Mary Phelan, senior director for Trust & Safety at Google, fulfills her dream of owning a three-storey redbrick house in Dublin 6 after a ten-year renovation process.
The serenity of this home in Ranelagh, Dublin 6 belies the persistence and ingenuity required during the renovation process … “From the age of 17, when I moved to Dublin for university, I aspired to a three-storey redbrick house in Dublin 6 or Dublin 4,” explains Mary Phelan, senior director for Trust & Safety at Google.
To fulfil this dream, she and her husband, Aiden Fitzpatrick, flipped three properties over a ten-year period before acquiring a three-storey redbrick house in Mount Pleasant, Ranelagh, in need of renovation. “It was built in 1847, and had many intact original features so we focused on their maintenance – removing every piece of original wood from the window shutters to the door surrounds and floorboards, bringing them back to their former glory – before reinstating them.”The house also had a standalone apartment in the basement, where the couple lived for a year as they worked on the upper floors. “We then moved upstairs and started work on the basement and a 100 sq m extension,” says Mary. This extension was a test of the couple’s persistence and practicalit
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