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Artists home isa rich canvas

1.45m for period villawith a touchof glass inBlackrockirishtimes.com

A modern glass extension has been added to this handsome renovated period villa since it was last soldeight years ago , writes Frances ORourke

THE IRISH TIMES

Wanted: property guardianswhopay less to protect

Number 2, Grove Avenue,Blackrock, Co Dublin, is onthe market for1.45 million. The mainhouse has beencompletely modernised. Aglass extension has alarge lounge withunderfloor heating and abar

THE handsome front of asemi-detached 19th-cen-tury villa in Blackrock,Co Dublin, conceals asmart modern homewhere a striking glass box exten-sion at the back sits comfortablynext to the renovated original partof the house.

Decorated throughout in neu-tral creams and whites, with occa-sional splashes of colour, its abright home in walk-in condition.

Number 2 Grove Avenue is forsale through Sherry FitzGerald for1.45 million interestingly, thesame guide price it had when itwent to auction eight years ago,

before the extension was built. (Itwas withdrawn and sold laterapparently for closer to 2 mil-lion).

Most of the renovation had beendone then, but all the bathroomshave been upgraded recently bythe owners, who live abroad. Theextension was only built in 2008,and designed by NBK Architects.

The villa is one of those wide,upside-down houses like those onnearby Waltham Terrace; number2, however, is just one of two onGrove Avenue, a street abouthalfway Mount Merrion Avenue,between Blackrock and the N11.

They are wide but shallow

houses: steps lead up from a largegravelled front garden withparking for at least four cars tothe front door.

Two medium-sized receptionrooms open off the front hall: tothe right, a sittingroom, to the left,a room used as a study.

Both of them have original pol-ished floors, tall sash windows,ceiling roses and large marble fire-places.

Up a short flight of stairs arethree bedrooms (two doubles anda single) ranged across the back ofthe house: the main bedroom has afully-tiled cream coloured en suitewith a huge walk-in shower.

A circular stained glass portholewindow over double sinks adds asplash of colour to the family bath-room. A short flight of stairs downfrom the front hall is where every-thing turns modern: the wide,open-plan kitchen/diningroom isstill in the original part of thehouse, but it has been completelymodernised.

At one side is the SieMatickitchen, with a granite toppedisland and a large American-stylefridge; at the other is a table thatseats 10. The space is floored incherrywood, and tiled at thekitchen end. A few steps downtowards the front of the house off

this space are two large doublebedrooms and another bathroom.

The large lounge in the exten-sion at the back of the house,which opens off the kitchen-dining-room, is all modern. There areglass walls on two sides (withremote-controlled electronicblinds providing privacy); under-floor heating; a bar in the corner; alarge TV inset into the wall; and asound system controlled from acupboard in the corner.

Widesteps lead down into thelawned back garden, with its orig-inal stone walls. Theres a patio onone side; on the other, a smallputting green.

FANCY living in a former conventschool, factory, hotel or church from as little as 30 per week?Camelot Properties is desperatefor live-in guardians, according toits regional manager in Ireland,Damian Woods.

The deal being offered by thecompany to tenants is cheap rentin exchange for keeping an eye onlargely empty buildings. Peoplewho own empty buildings getsecurity through occupation inCamelots words.

And with so many buildingshere in receivership, the company which set up here in 2006 has alot of accommodation on offer.The company has a 24-hour tele-phone line for tenants to contact.

Pauline OFarrell, who wentback to college recently, has beenliving in a one-bedroom apartmentin a big house near the Mater Hos-pital in Dublin since May 2010,paying 200 a month.

She has just two neighbours, acouple in the apartment next door.She found Camelot on a website,checked the company out as theychecked her out and has beenhappy living in the apartmentsince then. Im allowed to deco-rate it, she says adding its one ofthe quietest places Ive ever lived.

Basic rules for tenants are nopets, no parties and no children,and they sign a contract whichallows the company to give themfour weeks notice to quit. The con-

tract is a licence agreement, likestaying in a hotel, says Woods.

Camelot is a Dutch company,one of the largest guardian compa-nies in Europe, with 50,000people living there as guardians.So far in Dublin, it has just shy of100 guardians says Woods.

Currently Camelot has fivepeople living in Loreto Abbey,Rathfarnham, paying from 120 to200 a month. Its website ( camel-oteurope.com) shows that accom-modation on offer at the momentincludes space in a hotel in Dun-dalk, in an unusual commercialproperty in Clondalkin and inhouses in various places aroundthe country.

FRANCES OROURKELoreto Abbey, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14: five tenants live here,paying from 120 tro 200 a monthSetanta House Hotel, Celbridge, Co Kildare: rooms to let

cameloteurope.com03.11.11 - metro herald

cameloteurope.com27.03.11 - the sunday times

cameloteurope.com23.03.10 - irish Broker

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