As you might expect, since the announcement in the budget of a scheme to incentivise home improvements in Dublin, I have been discussing it with plenty of interested homeowners. Anything…

  At the outset of a project, when things are being discussed in a general way and nothing too specific has been nailed down yet, it can often happen that…

This being the first blog post for quite a while, I find myself taking stock a small bit… Over the last 5 years I have been working with homeowners to…

A search for a book on gardening and horticulture brought me to the Rathgar Bookshop. I had heard that they did a good line in gardening books, and the potted…

I was flicking through a back issue of the Architectural Association of Ireland’s annual awards (as you do) when I came across this little gem designed by Noel J Brady.…

This is the first of (hopefully) a series of blog posts on interesting and successful small spaces. In a row of shops between Terenure and Harold's Cross, this cafe /…

The Bernard Shaw, on South Richmond St, surrounded as it is by dereliction and self-inflicted graffiti, tends to attract your attention from time to time. A cool looking place, I…

Move or improve? Make something from what you’ve got or pull up stakes and head off into the wild blue yonder of a new house? This is a question I’ve…

  This was another case where something caught my eye. There is a new breed of businesses that have been set up post credit crunch and have had to get…