A well-groomed villa-style house close to Sandymount seafront at 33 Seafort Avenue, Dublin 4, is expected to fetch over £500,000 at a Sherry FitzGerald auction on June 13th. The four-bedroom semi-detached house has around 1,600 sq ft of space and a flexible layout.

The current owners bought the house about 11 years ago and have made structural and decorative changes since then to accommodate their three young children. They added on a large family room to the rear, leading off the kitchen, and this is obviously the most popular space in the house since it has lots of light and overlooks the back garden.

There are two entrances. Visitors go up the granite steps to the front door, while the family takes steps down to the lower door opening into a spacious tiled lobby.

Downstairs, off the hall, is a pretty drawingroom with French doors leading to a patio. On the other side of the hall is a diningroom painted in fuchsia pink, with a cast-iron fireplace. A door leads through to the kitchen, a long galley-style room that opens up into the big family room that doubles as a dining space for family meals. It has patio doors leading to the garden. Upstairs, the main bedroom is to the left of the hall door. To the right is a bright study that leads on to another bedroom. These two rooms could become a bedroom with a large en suite bathroom. To the rear of the hall is the third bedroom. The fully-tiled family bathroom is on the lower level.

The big surprise is the 120 ft long back garden, which has been lavishly planted and tended. There is a large walled patio directly behind the house and double gates open on to a lane that is accessed from nearby Dromard Terrace.