Homes Features

Dublin City Cool Blue Cottage

May 13, 2020 Homes Features

A yellow bike with a wicker basket with flowers in it on the front of the bicycle leaning against a cottage.

Spiralling house prices in Dublin left Julie O’Brien and boyfriend Julian Palmer despairing of ever being able to move out of their parent’s homes. Then Julie’s father, property scout and designer Wesley O’Brien spotted this tiny rundown cottage in Dublin city, and persuaded one of his investors to buy it as a renovation project…..

Victorian Country House

April 15, 2020 Homes Features

Decorative artist Jane Willoughby found the perfect home and perfect backdrop to showcase her artwork in this Victorian estate manager’s house in Co Kilkenny.

Paddington Bear, Tutankhamun and Eileen Grey meet in Viking Bray

April 2, 2020 Homes Features

Paddington Bear’s house, the mask of Tutankhamun, Eileen Gray lacquered screens and early Georgian interiors; these are among the inspirations for historic conservation specialist Erica Devine, who created a playful and unique décor in her Victorian home in Bray, Co Wicklow. Read on for fantastic ideas on creating beautiful mise-en-scene in your home!

Hygge Home Here

March 21, 2020 Homes Features

Maija Fitzgerald has brought the practicality and simplicity of interiors in her native Finland to Dublin, creating a hygge home like a hug, right here. You can too!

A Stable Home

March 11, 2020 Homes Features

The journey from an upbringing in an early eighteenth-century manor house in Cranmore, Somerset, to living in a stable block in Co. Carlow is surely a road less travelled, but never one that artist Claudia Roche saw any problem with.

Doctor In The House

October 10, 2019 Homes Features

Large folding glass door in contemporary minimalist kitchen

Alan Smith had already been hunting for a home in Dublin for three years. He wasn’t in a hurry, he preferred to find something that would be just right, which isn’t always easy. ‘I was renting so I could take my time, and I wanted to buy within a specific area, close to both the city centre and my work,’ he says.

The Organic Home

September 22, 2019 Eco-design, Homes Features

Built of steel frame and strawbale construction and finished in lime render, landscape designer Mattthew Shearer describes the design of his Co. Wicklow home as ‘Organic Architecture, ‘ but it also encompasses many of the elements of Biolphilic design as discussed by contributor Joanne Kelly in her earlier article. Inside, the house is startling.

Georgian Splendor

August 18, 2019 Homes Features

‘Every act is creative, removal as well as addition. In an old house, everything has potential to be worth preserving, nothing is less important than something else.’

Architects Douglas Carson and Rosaleen Crushell bought this late-Georgian home when they came back to Dublin after a six-year stint in London, thereby becoming the caretakers of another era in the building’s long history.

The Hidden Gem- A house in a Victorian square with a green in Dublin’s city centre.

August 5, 2019 Homes Features

She heard it on the grapevine…..

‘I had heard a rumour about a hidden gem, a Victorian square with a green in Dublin’s city centre that few people know about, quite a few years ago’, says Aviation Leasing Manager Lynn Guiney. ‘ I researched and found it, and watched as during the boom years, houses in the square in need of complete renovation were fetching up to £1 million.’

Space Wizard Wesley O’Brien in Portobello

July 30, 2019 Homes Features

Space wizard Wesley O’Brien always has a surprise or two up his sleeve…..watch the video to see what clever space savers he has thought up in this Portobello terrace!