CASTLEKNOCK: €1.225M:FLOORS, CEILINGS, doors and a myriad small touches in 73 Castleknock Park, Castleknock, Dublin 15 are proof that a determined eye and hard work can transform a suburban house into a unique home. The colour and feel of French oak sets the style everywhere; downstairs where the floors are of 200-year-old parquet salvaged from a château, upstairs where contemporary French oak has been laid.

The banisters and stairs are also of French oak while doors everywhere have been hand-made from old beams to the vendor’s design.

All of this, along with a multiplicity of Velux windows and a two-storey extension, gives a sense of space and continuity of style to the 186sq m (2,000sq ft) in which there are five bedrooms, three reception rooms and open-plan kitchen/breakfastroom/sunroom.

For sale by private treaty through Sherry FitzGerald, the house is asking €1.225m.

Built circa 1974 and set back from a road that is leafier than most in Castleknock, it has had its rear garden truncated to allow for the extension. The result is that wide kitchen windows and the L-shaped corner that is the sunroom overlook a compact, walled garden with a shed, creepers and high bamboo plants.

A trio of Velux windows in the extension throw light onto cream-coloured kitchen units built around an Aga and onto an old-style Smeg fridge-freezer busy making its own style statement. Double wooden doors lead off to a play room. A front-facing sittingroom has a limestone surround fireplace as well as Marvin sash windows which work well with the wooden door and its finishing touch brass finger-plates.

With a Velux in the ground floor hallway and three on the first floor landing, this is not a house with a shortage of light. Sash windows add pleasantly to two front facing bedrooms while in the main, en suite bedroom light from similar windows is caught in the mirrored doors of a wall of fitted, Cherrywood wardrobes. The en suite has a double shower and mosaic tiles and in the family bathroom there are Villeroy Boch fittings and a Fired Earth marble floor.

73 Castleknock Park, Castleknock, Dublin 15

Five-bedroom detached house with floors from French château

Agent: Sherry FitzGerald