Here's a bit of something old, something new - this five-storey townhouse in the West End is being developed by Scotdale Ltd into four luxury homes ranging in price from #130,000 to more than #200,000.

For #130,000 you will get a two bedroom basement flat in the building. The area will no doubt help when prospective buyers are shocked by the price, but these are to be luxury flats.

The garden flat of No 17 is designed to offer maximum space on a limited floor area. It offers some very pleasing design elements. The combination lounge and dining room, for example, takes up the entire width of the apartment, and will open on to the rear gardens through no fewer than three patio doors.

At more than 26ft wide this is a substantial room and would be a pleasant spot for summer dinner parties, with the doors thrown open to the garden grounds, which will be landscaped as part of the development.

The kitchen in this garden flat will accommodate a dining table and chairs if the new owner of the house decides to keep the largest room as a living room only, and both bedrooms are good doubles in size, with the usual en suite to the master.

Upstairs the next flat in the building is to be developed over two levels and will be placed on the market at #190,000. This home will have four bedrooms on the upper level and a substantially more spacious kitchen for dining in.

The lounge is a little smaller than in the downstairs apartment, but this maisonette offers the space-saving advantage of a utility area and the added convenience of an extra toilet on the ground floor.

Upstairs, all four bedrooms are large enough to accommodate a double bed, though the fourth, long and narrow, might be more useful as a study.

Slightly less expensive than its maisonette neighbour, the second-floor flat has three bedrooms and is on the market at #160,000. The double-glazed, bay-windowed lounge is entered from the hall through double doors and accesses the kitchen directly.

Again, this kitchen is big enough for dining if the occupant of the flat wants to keep the living room for relaxing, although one of the other bedrooms might make a dining room if desired.

The top two floors of the building are taken up by the four bedroom penthouse at #215,000. The top floor lounge promises to be the most interesting room in the whole development, taking up the whole width of the house and glazed at the front from one wall to another.

A separate dining room/sitting room to the rear opens out on to a sun terrace overlooking back garden and the rooftops of the West End. The development is scheduled for completion by the middle of May and sales are being handled by The Robb Agency on 0141 337 2323.