House of the Week: Splendid Blackrock five-bed comes to market for €925k
No 14 Stradbrook Grove in south Co Dublin has undergone a major renovation in recent years
For couples with children, a project that has almost become a rite of passage is taking a years-old semi-detached house and catapulting it into the brave new world of the 21st century.
In 2005, the present owners of No 14 Stradbrook Grove in Blackrock in Co Dublin were househunting. “We were living in a two-bedroom townhouse with our first child and we wanted more space,” the vendor recalls.