To sweeten the deal, painter Ivan Sutton is including one of his maritime-themed oil paintings in the sale of his house at 16 Edenvale Road in Ranelagh.
The painting is on the wall in the livingroom, on the chimney breast, but as soon as the sale goes through, it will probably be some time before it is put back up again. This is because new owners are more than likely to want to embark on a considerable renovation programme.
The six-bedroom house has been a rental for some time and as it is a Victorian property, it will need some general renovation. So when the walls have been knocked, a new bathroom, kitchen, utility room and en suite put in, buyers should be left with a four-bedroom house with two interconnecting reception rooms. At present there are three bedrooms at the top of the house (the front room has been divided in to two) and another two in the return. An enlarged family bathroom will take up one of those bedrooms. There is a further bedroom downstairs beyond the kitchen.
The selling agent is calling this a study, though there is a bed and a sink in there. It doesn’t matter too much as it will be gone when it is knocked through to the small dated kitchen to create a large family kitchen.
There are two interconnecting reception rooms with a bay window to the front and attractive period fireplaces.
The small back garden is mostly under gravel for easy maintenance, so that will likely change too. There is also a shallow front garden, so no hope of off-street parking. Edenvale Road is a narrow one-way street with parking on both sides of the road and getting a space outside your house is not automatic.
Number 16 is semi-detached and there is a side entrance and a narrow passage running from the front to the back. The redbrick house with 142sq m (1,528sq ft) of space is for sale through Lisney for €1.1 million.
