SUTTON €755,000:THIS SUTTON house is solidly comfortable, has nice gardens and is the width of the Clontarf Road away from Sutton promenade and bracing sea walks.
Number 59, half way along Sutton Park, was a regular, mid-196Os four-bed semi detached until the vendors redesigned it.
The result, a refurbishment completed five years ago, is a semi-d in which unique style choices have created a warmly interesting and very liveable-in family home.
"Nothing had been done since it was built," owner Andy Murphy says. "So we basically gutted it, opened out the dining/kitchen area, made the bathroom bigger, got new fireplaces and opened a way from the hallway to the garage where we made a utility room - which has proven one of our best ideas!"
Andy and Fiona Murphy admit to loving both house and neighbourhood and wouldn't be selling were it not for the special needs of their son Donal, who has a rare chromosome condition. "This is a great place to live with St Ann's Park and the seafront a trot away," they say, "but we need a larger house, or bungalow, to meet OT [occupational therapy] guidelines and give Donal real quality of life."
In walk-in condition, there are four bedrooms, two reception rooms, kitchen/breakfastroom and good rear garden. For sale by private treaty through Douglas Newman Good, it is €755,000.
Many of the Murphys' best ideas have gone into the opened-out dining/kitchen area. Deep lime walls contrast with the black, polished granite worktops and breakfast counter in what is a well designed and practical kitchen - there is even a waist-level dishwasher. The floor is of solid birch, an understated fireplace in the dining area is gas-fired and French doors lead to the rear garden.
Double doors open from the hallway, which also has solid birch flooring, to a front sittingroom. Each of the four bedrooms has built-in wardrobes. The main bedroom is bright and front facing.
In the bathroom strong blue Italian tiles are used to good decorative effect.
There parking for two cars in the front, hedge rimmed garden.
59 Sutton Park, Sutton, Dublin 5
Four-bed mid-1960s house that has been redesigned
Agent: Douglas Newman Good
