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Class conversion Longueville’s converted Old School House is for sale, needing little homework

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Tommy Barker reports

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HE living space at this Longueville, Mallow slight — it’s far grander, and obviously money wasn’t home is first class in more ways than one — it spared in its construction. What’s curious is how well was originally the ‘First’ classroom in a twothe upper floor rooms and windows fit into a structure room school, built about 1890. supposedly designed solely for ground floor, school-day A real slice of local north Cork life in the parish of occupation.

Ballyclough is The Old School House, built to the back Following the passing a few year ago of pioneering of the Longueville House estate, and now owned by Michael O’Callaghan (he planted vineyards, and Jane O’Callaghan of Longueville, whose family took produced Longueville’s own white wine) Jane on (or took back — the O’Callaghans were O’Callaghan has decided to trade back down (or up, dispossessed from the it’s land in the 1600s by confusing?) to Location: Longueville, Mallow Cromwell) the 500 the main Price: €375,000 acre estate and 1720s house once great house, opening more, and Size: 194 sq m (2,000 sq ft) it up to paying guests may consider Bedrooms: 4, all en suite in the 1970s as a 20building from bedroomed hotel. scratch on the BER rating: Pending Jane and the late grounds once Broadband: Yes Michael O’Callaghan the school ‘traded down’ to the finds Best feature: School days were never this good privacy of the old appreciative school, with Michael new owners. overseeing its conversion after they bought it when it She has appointed Catherine McAuliffe of Savills to closed in the 1970s: the introduction of ‘free’ education market the 2,000 sq ft house of character and enhanced and school buses in 1969 by Donagh O’Malley sounded quality, and it comes to market guided at €375,000, on this small, two-class school’s demise with local its half acre landscaped site behind high stone pillars children bussed instead to other, larger schools in and wrought iron gates.

Mallow and Ballyclough.

It is head and shoulders above most simple, ‘by the Built entirely of cut limestone, and roofed in slate, book’ school conversions. Each of the two principal its exterior hasn’t changed hugely — to its credit — in reception rooms, for example, has salvaged old marble 120 years. It was built at the instigation of Jemima fireplaces, with a multi-fuel stove in front of the one in Lucy Longfield, in memory of her husband Richard the family/dining room.

Longfield who died in 1889.

Overhead are four bedrooms, all of them en suite Teachers and former pupils recall it as a two-room with showers, two with baths, and the master bedroom school, with teachers’ room as an extra, but its is stand-out for its shape, character and well, just resemblance to most traditional two-room schools is gentility and charm. Bathrooms, meanwhile, have

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TRADING UP: A house near Tidy Towns Gold medal winner Lismore could be a tidy buy.

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STARTERS: A suburban bungalow home is creating an immediate viewing stir.

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FEATURES: Greenway shows what can be achieved on a tight suburban site.

11 PROPERTY: Kilbolane House, up for sale, is rooted in rich Golden Vale territory and links.

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sink surrounds and window boards in marble — inspired, perhaps, by hotel standards of a decade or two ago.

Far bigger inside than its facade suggests (it’s deep rather than wide) it also has high ceilings, some enhanced internal architecture, such as a wide arch off the long hallway, and while original windows were placed high up to stop pupils being distracted, the O’Callaghans lowered key ones for garden views.

The site is fully enclosed, richly planted and private, and while the old outside privvies are kept for nostalgia and some storage, there’s now also a good modern double garage, faced in stone, with a practical office space office in a portion as well of this detached structure.

VERDICT: Go to the top of the class, worth paying attention to.

INTERIORS DIY WISH LIST ASK THE DESIGNER ANTIQUES

PROPERTY EDITOR Tommy Barker, 021 4802221 property@examiner.ie INTERIORS EDITOR Esther McCarthy, 021 4802386 interiors@examiner.ie INTERIORS ADVERTISING Ger Duggan, 021 4802192 interiorads@examiner.ie PROPERTY ADVERTISING Marguerite Stafford, 021 4802100 marguerite.stafford@examiner.ie

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Tommy Barker reports

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HE living space at this Longueville, Mallow slight — it’s far grander, and obviously money wasn’t home is first class in more ways than one — it spared in its construction. What’s curious is how well was originally the ‘First’ classroom in a twothe upper floor rooms and windows fit into a structure room school, built about 1890. supposedly designed solely for ground floor, school-day A real slice of local north Cork life in the parish of occupation.

Ballyclough is The Old School House, built to the back Following the passing a few year ago of pioneering of the Longueville House estate, and now owned by Michael O’Callaghan (he planted vineyards, and Jane O’Callaghan of Longueville, whose family took produced Longueville’s own white wine) Jane on (or took back — the O’Callaghans were O’Callaghan has decided to trade back down (or up, dispossessed from the it’s land in the 1600s by confusing?) to Location: Longueville, Mallow Cromwell) the 500 the main Price: €375,000 acre estate and 1720s house once great house, opening more, and Size: 194 sq m (2,000 sq ft) it up to paying guests may consider Bedrooms: 4, all en suite in the 1970s as a 20building from bedroomed hotel. scratch on the BER rating: Pending Jane and the late grounds once Broadband: Yes Michael O’Callaghan the school ‘traded down’ to the finds Best feature: School days were never this good privacy of the old appreciative school, with Michael new owners. overseeing its conversion after they bought it when it She has appointed Catherine McAuliffe of Savills to closed in the 1970s: the introduction of ‘free’ education market the 2,000 sq ft house of character and enhanced and school buses in 1969 by Donagh O’Malley sounded quality, and it comes to market guided at €375,000, on this small, two-class school’s demise with local its half acre landscaped site behind high stone pillars children bussed instead to other, larger schools in and wrought iron gates.

Mallow and Ballyclough.

It is head and shoulders above most simple, ‘by the Built entirely of cut limestone, and roofed in slate, book’ school conversions. Each of the two principal its exterior hasn’t changed hugely — to its credit — in reception rooms, for example, has salvaged old marble 120 years. It was built at the instigation of Jemima fireplaces, with a multi-fuel stove in front of the one in Lucy Longfield, in memory of her husband Richard the family/dining room.

Longfield who died in 1889.

Overhead are four bedrooms, all of them en suite Teachers and former pupils recall it as a two-room with showers, two with baths, and the master bedroom school, with teachers’ room as an extra, but its is stand-out for its shape, character and well, just resemblance to most traditional two-room schools is gentility and charm. Bathrooms, meanwhile, have

CONTENTS 4

TRADING UP: A house near Tidy Towns Gold medal winner Lismore could be a tidy buy.

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STARTERS: A suburban bungalow home is creating an immediate viewing stir.

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FEATURES: Greenway shows what can be achieved on a tight suburban site.

11 PROPERTY: Kilbolane House, up for sale, is rooted in rich Golden Vale territory and links.

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sink surrounds and window boards in marble — inspired, perhaps, by hotel standards of a decade or two ago.

Far bigger inside than its facade suggests (it’s deep rather than wide) it also has high ceilings, some enhanced internal architecture, such as a wide arch off the long hallway, and while original windows were placed high up to stop pupils being distracted, the O’Callaghans lowered key ones for garden views.

The site is fully enclosed, richly planted and private, and while the old outside privvies are kept for nostalgia and some storage, there’s now also a good modern double garage, faced in stone, with a practical office space office in a portion as well of this detached structure.

VERDICT: Go to the top of the class, worth paying attention to.

INTERIORS DIY WISH LIST ASK THE DESIGNER ANTIQUES

PROPERTY EDITOR Tommy Barker, 021 4802221 property@examiner.ie INTERIORS EDITOR Esther McCarthy, 021 4802386 interiors@examiner.ie INTERIORS ADVERTISING Ger Duggan, 021 4802192 interiorads@examiner.ie PROPERTY ADVERTISING Marguerite Stafford, 021 4802100 marguerite.stafford@examiner.ie

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TRADING UP

We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country

“The Property Auction Experts”

For Sale By Public Auction

For Sale By Private Treaty

(unless previously sold) “On Instructions Of Owners” Tuesday 4th October 2011 @ 2.30pm The Imperial Hotel, South Mall, Cork 304 River Towers, Lee Road, Cork 31 Dunbar Street, Cork Superb Two Bed Apartment. Finished to high Specification.

Centrally located. Ideal rental Investment/owner occupier property

DRIMOLEAGUE, CORK €225,000

KINSALE, CORK €400,000 Sq m: 261 (2,800 sq ft) BER rating: Exempt

Bedrooms: 4 Broadband: Yes.

THERE’s certainly interest in period homes in Kinsale which need doing up: a recent sale, at Newman’s Mall in the town, saw over 200 viewings of a downat-heel Queen Anne semi-detached home with seven bedrooms, huge promise, and lots of issues. It eventually sold for around €200,000 as a major renovation project, via Cork city agents Cohalan Downing.

Now, local Kinsale auctioneer Victoria Murphy has another fascinating property offer, the largely untouched and very original Stork House, above the town on Compass Hill.

It dates to the late 1760s, Ms Murphy reckons and “was owned by a sea captain, who died with no relatives and who left it to a grand-daughter of the original Stirk family, hence the amended house name Storks Nest”.

The slate-fronted three-storey house was originally one half of a pair of semis, and although the adjoining house was demolished years ago, there’s now planning to reinstate it.

Ms Murphy is offering Stork House at €400,000 on one third of an acre. For €575,000 you’ll get the house and the site next door on which to build the same again, only new.

VERDICT: This is so original, it gives purists and the brave the chance to do a period house rescue by the book, in a cracking Kinsale location.

Sq m:194 (2,000 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Bedrooms: 4 Broadband: Yes

A GOOD family home, with room inside and out, is how estate agent Michael Duggan of Sherry FitzGerald O’Neill describes the bungalow, Carraig Chróinín, at west Cork’s Dereenaspeagh.

Near the Three Lakes turnoff on the Cork-Bantry road, between Drimoleague and Drinagh, the four-bed house has all of its space on the level.

There’s about 2,000 sq ft in all right now, and that is including the multi-use 36’ by 16’ attached garage/workshop on the left-hand side.

The opposite end gable, meanwhile, is given over to a recently added on high ceilinged 15’ by 13’ sun-room, which really enhances the flow of usable living space for its occupants.

Standing on a very useful rural two acres with fruit, veg and flower plots, it was built about seven years ago, and the price now on resale has been reduced to €225,000, says Mr Duggan.

It has a front sitting room, a linked kitchen/family room 25’ deep and 11’ wide, leading to the bright and warm sun-room.

VERDICT: For those seeking room to spread out and into, Carraig Chróinín offer a lot for the money, and is rural without being remote, says its agent.

LISMORE, WATERFORD €350,000/400,000 Sq m: 327 (3,500 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Sq m: 189 (2,033 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Silverdale, Ballinlough, Cork

Convenience Store/Commercial Unit

Macroom, Co. Cork

Excellent spec. Potential for many uses. Full Fit out to HSE & Food Safety Authority HACCP Guidelines. Excellent location.

Bedrooms: 4 Broadband: Yes

VERDICT: There’s absolutely no work involved here — just move in and unpack. Job. Bedrooms: 5 Broadband: Yes

room and conservatory.

As well as the five first floor bedrooms (one is en suite) and family bathroom, there’s Stira access to attic storage.

The house’s front facade now has a deep bay protrusion, faced in stone, the front garden is planted with cherry trees and maples, while inside maple is the wood of choice for much of the reception rooms’ flooring.

VERDICT: A good, decent site, a large house, and a short city commute on offer at the €365,000 price level.

Located 3 miles from Cork City.

Exceptional road frontage.

Generous Entitlements.

Eyeries, Beara, Co. Cork Traditional farmhouse newly renovated on C.0.5 acre.

Panoramic views of Coulagh Bay.

SITE FOR SALE Reserve Not To Exceed €20,000

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Reserve Not To Exceed €170,000

Kiskeam, Mallow, Co Cork

VERDICT: Just needing a bit of freshening up, Toortane is a rare farm/ country living offer so close to Lismore.

Sq m: 196 (2,100 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Reserve Not To Exceed €280,000

Reserve Not To Exceed €155,000

METICULOUS wins hands down — every time. Add in some taste and sophistication and hey presto, buyer’s delight.

Skehanagh House has just gone on the market — at the not insubstantial guide of €440,000.

Yet Norma Healy of Sherry FitzGerald feels it will sell very quickly because this house is a bit of a Tardis — you get no real idea of the total size of the fourbed detached at a quick glance, yet it’s huge inside, she says.

And it’s really lovely too — from the porcelain tiles on the hall to the huge kitchen/ diner which runs from back to front and the large windows and patio doors which bring the light inside.

The kitchen comes with a bank of Shaker maple units with large island and granite worktop and it runs into the dining area in an open plan layout.

There are rooms for most uses, including a formal lounge, which according to Norma Healy is beautifully proportioned, a living room, integrated dining room and fitted utility.

The bedroom wing includes the en suite master bedroom and three more double rooms, with main bathroom, all fully fitted with wardrobes and solid oak floors.

THE owners of 7, Lios na Rí added about 600 sq ft to their now nine-year-old detached family home to bring it up to a sizeable 2,100 sq ft. While it has given them good inside living space, plus five bedrooms, they haven’t cut themselves too short on the site size either, as it is on almost one third of an acre.

No 7 is out a few miles north of Cork city (about a 15 minute drive,) off the Mallow road at Grenagh, and is in a niche of individual family homes, notes selling agent Michael O’Donovan of Sherry FitzGerald.

He says the extension has been done “seamlessly,” yielding two good reception rooms, plus kitchen/dining

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OVENS, CORK €440,000

C.42 acres (17 Hectares).

Reserve Not To Exceed €125,000

Former Medical Centre/ Commercial Unit.

5 offices/rooms. Parking area to front. Unlimited Potential. Close to Douglas & Link Roads

YOU don’t have to buy the whole 98 acre farm to get your hands on the Lismore period farmhouse at Toortane, just a mile and a half from the Gold Medal Tidy Towns award winning town.

Auctioneer Eamonn Spratt is selling the slice of local history, with roots back to the mid 1800s, by auction and he’s offering it in lots.

“Interest is 50/50 for the whole farm, or in lots, with good local inquiries, from wider afield, and from the UK as well,” he comments.

The main house is on offer on 7.5 acres, with some stone outbuildings and two paddocks, ideal for ponies and horses, notes Mr Spratt, who says it was first built for a Thomas Foley, as part of the Devonshire Estate.

A solid build, two-storey Toortane has four reception rooms and five overhead bedrooms and a number of the rooms have a dual aspect — great for light and garden views, whilst there’s also a backdrop of mature mixed hardwoods, coming into autumnal glories.

The house has numerous original features inside and out, sash windows, some stained glass windows etc.

Price guide is €350,000/400k, with the additional land guided at €10,000 an acre.

GRENAGH, CORK €365,000

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Bedrooms: 5 Broadband: Yes

Circa 2,000 Sq. Ft 4 Individual One Bed Apartments Exceptional Rental Area.

Coolowen, Blarney, Co Cork

Next Property Auction to take place November 15th 2011 in the Imperial Hotel, Cork City

We are now accepting registrations of entries for properties to sell in this auction.

Closing date for Property Registrations October 21st 2011

Reserve Not To Exceed €80,000

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TRADING UP

We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country

“The Property Auction Experts”

For Sale By Public Auction

For Sale By Private Treaty

(unless previously sold) “On Instructions Of Owners” Tuesday 4th October 2011 @ 2.30pm The Imperial Hotel, South Mall, Cork 304 River Towers, Lee Road, Cork 31 Dunbar Street, Cork Superb Two Bed Apartment. Finished to high Specification.

Centrally located. Ideal rental Investment/owner occupier property

DRIMOLEAGUE, CORK €225,000

KINSALE, CORK €400,000 Sq m: 261 (2,800 sq ft) BER rating: Exempt

Bedrooms: 4 Broadband: Yes.

THERE’s certainly interest in period homes in Kinsale which need doing up: a recent sale, at Newman’s Mall in the town, saw over 200 viewings of a downat-heel Queen Anne semi-detached home with seven bedrooms, huge promise, and lots of issues. It eventually sold for around €200,000 as a major renovation project, via Cork city agents Cohalan Downing.

Now, local Kinsale auctioneer Victoria Murphy has another fascinating property offer, the largely untouched and very original Stork House, above the town on Compass Hill.

It dates to the late 1760s, Ms Murphy reckons and “was owned by a sea captain, who died with no relatives and who left it to a grand-daughter of the original Stirk family, hence the amended house name Storks Nest”.

The slate-fronted three-storey house was originally one half of a pair of semis, and although the adjoining house was demolished years ago, there’s now planning to reinstate it.

Ms Murphy is offering Stork House at €400,000 on one third of an acre. For €575,000 you’ll get the house and the site next door on which to build the same again, only new.

VERDICT: This is so original, it gives purists and the brave the chance to do a period house rescue by the book, in a cracking Kinsale location.

Sq m:194 (2,000 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Bedrooms: 4 Broadband: Yes

A GOOD family home, with room inside and out, is how estate agent Michael Duggan of Sherry FitzGerald O’Neill describes the bungalow, Carraig Chróinín, at west Cork’s Dereenaspeagh.

Near the Three Lakes turnoff on the Cork-Bantry road, between Drimoleague and Drinagh, the four-bed house has all of its space on the level.

There’s about 2,000 sq ft in all right now, and that is including the multi-use 36’ by 16’ attached garage/workshop on the left-hand side.

The opposite end gable, meanwhile, is given over to a recently added on high ceilinged 15’ by 13’ sun-room, which really enhances the flow of usable living space for its occupants.

Standing on a very useful rural two acres with fruit, veg and flower plots, it was built about seven years ago, and the price now on resale has been reduced to €225,000, says Mr Duggan.

It has a front sitting room, a linked kitchen/family room 25’ deep and 11’ wide, leading to the bright and warm sun-room.

VERDICT: For those seeking room to spread out and into, Carraig Chróinín offer a lot for the money, and is rural without being remote, says its agent.

LISMORE, WATERFORD €350,000/400,000 Sq m: 327 (3,500 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Sq m: 189 (2,033 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Silverdale, Ballinlough, Cork

Convenience Store/Commercial Unit

Macroom, Co. Cork

Excellent spec. Potential for many uses. Full Fit out to HSE & Food Safety Authority HACCP Guidelines. Excellent location.

Bedrooms: 4 Broadband: Yes

VERDICT: There’s absolutely no work involved here — just move in and unpack. Job. Bedrooms: 5 Broadband: Yes

room and conservatory.

As well as the five first floor bedrooms (one is en suite) and family bathroom, there’s Stira access to attic storage.

The house’s front facade now has a deep bay protrusion, faced in stone, the front garden is planted with cherry trees and maples, while inside maple is the wood of choice for much of the reception rooms’ flooring.

VERDICT: A good, decent site, a large house, and a short city commute on offer at the €365,000 price level.

Located 3 miles from Cork City.

Exceptional road frontage.

Generous Entitlements.

Eyeries, Beara, Co. Cork Traditional farmhouse newly renovated on C.0.5 acre.

Panoramic views of Coulagh Bay.

SITE FOR SALE Reserve Not To Exceed €20,000

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Reserve Not To Exceed €170,000

Kiskeam, Mallow, Co Cork

VERDICT: Just needing a bit of freshening up, Toortane is a rare farm/ country living offer so close to Lismore.

Sq m: 196 (2,100 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Reserve Not To Exceed €280,000

Reserve Not To Exceed €155,000

METICULOUS wins hands down — every time. Add in some taste and sophistication and hey presto, buyer’s delight.

Skehanagh House has just gone on the market — at the not insubstantial guide of €440,000.

Yet Norma Healy of Sherry FitzGerald feels it will sell very quickly because this house is a bit of a Tardis — you get no real idea of the total size of the fourbed detached at a quick glance, yet it’s huge inside, she says.

And it’s really lovely too — from the porcelain tiles on the hall to the huge kitchen/ diner which runs from back to front and the large windows and patio doors which bring the light inside.

The kitchen comes with a bank of Shaker maple units with large island and granite worktop and it runs into the dining area in an open plan layout.

There are rooms for most uses, including a formal lounge, which according to Norma Healy is beautifully proportioned, a living room, integrated dining room and fitted utility.

The bedroom wing includes the en suite master bedroom and three more double rooms, with main bathroom, all fully fitted with wardrobes and solid oak floors.

THE owners of 7, Lios na Rí added about 600 sq ft to their now nine-year-old detached family home to bring it up to a sizeable 2,100 sq ft. While it has given them good inside living space, plus five bedrooms, they haven’t cut themselves too short on the site size either, as it is on almost one third of an acre.

No 7 is out a few miles north of Cork city (about a 15 minute drive,) off the Mallow road at Grenagh, and is in a niche of individual family homes, notes selling agent Michael O’Donovan of Sherry FitzGerald.

He says the extension has been done “seamlessly,” yielding two good reception rooms, plus kitchen/dining

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OVENS, CORK €440,000

C.42 acres (17 Hectares).

Reserve Not To Exceed €125,000

Former Medical Centre/ Commercial Unit.

5 offices/rooms. Parking area to front. Unlimited Potential. Close to Douglas & Link Roads

YOU don’t have to buy the whole 98 acre farm to get your hands on the Lismore period farmhouse at Toortane, just a mile and a half from the Gold Medal Tidy Towns award winning town.

Auctioneer Eamonn Spratt is selling the slice of local history, with roots back to the mid 1800s, by auction and he’s offering it in lots.

“Interest is 50/50 for the whole farm, or in lots, with good local inquiries, from wider afield, and from the UK as well,” he comments.

The main house is on offer on 7.5 acres, with some stone outbuildings and two paddocks, ideal for ponies and horses, notes Mr Spratt, who says it was first built for a Thomas Foley, as part of the Devonshire Estate.

A solid build, two-storey Toortane has four reception rooms and five overhead bedrooms and a number of the rooms have a dual aspect — great for light and garden views, whilst there’s also a backdrop of mature mixed hardwoods, coming into autumnal glories.

The house has numerous original features inside and out, sash windows, some stained glass windows etc.

Price guide is €350,000/400k, with the additional land guided at €10,000 an acre.

GRENAGH, CORK €365,000

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Bedrooms: 5 Broadband: Yes

Circa 2,000 Sq. Ft 4 Individual One Bed Apartments Exceptional Rental Area.

Coolowen, Blarney, Co Cork

Next Property Auction to take place November 15th 2011 in the Imperial Hotel, Cork City

We are now accepting registrations of entries for properties to sell in this auction.

Closing date for Property Registrations October 21st 2011

Reserve Not To Exceed €80,000

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STARTER HOMES BALLINCOLLIG, CO CORK €195,000 Sq m: 88 (952 sq ft) BER rating: Pending A HANDY location for those working at EMC, the An Caislean estate is a five minute drive from the Ovens plant and also, a walk to Ballincollig’s West End. No 68 is a new market entrant with Norma Healy of Sherry FitzGerald, who quotes a guide of €195,000 for the three-bed semi which comes with a good, westfacing back garden.

This is great for nine-

Bedrooms: 3 Broadband: Yes to-fivers as the sun is at the rear in the evening, just when you want it.

Verdict: Handy house in handy location.

Cottage in sought-after suburb on solid site has endless possibilities Alvernia may be a fixer-upper, but it’s already causing a stir, says Tommy Barker Location: Price: Size: Bedrooms: BER rating: Broadband:

Blackrock, Cork €220,000 Sq m 102 (1,100 sq ft) 3 Pending Yes

ROCHESTOWN, CORK €249,000 Sq m: 112 (1,200 sq ft) BER rating: Pending THE owners of 37 Foxwood in Cork’s Rochestown aren’t letting the grass grow under their feet — and they’ve lots of it, as the back garden is two or three times the size of neighbouring homes.

It hit the July doldrums when first launched, and now that the schools are back (there’s a new primary one just around the corner,) agent Jeremy Murphy has dropped the asking price by

Bedrooms: 3 Broadband: Yes €20,000 to €249,000 for its vendors.

VERDICT: Quiet setting, and a great site make extensions a viable option for families looking to put down roots.

FIRST TIME BUYERS

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CREATING a stir in its first week on the market is the do-er up Alvernia, a three-bed cottage-style bungalow in Cork’s Beaumont/Blackrock suburb.

And, the first requests for viewings and to get engineers in the door to explore possibilities are equally coming from first-time buyers and young couples, as well as traders-down, says auctioneer Gerard O’Dea of Andrew Moore & Co. The 1950s built house on cul de sac Beaumont Avenue needs a good bit of sprucing up, ventures its selling agent, and it could even be a replacement job, or extension project. The site is solid, settled southside suburban, in amongst already-extended

Location: Price: Size: Bedrooms: BER rating: Broadband:

and taller homes. It now has replacement PVC windows, and gas central heating, so immediate creature comforts are catered for. As it stands, it has about 1,00 sq ft of space, with a 21’ by 8’ wide attached garage, and attic storage, while site size is about one-eighth of an acre, surrounded in the main by stone walls and hedging. Inside, are two reception rooms with tiled fireplaces, kitchen, main bathroom, two double bedrooms with fireplaces and a third, single bedroom as well.

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OU can walk, or jog, to Rocky Bay for a swim from this great up-market, south Cork family home at Reagrove, near Minane Bridge, with easy striking distance of Kinsale.

In fact, there’s several beaches close to hand to this well-above standard 2,500 sq ft four-bed dormer coastal home, being sold just a few years after completion by its owners, who are emigrating.

It has a distinctive front facade, with a mix of stone and brick, there’s some cedar cladding around a first floor balcony/seating area off the master bedroom, and wood-grain pvc double glazing, and the whole mixed palette makes for an easy-on-the-eye first impression.

That impression is reinforced inside; there’s no dropping of standard, and there’s an overall freshness, brightness and quality feel to this one-off on a rural 0.75 acre site with sea views. Selling agent Michael Pigott of Sherry FitzGerald O’Donovan Daly, who guides the Reagrove family home at €480,000, with its rural and sea views.

Rooms include a 21’ by 21’ living room with fireplace, a smaller family room also has an open fireplace, and both rooms have solid maple floors.

There’s a modern, smartly-tiled Shaker-style kitchen/ dining room, with lots of built-ins and appliances, plus long island, as well as large utility, and guest WC. The entry hall is double height, with solid ash stairs, and the floor is maple, while overhead there’s a good master bedroom, which is en suite, with a dressing room, plus a handily-placed balcony well-set for morning coffe, e watching sunrises over the sea

Waterkeeper’s Cottage, Loughaderra, Midleton, Co. Cork

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THIS west Cork cottage has been used by its owners to beat a retreat down from Dublin — but that’s not why it is called Beet Cottage.

Instead, the quaint three-bed, with 150 years of pedigree, is named after the sugar beet harvest with which the area has traditionally been associated — and is sweet in its own way.

The young family, in the media and entertainment line in Dublin, kept faith with Beet Cottage’s pedigree and roots, and so there’s exposed beam ceilings, flagstone floors, a stone chimney breast, and character-ful rooms.

Location is at Carhue, within a walk of Timoleague

village and a short drive to Clonakilty as well as to beaches near Courtmacsherry. Estate agent Daniel Lehane seeks offers around €167,500 for the traditionally-kept bolt-hole, on a quiet road with offstreet parking and rear garden/yard.

It has already been extended, into an L-shape, and its largest room is the 21’ by 12’ living room with its hearty warming fire and half-door to the front.

There’s also a 16’ by 12’ kitchen/dining room, with galley kitchen, and three overhead bedrooms.

VERDICT: Country cute, easy to keep, and a place to de-stress in.

Coughlan & Associates

No. 1 The Rock, Midleton, Co. Cork

Guide Price: €195,000

Guide Price: €285,000

Guide Price: €160,000

Price on application James G.

14 Rose Hill East, Midleton, Co. Cork

• End of Terrace Property situated in the heart of Midleton Town • In need of refurbishment • The property offers huge potential with living accommodation over three floors.

• Three Bed semidetached home in turn key condition, totally refurbished.

• 2 Reception Rooms, modern Kitchen, Utility, 3 Beds (en-suite), Guest Wc & Bathroom.

• South-facing rear Garden.

Beat a path to sweet Timoleague

better value than ever before,

VERDICT: A great mix of rural and coastal setting, in a comfortable well-finished home, half an hour from Cork city and airport.

• An impressive & spacious detached family residence • Accom. Briefly: Hallway, Living Room, Kitchen/ Dining Room, Utility Room, Playroom, 4 Bedrooms (master ensuite), Bathroom & attic room with en-suite.

4 SPRINGFORT CRESCENT, MONTENOTTE, CORK to mortgage interest relief and

and headlands east, and west for sunsets.

Bathrooms, like the rest of the house, are done to a good high level, and extra features include pressurised zoned heating system, alarm, electric gates, CCTV, and a detached 28’ by 16’ garage.

• A Traditional Detached Cottage on a Lakeside 1 Acre Site • In need of renovation with a large shed.

• Situated approx. 4 miles from Midleton, just off the Main N25 Cork/ Waterford Road.

39 Main Street, Midleton, Co. Cork. t: 021 4631755 w: www.mccarthymcgrath.com

Due to the upcoming changes

Minane Bridge, Cork €480,000 2,500 sq ft 4 Pending Yes

Properties on the move

VERDICT: The location, plus further possibilities, is drawing all the interest.

West Cork €167,500 Sq. m 90 (1,000 sq ft) 3 Pending Yes

by Tommy Barker

Location: Price: Size: Bedrooms: BER rating: Broadband:

James G. Coughlan & Assoc.

27 Grand Parade, Cork.

T: 021-4251500 / M: 086-8075565 E: info@jamesgcoughlan.com

39 Main Street, Midleton, Co. Cork. t: 021 4631755 w: www.mccarthymcgrath.com

39 Main Street, Midleton, Co. Cork. t: 021 4631755 w: www.mccarthymcgrath.com

“ASHBROOKE HOUSE”, WOODVILLE, DUNKETTLE, CORK

“GLENVILLE”, CRAB LANE, BLACKROCK ROAD, CORK

• Substantial pristine four bed detached residence with an abundance of living accommodation (c: 263 Sq Mts).

• Professionally landscaped private and mature grounds (c: .09 Acre).

• Elevated southerly position with inner harbour and rural views.

• Detached bungalow in need of upgrade on delightful gardens with site potential.

• Matured location with existing Bungalow tailor made for extension if required.

• Accom (briefly): Hallway, Sitting Room, Kitchen, 3 Bedrooms & Bathroom.

Price: UNDER OFFER

Price: Reduced on Application

Timothy Sullivan & Associates Ltd

56 Grand Parade, Cork. Tel 021-4275888 www.tsullivanandassoc.com (ref: Jarlath Boyd)

Timothy Sullivan & Associates Ltd

56 Grand Parade, Cork. Tel 021-4275888 Web www.tsullivanandassoc.com

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STARTER HOMES BALLINCOLLIG, CO CORK €195,000 Sq m: 88 (952 sq ft) BER rating: Pending A HANDY location for those working at EMC, the An Caislean estate is a five minute drive from the Ovens plant and also, a walk to Ballincollig’s West End. No 68 is a new market entrant with Norma Healy of Sherry FitzGerald, who quotes a guide of €195,000 for the three-bed semi which comes with a good, westfacing back garden.

This is great for nine-

Bedrooms: 3 Broadband: Yes to-fivers as the sun is at the rear in the evening, just when you want it.

Verdict: Handy house in handy location.

Cottage in sought-after suburb on solid site has endless possibilities Alvernia may be a fixer-upper, but it’s already causing a stir, says Tommy Barker Location: Price: Size: Bedrooms: BER rating: Broadband:

Blackrock, Cork €220,000 Sq m 102 (1,100 sq ft) 3 Pending Yes

ROCHESTOWN, CORK €249,000 Sq m: 112 (1,200 sq ft) BER rating: Pending THE owners of 37 Foxwood in Cork’s Rochestown aren’t letting the grass grow under their feet — and they’ve lots of it, as the back garden is two or three times the size of neighbouring homes.

It hit the July doldrums when first launched, and now that the schools are back (there’s a new primary one just around the corner,) agent Jeremy Murphy has dropped the asking price by

Bedrooms: 3 Broadband: Yes €20,000 to €249,000 for its vendors.

VERDICT: Quiet setting, and a great site make extensions a viable option for families looking to put down roots.

FIRST TIME BUYERS

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CREATING a stir in its first week on the market is the do-er up Alvernia, a three-bed cottage-style bungalow in Cork’s Beaumont/Blackrock suburb.

And, the first requests for viewings and to get engineers in the door to explore possibilities are equally coming from first-time buyers and young couples, as well as traders-down, says auctioneer Gerard O’Dea of Andrew Moore & Co. The 1950s built house on cul de sac Beaumont Avenue needs a good bit of sprucing up, ventures its selling agent, and it could even be a replacement job, or extension project. The site is solid, settled southside suburban, in amongst already-extended

Location: Price: Size: Bedrooms: BER rating: Broadband:

and taller homes. It now has replacement PVC windows, and gas central heating, so immediate creature comforts are catered for. As it stands, it has about 1,00 sq ft of space, with a 21’ by 8’ wide attached garage, and attic storage, while site size is about one-eighth of an acre, surrounded in the main by stone walls and hedging. Inside, are two reception rooms with tiled fireplaces, kitchen, main bathroom, two double bedrooms with fireplaces and a third, single bedroom as well.

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OU can walk, or jog, to Rocky Bay for a swim from this great up-market, south Cork family home at Reagrove, near Minane Bridge, with easy striking distance of Kinsale.

In fact, there’s several beaches close to hand to this well-above standard 2,500 sq ft four-bed dormer coastal home, being sold just a few years after completion by its owners, who are emigrating.

It has a distinctive front facade, with a mix of stone and brick, there’s some cedar cladding around a first floor balcony/seating area off the master bedroom, and wood-grain pvc double glazing, and the whole mixed palette makes for an easy-on-the-eye first impression.

That impression is reinforced inside; there’s no dropping of standard, and there’s an overall freshness, brightness and quality feel to this one-off on a rural 0.75 acre site with sea views. Selling agent Michael Pigott of Sherry FitzGerald O’Donovan Daly, who guides the Reagrove family home at €480,000, with its rural and sea views.

Rooms include a 21’ by 21’ living room with fireplace, a smaller family room also has an open fireplace, and both rooms have solid maple floors.

There’s a modern, smartly-tiled Shaker-style kitchen/ dining room, with lots of built-ins and appliances, plus long island, as well as large utility, and guest WC. The entry hall is double height, with solid ash stairs, and the floor is maple, while overhead there’s a good master bedroom, which is en suite, with a dressing room, plus a handily-placed balcony well-set for morning coffe, e watching sunrises over the sea

Waterkeeper’s Cottage, Loughaderra, Midleton, Co. Cork

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aturday, October 15 Saturday,

Tommy Barker finds a cottage rooted in tradition near the sea in west Cork

now is the time for first time buyers to close the deal to get their first step on the property ladder.

Make sure your properties are seen by first time buyers currently looking at the options available to them by advertising in this targeted feature on

ADVERTISING CONTACT:

Property Advertising Tel: 021-4802100

Saturday, October 15.

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THIS west Cork cottage has been used by its owners to beat a retreat down from Dublin — but that’s not why it is called Beet Cottage.

Instead, the quaint three-bed, with 150 years of pedigree, is named after the sugar beet harvest with which the area has traditionally been associated — and is sweet in its own way.

The young family, in the media and entertainment line in Dublin, kept faith with Beet Cottage’s pedigree and roots, and so there’s exposed beam ceilings, flagstone floors, a stone chimney breast, and character-ful rooms.

Location is at Carhue, within a walk of Timoleague

village and a short drive to Clonakilty as well as to beaches near Courtmacsherry. Estate agent Daniel Lehane seeks offers around €167,500 for the traditionally-kept bolt-hole, on a quiet road with offstreet parking and rear garden/yard.

It has already been extended, into an L-shape, and its largest room is the 21’ by 12’ living room with its hearty warming fire and half-door to the front.

There’s also a 16’ by 12’ kitchen/dining room, with galley kitchen, and three overhead bedrooms.

VERDICT: Country cute, easy to keep, and a place to de-stress in.

Coughlan & Associates

No. 1 The Rock, Midleton, Co. Cork

Guide Price: €195,000

Guide Price: €285,000

Guide Price: €160,000

Price on application James G.

14 Rose Hill East, Midleton, Co. Cork

• End of Terrace Property situated in the heart of Midleton Town • In need of refurbishment • The property offers huge potential with living accommodation over three floors.

• Three Bed semidetached home in turn key condition, totally refurbished.

• 2 Reception Rooms, modern Kitchen, Utility, 3 Beds (en-suite), Guest Wc & Bathroom.

• South-facing rear Garden.

Beat a path to sweet Timoleague

better value than ever before,

VERDICT: A great mix of rural and coastal setting, in a comfortable well-finished home, half an hour from Cork city and airport.

• An impressive & spacious detached family residence • Accom. Briefly: Hallway, Living Room, Kitchen/ Dining Room, Utility Room, Playroom, 4 Bedrooms (master ensuite), Bathroom & attic room with en-suite.

4 SPRINGFORT CRESCENT, MONTENOTTE, CORK to mortgage interest relief and

and headlands east, and west for sunsets.

Bathrooms, like the rest of the house, are done to a good high level, and extra features include pressurised zoned heating system, alarm, electric gates, CCTV, and a detached 28’ by 16’ garage.

• A Traditional Detached Cottage on a Lakeside 1 Acre Site • In need of renovation with a large shed.

• Situated approx. 4 miles from Midleton, just off the Main N25 Cork/ Waterford Road.

39 Main Street, Midleton, Co. Cork. t: 021 4631755 w: www.mccarthymcgrath.com

Due to the upcoming changes

Minane Bridge, Cork €480,000 2,500 sq ft 4 Pending Yes

Properties on the move

VERDICT: The location, plus further possibilities, is drawing all the interest.

West Cork €167,500 Sq. m 90 (1,000 sq ft) 3 Pending Yes

by Tommy Barker

Location: Price: Size: Bedrooms: BER rating: Broadband:

James G. Coughlan & Assoc.

27 Grand Parade, Cork.

T: 021-4251500 / M: 086-8075565 E: info@jamesgcoughlan.com

39 Main Street, Midleton, Co. Cork. t: 021 4631755 w: www.mccarthymcgrath.com

39 Main Street, Midleton, Co. Cork. t: 021 4631755 w: www.mccarthymcgrath.com

“ASHBROOKE HOUSE”, WOODVILLE, DUNKETTLE, CORK

“GLENVILLE”, CRAB LANE, BLACKROCK ROAD, CORK

• Substantial pristine four bed detached residence with an abundance of living accommodation (c: 263 Sq Mts).

• Professionally landscaped private and mature grounds (c: .09 Acre).

• Elevated southerly position with inner harbour and rural views.

• Detached bungalow in need of upgrade on delightful gardens with site potential.

• Matured location with existing Bungalow tailor made for extension if required.

• Accom (briefly): Hallway, Sitting Room, Kitchen, 3 Bedrooms & Bathroom.

Price: UNDER OFFER

Price: Reduced on Application

Timothy Sullivan & Associates Ltd

56 Grand Parade, Cork. Tel 021-4275888 www.tsullivanandassoc.com (ref: Jarlath Boyd)

Timothy Sullivan & Associates Ltd

56 Grand Parade, Cork. Tel 021-4275888 Web www.tsullivanandassoc.com

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Greenway is the only way — it ticks all the boxes

Tommy Barker gets the lowdown on a dream suburban home

Pictures: Denis Scannell

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F YOU are worried about your heating bills — best to look away now. Stop reading. You are not going to like the cost-comparison of running this fantastic new family home: try a €50 gas bill for last winter’s two coldest months? And, it’s an understated clever design too, with green roots and is a healthy job, for life.

“Even still, when we come through the front door, we ask “do we really live here?” say the young couple who replaced an old suburban cottage, and started a family, all at the same time, in a just-finished dream house.

“We didn’t want to build a ‘statement’ home, but we knew what we liked, things like Danish design, and a place to cook and talk at the same time.

We met an architect who understood what we wanted, and now, the fact the place looks so cool is a bonus,” say the hospitable occupants of Greenway, showing the house only to thank and credit the team of architect, engineer, builders, carpenters and more.

Lots of luck, and fortuitous circumstances, brought this house to successful fruition.

But, just as much, it was the couple’s own determination that realised the project.

Let’s skip back a bit. This circa 1,750 sq ft contemporary new-build, wedge-shaped with its five, flat-roof sections and intriguing stepped-back outline, mirrors the shape of the awkward and almost hidden suburban site it is built on.

“I bought the original old cottage here back in 2001. We had family links with the last owner, I knew the suburb very well and just how handy it is to get to the city centre,” says one of the owners, who said he was tempted to buy a property back then “in case I ended up a bachelor!”

Fortunately, not to be, and the small and basic cottage he’d

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bought solo ended up being home to the couple for several years.

“It was about 600 sq ft, and it was like living in a small boat,” they recall. Freezing, too.

They asked an architect to come up with plans for a replacement house, and Plan A was shot down by planners — probably fortunately, as their second try, with a different architect, the calm, cool and collected Margaret Ralphs of Mulcahy Ralphs delivered

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exactly what they’d hoped for, and more. “It was sketched sitting in the old cottage kitchen, with a two-year old sitting on my knee,” Margaret recalls in the new house’s kitchen, with talk of kids and ages and play all bantering in the air. Clients and designers became firm friends during the project.

Margaret designed the house to passive energy principles and standards, mirroring the site’s shape. By going flat

roofed, she was able to get two full interior levels as well, with the finished house snuggling lower down than a few neighbour dormer home replacements.

Because it was slotting into a site with well-established neighbours, and possible overlooking issues, placement of windows was also an important factor, so in key areas this house has high up and sometimes clerestory (ie, just under roof-level) windows.

It really is a home that responds to the site, neighbours, aspect — the lot.

Some architects talk that sort of talk. This is a house that lives it.

It looks, and performs as it does, because of where it is, and architect Margaret Ralphs notes and “I really appreciate building on ‘brown-field’ sites, making the best possible use of existing serviced land close to all services.”

The owners are fairly laidback (but, make no mistake, they know their minds) and the house gives off a positivity that seems to have been with them from the start.

Builder was Florence O’Driscoll of Atlantic Timber Frame, who ‘stick-builds’ on site, and the couple are high in their praise for his skills and dedication for millimetreprecise construction and foundations.

It’s an air-tight construction, with a heat recovery system, and the dark-green hued windows are high performance items from Aluclad, with some triple glazed. Heating is minimal, kept to underfloor heating in the bathrooms only, there’s a multi-fuel stove in the family room... and that’s about it. Energy bills are negligible, and hot water comes from solar panels on the flat roof. They produce so much hot water (“we’ve buckets of it”) the family’s skin is nearly wrinkled from bathing, and the

children’s paddling pool on the back decking gets the freelysourced hot water too.

The professional team included an engineer, Ray Keane, and initially a quantity surveyor as well, and “we found our mostly Irish tradesmen,(many from west Cork), to be men of integrity, hard working and highly skilled, something we were not expecting with all that went on in the last decade.”

The build cost isn’t being revealed but it’s surprisingly modest, given the quality.

The shape is essentially a cluster of white cubes worked

and juggled together to get the flow of rooms and space right, capturing light, and assigning functions to rooms and various quarters.

The main kitchen/living/ dining space is south facing, opening to the decked back garden and raised, planted beds (no grass, the site was only a tenth of an acre). The more private family/evening room with stove and sliding patio doors is also south facing. The raft of decking, meanwhile, is in Ghanian, African Denya timber, contrasting with cedar cladding used to frame the dining room projection.

There’s also a ground floor guest bedroom to the front of the house, to the right of the cheery hall, and off to the left is a private, home study/office, by a secondary, cedar-screened utility entrance. Overhead, meanwhile, are three more bedrooms, main family bathroom etc.

As an example of how the house’s design was shaped to the family’s own lifestyle, the master bedroom is separated from the landing by a sort of walk-through closet - so it’s super-quiet, ideal for day-time sleeping after busy night-time shift work.

Other clever touches include a sliding glass door retracting into the wall by the hall, so there’s no hinged door taking up circulation space at this vital and busy junction, and the kitchen/family space feels massively airy, thanks to its back wall of glass, with the mono-pitch double-height ceiling over the dining table, rising up to a wide run of clerestory windows, facing north and triple glazed.

Greenway’s ‘building envelope’ is air-tight, with joints taped and sealed, and there’s a white coloured spray silicon render over the exterior

cement-board cladding. Other finish materials include some zinc roofing and rainwater goods, Trocal-type roof membranes, select treated cedar sheeting, and stone paved slabs for the front drive.

Inside, floors and the kitchen with quality walnut units were done by Tom O’Dea of the Limerick company Woodline, and he took particular pride in doing the cut-string stairs in ash and with a walnut handrail, with a band of thin grooves cut into the front of each step for grip: it looks architectural and works a treat. >>>

It really is a home that responds to the site, neighbours, aspect — the lot. Some architects talk that sort of talk. This is a house that lives it

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Greenway is the only way — it ticks all the boxes

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Pictures: Denis Scannell

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F YOU are worried about your heating bills — best to look away now. Stop reading. You are not going to like the cost-comparison of running this fantastic new family home: try a €50 gas bill for last winter’s two coldest months? And, it’s an understated clever design too, with green roots and is a healthy job, for life.

“Even still, when we come through the front door, we ask “do we really live here?” say the young couple who replaced an old suburban cottage, and started a family, all at the same time, in a just-finished dream house.

“We didn’t want to build a ‘statement’ home, but we knew what we liked, things like Danish design, and a place to cook and talk at the same time.

We met an architect who understood what we wanted, and now, the fact the place looks so cool is a bonus,” say the hospitable occupants of Greenway, showing the house only to thank and credit the team of architect, engineer, builders, carpenters and more.

Lots of luck, and fortuitous circumstances, brought this house to successful fruition.

But, just as much, it was the couple’s own determination that realised the project.

Let’s skip back a bit. This circa 1,750 sq ft contemporary new-build, wedge-shaped with its five, flat-roof sections and intriguing stepped-back outline, mirrors the shape of the awkward and almost hidden suburban site it is built on.

“I bought the original old cottage here back in 2001. We had family links with the last owner, I knew the suburb very well and just how handy it is to get to the city centre,” says one of the owners, who said he was tempted to buy a property back then “in case I ended up a bachelor!”

Fortunately, not to be, and the small and basic cottage he’d

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bought solo ended up being home to the couple for several years.

“It was about 600 sq ft, and it was like living in a small boat,” they recall. Freezing, too.

They asked an architect to come up with plans for a replacement house, and Plan A was shot down by planners — probably fortunately, as their second try, with a different architect, the calm, cool and collected Margaret Ralphs of Mulcahy Ralphs delivered

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exactly what they’d hoped for, and more. “It was sketched sitting in the old cottage kitchen, with a two-year old sitting on my knee,” Margaret recalls in the new house’s kitchen, with talk of kids and ages and play all bantering in the air. Clients and designers became firm friends during the project.

Margaret designed the house to passive energy principles and standards, mirroring the site’s shape. By going flat

roofed, she was able to get two full interior levels as well, with the finished house snuggling lower down than a few neighbour dormer home replacements.

Because it was slotting into a site with well-established neighbours, and possible overlooking issues, placement of windows was also an important factor, so in key areas this house has high up and sometimes clerestory (ie, just under roof-level) windows.

It really is a home that responds to the site, neighbours, aspect — the lot.

Some architects talk that sort of talk. This is a house that lives it.

It looks, and performs as it does, because of where it is, and architect Margaret Ralphs notes and “I really appreciate building on ‘brown-field’ sites, making the best possible use of existing serviced land close to all services.”

The owners are fairly laidback (but, make no mistake, they know their minds) and the house gives off a positivity that seems to have been with them from the start.

Builder was Florence O’Driscoll of Atlantic Timber Frame, who ‘stick-builds’ on site, and the couple are high in their praise for his skills and dedication for millimetreprecise construction and foundations.

It’s an air-tight construction, with a heat recovery system, and the dark-green hued windows are high performance items from Aluclad, with some triple glazed. Heating is minimal, kept to underfloor heating in the bathrooms only, there’s a multi-fuel stove in the family room... and that’s about it. Energy bills are negligible, and hot water comes from solar panels on the flat roof. They produce so much hot water (“we’ve buckets of it”) the family’s skin is nearly wrinkled from bathing, and the

children’s paddling pool on the back decking gets the freelysourced hot water too.

The professional team included an engineer, Ray Keane, and initially a quantity surveyor as well, and “we found our mostly Irish tradesmen,(many from west Cork), to be men of integrity, hard working and highly skilled, something we were not expecting with all that went on in the last decade.”

The build cost isn’t being revealed but it’s surprisingly modest, given the quality.

The shape is essentially a cluster of white cubes worked

and juggled together to get the flow of rooms and space right, capturing light, and assigning functions to rooms and various quarters.

The main kitchen/living/ dining space is south facing, opening to the decked back garden and raised, planted beds (no grass, the site was only a tenth of an acre). The more private family/evening room with stove and sliding patio doors is also south facing. The raft of decking, meanwhile, is in Ghanian, African Denya timber, contrasting with cedar cladding used to frame the dining room projection.

There’s also a ground floor guest bedroom to the front of the house, to the right of the cheery hall, and off to the left is a private, home study/office, by a secondary, cedar-screened utility entrance. Overhead, meanwhile, are three more bedrooms, main family bathroom etc.

As an example of how the house’s design was shaped to the family’s own lifestyle, the master bedroom is separated from the landing by a sort of walk-through closet - so it’s super-quiet, ideal for day-time sleeping after busy night-time shift work.

Other clever touches include a sliding glass door retracting into the wall by the hall, so there’s no hinged door taking up circulation space at this vital and busy junction, and the kitchen/family space feels massively airy, thanks to its back wall of glass, with the mono-pitch double-height ceiling over the dining table, rising up to a wide run of clerestory windows, facing north and triple glazed.

Greenway’s ‘building envelope’ is air-tight, with joints taped and sealed, and there’s a white coloured spray silicon render over the exterior

cement-board cladding. Other finish materials include some zinc roofing and rainwater goods, Trocal-type roof membranes, select treated cedar sheeting, and stone paved slabs for the front drive.

Inside, floors and the kitchen with quality walnut units were done by Tom O’Dea of the Limerick company Woodline, and he took particular pride in doing the cut-string stairs in ash and with a walnut handrail, with a band of thin grooves cut into the front of each step for grip: it looks architectural and works a treat. >>>

It really is a home that responds to the site, neighbours, aspect — the lot. Some architects talk that sort of talk. This is a house that lives it

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Pictures: Denis Scannell

1 Take the right steps with quality stairs. This cut-string work was crafted by Tom O’Dea of Woodline Ltd.

2 Strike a chord: Guitar Garden Sculpture: John White 021-4270188

3 Pendants day: Give lights the chance to shine, these are classic Caravaggio p3 lamps.

4 Great Danes: Chairs are

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5 Tile-it. Spanish WC floor tiles give a blast of colour, these are from Mosaic Del Sur.

6 Go tall: High-up windows mean no overlooking of neighbours, and you don’t need to close blinds for privacy.

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>>> With babies arriving during the design/demolition and build stage, the couple rented a house nearby, so that they could project manage. It took about nine months in all from start to move-in.

“What I’d say is don’t be afraid of it.

There aren’t enough examples of modern houses around the place to look over, so research what you want, I really enjoyed it and would do it again if we ever got the chance to build a place by the sea,” says one of the duo happily ensconced here.

“When Margaret came back with her first sketch, we said ‘that’s deadly, we’ll have

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that, please. When people come to visit, they generally love it, but some might be afraid of it. It might be a different shape, cubes on top of a box, but it is still a house.

“Now, I can tell you where every nail and screw is. I work with my hands anyway; after this, I’d put my hand to anything.

“Before, we didn’t think the style of a house could change the way you live, but it has done. ” We have to stop and say ‘do we really live here?’ sitting in the middle of winter all warm in a glass box — like something out of an IKEA catalogue!”

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Architect: Margaret Ralphs, Mulcahy Ralphs, 5 Dundanion Court, Blackrock Road, Cork.

021-4293308 e-mail: mrarchitects@eircom.net ..................................................................................................

Builder: Atlantic Timber Frame, Florence O’Driscoll www.atlanticframe.ie, 086 2604779, 021-4509009. ..................................................................................................

Stairs, kitchen, flooring etc: Tom O’Dea, Woodline Ltd, woodlinebranch@yahoo.co.uk. Based in Limerick 087 7720439 ..................................................................................................

Engineer: Ray Keane & Associates, www.rka.ie, mail: admin@rka.ie ..................................................................................................

PRACTICE PROFILE

MULCAHY Ralphs is a relatively new and young practice, but its principles Chris Ralphs and Margaret Ralphs (nee Murray) have extensive experience of both residential and commercial design via

Internal Doors and sliders: Taz 0863774324 ..................................................................................................

External Cladding System: John O'Donovan 087 797 9924 Windows: www.aluwood.ie ..................................................................................................

Zinc Capping, roof & gutters: Olan Wycherly 086-8274840 ..................................................................................................

Plumbing: Neil Harrington 087-2629466 ..................................................................................................

Electrics: Denis O’Mahony 0876713578

their years with Murray O Laoire Architects (MOLA). Margaret Ralphs’ work with them included Irish and UK projects, including Thomond Village in Limerick, and other university projects, as

well as upmarket housing at Sheen Woods in Kerry. Margaret worked with MOLA through most of the boom years (1997 to 2005) and is a lecturer in the UCC/CIT School of Architecture

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Although built fairly late, in the 15th to 16th HE three pillars of any Irish village have centuries according to some sources, the castle is always been the church, the creamery and the Norman in style and probably replaces an earlier de GAA pitch — and the triumvirate is still Cogan structure built shortly after the family landed relevant today, even in a digital age. with Strongbow in the 12th century.

Kilbolane House was built shortly after the war as Its existence bookmarks all the big names in the the creamery manager’s house and is a concrete area, from the Synans, Desmonds to the Bowens, of example of the level of prosperity in this area of north Bowenscourt (who basically squatted the castle after Cork — even before the advent of the EEC and the the Cromwellian campaign) and although it’s now industrialisation of the dairy industry. Milford, wired off and Charleville, is in the heart of dangerous, it is well the Golden Vale, with some of Location: Charleville, Co Cork worth a look. the richest and most highly Price: In excess of €750,000 Meanwhile, Kilbolane productive farmland in the House, which was country.

Size: 233 sq m, (2,500 sq ft) uninhabited for a short And as a new build, Bedrooms: 5 period, was purchased Kilbolane House was ultra online by the present modern and ultra luxurious BER rating: Pending owner, without a for its time — with its range viewing. of bedrooms and a bathroom Broadband: Yes Familiar with the upstairs and down — plus a Best feature: Setting house in its early days, run of living rooms and this overseas buyer got surrounding parkland. Very a bit of a land on the first visit to his new acquisition, grand. but nonetheless poured money into the fabric of the As a sociological exercise alone, it’s a good building and brought it up-to-date. It now comes with indication not only of the status of the local creamery five bedrooms and three bathrooms and its parkland is manager but also of the richness of the land in this returned to order.

Cork/Limerick border area.

The renovations are not of the chintz and horse Set on eight acres of parkland and close to the brass type either, rather there’s a sleek kitchen/ diner village, but very private, this is an ideal commuting installed a living room with slot-in gas fire and walnut spot to Limerick and Cork and there’s a mainline rail flooring, (with a signed photo of Frank Sinatra at one link at Charleville to both cities. end) and a main drawing room with sandstone The house probably replaces an earlier property of fireplace at the far end. This has double doors to the the same name and is very close to the Castle of south-facing area of the house, where there’s a small Kilbolane, a very imposing medieval structure private bower. looming over the approach to the village from the The L-shape of the building breaks up the mass of Charleville side.

the house, with an amount of space in this house, which is considerable and includes two staircases, the formal one to the front and the servants’ stairs at the kitchen end, where two small rooms would have been used for the maid or maids. The rest of the floor has four bedrooms, two of which are en suite and all of the bathrooms are very well finished with good showers run off a pressurised system. Wiring, plumbing and all of the basic systems have been upgraded and the house has a mix of quality wooden floors and wool carpets. Outside, under an original carport is a riders’ changing room and shower room, and close to the house is a modern shed which would be used as an American barn. The Milford property is on the market with Maurice Cohalan of Cohalan Downing and while the agent is not willing to name a price, such a property in this location could make in excess of €750,000.

VERDICT: A move-in proposition and ideal for a horsey family, Kilbolane House offers plenty of room and space for mucking around.

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Pictures: Denis Scannell

1 Take the right steps with quality stairs. This cut-string work was crafted by Tom O’Dea of Woodline Ltd.

2 Strike a chord: Guitar Garden Sculpture: John White 021-4270188

3 Pendants day: Give lights the chance to shine, these are classic Caravaggio p3 lamps.

4 Great Danes: Chairs are

by Findahls, Denmark

5 Tile-it. Spanish WC floor tiles give a blast of colour, these are from Mosaic Del Sur.

6 Go tall: High-up windows mean no overlooking of neighbours, and you don’t need to close blinds for privacy.

SOURCEBOOK

>>> With babies arriving during the design/demolition and build stage, the couple rented a house nearby, so that they could project manage. It took about nine months in all from start to move-in.

“What I’d say is don’t be afraid of it.

There aren’t enough examples of modern houses around the place to look over, so research what you want, I really enjoyed it and would do it again if we ever got the chance to build a place by the sea,” says one of the duo happily ensconced here.

“When Margaret came back with her first sketch, we said ‘that’s deadly, we’ll have

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that, please. When people come to visit, they generally love it, but some might be afraid of it. It might be a different shape, cubes on top of a box, but it is still a house.

“Now, I can tell you where every nail and screw is. I work with my hands anyway; after this, I’d put my hand to anything.

“Before, we didn’t think the style of a house could change the way you live, but it has done. ” We have to stop and say ‘do we really live here?’ sitting in the middle of winter all warm in a glass box — like something out of an IKEA catalogue!”

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Architect: Margaret Ralphs, Mulcahy Ralphs, 5 Dundanion Court, Blackrock Road, Cork.

021-4293308 e-mail: mrarchitects@eircom.net ..................................................................................................

Builder: Atlantic Timber Frame, Florence O’Driscoll www.atlanticframe.ie, 086 2604779, 021-4509009. ..................................................................................................

Stairs, kitchen, flooring etc: Tom O’Dea, Woodline Ltd, woodlinebranch@yahoo.co.uk. Based in Limerick 087 7720439 ..................................................................................................

Engineer: Ray Keane & Associates, www.rka.ie, mail: admin@rka.ie ..................................................................................................

PRACTICE PROFILE

MULCAHY Ralphs is a relatively new and young practice, but its principles Chris Ralphs and Margaret Ralphs (nee Murray) have extensive experience of both residential and commercial design via

Internal Doors and sliders: Taz 0863774324 ..................................................................................................

External Cladding System: John O'Donovan 087 797 9924 Windows: www.aluwood.ie ..................................................................................................

Zinc Capping, roof & gutters: Olan Wycherly 086-8274840 ..................................................................................................

Plumbing: Neil Harrington 087-2629466 ..................................................................................................

Electrics: Denis O’Mahony 0876713578

their years with Murray O Laoire Architects (MOLA). Margaret Ralphs’ work with them included Irish and UK projects, including Thomond Village in Limerick, and other university projects, as

well as upmarket housing at Sheen Woods in Kerry. Margaret worked with MOLA through most of the boom years (1997 to 2005) and is a lecturer in the UCC/CIT School of Architecture

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Although built fairly late, in the 15th to 16th HE three pillars of any Irish village have centuries according to some sources, the castle is always been the church, the creamery and the Norman in style and probably replaces an earlier de GAA pitch — and the triumvirate is still Cogan structure built shortly after the family landed relevant today, even in a digital age. with Strongbow in the 12th century.

Kilbolane House was built shortly after the war as Its existence bookmarks all the big names in the the creamery manager’s house and is a concrete area, from the Synans, Desmonds to the Bowens, of example of the level of prosperity in this area of north Bowenscourt (who basically squatted the castle after Cork — even before the advent of the EEC and the the Cromwellian campaign) and although it’s now industrialisation of the dairy industry. Milford, wired off and Charleville, is in the heart of dangerous, it is well the Golden Vale, with some of Location: Charleville, Co Cork worth a look. the richest and most highly Price: In excess of €750,000 Meanwhile, Kilbolane productive farmland in the House, which was country.

Size: 233 sq m, (2,500 sq ft) uninhabited for a short And as a new build, Bedrooms: 5 period, was purchased Kilbolane House was ultra online by the present modern and ultra luxurious BER rating: Pending owner, without a for its time — with its range viewing. of bedrooms and a bathroom Broadband: Yes Familiar with the upstairs and down — plus a Best feature: Setting house in its early days, run of living rooms and this overseas buyer got surrounding parkland. Very a bit of a land on the first visit to his new acquisition, grand. but nonetheless poured money into the fabric of the As a sociological exercise alone, it’s a good building and brought it up-to-date. It now comes with indication not only of the status of the local creamery five bedrooms and three bathrooms and its parkland is manager but also of the richness of the land in this returned to order.

Cork/Limerick border area.

The renovations are not of the chintz and horse Set on eight acres of parkland and close to the brass type either, rather there’s a sleek kitchen/ diner village, but very private, this is an ideal commuting installed a living room with slot-in gas fire and walnut spot to Limerick and Cork and there’s a mainline rail flooring, (with a signed photo of Frank Sinatra at one link at Charleville to both cities. end) and a main drawing room with sandstone The house probably replaces an earlier property of fireplace at the far end. This has double doors to the the same name and is very close to the Castle of south-facing area of the house, where there’s a small Kilbolane, a very imposing medieval structure private bower. looming over the approach to the village from the The L-shape of the building breaks up the mass of Charleville side.

the house, with an amount of space in this house, which is considerable and includes two staircases, the formal one to the front and the servants’ stairs at the kitchen end, where two small rooms would have been used for the maid or maids. The rest of the floor has four bedrooms, two of which are en suite and all of the bathrooms are very well finished with good showers run off a pressurised system. Wiring, plumbing and all of the basic systems have been upgraded and the house has a mix of quality wooden floors and wool carpets. Outside, under an original carport is a riders’ changing room and shower room, and close to the house is a modern shed which would be used as an American barn. The Milford property is on the market with Maurice Cohalan of Cohalan Downing and while the agent is not willing to name a price, such a property in this location could make in excess of €750,000.

VERDICT: A move-in proposition and ideal for a horsey family, Kilbolane House offers plenty of room and space for mucking around.

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From dainty drawers to classy chairs, the glam style of the past is making a comeback, says Carol O’Callaghan

Right: The M&S dressing table and matching mirror has a traditional design, finished in white for a fresh modern touch €878.

Left: A traditional style dressing table features a trio of mirrors to view your make-up and hair from all angles. Inset drawers provide storage for trinkets and hair decorations. The Maison from Casey’s Furniture costs €449.

■ Pop-up shops are popping up around the country, showcasing and selling some of the best Irish craft and design. You’ll find a group of them at the RHA’s pop-up shop in Dublin’s Ely Place during October and November. This Comfort lamp is by Locker 13 who are showing and selling at the RHA’s pop-up shop during October. See www.locker13.ie

SOME GLASSY IDEAS Want to adapt a table you already have for use as a dressing table? Just find a pretty mirror to finish the look.

The Fantail mirror brings with it a touch of 1930s Art Deco style when the dressing table was the star turn of the boudoir (€159 from Littlewoods Ireland).

Right: For a touch of high drama, this Rococo-style model makes a strong feature in the bedroom (€129 from Next Interiors).

Left: Glamorise the bedroom with a beautiful Italianate mirror like the Vicenza, or place it on a hall table for checking those last minute adjustments (approx €45 at Debenhams).

CONSOLE YOURSELF Adapt a console or invest in a new one, and make it fit for purpose with a few accessories.

A dressing table with ample drawer space built into the leg supports makes it suitable also for use as a desk. A discreet little stool not only matches but can be stored snugly underneath (Dressing table and mirror €1,099, stool €149 from Casey’s Furniture).

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UR new-found love of vintage shows no signs of suffering from the ebb and flow of fashion as our appreciation of old things for our homes seems set to stay. With it there’s a revival of things long thought old fashioned and consigned to the attic, if not the charity shop, like teapots, foot-stools and that babe of boudoir furniture, the dressing table.

Poor thing fell victim to the built-in wardrobes of the 1970s with their streamlined finishes and mirrored doors, and later to the American-style vanity unit now so prevalent in bathrooms and en-suites. But doesn’t the idea of sitting on a soft, fluffycushioned stool in front of a lovely

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mirrored dressing table appeal? Just think of all those glamorous old films from the 1930s and ’40s where Lana Turner and Marlene Dietrich leave their date with a drink in his hand to slip into something more comfortable, which turns out to be a silky negligee and silver high-heeled slippers, and while repairing their blood-red lipstick and giving their hair 100 strokes of the brush while sitting before their dressing table, they decide will they, won’t they.

Meanwhile, the date is replenishing his glass of bourbon, loosening his cravat and smoothing the lapel of his smoking jacket in anticipation, but as all good stories have to have some conflict to hold our interest, the ensuing drama often results in a violent up-

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For a touch of vintage check out the Antoinette dressing table and full-width mirror and plenty of storage with five drawers to contain your precious accessories (€1,395 from the Homes in Heaven range at Boulevard Interiors).

turning of the dressing table and a shattered mirror when the date’s romantic advances are thwarted.

Yet this little drama queen of the furniture family can be an isle of loveliness and good behaviour, sitting demurely as butter wouldn’t melt, bedecked with jewellery boxes, matching hair brushes, bottles of perfume, and powder puffs sitting in crystal bowls. Drawers with dainty handles secrete cosmetics, pink cotton wool balls, eye-lash curlers and tweezers, hair ornaments and all the other ingredients of beauty witchcraft.

If you’re not lucky enough to have inherited a lovely old dressing table from an elderly relative, there are plenty on the market and other pieces of

furniture that can be adapted for such use. But don’t be seduced by the look of one until you’ve sat before it to make sure it’s a comfortable height for applying lipstick or generally admiring yourself prior to heading out the door.

Also give consideration to whether you’ll team it with a chair or a stool.

The latter has always been favoured as it takes up little space and can be slotted under the dressing table when not in use, but a dainty chair can work too if sufficiently compact and unlikely to impede movement around the bedroom.

If a traditional dressing table sounds like a chunky space-hogger, consider the multi-functional route with a console and free-standing mirror on top, or a

wall-mounted version. This arrangement could also work in a girl’s bedroom where there’s need for study space, making the console a desk in term-time and a dressing table during the holidays. And if you tire of playing films stars you can always redeploy the console and mirror elsewhere in the house.

Next week afternoon tea is on the menu and how to create a memorable tea party.

Right: A white finish gives a traditional shaped dressing table an up-to-date look and a fashionable Scandinavian look (Hemnes from Ikea €199)

The slim Bureau Avignon can double up as a dressing table as and when required (€1,375 at Boulevard Interiors).

Right: A sparkling sunburst style frame can be fitted with a favourite photo and placed on your dressing table (M&S €13).

Right: For a more traditional style bedroom where there’s an emphasis on darker wood the TK Maxx bedroom console might match (€199.99).

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Get the look without breaking the bank

From dainty drawers to classy chairs, the glam style of the past is making a comeback, says Carol O’Callaghan

Right: The M&S dressing table and matching mirror has a traditional design, finished in white for a fresh modern touch €878.

Left: A traditional style dressing table features a trio of mirrors to view your make-up and hair from all angles. Inset drawers provide storage for trinkets and hair decorations. The Maison from Casey’s Furniture costs €449.

■ Pop-up shops are popping up around the country, showcasing and selling some of the best Irish craft and design. You’ll find a group of them at the RHA’s pop-up shop in Dublin’s Ely Place during October and November. This Comfort lamp is by Locker 13 who are showing and selling at the RHA’s pop-up shop during October. See www.locker13.ie

SOME GLASSY IDEAS Want to adapt a table you already have for use as a dressing table? Just find a pretty mirror to finish the look.

The Fantail mirror brings with it a touch of 1930s Art Deco style when the dressing table was the star turn of the boudoir (€159 from Littlewoods Ireland).

Right: For a touch of high drama, this Rococo-style model makes a strong feature in the bedroom (€129 from Next Interiors).

Left: Glamorise the bedroom with a beautiful Italianate mirror like the Vicenza, or place it on a hall table for checking those last minute adjustments (approx €45 at Debenhams).

CONSOLE YOURSELF Adapt a console or invest in a new one, and make it fit for purpose with a few accessories.

A dressing table with ample drawer space built into the leg supports makes it suitable also for use as a desk. A discreet little stool not only matches but can be stored snugly underneath (Dressing table and mirror €1,099, stool €149 from Casey’s Furniture).

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UR new-found love of vintage shows no signs of suffering from the ebb and flow of fashion as our appreciation of old things for our homes seems set to stay. With it there’s a revival of things long thought old fashioned and consigned to the attic, if not the charity shop, like teapots, foot-stools and that babe of boudoir furniture, the dressing table.

Poor thing fell victim to the built-in wardrobes of the 1970s with their streamlined finishes and mirrored doors, and later to the American-style vanity unit now so prevalent in bathrooms and en-suites. But doesn’t the idea of sitting on a soft, fluffycushioned stool in front of a lovely

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mirrored dressing table appeal? Just think of all those glamorous old films from the 1930s and ’40s where Lana Turner and Marlene Dietrich leave their date with a drink in his hand to slip into something more comfortable, which turns out to be a silky negligee and silver high-heeled slippers, and while repairing their blood-red lipstick and giving their hair 100 strokes of the brush while sitting before their dressing table, they decide will they, won’t they.

Meanwhile, the date is replenishing his glass of bourbon, loosening his cravat and smoothing the lapel of his smoking jacket in anticipation, but as all good stories have to have some conflict to hold our interest, the ensuing drama often results in a violent up-

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For a touch of vintage check out the Antoinette dressing table and full-width mirror and plenty of storage with five drawers to contain your precious accessories (€1,395 from the Homes in Heaven range at Boulevard Interiors).

turning of the dressing table and a shattered mirror when the date’s romantic advances are thwarted.

Yet this little drama queen of the furniture family can be an isle of loveliness and good behaviour, sitting demurely as butter wouldn’t melt, bedecked with jewellery boxes, matching hair brushes, bottles of perfume, and powder puffs sitting in crystal bowls. Drawers with dainty handles secrete cosmetics, pink cotton wool balls, eye-lash curlers and tweezers, hair ornaments and all the other ingredients of beauty witchcraft.

If you’re not lucky enough to have inherited a lovely old dressing table from an elderly relative, there are plenty on the market and other pieces of

furniture that can be adapted for such use. But don’t be seduced by the look of one until you’ve sat before it to make sure it’s a comfortable height for applying lipstick or generally admiring yourself prior to heading out the door.

Also give consideration to whether you’ll team it with a chair or a stool.

The latter has always been favoured as it takes up little space and can be slotted under the dressing table when not in use, but a dainty chair can work too if sufficiently compact and unlikely to impede movement around the bedroom.

If a traditional dressing table sounds like a chunky space-hogger, consider the multi-functional route with a console and free-standing mirror on top, or a

wall-mounted version. This arrangement could also work in a girl’s bedroom where there’s need for study space, making the console a desk in term-time and a dressing table during the holidays. And if you tire of playing films stars you can always redeploy the console and mirror elsewhere in the house.

Next week afternoon tea is on the menu and how to create a memorable tea party.

Right: A white finish gives a traditional shaped dressing table an up-to-date look and a fashionable Scandinavian look (Hemnes from Ikea €199)

The slim Bureau Avignon can double up as a dressing table as and when required (€1,375 at Boulevard Interiors).

Right: A sparkling sunburst style frame can be fitted with a favourite photo and placed on your dressing table (M&S €13).

Right: For a more traditional style bedroom where there’s an emphasis on darker wood the TK Maxx bedroom console might match (€199.99).

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How to create a vintage stencil with a panel of inexpensive lace WHAT YOU NEED: ■ A cheap lace panel. An inexpensive synthetic lace for window sheers will work fine. No heirlooms. Ragged edges add a faded gentility

■ Spray paint Plasti-cote has a good range of colours and metallics if you’re feeling more New Romantic.

Spray won’t disturb the lace like a brush

Stencils have come a long way, says Kya deLongchamps, from twee trims and busy borders on kitchen walls

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here is nothing you can do in the space of an afternoon with a few mililitres of paint and three litres of patience that is quite as satisfying as successful stencil work. Stencils have come a long way from the twee trims and busy borders apologetically loitering on the upper walls of the 1980s pine heavy kitchen.

Boldly re-interpreted in a variety of scales and presented in complete themed kits, commercial stencils now offer everything from shoulder high hypnotic waving grasses, pneumatic blossom of every species, stunning abstract graphics, and animals and insects full of movement, character and powerful visual impact. Add one bold feature, a scatter of eye grabbing motifs, or create a bespoke ‘wallpaper’ at a fraction of the cost of one roll of a design house beauty. Stencilling is a skill-set no DIY interior adventurer should be without.

REALISTIC MEETS GRAPHIC

One stencil can be realised in a standard literal way, say a pink rose with a green shaded leaf, or retaining its instantly recognisable line it can have its colour pattern played with for some retro flash. If you love the line of an open faced sunflower but need it in a range of blues, just get that background colour right and go ahead. Flip it over and do a reverse image. Don’t worry about breaking rules, there are none.

One of the most popular contemporary applications of stencilling is the silhouette. Put simply this is a pattern blocked in one colour on a contrasting or harmonising background. White stencilling applied to grey or even black walls delivers a fascinating aesthetic. Play with the real and imagined, hanging pictures and suspending shelves from stencilled branches. Curl stems and leaves and pattern around artwork to frame and contextual them in fresh, fun ways.

Combine both literal and graphic, using a stencil as a straight out painting in ‘real’ colours for fabrics and then lifting a subtle graphic out of a blank wall in a simple one colour relief just two or three tones darker than the wall.

FABRICS AND FLOORS Anything you can stencil on the wall can in theory be taken to fabric and floors. Wood flooring must be cleaned of waxes and sealants and then resealed with an acrylic varnish to protect the

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■ Reposition spray or small pieces of low tack tape ■ Stencilling brush or old blusher brush if you’re stuck

design. Perimeters are ideal canvases as they receive less foot traffic and will survive long after central designs are scuffing up. Using fabric paint, try your favourite motifs on remnants before approaching metres of virgin curtain material and vouch for the highly absorbent colour fast properties of natural fibres. Resist strangling the room in too much slavishly reproduced pattern dribbled over every surface.

■ Brass hooks or hooks to taste ■ Gloves to protect your hands from spray

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SUMPTUOUS ARTWORK Some of the more unusual applications of stencil work extend to ceiling medallions around central light fittings, shadow work, where a paler stencil has its own deeper shadow adding magical depth, and fresco project packs allowing you to really cover the wall with courageous artwork combining stencils with freehand painting. The Americans have very well priced individual pieces and kits that can be shipped here and my current favourite has to be Cutting Edge Stencils www.cuttingedgestencils.com of New Jersey with their mouth-watering array of birds, wallpaper kits, and entrancing vintage paisleys. Henny Donovan’s fabulous website, www.hennydonovanmotifs.co.uk, shows how the inclusion of more committed techniques using multiple layering of colour, multi-part stencils and metallic paints can further lift a motif to a lustrous even translucent finish.

Through the wonder of email, many firms will even make a bespoke stencil to your specification.

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Spray the reverse of the panel with reposition spray of stick up with minute sherds of tape Position your panel. Over a dressing table or side table is ideal.

Spray lightly straight at the panel, 15cm away or according to manufacturer’s instructions. Spray more lightly at the edges to create a slight fading away.

Remove lace and allow to dry Position hooks using hand-drill and wall-plugs around the panel to take jewellery, rings and bracelets

Go further: Use a large lace panel as described above and place a wall mirror at the centre of the stencil, creating a fabulous retro border for your reflection. A shelf could also be staged this way.

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Top: One stencil shadows itself in a touch of luxury. $39.95 plus P&P. www.cuttingedgestencils.com. Above: A Standing Crane Stencil kit here used to create a panel. The same stencil can be used to cover entire walls. HennyDonovanmotifs.co.uk

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Use registration marks (vertical and horizontal pencil marks on the wall made through the stencil) to ensure your stencil is in the right place. This is vital when using repeat patterns, stencils with two or more sheets for each finished pattern.

Q. Can I use fabric paint and stencils on any materials for curtains?

A. Natural materials will take fabric paint a lot better than a synthetic, so consider cotton, linen or even run to the luxury of silk. A percentage of synthetic material say in a poly-cotton mix will work but is more likely to repel the paint as you work and fade over time than pure cotton.

Don’t use too much paint. Paint bleeding under the edges of the stencil will ruin your lines. Use matt emulsion not silks. Pouncing the brush (bouncing lightly) stops the hairs spreading under the edges of the stencil.

A stencil brush, available from dedicated craft shops and stencil suppliers will add texture and is ideal for delicate work.

will look too twee with everything matching.

A. Consider using a motif but in different ways, for example as a standard stencil on the wall and as a graphic silhouette on cushions and curtains. Play with scale, and if you have a stencil set of flowers and stems, try reversing them, creating shrubby areas and single blooms for your rose garden.

■ Answers by Kya deLongchamps

Q. Can I stencil a ceramic tiled floor?

A. Ceramic tile is tough and impermeable and not very receptive to painted decoration that is not fired for permanence. On the wall it will be difficult to get a good finish without smudges and on the floor they will quickly scuff off even if sealed.

Small rollers are quick and easy if you are using one colour, for say a simple graphic effect of a metallic colour over a dark background. Don’t over-load the sponge head.

Have some background wall paint for touch ups and to cover any registration marks.

Build colour and accent areas using multiple applications. Ensure the first coat is dry before you start on the second. Go to Henny Donovan’s website for details on the gorgeous art of ‘blushing’. www.hennydonovanmotifs.co.uk.

Do you have a DIY question you would like answered?

Send it to interiors@examiner.ie

Q. I want to shade my stencils, but I’ve found this very messy in the past.

A. The key is to start with the palest colour and build towards the darkest, allowing drying time between. You can block the entire pattern in a pale colour to help you see it and this will give added luminosity to the finished stencil.

Top Tips for stencils

WALLPAPER WONDERS Creating wallpaper with stencils can be done with minute precision (when for example using damask style large patterns) or scattered in more forgiving sprigs and blocks by eye. Experiment with background colours with a chosen stencil colour on a piece of cardboard or garage wall before taking your palette and technique to the target wall. Try overlapping some motifs for added interest. For regular patterns use plumb lines and painters’ tape to keep your stencil on track. Start on a line of design working from the ceiling to floor lining up the registration marks or edges of the stencil. The top stencil houses offer advice and entire project work in tutorials for every kind of stencil application, including simple and complex multi-stencil wallpaper pretenders.

Mask any furnishings

Audrey Hepburn cuts a dash on this feature wall. Quality wall decals are a great cheat if you don’t want to tackle a stencil. €30. A stunning gallery of images from Irish supplier www.wallstickers.ie.

Q. I want to use stencils for a rose theme in my bedroom over walls and soft furnishings, but I’m worried it

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How to create a vintage stencil with a panel of inexpensive lace WHAT YOU NEED: ■ A cheap lace panel. An inexpensive synthetic lace for window sheers will work fine. No heirlooms. Ragged edges add a faded gentility

■ Spray paint Plasti-cote has a good range of colours and metallics if you’re feeling more New Romantic.

Spray won’t disturb the lace like a brush

Stencils have come a long way, says Kya deLongchamps, from twee trims and busy borders on kitchen walls

T

here is nothing you can do in the space of an afternoon with a few mililitres of paint and three litres of patience that is quite as satisfying as successful stencil work. Stencils have come a long way from the twee trims and busy borders apologetically loitering on the upper walls of the 1980s pine heavy kitchen.

Boldly re-interpreted in a variety of scales and presented in complete themed kits, commercial stencils now offer everything from shoulder high hypnotic waving grasses, pneumatic blossom of every species, stunning abstract graphics, and animals and insects full of movement, character and powerful visual impact. Add one bold feature, a scatter of eye grabbing motifs, or create a bespoke ‘wallpaper’ at a fraction of the cost of one roll of a design house beauty. Stencilling is a skill-set no DIY interior adventurer should be without.

REALISTIC MEETS GRAPHIC

One stencil can be realised in a standard literal way, say a pink rose with a green shaded leaf, or retaining its instantly recognisable line it can have its colour pattern played with for some retro flash. If you love the line of an open faced sunflower but need it in a range of blues, just get that background colour right and go ahead. Flip it over and do a reverse image. Don’t worry about breaking rules, there are none.

One of the most popular contemporary applications of stencilling is the silhouette. Put simply this is a pattern blocked in one colour on a contrasting or harmonising background. White stencilling applied to grey or even black walls delivers a fascinating aesthetic. Play with the real and imagined, hanging pictures and suspending shelves from stencilled branches. Curl stems and leaves and pattern around artwork to frame and contextual them in fresh, fun ways.

Combine both literal and graphic, using a stencil as a straight out painting in ‘real’ colours for fabrics and then lifting a subtle graphic out of a blank wall in a simple one colour relief just two or three tones darker than the wall.

FABRICS AND FLOORS Anything you can stencil on the wall can in theory be taken to fabric and floors. Wood flooring must be cleaned of waxes and sealants and then resealed with an acrylic varnish to protect the

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■ Reposition spray or small pieces of low tack tape ■ Stencilling brush or old blusher brush if you’re stuck

design. Perimeters are ideal canvases as they receive less foot traffic and will survive long after central designs are scuffing up. Using fabric paint, try your favourite motifs on remnants before approaching metres of virgin curtain material and vouch for the highly absorbent colour fast properties of natural fibres. Resist strangling the room in too much slavishly reproduced pattern dribbled over every surface.

■ Brass hooks or hooks to taste ■ Gloves to protect your hands from spray

1 2 3 4 5 6

SUMPTUOUS ARTWORK Some of the more unusual applications of stencil work extend to ceiling medallions around central light fittings, shadow work, where a paler stencil has its own deeper shadow adding magical depth, and fresco project packs allowing you to really cover the wall with courageous artwork combining stencils with freehand painting. The Americans have very well priced individual pieces and kits that can be shipped here and my current favourite has to be Cutting Edge Stencils www.cuttingedgestencils.com of New Jersey with their mouth-watering array of birds, wallpaper kits, and entrancing vintage paisleys. Henny Donovan’s fabulous website, www.hennydonovanmotifs.co.uk, shows how the inclusion of more committed techniques using multiple layering of colour, multi-part stencils and metallic paints can further lift a motif to a lustrous even translucent finish.

Through the wonder of email, many firms will even make a bespoke stencil to your specification.

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Spray the reverse of the panel with reposition spray of stick up with minute sherds of tape Position your panel. Over a dressing table or side table is ideal.

Spray lightly straight at the panel, 15cm away or according to manufacturer’s instructions. Spray more lightly at the edges to create a slight fading away.

Remove lace and allow to dry Position hooks using hand-drill and wall-plugs around the panel to take jewellery, rings and bracelets

Go further: Use a large lace panel as described above and place a wall mirror at the centre of the stencil, creating a fabulous retro border for your reflection. A shelf could also be staged this way.

Q&A

Top: One stencil shadows itself in a touch of luxury. $39.95 plus P&P. www.cuttingedgestencils.com. Above: A Standing Crane Stencil kit here used to create a panel. The same stencil can be used to cover entire walls. HennyDonovanmotifs.co.uk

1 2 3 4 5 6

Use registration marks (vertical and horizontal pencil marks on the wall made through the stencil) to ensure your stencil is in the right place. This is vital when using repeat patterns, stencils with two or more sheets for each finished pattern.

Q. Can I use fabric paint and stencils on any materials for curtains?

A. Natural materials will take fabric paint a lot better than a synthetic, so consider cotton, linen or even run to the luxury of silk. A percentage of synthetic material say in a poly-cotton mix will work but is more likely to repel the paint as you work and fade over time than pure cotton.

Don’t use too much paint. Paint bleeding under the edges of the stencil will ruin your lines. Use matt emulsion not silks. Pouncing the brush (bouncing lightly) stops the hairs spreading under the edges of the stencil.

A stencil brush, available from dedicated craft shops and stencil suppliers will add texture and is ideal for delicate work.

will look too twee with everything matching.

A. Consider using a motif but in different ways, for example as a standard stencil on the wall and as a graphic silhouette on cushions and curtains. Play with scale, and if you have a stencil set of flowers and stems, try reversing them, creating shrubby areas and single blooms for your rose garden.

■ Answers by Kya deLongchamps

Q. Can I stencil a ceramic tiled floor?

A. Ceramic tile is tough and impermeable and not very receptive to painted decoration that is not fired for permanence. On the wall it will be difficult to get a good finish without smudges and on the floor they will quickly scuff off even if sealed.

Small rollers are quick and easy if you are using one colour, for say a simple graphic effect of a metallic colour over a dark background. Don’t over-load the sponge head.

Have some background wall paint for touch ups and to cover any registration marks.

Build colour and accent areas using multiple applications. Ensure the first coat is dry before you start on the second. Go to Henny Donovan’s website for details on the gorgeous art of ‘blushing’. www.hennydonovanmotifs.co.uk.

Do you have a DIY question you would like answered?

Send it to interiors@examiner.ie

Q. I want to shade my stencils, but I’ve found this very messy in the past.

A. The key is to start with the palest colour and build towards the darkest, allowing drying time between. You can block the entire pattern in a pale colour to help you see it and this will give added luminosity to the finished stencil.

Top Tips for stencils

WALLPAPER WONDERS Creating wallpaper with stencils can be done with minute precision (when for example using damask style large patterns) or scattered in more forgiving sprigs and blocks by eye. Experiment with background colours with a chosen stencil colour on a piece of cardboard or garage wall before taking your palette and technique to the target wall. Try overlapping some motifs for added interest. For regular patterns use plumb lines and painters’ tape to keep your stencil on track. Start on a line of design working from the ceiling to floor lining up the registration marks or edges of the stencil. The top stencil houses offer advice and entire project work in tutorials for every kind of stencil application, including simple and complex multi-stencil wallpaper pretenders.

Mask any furnishings

Audrey Hepburn cuts a dash on this feature wall. Quality wall decals are a great cheat if you don’t want to tackle a stencil. €30. A stunning gallery of images from Irish supplier www.wallstickers.ie.

Q. I want to use stencils for a rose theme in my bedroom over walls and soft furnishings, but I’m worried it

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Treat yourself to something gorgeous whether it’s a major investment purchase or just a little accessory to brighten your day. Carol O’Callaghan has trawled the shops to bring you a tempting selection

The Nordic Greengate doormat bedecked with naive-style birds and trees will provide a warm and cheery welcome for your guests (€9.99 at www.garrendennylaneinteriors.ie).

A shabby chic coffee tray in the French provincial style like the Les Gourmands is both functional and decorative and makes carrying hot cups and coffee pots easy (€24 at www.e-boutique.ie).

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Treat yourself to something gorgeous whether it’s a major investment purchase or just a little accessory to brighten your day. Carol O’Callaghan has trawled the shops to bring you a tempting selection

The Nordic Greengate doormat bedecked with naive-style birds and trees will provide a warm and cheery welcome for your guests (€9.99 at www.garrendennylaneinteriors.ie).

A shabby chic coffee tray in the French provincial style like the Les Gourmands is both functional and decorative and makes carrying hot cups and coffee pots easy (€24 at www.e-boutique.ie).

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Kya deLongchamps continues with her 12- week series focusing on getting your home ready for winter

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I’ve inherited an old sideboard from an aunt, and though I love it, it doesn’t go with anything in my home — should I paint it?

A. Most people are far too quick to take a paint brush to pre-loved furniture.

Often, it’s the little imperfections that add character to a piece. In this case however, you may want to paint it to better suit your home. Here’s how: first remove all the handles and hinges, strip any existing paint or varnish and sand it down. Give it a good clean and once dry, apply the primer and paint. If there’s a grain in the wood, apply the paint in the direction of the grain. To give it an antique look again, simply lightly sand some of the raised edges, corners or legs to give the appearance of wear and tear. Finish with a coat of bees wax to protect the wood.

Q. My bathroom is cold, dated. I can’t afford to install a new one – help!

A. Sometimes, it’s the smallest room in the house that proves the most difficult to decorate. The secret is the three S’s: Surroundings, Sight and Smell.

Surroundings: Use a big, bright bath mat to hide an unsightly floor and matching towels or shower curtain to introduce a splash of colour to the room. Sight: Hide the clutter such as rubber ducks and shampoo and only keep decorative items like perfume on display. Tilt-out bins at the end of the bath are a great use of wasted space.

Smell: Light a scented candle or add a few drops of essential oil to bath water to transform a bathroom into a spa sanctuary.

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f you had the choice of a well bedded, safe, warm penthouse with meals gifted in your path, or a life bobbing on a rain-lashed barley stalk- where would you choose?

Mice come into our homes, because they are invited in by insufficient physical defences and sloppy housekeeping. Unless confined to a cage with an adoring infant keeper and their own workout wheel, they are extremely bad news.

Mice can squeeze their malleable, tiny bodies through the faintest 6mm gap around the wiring and pipe-work. Holes in cavity blockwork, the warm warren of timber frame, and other welcoming cavities leave your home wide open. Height is no barrier to intrusion and they can leap up as much as 30cm and cling to rough render as good as any David Blaine.

A. F&B Matchstick is a warm, neutral colour that works well with yellowish hues — so I’d go for creams or greens such as F&B’s Cat’s Paw or Savage Ground. Before deciding on a colour, consider: the size of the room, amount of natural light it receives and aspect (whether it gets sun in the morning or afternoon). If the room is already dark, go for a light colour on the walls — and vice versa. Be sure to test your chosen colour. One little tip is to paint a sheet of white cardboard and Blu-Tack to different areas during the day so you can see how it catches the light.

Q.With two small children, our living room is a mess of toys — any ideas as to how my husband and I can reclaim our living room in the evenings?

A. Most of us don’t have the luxury of a separate play room for all those toys.

But with proper planning and storage, your living room can function as a play room by day and adult haven by night.

Multi-purpose furniture such as coffee tables with in-built storage and window seats or foot stools with lift-up lids will help make your space work harder for you. Floor-to-ceiling cupboards fitted into the alcoves either side of the fireplace add symmetry to a room and are great for displaying what you want – and hiding the rest. Try Boon Inc’s ‘Animal Bag’ storage sack ($49.99 from www.booninc.com).

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Farrow & Ball 'Cat's Paw', colour and its inspiration from wild mushrooms. See www.farrow-ball.com

Every week Sue O’Connor picks her top three interiors sites. If you have a favourite you’d like to see featured, email: interiors@examiner.ie

The Stylish Dog Company

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All things Irish feature in Blarney Woollen Mills’ website, blarney.com. With Waterford and Galway crystal, linens and lace and Belleek pottery you are sure to pick something up for your home. It also stocks Stephen Pearce lamps and pottery and, has a sweet vintage afternoon tea set for one. The site features a handy tool to change what currency you want to purchase the product in for people overseas and prices include free postage anywhere.

Take a trip to the world-famous store from the comfort of your living room.

The dog days are over with this website for everything a man’s best friend would want and need in the home. The stylish dog company has a few tricks up its sleeve to make your home a pet comfort zone. Their Spaniel bowl in autumnal colours will be a feast for Pluto’s senses. This site even stocks memory foam dog beds for your cherished pet. You can’t belive how much can be bought for a dog from sofa throws, dog treat storage to dog memo boards. Little Rover will thank you for making your house his home.

This Cork store has branched online and has home and lifestyle section which stocks some gems.

Primarily a gorgeous clothing store, it also has lampshades which are pretty unique, and wall signs which someone in your life will appreciate.

Sign slogans include “If It Fits In The Toaster I Can Cook It”.

Started by two best mates who found Cork was in dire need of some new fashion stores, this site is now is a handy port of call for that quirky conversation piece for your home.

■ www.blarney.com

■ www.thestylishdogcompany.com

■ www.myamity.ie

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Solving a wee problem I

Q. We’ve just finished renovating our house and are down to painting the kitchen walls. Our kitchen units are painted in Farrow & Ball’s Matchstick (pale mushroom) – do you think I should go lighter or darker?

WEB WATCH Blarney

Interior designer Karen Hughes, director of Emerald Interior Design in Dublin (www.emeraldinteriordesign.ie), answers your questions. Email: interiors@examiner.ie

The Bud vase is Waterford Crystal. It is the classic ‘Lismore Pattern’ but with a contemporary take on it. It is €86 down from €96. See www.blarney.com

BAD BEHAVIOUR The first time you will probably realise you are hosting Mus Domesticus (the house mouse) or Apodemus Sylvaticus (the field mouse), is when you notice their tea-leaf like droppings collected in drawers or glinting from beneath work-top appliances. However, what you don’t see is the invisible route written in mouse urine, but you may pick up a musky ammonia smell. Mice don’t have a sphincter muscle and happily trickle a ghastly trail of 70 droppings a day. The eye to eye introduction may take place anywhere from the end of the vacuum pipe to a soft springing across the duvet — an unforgettable and highly reactive moment.

Close proximity to orphaned foodstuffs, tracked into dark corners, will delight the opportunist mouse. Soon a female will be breeding up eight young a month and in a few short weeks those off-spring will go forth and multiply. A devoted pair of mice can result in a population of 3,000 little interbred friends over 12 months. As a mouse’s teeth continue to grow throughout its life it has to gnaw to keep them in trim. Evidence of nibbles may be on show or they may be discreetly chewing through hidden cabling. Mice carry the same diseases as rats including salmonellas and a family of diseases known as leptospirosis, the worst of which is Weils disease. The ‘smell’ of a cat does little to unsettle mice, even if the cat may snag the odd straggler.

GETTING RID You can of course call out the professionals.

Mouse removal should only be part of a threepronged attack to rid yourself of their poisonous pitter-patter in the long term. The three key issues are sanitation, exclusion (see our top tips) and finally the murky topic of population reduction.

The standard back-breaking trap is highly affective in dealing with most domestic mouse problems, and the stiff little body can be disposed of quickly and cleanly. Bait the trap with peanut butter or a little rasher (mice don’t favour cheese) and place close to the wall where mice are likely to run. Use several traps in one location for optimum results, set a couple of metres feet apart. Live traps and sticky boards that take the mouse alive are potentially cruel if you don’t check them on a very regular basis and dispatch your captive quickly and cleanly.

If you are escorting a mouse from your premises deposit it at least 300 metres from the house or he will simply go home again.

Ultrasonic devices have a limited success repelling mice, and they soon become used to

10 tips for anti-mouse housekeeping Outdoors:

1 2 3 4

Look for any gaps larger than about 1.5cm, and plug them. Plumbing, drainage and electricity outlets are all suspect. Expanding foam products are quick and economical.

Rough walls and creepers will allow vagrants to climb in via the attic so look over the house from foundations to gutters, taking in any wood fascias and soffits for chewing and inviting damage.

Exterior ground vents should have a 20 gauge screen of ¼” incorporated in their design to guard against rodents.

Mice feel vulnerable if visible. Trim vegetation away from foundations, cut lawns short and move leaf piles, bird feeders and kennels further away from the building.

Indoors:

5 6 any repeated noise, and as the sound is directional it does not carry around corners. The nuisance of electromagnetic can be transmitted to a wider furry audience through household cabling. Put one device in per floor (around 50msq) and persist with their use for a month to allow parent mice guarding nest sites to pick up and leave. Argos

offers a Beacon Advanced Dual Action unit for €40.49 that will also get any rats in an uproar.

If you have the heart to poison the mice (and your pest team are stoic in this regard), they will wander off to die in some distress.

The type held in a mouse penetrable box is safer than loose granules. www.rapdipests. €6.08.

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Is there a gap at the back of kitchen counters collecting food scraps and crumbs? Seal it with mastic or use a strip.

Dry and fresh goods should be sealed and covered. This includes bread, your sugar bowl, dry pet food (overnight at least) and fruit left out on the counter.

Pull out recycle bins and other waste containers and examine walls and recesses for any potential rodent access. Secure all lids.

Mice scuttle along the edges of the room. Get down to the skirting and explore and seal all wiring entries, gaps around radiator pipes, loose skirting and cracks in floorboards.

If you have any freestanding furniture in the kitchen shore up any gap between counter space and the wall where crumbs may float down to the skirting board, an ideal thoroughfare for mice.

10 Left: The Cat Can Mouse Trap. Use any old tin can with these dedicated trap lids. £5 for two. www.amazon.co.uk. Right: The Beacon Advance Dual Action repeller for mice and rats, features both ultrasonic and electromagnetic pulses to disturb mice. Give these units a month to drive out nesting mice already raising young. €40.49. Argos.

Use a bristle strip to step any gap at the bottom of all exterior doors. Check the attic for mouse activity and lay trap or bait if needed.

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Kya deLongchamps continues with her 12- week series focusing on getting your home ready for winter

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I’ve inherited an old sideboard from an aunt, and though I love it, it doesn’t go with anything in my home — should I paint it?

A. Most people are far too quick to take a paint brush to pre-loved furniture.

Often, it’s the little imperfections that add character to a piece. In this case however, you may want to paint it to better suit your home. Here’s how: first remove all the handles and hinges, strip any existing paint or varnish and sand it down. Give it a good clean and once dry, apply the primer and paint. If there’s a grain in the wood, apply the paint in the direction of the grain. To give it an antique look again, simply lightly sand some of the raised edges, corners or legs to give the appearance of wear and tear. Finish with a coat of bees wax to protect the wood.

Q. My bathroom is cold, dated. I can’t afford to install a new one – help!

A. Sometimes, it’s the smallest room in the house that proves the most difficult to decorate. The secret is the three S’s: Surroundings, Sight and Smell.

Surroundings: Use a big, bright bath mat to hide an unsightly floor and matching towels or shower curtain to introduce a splash of colour to the room. Sight: Hide the clutter such as rubber ducks and shampoo and only keep decorative items like perfume on display. Tilt-out bins at the end of the bath are a great use of wasted space.

Smell: Light a scented candle or add a few drops of essential oil to bath water to transform a bathroom into a spa sanctuary.

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f you had the choice of a well bedded, safe, warm penthouse with meals gifted in your path, or a life bobbing on a rain-lashed barley stalk- where would you choose?

Mice come into our homes, because they are invited in by insufficient physical defences and sloppy housekeeping. Unless confined to a cage with an adoring infant keeper and their own workout wheel, they are extremely bad news.

Mice can squeeze their malleable, tiny bodies through the faintest 6mm gap around the wiring and pipe-work. Holes in cavity blockwork, the warm warren of timber frame, and other welcoming cavities leave your home wide open. Height is no barrier to intrusion and they can leap up as much as 30cm and cling to rough render as good as any David Blaine.

A. F&B Matchstick is a warm, neutral colour that works well with yellowish hues — so I’d go for creams or greens such as F&B’s Cat’s Paw or Savage Ground. Before deciding on a colour, consider: the size of the room, amount of natural light it receives and aspect (whether it gets sun in the morning or afternoon). If the room is already dark, go for a light colour on the walls — and vice versa. Be sure to test your chosen colour. One little tip is to paint a sheet of white cardboard and Blu-Tack to different areas during the day so you can see how it catches the light.

Q.With two small children, our living room is a mess of toys — any ideas as to how my husband and I can reclaim our living room in the evenings?

A. Most of us don’t have the luxury of a separate play room for all those toys.

But with proper planning and storage, your living room can function as a play room by day and adult haven by night.

Multi-purpose furniture such as coffee tables with in-built storage and window seats or foot stools with lift-up lids will help make your space work harder for you. Floor-to-ceiling cupboards fitted into the alcoves either side of the fireplace add symmetry to a room and are great for displaying what you want – and hiding the rest. Try Boon Inc’s ‘Animal Bag’ storage sack ($49.99 from www.booninc.com).

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Farrow & Ball 'Cat's Paw', colour and its inspiration from wild mushrooms. See www.farrow-ball.com

Every week Sue O’Connor picks her top three interiors sites. If you have a favourite you’d like to see featured, email: interiors@examiner.ie

The Stylish Dog Company

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Amity

All things Irish feature in Blarney Woollen Mills’ website, blarney.com. With Waterford and Galway crystal, linens and lace and Belleek pottery you are sure to pick something up for your home. It also stocks Stephen Pearce lamps and pottery and, has a sweet vintage afternoon tea set for one. The site features a handy tool to change what currency you want to purchase the product in for people overseas and prices include free postage anywhere.

Take a trip to the world-famous store from the comfort of your living room.

The dog days are over with this website for everything a man’s best friend would want and need in the home. The stylish dog company has a few tricks up its sleeve to make your home a pet comfort zone. Their Spaniel bowl in autumnal colours will be a feast for Pluto’s senses. This site even stocks memory foam dog beds for your cherished pet. You can’t belive how much can be bought for a dog from sofa throws, dog treat storage to dog memo boards. Little Rover will thank you for making your house his home.

This Cork store has branched online and has home and lifestyle section which stocks some gems.

Primarily a gorgeous clothing store, it also has lampshades which are pretty unique, and wall signs which someone in your life will appreciate.

Sign slogans include “If It Fits In The Toaster I Can Cook It”.

Started by two best mates who found Cork was in dire need of some new fashion stores, this site is now is a handy port of call for that quirky conversation piece for your home.

■ www.blarney.com

■ www.thestylishdogcompany.com

■ www.myamity.ie

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Q. We’ve just finished renovating our house and are down to painting the kitchen walls. Our kitchen units are painted in Farrow & Ball’s Matchstick (pale mushroom) – do you think I should go lighter or darker?

WEB WATCH Blarney

Interior designer Karen Hughes, director of Emerald Interior Design in Dublin (www.emeraldinteriordesign.ie), answers your questions. Email: interiors@examiner.ie

The Bud vase is Waterford Crystal. It is the classic ‘Lismore Pattern’ but with a contemporary take on it. It is €86 down from €96. See www.blarney.com

BAD BEHAVIOUR The first time you will probably realise you are hosting Mus Domesticus (the house mouse) or Apodemus Sylvaticus (the field mouse), is when you notice their tea-leaf like droppings collected in drawers or glinting from beneath work-top appliances. However, what you don’t see is the invisible route written in mouse urine, but you may pick up a musky ammonia smell. Mice don’t have a sphincter muscle and happily trickle a ghastly trail of 70 droppings a day. The eye to eye introduction may take place anywhere from the end of the vacuum pipe to a soft springing across the duvet — an unforgettable and highly reactive moment.

Close proximity to orphaned foodstuffs, tracked into dark corners, will delight the opportunist mouse. Soon a female will be breeding up eight young a month and in a few short weeks those off-spring will go forth and multiply. A devoted pair of mice can result in a population of 3,000 little interbred friends over 12 months. As a mouse’s teeth continue to grow throughout its life it has to gnaw to keep them in trim. Evidence of nibbles may be on show or they may be discreetly chewing through hidden cabling. Mice carry the same diseases as rats including salmonellas and a family of diseases known as leptospirosis, the worst of which is Weils disease. The ‘smell’ of a cat does little to unsettle mice, even if the cat may snag the odd straggler.

GETTING RID You can of course call out the professionals.

Mouse removal should only be part of a threepronged attack to rid yourself of their poisonous pitter-patter in the long term. The three key issues are sanitation, exclusion (see our top tips) and finally the murky topic of population reduction.

The standard back-breaking trap is highly affective in dealing with most domestic mouse problems, and the stiff little body can be disposed of quickly and cleanly. Bait the trap with peanut butter or a little rasher (mice don’t favour cheese) and place close to the wall where mice are likely to run. Use several traps in one location for optimum results, set a couple of metres feet apart. Live traps and sticky boards that take the mouse alive are potentially cruel if you don’t check them on a very regular basis and dispatch your captive quickly and cleanly.

If you are escorting a mouse from your premises deposit it at least 300 metres from the house or he will simply go home again.

Ultrasonic devices have a limited success repelling mice, and they soon become used to

10 tips for anti-mouse housekeeping Outdoors:

1 2 3 4

Look for any gaps larger than about 1.5cm, and plug them. Plumbing, drainage and electricity outlets are all suspect. Expanding foam products are quick and economical.

Rough walls and creepers will allow vagrants to climb in via the attic so look over the house from foundations to gutters, taking in any wood fascias and soffits for chewing and inviting damage.

Exterior ground vents should have a 20 gauge screen of ¼” incorporated in their design to guard against rodents.

Mice feel vulnerable if visible. Trim vegetation away from foundations, cut lawns short and move leaf piles, bird feeders and kennels further away from the building.

Indoors:

5 6 any repeated noise, and as the sound is directional it does not carry around corners. The nuisance of electromagnetic can be transmitted to a wider furry audience through household cabling. Put one device in per floor (around 50msq) and persist with their use for a month to allow parent mice guarding nest sites to pick up and leave. Argos

offers a Beacon Advanced Dual Action unit for €40.49 that will also get any rats in an uproar.

If you have the heart to poison the mice (and your pest team are stoic in this regard), they will wander off to die in some distress.

The type held in a mouse penetrable box is safer than loose granules. www.rapdipests. €6.08.

7 8 9

Is there a gap at the back of kitchen counters collecting food scraps and crumbs? Seal it with mastic or use a strip.

Dry and fresh goods should be sealed and covered. This includes bread, your sugar bowl, dry pet food (overnight at least) and fruit left out on the counter.

Pull out recycle bins and other waste containers and examine walls and recesses for any potential rodent access. Secure all lids.

Mice scuttle along the edges of the room. Get down to the skirting and explore and seal all wiring entries, gaps around radiator pipes, loose skirting and cracks in floorboards.

If you have any freestanding furniture in the kitchen shore up any gap between counter space and the wall where crumbs may float down to the skirting board, an ideal thoroughfare for mice.

10 Left: The Cat Can Mouse Trap. Use any old tin can with these dedicated trap lids. £5 for two. www.amazon.co.uk. Right: The Beacon Advance Dual Action repeller for mice and rats, features both ultrasonic and electromagnetic pulses to disturb mice. Give these units a month to drive out nesting mice already raising young. €40.49. Argos.

Use a bristle strip to step any gap at the bottom of all exterior doors. Check the attic for mouse activity and lay trap or bait if needed.

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Tulip delights Tulips are delightful, charming and colourful, but it is their sheer reliability that keeps Charlie Wilkins coming back for more

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VER the years I have indulged in, and grown, a number of striking botanical tulips, for they persist and endure unlike their larger cousins which, after blooming break into four or five bulb segments each of which must be grown on for a similar number of years before flowering again.

The big attraction therefore is not so much their diminutive size and delightful colour combinations, but their sheer reliability. If they relish the soil in your garden (and they are not hard to satisfy) they will soon settle down and become almost indigenous, spreading in time to form

large clumps needing neither lifting or replanting from one year to the next.

I would like to introduce you to three superb varieties, the first being Tulip ‘clusiana’ often referred to as the Lady Tulip, no doubt for its delicate appearance, slim stature, and pale complexion. My planting arrives with a very pale red and cream colouring but the true form is said to be more creamy and white.

Whichever, like most ladies of quality she does not mind engaging company provided it is in harmony with her costume, so use complimentary colours nearby or let her show her finery on her own ground.

■ Ardfield-Rathbarry Gardening Club will meet on Tuesday, October 11, at 8pm in the parish hall. Enda Farrell will speak on Spring Planting, Bulbs and Hedging.

■ Bantry Flower and Garden Club meets on Monday next at 8pm in the Westlodge Hotel. Mike Collard of Future Forest will give a presentation on Autumn Gardening.

Visitor admission is €7.

Her jewellery consists of crimson basal marks in the centre of her open blooms, and purple stamens which stand in these flower centres like expensive inverted earrings. Her legs are perfection in unblemished substance at a foot to fourteen inches.

Another excellent choice is the lower-growing Tulip ‘batalinii’ an Asiatic species with narrow, wavy grey leaves and pale yellow flowers on four inch stems.

Sometimes, there are forms available which have an orange suffusion on the outside and because of this they’re known and sold as ‘Bronze Charm’.

■ A free demonstration on ‘Autumn Vegetable Growing’ will take place at The Secret Garden, Newmarket, Co Cork tomorrow at 3pm. Call 029 60084 or visit www.thesecretgardener.com ■ The Irish Garden Plant Society will hold their next meeting on Tuesday next at 8pm in the SMA Hall, Wilton, Cork. Paddy Tobin will give an illustrated talk entitled “In the shadow of the Eiger”.

■ Fermoy Flower and Garden Club will hold their biannual show on Tuesday in the Adair Hall. Judging will be by Mary O’Brien and all exhibits must be in place by 7.30pm. Confined to club members, visitors are welcome to view the exhibits. Interior architect Gerry Condon will give a talk.

■ A guided tour of the new display gardens at Griffins Garden Centre (followed by gourmet lunch) takes place on Tuesday and Thursday next at 12pm. €10.

■ What Vegetables to Grow for Winter is the title of a free talk at Atkins Garden World Carrigrohane Road

Irish Aggregates – K Landscapes Oct 1st 17th Oct 1st - 17th SALE Up to 25% OFF IRISH AGGREGATES – K Landscapes is one of the largest suppliers of Natural Stone paving in Ireland.

For over 20 years we have been supplying landscaping and building materials for home and garden use.

Based in Classis, Ovens, Co. Cork, we have a large display area and have only this year opened a new display centre at Greenbarn Garden & Lifestyle, Killeagh, Co. Cork (on the N25).

Our range of products, now offer our customers the widest range to choose from in two display areas. We supply a varied range of Natural Paving such as Indian Sandstone, Limestone and Granite, all in a variety of colours, shades and tones that will complement any garden.

In addition, we supply a large selection of building stone, decorative gravels, cobbles and natural stone kerbs and furniture which will add the perfect finishing touch.

IRISH AGGREGATES – K Landscapes policy is to display our full range of products to enable our customers to decide what suits their needs best.

Our range of products gives the customer a wide choice to suit both their taste and budget. If you are considering improving and adding value to your home IRISH AGGREGATES – K Landscapes display centres are the places to call to.

Our experienced sales team are on hand to help you whatever your project, and with Nationwide deliveries, we can guarantee a top class service.

Classis, Ovens, Co. Cork Tel 021 4872733 Fax 021 4871705 OPEN Mon-Fri 8.30am-5.30pm Sat 8.30am-5pm Greenbarn Killeagh, Co. Cork Tel 024 90166 Mob 087 9273530 OPEN Tues-Fri 9am-5.30pm Sat 9am-5pm Sun 11am-5pm Our website www.klandscapes.com Email sales@klandscapes.com 20

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■ East Cork Flower Club are holding a demonstration entitled “Shades of Autumn” with Ann Cooney on Monday next at 8pm in St John the Baptist National School, Midleton.

■ Cobh Flower and Horticulture Club will hold their next meeting at Cobh Community Centre on Monday next at 8pm. Mary Sweetman of Waterside Garden Centre Bandon will give a talk on gardening. Refreshments served.

Visitors welcome (€5).

■ Longueville House Mallow, Co Cork will hold their 10th Annual Mushroom Hunt on Sunday October 16 and Sunday, October 30. Enjoy a weekend or day visit.

Both dates are packed with activities, advice, and fun.

Refreshments unlimited!

■ Hosfords of Enniskeane welcome world famous harpist Máire Ní Chathasaigh and guitarist Chris Newman for a concert on Thursday at 8pm. Booking recommended.

■ Dermot O’Neill invites gardeners to join him visiting Monet’s garden and Versailles from October 7-10 flying Aer Lingus from Dublin.

Contact www.traveldepartment.ie for full details.

■ Kells Bay Gardens has its annual end of season plant sale on Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 5pm each day. Guided walk each day at 2.30pm with the Tea Rooms open. All welcome.

Some of the large selection of products available on displa y at our Display Centres in Ove ns and Greenbarn...

DECORATIVE GRAVEL Over 30 on display

COBBLES INDIAN SANDSTONE 7 colours on display

INDIAN LIMESTONE GRANITE PAVING SETTS DONEGAL QUARTZ AND LISCANNOR CRAZY PAVING KERBS & STEPS BUILDING STONE AND CLADDING STONE

Large selection, over 30 on disp lay Including Donegal Quartz & Lisc annor

GARDEN FURNITURE

Large selection of ornaments, seat s and benches on display.

We also supply granite window cills, wall capping, and gravel guards

WORK FOR THE WEEK AUTUMN leads the seasons in modelling the practice of recycling. What seems to die bespeaks a quiet truth; that which falls into the earth is never lost. The soil receives it willingly and preserves it.

Thus it becomes a nurturing source for new beginnings as another cycle of growth arises in early spring. This miracle of transformation is autumn’s gift to the gardener.

by Charlie Wilkins entertain our noses at every turn.

TWO WINTERS; Many gardeners feel that from October to early March the only relief from wind, cold, wet and darkness will be the Christmas festivities, but in my books there are two distinct winters, each with their own character. One falls before Christmas and the other after. I like the former the best. It brings out (in time) the first of winter’s best shrubs; the lovely winter sweet, Chimonanthus praecox, the vibrant Jasmine nudiflorum, sweetly scented Daphnes, and the reliable perfumed witchhazel Hamamelis mollis, and its many hybrids. If all these arrive in the weeks leading to Christmas, can my ‘other winter’ (and early spring) be far behind? I think not.

SCENT; I shall welcome in a few weeks a flowering plant called Coronilla ‘glauca’, which is worth trying in a sheltered corner. I, for it smells like wallflowers in November and in all those months up to and including April. One could easily have this in bloom from November to Easter, irrespective of whether the latter feast is early or late. The blooms are pale yellow, pea-shape in appearance, and carried in great numbers above foliage which is small and ferny-looking and in total scale with the rather dainty flowers. It thrives on lime, a noteworthy point for all those who cannot grow ericaceous camellias, rhododendrons and others.

The ideal candidate for the smaller garden (or for those with large areas to fill with noteworthy plants) Coronilla is easily sourced, cheap as shrubs go, and utterly reliable. However, sheltered spots will see it come its best, especially those facing south or west where the winter sun will tempt the blooms to open and release their heady perfume.

FROST; October may signal the beginning of frosty nights but these in themselves are to be welcomed for it makes dreary pink hydrangea blooms turn a ruby/russet colour almost overnight, and they can stay that way for a good month before being picked and dried for winter decoration. Frost also promotes a distinct and rather welcoming kind of smell in the garden, one different from what is associated with dying foliage or the ripening of berries. I liken it to rain which falls on sun-warmed soil or the smell you get from soft furnishings which have been left out overnight. Whichever, we should have plants to

LAWNS; Scarify lawns to remove dead grass (thatch) moss and debris from around the roots, thus allowing more light and air to reach them.

Motorised (electric) lawn rakes are the best solution for large areas, whilst on smaller lawns, the use of a spring-tined rake will be found beneficial.

If you work in one direction to begin, and then change tack, you will remove a vast quantity of material which can be composted or otherwise disposed of. Then feed. Follow with an autumn feed and await the new greening before the days cool further.

Scarifying lawns can remove debris from around the roots, allowing in more light and air. Picture: Getty

Don’t gardening just because autumn has arrived.

Atkins ‘‘ALL YEAR ROUND GARDEN CENTRE’’ has everything you need to garden for 12 months of the year.

PLANT NOW • Onions, garlic, shallots, mushroom growing kits, flower and veg seeds.

• We have a huge selection of spring flowering bulbs, winter flowering bedding plants and shrubs.

• Propagators, cold frames, frost tunnels, fleece and polythene all to protect your crops during the winter months.

• New Seamungus fertilizer protects your plants for the winter against pests and diseases.

• Potting composts farmyard manure and bark mulch.

Gardening talks with Sheila Crean our resident horticulturalist every Thursday morning 10.30 to 12 noon.

Delivery service available

Open 7 days at Carrigrohane Road, Cork Any enquiries please call 021-4933433

Greenbarn

GARDEN CENTRE | BISTRO | SHOPPING

HUGE SALE

50% OFF

TREES, SHRUBS BEDDING PLANTS GARDEN FURNITURE FURNITURE

20%/50% OFF KITCHEN WARE POTS GIFTS

Also available within the K Lan dscapes paving range is K Mix Grout and also a range of Patio Cleaners and Sea lers.

Many more products are on display, so why not give us a visit...

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Tulip delights Tulips are delightful, charming and colourful, but it is their sheer reliability that keeps Charlie Wilkins coming back for more

O

VER the years I have indulged in, and grown, a number of striking botanical tulips, for they persist and endure unlike their larger cousins which, after blooming break into four or five bulb segments each of which must be grown on for a similar number of years before flowering again.

The big attraction therefore is not so much their diminutive size and delightful colour combinations, but their sheer reliability. If they relish the soil in your garden (and they are not hard to satisfy) they will soon settle down and become almost indigenous, spreading in time to form

large clumps needing neither lifting or replanting from one year to the next.

I would like to introduce you to three superb varieties, the first being Tulip ‘clusiana’ often referred to as the Lady Tulip, no doubt for its delicate appearance, slim stature, and pale complexion. My planting arrives with a very pale red and cream colouring but the true form is said to be more creamy and white.

Whichever, like most ladies of quality she does not mind engaging company provided it is in harmony with her costume, so use complimentary colours nearby or let her show her finery on her own ground.

■ Ardfield-Rathbarry Gardening Club will meet on Tuesday, October 11, at 8pm in the parish hall. Enda Farrell will speak on Spring Planting, Bulbs and Hedging.

■ Bantry Flower and Garden Club meets on Monday next at 8pm in the Westlodge Hotel. Mike Collard of Future Forest will give a presentation on Autumn Gardening.

Visitor admission is €7.

Her jewellery consists of crimson basal marks in the centre of her open blooms, and purple stamens which stand in these flower centres like expensive inverted earrings. Her legs are perfection in unblemished substance at a foot to fourteen inches.

Another excellent choice is the lower-growing Tulip ‘batalinii’ an Asiatic species with narrow, wavy grey leaves and pale yellow flowers on four inch stems.

Sometimes, there are forms available which have an orange suffusion on the outside and because of this they’re known and sold as ‘Bronze Charm’.

■ A free demonstration on ‘Autumn Vegetable Growing’ will take place at The Secret Garden, Newmarket, Co Cork tomorrow at 3pm. Call 029 60084 or visit www.thesecretgardener.com ■ The Irish Garden Plant Society will hold their next meeting on Tuesday next at 8pm in the SMA Hall, Wilton, Cork. Paddy Tobin will give an illustrated talk entitled “In the shadow of the Eiger”.

■ Fermoy Flower and Garden Club will hold their biannual show on Tuesday in the Adair Hall. Judging will be by Mary O’Brien and all exhibits must be in place by 7.30pm. Confined to club members, visitors are welcome to view the exhibits. Interior architect Gerry Condon will give a talk.

■ A guided tour of the new display gardens at Griffins Garden Centre (followed by gourmet lunch) takes place on Tuesday and Thursday next at 12pm. €10.

■ What Vegetables to Grow for Winter is the title of a free talk at Atkins Garden World Carrigrohane Road

Irish Aggregates – K Landscapes Oct 1st 17th Oct 1st - 17th SALE Up to 25% OFF IRISH AGGREGATES – K Landscapes is one of the largest suppliers of Natural Stone paving in Ireland.

For over 20 years we have been supplying landscaping and building materials for home and garden use.

Based in Classis, Ovens, Co. Cork, we have a large display area and have only this year opened a new display centre at Greenbarn Garden & Lifestyle, Killeagh, Co. Cork (on the N25).

Our range of products, now offer our customers the widest range to choose from in two display areas. We supply a varied range of Natural Paving such as Indian Sandstone, Limestone and Granite, all in a variety of colours, shades and tones that will complement any garden.

In addition, we supply a large selection of building stone, decorative gravels, cobbles and natural stone kerbs and furniture which will add the perfect finishing touch.

IRISH AGGREGATES – K Landscapes policy is to display our full range of products to enable our customers to decide what suits their needs best.

Our range of products gives the customer a wide choice to suit both their taste and budget. If you are considering improving and adding value to your home IRISH AGGREGATES – K Landscapes display centres are the places to call to.

Our experienced sales team are on hand to help you whatever your project, and with Nationwide deliveries, we can guarantee a top class service.

Classis, Ovens, Co. Cork Tel 021 4872733 Fax 021 4871705 OPEN Mon-Fri 8.30am-5.30pm Sat 8.30am-5pm Greenbarn Killeagh, Co. Cork Tel 024 90166 Mob 087 9273530 OPEN Tues-Fri 9am-5.30pm Sat 9am-5pm Sun 11am-5pm Our website www.klandscapes.com Email sales@klandscapes.com 20

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Tulipa clusiana and its sub sections adapt well to Irish conditions.

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Cork on Thursday next at 10.30am.

■ East Cork Flower Club are holding a demonstration entitled “Shades of Autumn” with Ann Cooney on Monday next at 8pm in St John the Baptist National School, Midleton.

■ Cobh Flower and Horticulture Club will hold their next meeting at Cobh Community Centre on Monday next at 8pm. Mary Sweetman of Waterside Garden Centre Bandon will give a talk on gardening. Refreshments served.

Visitors welcome (€5).

■ Longueville House Mallow, Co Cork will hold their 10th Annual Mushroom Hunt on Sunday October 16 and Sunday, October 30. Enjoy a weekend or day visit.

Both dates are packed with activities, advice, and fun.

Refreshments unlimited!

■ Hosfords of Enniskeane welcome world famous harpist Máire Ní Chathasaigh and guitarist Chris Newman for a concert on Thursday at 8pm. Booking recommended.

■ Dermot O’Neill invites gardeners to join him visiting Monet’s garden and Versailles from October 7-10 flying Aer Lingus from Dublin.

Contact www.traveldepartment.ie for full details.

■ Kells Bay Gardens has its annual end of season plant sale on Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 5pm each day. Guided walk each day at 2.30pm with the Tea Rooms open. All welcome.

Some of the large selection of products available on displa y at our Display Centres in Ove ns and Greenbarn...

DECORATIVE GRAVEL Over 30 on display

COBBLES INDIAN SANDSTONE 7 colours on display

INDIAN LIMESTONE GRANITE PAVING SETTS DONEGAL QUARTZ AND LISCANNOR CRAZY PAVING KERBS & STEPS BUILDING STONE AND CLADDING STONE

Large selection, over 30 on disp lay Including Donegal Quartz & Lisc annor

GARDEN FURNITURE

Large selection of ornaments, seat s and benches on display.

We also supply granite window cills, wall capping, and gravel guards

WORK FOR THE WEEK AUTUMN leads the seasons in modelling the practice of recycling. What seems to die bespeaks a quiet truth; that which falls into the earth is never lost. The soil receives it willingly and preserves it.

Thus it becomes a nurturing source for new beginnings as another cycle of growth arises in early spring. This miracle of transformation is autumn’s gift to the gardener.

by Charlie Wilkins entertain our noses at every turn.

TWO WINTERS; Many gardeners feel that from October to early March the only relief from wind, cold, wet and darkness will be the Christmas festivities, but in my books there are two distinct winters, each with their own character. One falls before Christmas and the other after. I like the former the best. It brings out (in time) the first of winter’s best shrubs; the lovely winter sweet, Chimonanthus praecox, the vibrant Jasmine nudiflorum, sweetly scented Daphnes, and the reliable perfumed witchhazel Hamamelis mollis, and its many hybrids. If all these arrive in the weeks leading to Christmas, can my ‘other winter’ (and early spring) be far behind? I think not.

SCENT; I shall welcome in a few weeks a flowering plant called Coronilla ‘glauca’, which is worth trying in a sheltered corner. I, for it smells like wallflowers in November and in all those months up to and including April. One could easily have this in bloom from November to Easter, irrespective of whether the latter feast is early or late. The blooms are pale yellow, pea-shape in appearance, and carried in great numbers above foliage which is small and ferny-looking and in total scale with the rather dainty flowers. It thrives on lime, a noteworthy point for all those who cannot grow ericaceous camellias, rhododendrons and others.

The ideal candidate for the smaller garden (or for those with large areas to fill with noteworthy plants) Coronilla is easily sourced, cheap as shrubs go, and utterly reliable. However, sheltered spots will see it come its best, especially those facing south or west where the winter sun will tempt the blooms to open and release their heady perfume.

FROST; October may signal the beginning of frosty nights but these in themselves are to be welcomed for it makes dreary pink hydrangea blooms turn a ruby/russet colour almost overnight, and they can stay that way for a good month before being picked and dried for winter decoration. Frost also promotes a distinct and rather welcoming kind of smell in the garden, one different from what is associated with dying foliage or the ripening of berries. I liken it to rain which falls on sun-warmed soil or the smell you get from soft furnishings which have been left out overnight. Whichever, we should have plants to

LAWNS; Scarify lawns to remove dead grass (thatch) moss and debris from around the roots, thus allowing more light and air to reach them.

Motorised (electric) lawn rakes are the best solution for large areas, whilst on smaller lawns, the use of a spring-tined rake will be found beneficial.

If you work in one direction to begin, and then change tack, you will remove a vast quantity of material which can be composted or otherwise disposed of. Then feed. Follow with an autumn feed and await the new greening before the days cool further.

Scarifying lawns can remove debris from around the roots, allowing in more light and air. Picture: Getty

Don’t gardening just because autumn has arrived.

Atkins ‘‘ALL YEAR ROUND GARDEN CENTRE’’ has everything you need to garden for 12 months of the year.

PLANT NOW • Onions, garlic, shallots, mushroom growing kits, flower and veg seeds.

• We have a huge selection of spring flowering bulbs, winter flowering bedding plants and shrubs.

• Propagators, cold frames, frost tunnels, fleece and polythene all to protect your crops during the winter months.

• New Seamungus fertilizer protects your plants for the winter against pests and diseases.

• Potting composts farmyard manure and bark mulch.

Gardening talks with Sheila Crean our resident horticulturalist every Thursday morning 10.30 to 12 noon.

Delivery service available

Open 7 days at Carrigrohane Road, Cork Any enquiries please call 021-4933433

Greenbarn

GARDEN CENTRE | BISTRO | SHOPPING

HUGE SALE

50% OFF

TREES, SHRUBS BEDDING PLANTS GARDEN FURNITURE FURNITURE

20%/50% OFF KITCHEN WARE POTS GIFTS

Also available within the K Lan dscapes paving range is K Mix Grout and also a range of Patio Cleaners and Sea lers.

Many more products are on display, so why not give us a visit...

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ADVERTISING

220 lots of Irish art with no reserve

DIARY SALE OF LOTS In Dublin, de Veres will hold a sale of 128 lots of Irish art and sculpture at the Berkeley Court Hotel on Monday at 6pm.

Many artists on offer, says Des O’Sullivan

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HE Irish art auction by Dolan’s at the Carlton Castletroy Park Hotel in Limerick at 3pm tomorrow features more than 220 lots, many to be sold without reserve. A broad cross section of Irish art is included in the auction.

There are 21 works from the studio of Thelma Mansfield to be sold entirely without reserve.

Among the artists

whose work is included are William Conor, Jack Donovan, James English, Tom Greaney, John Kingerlee, Graham Knuttel, Gladys MacCabe, Arthur Maderson, Geraldine O’Brien, Markey Robinson, John Schwatschke, Ivan Sutton, Norman teeling and Kenneth Webb.

Viewing at the Carlton Castletroy Park Hotel is from 10am to 9pm today and from 10am to 2.30pm tomorrow.

Auctioneer Aidan Foley will hold a sale at The Old Schoolhouse, Doneraile in north Cork at 1pm today. .........................................................

MONASTERY SALE

Above: Islanders launching the currach by the Limerick artist Tom Greaney (€850-€950) at Dolan’s tomorrow.

In Dundalk, Co Louth, Sherry Fitzgerald Carroll will offer 360 lots from the Monastery House of the De La Salle Brothers in Dundalk at St Nicholas School, Phillip St at noon today.

Edward Walsh Sales will have an auction of more than 300 lots of parochial furniture and effects at the Fir Grove Hotel, Mitchelstown, Co Cork, on October 9 at 2.30pm Included is a Georgian longcase clock, a Victorian diningroom table and a Georgian card table. .........................................................

BIRR AUCTION

TUESDAY 4 OCTOBER & WEDNESDAY 5 OCTOBER 2011

To include selected items from Lyons Demesne on the instructions of the representative of the late Dr. Tony Ryan (300 lots approx) - 1250 lots in total Further details at

www.mealys.com Tel. 056 4400942 Fax. 056 4400911 E: info@mealysfineart.com

EDWARD WALSH SALES Mitchelstown Phone 025 84107 or 086 2540645

Preliminary Announcement

Auction of Antiques & Parochial House furniture and high class furniture at The

Firgrove Hotel, Mitchelstown on Sunday, October 9th at 2.30pm

Included in this sale is a Georgian Grandfather Clock, Vict. dining room table, set of 6 & 8 dining room chairs, Georgian card table, Vict. dining & tea services, there is over 300 lots.

Full details on next Saturdays issue - Further details from above

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Viewing: Today & Tomorrow (Noon-5pm) and Monday (10am-5pm)

TO ADVERTISE IN THIS SECTION PLEASE CALL OR EMAIL Ger Duggan Tel: 021-4802192 email: interiorads@examiner.ie

In Birr, Co Offaly, there will be sales organised

by Purcell Auctioneers at 11am and 2.30pm today.

Above: Achill Gables by Markey Robinson (1918-1999) estimated at €1,000-€1,500 at Dolan’s art auction in Limerick.

Diverse range of art at Castlecomer sale

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rish glass, silver, Oriental art, tribal art, vintage wine, furniture and chimneypieces will all come under the hammer at Mealy’s two-day sale of fine and decorative art in Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny on October 4-5.

There are 300 lots from the Lyons Demesne in Co Kildare sold by the representatives of late Ryanair founder Tony Ryan, contents from a period home in the south-east and a collection of Irish and other silver among 1,250 lots. There is a carved giltwood overmantle attributed to John and Francis

Booker (€20,000-€30,000); a self portrait by William John Leech (€15,000-€25,000); a set of four Irish cast silver candlesticks by John Walkers, Dublin c1773 (€15,000-€25,000); a large bronze model of a cow (€3,500€4,500); a pair of Royal Doulton art nouveau stoneware urns (€300-€500) and a George III Palladian-style carrara marble mantlepiece (€7,000€11,000).

Viewing: 12pm to 5pm today and tomorrow; 10am to 5pm, Monday.

Sale: Tuesday and Wednesday at 10.30am. Catalogue: www.mealys.com

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TOWER SALE The Irish round tower made of matchsticks by presidential candidate Martin McGuinness when he was a prisoner in Portlaoise in 1974 which featured on this page last week made a hammer price of €6,200 at Whyte’s sale of history, literature and collectibles. .........................................................

LIMERICK SALE O'Donovan and Associates will hold a sale at The Key House, Newcastlewest, Co. Limerick next Saturday (oct 8) at 11 a.m.

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ADVERTISING

220 lots of Irish art with no reserve

DIARY SALE OF LOTS In Dublin, de Veres will hold a sale of 128 lots of Irish art and sculpture at the Berkeley Court Hotel on Monday at 6pm.

Many artists on offer, says Des O’Sullivan

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HE Irish art auction by Dolan’s at the Carlton Castletroy Park Hotel in Limerick at 3pm tomorrow features more than 220 lots, many to be sold without reserve. A broad cross section of Irish art is included in the auction.

There are 21 works from the studio of Thelma Mansfield to be sold entirely without reserve.

Among the artists

whose work is included are William Conor, Jack Donovan, James English, Tom Greaney, John Kingerlee, Graham Knuttel, Gladys MacCabe, Arthur Maderson, Geraldine O’Brien, Markey Robinson, John Schwatschke, Ivan Sutton, Norman teeling and Kenneth Webb.

Viewing at the Carlton Castletroy Park Hotel is from 10am to 9pm today and from 10am to 2.30pm tomorrow.

Auctioneer Aidan Foley will hold a sale at The Old Schoolhouse, Doneraile in north Cork at 1pm today. .........................................................

MONASTERY SALE

Above: Islanders launching the currach by the Limerick artist Tom Greaney (€850-€950) at Dolan’s tomorrow.

In Dundalk, Co Louth, Sherry Fitzgerald Carroll will offer 360 lots from the Monastery House of the De La Salle Brothers in Dundalk at St Nicholas School, Phillip St at noon today.

Edward Walsh Sales will have an auction of more than 300 lots of parochial furniture and effects at the Fir Grove Hotel, Mitchelstown, Co Cork, on October 9 at 2.30pm Included is a Georgian longcase clock, a Victorian diningroom table and a Georgian card table. .........................................................

BIRR AUCTION

TUESDAY 4 OCTOBER & WEDNESDAY 5 OCTOBER 2011

To include selected items from Lyons Demesne on the instructions of the representative of the late Dr. Tony Ryan (300 lots approx) - 1250 lots in total Further details at

www.mealys.com Tel. 056 4400942 Fax. 056 4400911 E: info@mealysfineart.com

EDWARD WALSH SALES Mitchelstown Phone 025 84107 or 086 2540645

Preliminary Announcement

Auction of Antiques & Parochial House furniture and high class furniture at The

Firgrove Hotel, Mitchelstown on Sunday, October 9th at 2.30pm

Included in this sale is a Georgian Grandfather Clock, Vict. dining room table, set of 6 & 8 dining room chairs, Georgian card table, Vict. dining & tea services, there is over 300 lots.

Full details on next Saturdays issue - Further details from above

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Viewing: Today & Tomorrow (Noon-5pm) and Monday (10am-5pm)

TO ADVERTISE IN THIS SECTION PLEASE CALL OR EMAIL Ger Duggan Tel: 021-4802192 email: interiorads@examiner.ie

In Birr, Co Offaly, there will be sales organised

by Purcell Auctioneers at 11am and 2.30pm today.

Above: Achill Gables by Markey Robinson (1918-1999) estimated at €1,000-€1,500 at Dolan’s art auction in Limerick.

Diverse range of art at Castlecomer sale

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rish glass, silver, Oriental art, tribal art, vintage wine, furniture and chimneypieces will all come under the hammer at Mealy’s two-day sale of fine and decorative art in Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny on October 4-5.

There are 300 lots from the Lyons Demesne in Co Kildare sold by the representatives of late Ryanair founder Tony Ryan, contents from a period home in the south-east and a collection of Irish and other silver among 1,250 lots. There is a carved giltwood overmantle attributed to John and Francis

Booker (€20,000-€30,000); a self portrait by William John Leech (€15,000-€25,000); a set of four Irish cast silver candlesticks by John Walkers, Dublin c1773 (€15,000-€25,000); a large bronze model of a cow (€3,500€4,500); a pair of Royal Doulton art nouveau stoneware urns (€300-€500) and a George III Palladian-style carrara marble mantlepiece (€7,000€11,000).

Viewing: 12pm to 5pm today and tomorrow; 10am to 5pm, Monday.

Sale: Tuesday and Wednesday at 10.30am. Catalogue: www.mealys.com

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TOWER SALE The Irish round tower made of matchsticks by presidential candidate Martin McGuinness when he was a prisoner in Portlaoise in 1974 which featured on this page last week made a hammer price of €6,200 at Whyte’s sale of history, literature and collectibles. .........................................................

LIMERICK SALE O'Donovan and Associates will hold a sale at The Key House, Newcastlewest, Co. Limerick next Saturday (oct 8) at 11 a.m.

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