Redbrick makes the best of its space

Dublin 6: €700,000 A traditional redbrick on a D6 terrace has been updated but still retains many of its fine features, writes Eivlín Roden

Number 7 Oaklands Terrace - on a redbrick terrace situated a few minutes from Terenure village in Dublin 6 - has been renovated to make the best possible use of every inch of its space. Douglas Newman Good is guiding €700,000 prior to auction on November 24th.

Starting out as a traditional three-bedroom Edwardian terraced house, the layout has been nudged and adapted to better use for contemporary living.

A small vestibule leads into one large space with a staircase on one side with the rest is given over to a living area.

This livingroom now extends 25ft into a bay window in front and double doors at the rear to the kitchen. It retains two fine black and sienna marble fireplaces of the original two rooms and is floored in polished timber.

With colonial timber blinds and clever shelving under the stairs, the room has the aura of a refined gentleman's club.

Storage has been very well thought out in this house. The square kitchen has been extended and has a wall of ceiling-high presses on one side with fitted units including Neff hob, integrated ovens and microwave on the other, divided by a breakfast counter with polished grey granite worktops.

The floor has large white ceramic tiles, and besides a window and door to a little patio, the room is also lit by a roof light above the hob.

The stairs and upstairs are carpeted in cigar brown and here space has been reorganised too. The original bathroom was a tiny room at the top of the stairs, now made over into a dressingroom, while the third bedroom became a roomy bathroom, painted subdued green, partially tiled and with separate bath and shower and more storage. The door has original blue and green stained glass.

There is a second bedroom with a window to the back and room for a double bed.

The main bedroom to the front of the house has the bay window, ceiling cornice and cast-iron fireplace with tiled inset of the Edwardian era, but the shape has been altered somewhat to allow for the surprise feature of the house - another flight of stairs leading up to the attic space which is now a good-sized dormer room, brightly lit by two roof windows and with loads more storage space on both sides in the eaves.

Outside, a small front garden with a pedestrian gate is well planted and gravelled while the patio off the kitchen is terracotta tiled with raised brick flowerbeds planted for privacy and a beautiful old climbing rose which has reached the second storey and is a mass of white in the summer.