This year, once again, I'll be manning the RIAI "talk to an architect" helpdesk at the Ideal Home Show in the RDS. The show is on from Friday afternoon, April…

Once again it is that time of year coming up - the Simon Open Door weekend is only a few weeks away (Saturday and Sunday, May 7th and 8th...). And…

These are a couple of images from a job currently underway in Irishtown - a tiny do-er upper that needed a lot of thought. More to follow... Mick and the…

The latest job to go to site (and nice weather it is for building too) is a micro-extension to a semi-detached house. The original layout of the house had a…

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 /…