One storey seeks happy ever after

Bungalows may have fallen out of fashion in recent years but are likely to have practical appeal for quite a few buyers. A detached 1970s four-bedroom bungalow in a quiet Killiney cul-de-sac, modernised in 2007 and freshly decorated, could suit somebody downsizing – or even another family like the one living there now.

The current owners are moving house to accommodate a growing brood, but it’s been a happy home, with a garden big enough to accommodate playhouses and a trampoline.

Number 19 Killiney Avenue, a 190sq m (2,045sq ft) detached four-bedroom bungalow, is for sale for €925,000 by private treaty through Sherry FitzGerald. The house is near the bottom of a cul-de-sac at the Church Road end of Killiney Avenue, a road that links Church Road to Killiney Hill Road. It’s a neighbourhood with lots of 1970s American-style houses alongside a handful of big Victorian homes.

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The house is very private: the front is hidden behind electronically-controlled gates that open into a small, well-planted front garden. The walnut-floored front hall is bright – the current owners put a large skylight over it just inside the entrance.

A long lounge/family room runs from the front to the back at the left-hand side of the house, connected by sliding doors. The smaller family room looks over the front garden; the lounge has floor-to-ceiling windows and a sliding door opening on to the back patio.

Glass doors from the lounge open into the kitchen/diningroom at the back of the house. The kitchen has tiled floors, a marble-topped island unit and a big American fridge/freezer. The timber-floored dining half of the wide open-plan space is bright, with an arched roof, a wall of windows and sliding doors overlooking the back garden. A narrow room at the side of the house is plumbed for a washing machine and dryer and opens into a side entrance. Outside, a covered side passage provides storage space.

A box bay picture window in the main bedroom – which has a walk-in wardrobe and a fully-tiled en suite shower – looks into the front garden. There are three other bedrooms, one with a small en suite.The family bathroom is fully tiled, has a bath and a shower, and a TV built into the wall over the bath. There’s a good-sized sandstone patio at the back of the house leading down into a wide lawn bordered by well-planted flowerbeds.

There is offstreet parking behind the electronic gates to the front.