With a built-in wood-burning pizza oven and fitness studio on site, you can cancel the gym membership and any future Deliveroo orders too, and soak up the sun in this four-bedroom family home
If your family home goals include a well-presented interior, a sunny south-facing back garden, with a deck featuring a built-in pizza oven and BBQ area, a garden room gym and a supremely tidy tool shed, this suburban four-bed semi in Blackrock is in personal best territory.
It offers the kind of quiet life where you can have friends around and never have to order Deliveroo again.
Address: Dunehaven, 29 Springhill Avenue, Blackrock, County Dublin, A94 A342
Asking price: €895,000
Agent: Janet Carroll
Dunehaven, a four-bedroom, two-bathroom, dormer bungalow, nails everything families need, from ample accommodation to a supremely tidy tool shed cum workshop, where one suspects some of the pallet furniture and built-in seating on its south-facing timber deck may have started life.
The workshop has double doors at the front, where you can bring materials in, and a door opening directly into the garden to bring them out and put them in situ.
It might just be the living equivalent of food culture’s farm-to-fork.
And if there are foodies in the family, this is a home where you can stick some burgers on the grill, to snack on while you wait for the pizza dough to proof, set a timer and do a workout in the home gym in the garden room, while you wait.
This is a make your own pizza from scratch house. There’s a built-in oven in the back garden, which is sizeable and south-facing.
When fired up, the pizza oven delivers the kind of Neapolitan-style pizza with a crispy thin crust that blisters.
Set on a suburban street in Blackrock, the property has off-street parking at the front and abounds with Deansgrange Cemetery at the back.
The B2 Ber-rated residence has big windows beaming light throughout.
The front door is at the side of the house, with the hall creating a natural divide between the rooms on the ground floor.
This is where the guest w.c. is located
There’s a well-balanced living room at the front where a wood-burning stove has been set into the fireplace.
The large eat-in kitchen is at the back. It has grey gloss cabinetry, an island with a prep sink and a dining area that opens out to the sun-soaked timber deck.
Upstairs, there are four bedrooms, three of which are doubles. The principal bedroom has a walk-through wardrobe featuring mirrored doors.
All the other rooms have homework stations – perfect for kids of school or college age. All enjoy dormer windows.
The garden, its width and orientation, is one of this home’s real selling points. It is almost as wide as it is long and features a large timber deck – big enough to dance on. One whole side of it is given over to built-in seating.
The adjacent side features the outdoor kitchen area, which includes a built-in pizza oven, a gas-fired barbecue, timber countertops and a large Belfast sink. You could cook all of Christmas dinner out here.
Extending to 140 square metres across its two floors, there is scope to extend into the workshop cum tool shed, but having this kind of space to noodle and make things in modern homes is rare. With the renewed interest in DIY, this is a room already kitted out with the worktops and tool space you might need. A hobbyist could buy and restore vintage furniture or cars here.
Agents Janet Carroll is seeking €895,000 for the B2 Ber-rated semi-detached house.
