When film-maker Andrew Legge bought number 6 in 2004 for €317,000 he gutted the inside, elevated the back roof to introduce more light, installed wood-framed windows and did all of the impressive carpentry himself. "It was dark back and front so the internal walls had to come down," he explains. The opened-up ground level is floored in "slightly mottled white porcelain tiles", a Norwegian wood-burning stove stands where the original fireplace once stood, there is a blue-tiled wetroom to the rear and a salvaged cast-iron fireplace in the main bedroom.

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Agent Sherry FitzGerald is seeking €390,000 for the 60sq m (650sq ft) property, laid out as an open living ground floor with wetroom, and first floor with bedroom and mezzanine.

Great family space

Andrew and actor wife Serena Brabazon lived there for some years, and say they will be sad to sell but have a growing family and need more space. "We could hear the chimps and elephants being fed in the mornings at nearby Dublin Zoo," Andrew says. Serena agrees the house is a great family space and shows off a clever storage touch when she swings open a set of wall shelves to reveal a concealed utility/cloakroom.

The wood-burning stove, she says, keeps the whole house heated. The high, sloped ceiling over the kitchen area has two large Velux windows and there is a glass panelled door to the small courtyard.

In the main, front-facing bedroom there is a sash window, sloped ceiling and black, cast-iron fireplace. High above the kitchen area to the rear, the mezzanine is in effective use as a bedroom. A floored attic has storage space.

Sullivan (and Aberdeen) Streets are within hailing distance of Phoenix Park gates. “It’s like having an amazing playground just opposite,” says Serena.