SANDYCOVE: €1.8MTHERE'S A definite lightness about number 21 Castlepark Road, Sandycove/Dalkey, Co Dublin.

The detached 1930s dormer bungalow has been substantially remodelled and remade. The addition of windows in all shapes and sizes – sometimes entire walls of them – has given it a light-filled interior that lives happily with a garden in which feathery, elegant rows of bamboo lead to a secret area with ferns and a gazebo.

High ceilings, internal doors with brass plates and knobs, dado rails, bay windows and other original features have been carefully retained and made part of a comfortable, open-style house.

The 205sq m (2,215sq ft) home has three bedrooms, two large, L-shaped reception rooms and an attic area measuring 24sq m (258sq ft) which is in use as a study/bedroom.

The house is for sale through Sherry FitzGerald for €1.8 million.

The unity of style in this house means that the entrance hallway is large enough to be something of a reception room in its own right. Its maple floor, dado rail and oak staircase prepares you for the open, fluid design of the L-shaped livingroom and the combination kitchen/family/dining room.

The livingroom has a maple floor, walls of pale burgundy and white painted woodwork.

Two French doors give access to the patio as well as offering views, framed by swathes of white curtain, of the 120ft long garden.

A stone-surround fireplace has a gas fire and the narrower part of the L, which faces the front, has an original bay window. The kitchen/family/dining room is in the nature of a large, convivial sunroom. Walls of windows on two sides of the family/dining areas make for a pleasant, alfresco feeling.

The well-fitted working kitchen has beech work tops, a tiled splash-back of deepest burgundy and a door leading to a utility room of some splendour with palest aqua fittings, a great deal of storage and large hot presses. The main, primrose-yellow en suite bedroom is on the ground floor and has a front-facing bay window.

Its dressingroom has extensive wardrobes and the en suite has a shower.

The second and third bedrooms are off the first floor landing, as is the large, attic area with its polished timber floor and five Velux windows.

The front, gravelled garden has parking for numerous cars.