City semi in a quiet Donnybrook cul-de-sac

A fine family home near the city is in walk-in condition. Bernice Harrison reports

A four-bedroom family house at 6 Eglinton Park, Donnybrook is for auction through Sherry FitzGerald on February 9th with a guide price of €1 million. The house is in a quiet cul-de-sac of pre-war houses at the Donnybrook end of the much grander and busier Eglinton Road.

Six years ago the semi-detached house was renovated and extended by its current owners with the idea of providing a larger kitchen and family area. The design also included a reworking of the garage which is now partially converted into a large utility room.

This type of house always has good-sized hallways and, in this case, it has been further enlarged by opening up the space under the stairs. To the right are two interconnecting rooms with matching fireplaces. The front room has the bay window, the back features double doors out to the garden.

What was originally the kitchen is now a diningroom and it opens into the pitched roof extension.

This is clad in pine, and wood is very much a theme in the adjoining kitchen which also features a pine-clad feature roof as well as a smart country-style pine kitchen complete with Aga.

There is good access to the garden from this area and access also into the garage which is now divided into a large, well-fitted utility room and a storage shed.

It's easy to see that a family would pretty much ignore the formal reception rooms and spend their time in this newer part of the house.

There's also a small downstairs wc.

Upstairs, there are three good doubles and a small single as well as the family bathroom.

Extending out the back obviously impacted on the garden but it is walled and private and attractively planted.

Above all, this well-located house is in walk-in condition, painted in neutral colours with polished wood flooring, so it would represent a relatively hassle-free move for a family trading up.