29 Falkland Street, Hyndland, G12

Occupying a preferred first-floor position within a well-kept red sandstone tenement in the heart of Hyndland, this exceptional four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment has been extensively remodelled by the current owners. The internal arrangement has been carefully reconsidered and the entire flat redecorated. The result is a home that retains everything people love about a traditional Glasgow tenement, but works considerably better for modern life.

Most importantly, the public rooms are now where you want them to be.

To the front of the building, overlooking Falkland Street, what would traditionally have been the principal bedroom is now a beautiful, separate living room. High ceilings, intricate cornicing and a broad three-section window provide the scale and architectural detail you would hope to find in a flat of this period, while the owners’ use of colour gives the room a much more contemporary character.

The former living room has been completely reimagined as the heart of the home: an enormous kitchen and dining space measuring over seven metres in length. It is a decision that completely changes how the flat is lived in.

A large central island provides somewhere for breakfast, coffee or company while cooking, with extensive cabinetry and integrated appliances running along the walls. Beyond it, the beautiful curved bay has been given over to the dining table. It is hard to imagine a better use for it. Original cornicing, timber flooring and the traditional fireplace remain, sitting comfortably alongside a thoroughly modern kitchen rather than competing with it.

It is exactly the sort of room where people naturally end up. Dinner can be cooking, somebody can be sitting at the island, others around the table, and nobody has been banished to a kitchen at the back of the flat.

There is another advantage to having both public rooms to the front. Number 29 sits on the odd-numbered side of Falkland Street, meaning the front of the flat catches the sun from around midday and through the afternoon, often into the evening depending on the time of year. With both the living room and kitchen/dining room now occupying this side of the apartment, it is a particularly nice part of the reconfiguration.

The layout continues towards the rear, where the master bedroom is positioned away from the main public rooms and benefits from its own en-suite shower room. There are three further bedrooms, all large doubles.

There is also a beautifully finished family bathroom and, particularly useful in a home of this size, a separate laundry room and additional storage.

Throughout, the investment made by the current owners is obvious without the flat ever feeling overdone. The kitchen and bathrooms have been remodelled and relocated, the apartment has been redecorated throughout, and contemporary vertical radiators, lighting and finishes have been introduced.

The central hallway deserves a mention too. In many Glasgow tenements it is simply the route between rooms; here, its scale gives the apartment a sense of arrival and allows the different parts of the home to feel connected without everything becoming open plan.

If you live in Falkland Street, you're surrounded by handsome sandstone tenements, yet only moments from the neighbourhood’s cafés, restaurants and independent shops. Hyndland railway station is close by, as are excellent transport links across the city, while the wider amenities of Hyndland, Dowanhill and Byres Road are all readily accessible.

What the current owners have done particularly well at 29 Falkland Street is resist the temptation simply to make an old flat look new. Instead, they have thought about how a four-bedroom tenement should actually work.

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