Could this property offer a way to reimagine larger homes so that parents and adult children can cohabit while also leading separate lives?
What do you do if you have kids of young adult age and want to try to support their bid for independence, but also need some space to call your own?
This five-bedroom property contains three separate units, where parents and kids can cohabit while also enjoying autonomy.
Address: 20 Brighton Avenue, Rathgar, Dublin 6, D06 T998
Asking price: €1.095 million
Agents: Sherry FitzGerald Terenure
For those with the funds to purchase, it offers a modern solution to a modern family dilemma.
Kids are living at home for longer.
In families of older kids living at home, every member feels that their lives are being compromised.
Double-fronted and smartly decorated, could number 20 Brighton Avenue, just off Rathgar Road, offer a fresh approach for those with the funds to make such a purchase?
The double-fronted, end-terrace residence, which has a C2 Ber-rating, is currently arranged as three separate apartments with a shared access hall.
All enjoy good ceiling heights and large sash windows, washing the rooms in light.
Two of these are at hall level. In each, the living room is at the front, which is east-facing and has pedestrian access.
There’s a one-bedroom unit to the right and a two-bedroom apartment to the left.
Off each living room is a small, internal kitchen.
The bathrooms are internal, and the bedrooms are at the back of the house.
Each has double doors that open out to the west-facing back, which is a sizeable space that has vehicular rear access.
The single bedroom unit extends to about 38 square metres, while the two-bedroom flat is about 52 square metres.
The upstairs apartment is likely where the parents would choose to live.
Presently, it has an open plan kitchen cum living room with two good-sized bedrooms, one at the front, the other at the back.
It has great light, and there is an option to use one of the large bedrooms as a separate living room, giving each parent a space to call their own.
It also means the parents would have ample space to invite the kids to Sunday lunch or dinner and catch up on their lives. This apartment extends to about 58 square metres.
If considering this approach, parents could also charge the kids rent or have them pay their own bills to help them acclimatise to independence.
Families of smaller children might choose to reconfigure the layout to return the property to single usage, while children of elderly parents might also consider the setup.
In this, both the child and the parents would get their own space with the potential to rent out the third unit to help pay for any care.
Whichever option you choose, the property, which extends to 201 square metres, offers light and space throughout and is seeking €1.95 million through agents Sherry FitzGerald Terenure.
The location is first-rate. Brighton Avenue links Brighton Square to Rathgar Avenue. You can access bus corridors on Rathgar Avenue or on Harold’s Cross Road.
