RIAI Simon open door
The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) and the Simon Communities are now taking bookings for their Simon Open Door campaign, now in its thirteenth year. RIAI Registered…
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Ask an architect and make a difference
It’s not every day that your donation to a really worthwhile cause gets you something in return but that’s exactly what is happening from 13th to 19th May 2017 during…
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Cash incentives to restore properties in rural areas
House buyers are to be offered renovation grants to restore properties in small towns and villages as part of the Government’s long-promised plan to revive rural Ireland. Cash grants for…
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Help-to-Buy scheme opens for applications today
An income tax rebate incentive is being introduced to assist first time buyers of new homes to fund the deposit required under the Central Bank macro-prudential rules. A
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Sligo Holiday Home
Irish Designer Homes: We bring you the homes Irish architects, engineers and other house building designers live in. Derek Treneman MRIAI This self-built refurbished home in Co Sligo is a…
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ROI’s Budget 2017 measures favour self-builds
An income tax rebate incentive is being introduced to assist first time buyers of new homes to fund the deposit required under the Central Bank macro-prudential rules. A
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County Clare Holiday Home
Showing signs of age after just 25 years, this self build home nestling in a Co Clare housing estate was the last place Niall and Sinead O’Connell expected to find their future holiday home. But the views and location were too good to pass up in an area where houses are hard to find…
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Mark’s County Down Extension – Irish designer homes
23 years ago Mark designed and built his own home and in the process vowing he’d never extend it, but as the family grew in size he reversed that decision and added an open plan living area with a vaulted ceiling to the newly County Down extension…
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House on Stilts
Woodturner Max Brosi dreamt of building his own abode for most of his life but it wasn’t until he met his now-wife Anna Marie that the decision to self-build was made.
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Irish Designer Homes – Barry Fletcher
This house in Co Down was built on the footprint of an old stone cottage set on a sloping site with coastline views. The concept was to combine the ‘old and new’ traditions of local vernacular architecture – sleeping quarters in keeping with the original cottage style, living areas contemporary.
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Ireland’s first timber kit house?
Offsite construction may seem like a modern building method but in Ireland it dates back to at least 1895, the year in which Ken and Patrice Brennan’s unusual bungalow was built. X
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Zero Energy SelfBuild
A few months into their project Sinead and Jonathan Willox of Co Tyrone decided to go zero energy selfbuild, but was it worth it? When you’re building your own house it’s…
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