Irish author Cecelia Ahern's €2m former house, and mature gardens in new home

The bestselling novelist sold her house in Abbotts Hill, Malahide earlier this year, and still loves living in the locality where her children can have the same childhood as she did

Irish author Cecelia Ahern has found incredible success thanks to her literary talents, selling over 25 million copies of her 18 novels across multiple continents and languages. Her new novel Into the Storm is out on October 10th.

While she may prefer to write elsewhere, undoubtedly some snippets of her popular books will have been penned in her home. Cecelia sold her Malahide residence this year, after snapping up the home in 2002.

The four-bedroom detached family residence in Malahide, north Dublin, went on sale in April with an asking price of €2million.

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It has since sold, and the author is still residing in the locality, and delights at the fact that she can remain local, sending her own kids to the school she attended.

The previous property - 18 Abbotts Hill, Malahide, Co. Dublin - was tucked away in a quiet cul de sac in walking distance from the local village.

Just before it was constructed in 2002, it was bought off-plan by the author, according to Sherry Fitzgerald, and she lived there for over a decade.

The L-Shaped home has many tasteful features, and is noted for its décor and presentation which is of the highest standard throughout.

The home is impressive from entering, with and entrance hall that features a wrought iron staircase and gallery landing overhead.

Double doors then lead through to a large dining room with hardwood floor and a large picture window overlooking the professionally landscaped rear garden.

In her new home, she has embarked on a renovation, and one of the key things she wanted was to make the house more sustainable.

"Our renovation — it was a big investment — and making it more environmentally friendly. We've had solar panels installed and an air-to-water heating system. It's supposed to be a very sustainable house," she told House Beautiful.

When it comes to her new home, she likes to keep things personal, and opted for pale walls with pops of colour in other places, with unique art and furniture.

"My decorating style is like the Firmdale hotels, which are stunning. I've gone for similar pale walls, with pops of colour from quirky chairs. It's not a magazine house, but it is a home," she said.

She loves candles too, with Jo Malone's Lime, Basil and Mandarin a favourite, so no doubt her new home has a warm ambiance thanks to her affinity for a flickering candle.

Like many people, the outdoors element of her home is important, and she describes it as having a countryside feel - which can be difficult to achieve near the capital.

"Lots of mature trees in my garden. It has a countryside feel, a lot of rabbits, foxes and badgers."

The Ahern family are known to be gardeners, with Cecelia saying previously that her father Bertie Ahern, former Irish Taoiseach, has green fingers.

“I do the watering, and it’s for the kids. We plant it, and my dad’s kind of the boss of it all," she said of the family allotment.

The author and her husband David have three children.

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