Celebrate creativity, individuality and clever design in houses across Ireland and all earn your home of the year to win!
“A home is not just about a good design: it has to be functional with a layout that works, lighting that improves a space and the ability to grasp views. But above all, a really amazing home should have a heart and soul.” So says Hugh Wallace, Amanda bones and Siobhan Lam, the judges of RTés popular Home of the year show. Here is a preview of the seven finalists and their finished projects …
Mary Phelan and Aiden Fitzpatrick
Mary and Aiden bought their periodic house in Ranelagh in Co Dublin in 2005 and carried out extensive renovation work, which did most of the work themselves over a period of four years, as in The shiny interiors. The couple always had to own and renovate an old Dublin town house, and although this was a great love of love, they still love everything about it.
Roisin Collins and Matteo Bandiera
Roisin and Matteo bought their house in Dublin from the 1930s in 2020. They tackled its renovation over several years by combining their know -how: Roisin, an architect, designed it while Matteo put their ideas into practice. They redesigned the layout to maximize the room and were inspired by the middle of the century and Scandinavian design styles with clear lines and natural materials to achieve warmth.
Jenny Anne from Dublin lives with her husband and two children in this contemporary new building. She was enthusiastic about building an A-rating house. When this limited side appeared, she took the chance to redesign it. The new approach to city life uses a dilapidated garage structure in the back of an existing property and divides a single action into two apartments.
Lynne Clarke and Nick Drew
This former nursing home in Co Wicklow, which was built in 1862, was free for ten years before buying in 2022. Lynne and Nick spent two years to renovate him from the ground up to renovation and the entire back, to build an expansion, to release the field windows in periods in the style and to bring the entire house to a calculation, while all possible features of the original features were kept.
Vivian Wong and Philip McKendry
In 2021, Vivian and Philip bought a house in Co Kildare, which had been unfinished and vacant since the financial crash of 2008. They moved into an empty cover without a kitchen, floors or even a functional bathroom, but in just three weeks the changes in the interior were complete. They overtook the inner function of the house with a decor in a contemporary style of the middle of the century.
Claire and Seán Fox from Co Tippery converted a former shop into a house. The property was built in the 1860s and they bought it in 2020. They kept as much from the old building as possible by exposing chests of drawers, wardrobes and the original spindles from the store. Claire worked with her father, a retired engineer, to adapt a large part of the furniture, including the production of a back splash from the copper water cylinder and even a bunk bed in kitchen cabinets!
Amy and Eoin fell in love with their house of the 1970s in Co Limerick, which they could bring to an A3 from a D3 overvaluation. The property is a wrong layout with the main living area and the kitchen on the first floor. Make the best of your garden. The house is a passion project for Amy, an interior designer who loved to unleash the space, to unleash her creativity.
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