As promised, a little feedback on the Extension Advice Centre at the Ideal Homes Show. From listening to the people looking for advice (at my stall anyway) there does seem…

I should really have learned how to use the website management system before putting it live! Here is the first version of this news posting. Simon Open Door is an…

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…