carefully tended five-bed for €1.595m

“What can I tell you about this wonderful house?” asks its owner, who has lived in five bright, welcoming Edwardian beds for nearly 18 years.

The charm of 35 Mountain View Rd. in Ranella is evident from the street. This house and its neighbor display distinctive facades with double box windows. Constructed in 1910, it has a front garden with rails and pebbles and a wide porch under a red brick circular arch.

Inside, it’s a comfortable and deeply cuddly home, which the owners have lovingly updated while honoring its integrity, similar to their predecessors, advertising professionals Frank Sheeran and Catherine Donnelly. It’s a functional family home that has taken on many uses over the years, says the current owner, adding that a Sheerin Harp lager ad, which shows “Sally O’Brien and the way she might look at you,” was filmed here in 1980.

The current owner remembers hosting cookery shows in the kitchen when their children were young, and now runs a psychotherapy practice from one of the upstairs rooms. As the family settled in, they took time to consider their needs; Four years later, in 2008, they expanded the kitchen and in 2010 they converted the attic. The kitchen extension, designed by architect Nuada MacEoin, is a tall, bright rectangle with space for cooking, eating, and sitting on a folded sofa. There are several cupboards, hidden utilities, a large range cooker, and a bar counter under the ceiling light; The windows at the end and on the corner window overlook the garden.

Bi-fold glass doors open onto a spacious patio shaded by a retractable awning; A walkway goes into the side gate and the original tailgate opens into a handy coat store. There is a guest toilet with shower under the stairs.

MacEoin designed interesting angles in the cedar-clad expansion profile: “We didn’t want a big football field for the kitchen,” says the owner, taking pride in the natural materials.

The park is quiet and private, facing east and bordering the gardens of Merton Drive. Sean Keighran of Creative Garden Design created a cheerful blend of textures, with a raised patio built to trap the evening sun and a flower bed flanked by a suitable wall to sit on. His weed shop offers a feature of the tool, next to a cherry tree still in delicate flower.

Inside, at the hall level, those woods burn in the living room fireplace; This front reception room gets nice light through a large window and an almost identical marble fireplace in the back reception room has a gas fireplace. Rooms can be closed with sliding doors but when opened, they create a serene space, painted in soft blue and carpeted in grey, with built-in bookshelves and low ceiling roses.

Upstairs at the back there are two bedrooms, one with a Velux plus window, and the family bathroom has a bathtub and separate shower. There are two large double bedrooms upstairs, with built-in storage and very inviting fireplaces; The fifth bedroom, above the hall, is used as an office.

At the top of the 215 sq m (2,314 sq ft) home is a new staircase that matches the original, a large loft with pantry under eaves and Velux windows looking out onto Dublin Bay. More ceiling lights above the stairs flood the hall with natural light. New owners may want to add another bathroom upstairs, perhaps by converting one of the smaller bedrooms, and BER treat the E1.

Mountain View Road is at the end of Beechwood Village, near Luas Station and from the shops of Dunville Street: “Once you live in Ranelagh, it’s hard to live anywhere else,” says the owner. The number 35 is for sale through Lisney, with an asking price of 1.595 million euros.