Tidy two-up, two-down with knockout garden in Rathfarnham

Built by Cruson Developments in the mid 1990s, Woodfield is a mature estate with lots of green spaces, situated just off Scholarstown Road, close to the M50 in Rathfarnham. It is a modern equivalent of the two-up, two-down terraced houses of Dublin 7 and 8 and the front door opens directly into the livingroom.

The owner, who has been in situ for more than 20 years, has renovated the box-bay-fronted house, most recently installing a solid oak stair rail and covering the stair treads with wood to give the house a more contemporary feel.

The livingroom is set around a gas fire. A door leads through to the eat-in kitchen which has white gloss units and Corian worktops, courtesy of her SSIA savings. Installed 10 years ago, it has aged well.

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French doors open out to the property’s best feature – its landscaped back garden. East-facing, it allows morning sun into the kitchen.

The paved and gravelled design has raised beds with specimen shrubs and in one the owner has made a kitchen garden. There are benches and seating areas to catch the sun at different times of the day.

There is a place to conceal the bins too – though the next owner might prefer to have this at the front of the house to avoid having to wheel them through the property.

Upstairs, the master bedroom overlooks the garden. From here you can see the ongoing works taking place on a large new development of three-, four- and five-bedroom homes whose entrance is on Scholarstown Road.

Called Scholarstown Wood, it is is currently being sold by SherryFitzGerald, also the agent on this property, which has an asking price of €330,000.

The owner uses the second bedroom as a studio-cum-office and has installed a large desk in the box bay window. She replaced the original wardrobes which framed the bed head with sizeable sliding robes which take up more volume in the room. If this room had a bed in it there would be very little space to walk around it. The property, which has a C3 BER rating, measures 75sq m (807sq ft) and has off-street parking for one car.