2 The Near, Hazelbrook Square, Churchtown, Dublin 14
Inquiring value: €725,000
Agent: Moovingo (01) 516 9999
New homes are beige inside of when you invest in. Interiors of porridge. It’s a homogenous search that seeks to result in least offense. Which is because they are developed to be that archetypical ‘blank canvas’ — providing a widespread starting level from which every single new proprietor can then run forth and express by themselves.
So why then do so several who acquire the keys to their brand new assets decide to maintain individuals new household colours? To dwell in the porridge? Probably they’re worried of messing it up.
Enter Jen Connell, artwork director of the Packed Property media business and a top rated Instagrammer. She and hubbie Shane’s initially goal upon moving into their new household at Hazelbrook Sq. in Churchtown, Dublin 14, in 2017 was to splash it floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall with glamour.
“Taking inspiration from glamour in the flicks, in audio and the common structure periods jogging from the Georgian by way of to the mid-20th century, we went all out in every space. It took about six months to get it ideal.”
Who else can say that they have their very individual ‘pink only’ space, comprehensive with pink painted piano, pink American vintage-design wall-mounted payphone and pink neon wall symptoms? Practically nothing is permitted in below if it’s not pink. Walls, flooring, ceiling. It fulfils a twin role for Jen — as a songs room (she has also performed in a lot of bands) and since Covid-19, it is been her household do the job station.
“After functioning in here for months, I can validate that it’s completely legitimate what they say about pink — it’s fully chill and calming.”
Connell, who was prolonged a contributor to the interior glossy mag, Residence and Property, and has also labored for RTE, storyboarded her home’s dramatic transformation on her common Instagram feed jenconnell.home. Most effective of all, she and Shane have wholly dispelled the perceived wisdom that new estate homes just can’t do glamour.
In lots of spaces (living place, bed room, landing) the few embrace the a person-tone darkish ground, darkish ceiling glimpse, which helps make their showpiece furnishings and vivid collectibles pop. It will work wonders combined up with the sumptuous blue and green velvets of their settees.
All the procedures are broken listed here. Who, for example, would chuck out their manufacturer new living home hearth in favour of a ridiculously passionate Baroque replica (picked up in Mokum)? But once more, it seriously operates. Though we have artwork deco lighting and Belle Époque prints and splashes above a heat oak parquet floor, a lot of what we see here is silver-monitor influenced.
“I’ve usually been motivated by cinema glamour. I adore David Lynch and my favorite movie of all time is Paris Texas,” suggests Jen. The 1984 Wim Wenders flick leans its camera into neon, graffiti and the art of traditional professional signage. It’s been explained as Edward Hopper on the big screen. So there is neon at No2, tons of it.
The pair bought No2 The Near, a 3-storey four-bed terrace, when the Hazelbrook scheme was launched four yrs in the past on the web-site of the previous HB ice-cream factory.
“We loved the residence from the start with that attractive brick and a bay window column that nods to period of time townhouses of previous. There’s lots of area for entertaining and having spouse and children stay about, which is critical for us. The prime flooring is a godsend. It’s solely supplied over to our grasp bed room suite with lifted sights, an ensuite and a our personal walk-in dressing home.”
Jen led the style demand and Chris suggested, from time to time acting as handbrake on some of her much more outrageous schemes. “We shop vintage genuinely effectively alongside one another, I have to say.”
Now the pair are looking for a rural household to be nearer to relatives. At 1,657 sq ft, the A2-rated household has 4 bedrooms, three bathrooms (Villeroy & Boch), an open up-system kitchen area/dining/residing room with bespoke reliable Ash units. There’s the principal living place and, of course, the all-pink room.
Jen is now chopping a single for Veda Darrow, her audio artwork job but if a new operator opts to continue to keep the glam glimpse, she’ll sit down for a consultation and steer you to all that awesome stuff.
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