A bit of bungalow bliss from the 1960s

Clonskeagh - €1m : When P V Doyle built the detached bungalows that line Leinster Lawn in 1960 they must have seemed the height of modernity. The Clonskeagh houses have huge picture windows to the front and the livingroom is divided from the hall by a glazed partition - then very fashionable and now coming back into vogue as people try to find more and more ways to bring natural light into their homes.

Number 21 Leinster Lawn is now for sale, by auction through Lisney on March 16th with a guide of €1 million.

This is a large and very bright house with six bedrooms over 196 sq m (2,110 sq ft). The owners who have lived here since the mid 1970s extended in the way that was envisaged by the builder. The houses were built with large windows on the upper floor to the back and the front, although it was up to the owners to decide if they wanted to actually use this space for bedrooms.

The current owners of number 21 eventually put a staircase and several additional roof lights in during the 1980s and there are now two very large double bedrooms upstairs and a good shower room.

Downstairs the accommodation is, as is the case in all bungalows, flexible. The livingroom runs the width of the front of the house and is obviously wide at 8.6 metres.

There is a good eat-in kitchen and four more bedrooms, although one of these is now used as an extra, smaller livingroom.

New owners will obviously figure out their own usage. The bathroom is very dated with black tiles and a pink suite.

There is a garage to the side so this is a wide site giving a good, private back garden that is 20 metres long and lined with an attractive selection of mature trees. There is off-street car-parking to the front for a couple of cars.