Rochestown, Cork€720,000 |
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Size |
184 sq m (2,000 sq ft) |
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Bedrooms |
4 |
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Bathrooms |
4 |
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BER |
B2 |
Let there be light: Sigma Homes extension worked wonders at €720,000 Monswood
HE benefit of using an architect when extending a family home is clearly shown in the case of 12 Monswood. The good-sized, four-square family home has come up for sale in a Cork development where resales have always been few and far between.
12 Monswood
For example, they credit the architect with proposing a slight angle or kink to the add-on’s far-end glazed section, so that light gets ‘bounced’ or reflected across some of the top four angled glass panes, effectively above the sliding door height, at the start and end of the day, in the extra-height family space, now home to a large corner sofa and with an easy inside-out flow.
The family used Cullen View Interiors for their kitchen fit-out, as well as Celtic Interiors for other built-ins.
The work they tackled in 2016 includes new floors, some vertical-mounted rads, new doors (sliding pocket doors in one instance), skirtings and architraves, so the look and feel is far more contemporary than in the original build.
Sliding, glazed pocket doors link the kitchen side to one of the two front reception rooms, each of which has bay windows and coved ceilings, while one has a fireplace and a well-finished oak floor, a match for the oak also in the central hall. There’s a second oak-floored reception room across the hall, with a single, opaque glazed door back to the dining room.
Up a carpeted stairs and off a softly carpeted landing are four bedrooms, one per corner, all with coved ceilings and built-ins. Two of the bedrooms have en suites, and the main family bathroom has neutral tiling and yet another shower, over the bath.
A number of the neighbours have, over time, extended up into the attics of these sturdy Monswood detacheds with roof trusses, allowing easy conversion, and the landing is big enough to allow for a second stairs without eating into any of the four double bedrooms.
The attention to lighting is carried inside, where there’s funky controllable LED lighting in a created shadow gap in the ceilings by the dining table, made possible after alterations to facilitate the necessary installation of steel RSJs after some of the original internal walls were taken down for the new open plan space: purple for parties and green for St Patrick’s Day festivities, anyone?
Like a brand new home, in a 25-year-old development many in Cork will never have come across before.
12 Monswood
This Rochestown home is definitely not showing its age thanks to ongoing investment by the vendors, writes Tommy Barker
Pictures Ted Murphy – Irish Examiner
Rochestown, Cork€720,000 |
|
|
Size |
184 sq m (2,000 sq ft) |
|
Bedrooms |
4 |
|
Bathrooms |
4 |
|
BER |
B2 |
HE benefit of using an architect when extending a family home is clearly shown in the case of 12 Monswood. The good-sized, four-square family home has come up for sale in a Cork development where resales have always been few and far between.
12 Monswood
For example, they credit the architect with proposing a slight angle or kink to the add-on’s far-end glazed section, so that light gets ‘bounced’ or reflected across some of the top four angled glass panes, effectively above the sliding door height, at the start and end of the day, in the extra-height family space, now home to a large corner sofa and with an easy inside-out flow.
The family used Cullen View Interiors for their kitchen fit-out, as well as Celtic Interiors for other built-ins.
The work they tackled in 2016 includes new floors, some vertical-mounted rads, new doors (sliding pocket doors in one instance), skirtings and architraves, so the look and feel is far more contemporary than in the original build.
Sliding, glazed pocket doors link the kitchen side to one of the two front reception rooms, each of which has bay windows and coved ceilings, while one has a fireplace and a well-finished oak floor, a match for the oak also in the central hall. There’s a second oak-floored reception room across the hall, with a single, opaque glazed door back to the dining room.
Up a carpeted stairs and off a softly carpeted landing are four bedrooms, one per corner, all with coved ceilings and built-ins. Two of the bedrooms have en suites, and the main family bathroom has neutral tiling and yet another shower, over the bath.
A number of the neighbours have, over time, extended up into the attics of these sturdy Monswood detacheds with roof trusses, allowing easy conversion, and the landing is big enough to allow for a second stairs without eating into any of the four double bedrooms.
The attention to lighting is carried inside, where there’s funky controllable LED lighting in a created shadow gap in the ceilings by the dining table, made possible after alterations to facilitate the necessary installation of steel RSJs after some of the original internal walls were taken down for the new open plan space: purple for parties and green for St Patrick’s Day festivities, anyone?
Like a brand new home, in a 25-year-old development many in Cork will never have come across before.
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