Q&A with Aoife

Favourite features?

The bifold doors. The house used to be quite dark and it’s great to have it so bright now. We leave the bifold door open for most of the summer, we’re in and out all the time, it makes everything so much more sociable.

Our architect at the time was trying to convince us to go for a sliding door. It was one of the things we argued about the most. He kept trying to convince us not to get the bifolds, we thought he must have shares in a sliding door company. We’re so delighted we did, it’s the best thing. Last summer it was open every single day and we’ve had no mechanical issues whatsoever.

What would you change?

The only thing would be to put a real set of stairs up to our attic. The pull down steps are awkward to get up and down and it means we can’t use the space as well as we would like. Eventually we probably should shelve the attic properly and make it a more useful space.

Would

you do it again?

Absolutely. But only with the same builder.