3/23/2023 0 Comments My shutter counter![]() It looks like a genuine period room, with coving, cornicing and a centre rose. The drawingroom on this floor is the width of the house, with two sash windows looking over the field across the road and Dún Laoghaire’s rooftops to Dublin Bay and Howth. Details such as several chrome-covered electric sockets in the livingroom floor show how much thought went into the design. The space is floored throughout with a pale hardwood called panga. ![]() It has a glazed roof and nearly floor-to-ceiling windows – with those integral blinds – overlooking the front. The livingroom has a marble fireplace with a log-effect gas fireplace, vibrant yellow panels on one wall and a dining area in what the agent calls “an orangery-style” space. They installed it to future-proof their home. The circular glass two-person wheelchair-accessible lift beside the stairs is completely visible, a surprisingly attractive as well as a practical feature in a house with about 39 steps to the top floor, says Ann. The porch opens into the ground floor, effectively a nearly completely open-plan kitchen/living/diningroom, painted, like most of the house, in neutral colours. The attention to detail is clear from the moment you walk into the front porch, which has a glazed roof and on the right, a leaded stained glass window designed by the couple and made by Dublin stained glass artist Alan Tomlin. It’s more like a semidetached house, built adjacent to number 7 Tivoli Terrace South. Tivoli Mews is not what most of us think of as a mews house, typically a house at the back of a much larger house. Meticulously maintained, it’s in walk-in condition. ![]() Now Tivoli Mews, the 143.5sq m (1,545sq ft) two-bed is for sale through Sherry FitzGerald, seeking €1.25 million. The rebuild was designed by Glasthule architect Andrew Lohan (whose restoration of a west of Ireland church was featured on Channel 4′s Grand Designs) but the couple handled the high-spec interior design themselves. It’s clear that little expense was spared on Tivoli Mews, a second home for Ann, a professional pianist, and her husband Jim, a management consultant the English couple is moving back to live full-time in the UK because of changed personal circumstances. And although modern, with a B3 Ber, it has period style, with sash windows, centre roses and cornicing created – like all the joinery – by local artisans, says Ann, one of the vendors. Now, after a major rebuild that began in 2017, it is a three-storey, two-bedroom home with many standout design features, such as the circular lift from the ground to the top floor, front windows with “integral Venetian blinds” (encapsulated between two panes of glass), a kitchen that opens directly into the livingroom/diningroom through a wide hatch and a smart Italian bathroom on the first floor. A mews house on a terrace in Dún Laoghaire is striking in many ways: once the stable of a large Victorian on Tivoli Terrace South, it was a two-storey house when its current owners bought it in 2013 for €468,500, according to the Property Price Register.
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