Co DublinKilmore Avenue is a private lane lined with exclusive houses beside the beach in Killiney, Co Dublin, and one of its more unusual homes is now for auction through Sherry FitzGerald on September 24th with a guide of €1.8 million.
The bungalow is set on 0.8 of an acre of gardens on an elevated site - so most of the rooms have sea views. Its current owners bought it around six years ago as a fairly modest 1930s bungalow, but recently completed a very ambitious renovation programme that increased its size to 278 sq m (3,000 sq ft).
Their plans have now changed and they are selling before they have had the chance to live in the four-bedroom seaside home.
New owners will walk into a spacious, bright family house that has been fitted and finished to a particularly high specification from the new cherrywood flooring throughout to the Aga in the kitchen.
On the sea side, the house is fringed by a wide Indian sandstone terrrace and the new layout of the house means that several rooms open onto it via glazed double doors. There is also a courtyard at the back that in beach-house style has an outdoor hot and cold shower for a post-swim rinse. There are three reception rooms, a family room, a drawingroom and a room that could be a mix of a livingroom and a diningroom.
This has two marble fireplaces at either end as well as white- painted exposed beams; it opens into the kitchen. All reception rooms have sea views through glazed double doors and additional Velux windows to maximise the light. There is recessed lighting on dimmer switches in the rooms and the radiators are underneath the floor, glimpsed under stylish wooden airvents.
The bedrooms are doubles and three have en suites, all finished with the same cherrywood cupboards and Italian tiling. Two of the bedrooms have contemporary stainless steel fireplaces fitted with gas fires. The full sized en suite in the main bedroom is unusual in that it is open plan, behind a three-quarter height wall in the bedroom. There is also an additional showerroom.
The kitchen is finished with cherrywood cupboards and marble worktops. Appliances include an Aga, and a cherrywood -fronted American fridge and there are two islands, one for working at, the other a breakfast bar.
Off the hallway is a utility room fitted with an American industrial-sized washer/dryer, as well as a walk-in wine store and two cupboards.
A workroom to the side of the house could be converted into another bedroom and if new owners are particularly expansionist, they could add a second storey which would give even more uninterupted sea views. There is planning permission for an additional 148 sq m (1,600 sq ft).
