Dim the lights and kick off your shoes. This penthouse is a space you will want to come home to.
Address: The Penthouse at Rockpoint, Newtown Avenue, Blackrock, County Dublin
Rent per month: €15,000
Agent: Owen Reilly
A home designed by one of Ireland’s leading talents, with a bar, games room, and 279 square metres of space, sounds like a call to central casting for a bachelor pad cliché.
Something to suit the likes of Hollywood heroes such as James Bond or John Wick.
But a luxurious let between Blackrock village and Seapoint spins that narrative on its head.
The three-bedroom, three-bathroom tri-aspect eyrie is at the top of Rockpoint, a small yellow brick development, on Newtown Avenue, that has everything renters who can pay €15,000 per month might desire.
This is a much more serene interpretation of top-tier spaces.
Yes, there are hard lines, but there are also soft corners, a dining nook, loungable sofas in its cinema room, and high-spec spa facilities.
The ambient space features a monolith of a kitchen featuring contrasting waterfall marble countertops, supplied by Miller Brothers Stone.
Much of the cabinetry has been staggered to fit flush under the gantry-style stairs, keeping the space looking sleek and clutter-free. O'Gorman Joinery made it and the rest of the joinery in the property.
The below-counter extractor on the island contributes to the sleek silhouette.
Look up and past the mood lighting, and you’ll see exposed sheet steel ceilings where some of the services are exposed.
It doesn’t feel industrial. Rather, it has a cocooning effect thanks to the enveloping nature of the colour-drenching effect on the ceiling and walls.
Painted a muddy green, Green St, one of Roisin Lafferty x Prestige paint colours, its cashmere finish will envelop you.
Deep pile banquet velvet seating set in a C-shape creates an area that could have been lifted from behind the velvet rope of a nightclub’s VIP area.
There is space for everyone living here to stretch out fully in this conversation-pit-inspired TV and movie room.
There’s a dining nook off the kitchen, and a set of stairs leads up from here to a mezzanine level that is set up as a games room.
It could also be a home office.
Back down the stairs, there’s a bar where you can kick off your heels and crush some ice to rustle up a Paloma or a Margarita.
The accommodation is five-star.
Two of the three bedrooms have private balconies.
From here, you can see whether the tide is high or not, should you fancy a stroll down to Seapoint to take a dip.
You could, technically, pull on a towelling robe and head to the swim spot and walk back, dispensing with the need for anything more, save keys to get back into the property.
The principal bedroom suite has all the wellness facilities of a luxury spa.
There’s a teardrop-shaped black bath in the centre of the room for the extroverted, and twin marble sinks in the bathroom.
In addition, there are post-dip-appropriate facilities, a sauna and a separate marble-walled steam room, both with flatteringly kind lighting.
All of this design is courtesy of Roisin Lafferty, the kind of decorator whose attention to detail is what makes the whole place stand out.
Agent Owen Reilly is seeking €15,000 per calendar month for this penthouse on Newtown Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin.
