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WE HAVE MOVED TO 8 SOUTH MALL, CORK TEL: 021-4905000

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CONTENTS TRADING UP Views of a real Disney castle come with a Coolmaine seaside cottage.

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STARERS A Clarecastle home on half an acre has an upside-down living layout.

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NEWS Wipe the slate at slate-hung Drumcora House, now hugely down in price.

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COVER A Bantry Bay newbuild shows contemporary architect looking right at home.

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compromising architectural integrity.

So it may well be the case here, and indeed any builder tacking the work needed will relish the prospect of getting off the street/road for loading/ unloading, skips, storage and parking. The fact there’s almost 100’ of front garden (and a similar amount behind, with raised sun-trap decking) from the preserved front gate and cast iron railing means no diminution in privacy or loss of amenity: quite the opposite, in fact.

VERDICT: A grand old home, in a ‘pleased with itself ’ salubrious suburb, showing its age, but more than willing to go again with a bit of cash and a bit more care lavished on it.

9 NEWLYN VALE, ROCHESTOWN, CORK

WINDSOR, WATERFALL, CO. CORK

Ideally situated this 4 bed detached has immense potential with a south facing back garden.

ASKING PRICE: €500,000

Substantial 6/7 Bedroom Detached Dormer on a large private 1.5 acre site.

ASKING PRICE: €375,000

Most Attractive and spacious 5 Bed detached just off the Rochestown Road ASKING PRICE: €350,000

Fantastic 5 Bedroom detached dormer bungalow over 2,000 sq. ft. on one third of an acre ASKING PRICE: €350,000

INTERIORS DIY HOME ECONOMICS ANTIQUES GARDENING

IRISH EXAMINER Property&Interiors | 03.12.2011

Contact Michael Downey

087 7777117

Contact Sean McCarthy

086 8385768

Contact Michael Downey

087 7777117

1 DOUGLAS TERRACE, BALLINLOUGH, CORK

HAZELTON, CROSSHAVEN, CO. CORK

GREENGATES, MAYFIELD ROAD, CORK

Period 4/5 bed house set in an exclusive park set around a fantastic private green.

ASKING PRICE: €320,000

Extended 4/5 bed semi just off the Ballinlough Road with a super back garden.

ASKING PRICE: €275,000

Superb 4 bed detached bungalow on a picturesque site close to the coast. Attic has been converted.

ASKING PRICE: €250,000

Charming 3 bed detached dormer bungalow with a beautiful mature back garden.

PRICE ON APPLICATION

087 7777117

Contact Sean McCarthy

086 8385768

Contact Sean McCarthy

086 8385768

Contact Michael Downey

087 7777117

2 BEECHWOOD PLACE, DOUGLAS ROAD

76 ASHBROOK, CARRIGTWOHILL, CORK

10 BROMLEY, DONNYBROOK, DOUGLAS

THE COTTAGE, CLOGHEEN, CO. CORK

4 Bed mid terrace townhouse in a super location.

Many original features.

ASKING PRICE: €175,000

Luxurious 2 bed Ground floor floor apartment in turnkey condition. Very spacious 720 sq. ft. approx.

ASKING PRICE: €125,000

Lovely 3 bed semi within walking distance of Douglas village. Private back garden with potential to extend.

ASKING PRICE: €185,000

Traditional style cottage in need of renovation on a fine two thirds of an acre site. Great views.

ASKING PRICE: €175,000

Contact Sean McCarthy

PROPERTY EDITOR Tommy Barker, 021 4802221 property@examiner.ie

087 7777117

4 WELLINGTON SQUARE, CORK

Contact Michael Downey

086 8385768

THE BUNGALOW, CLOGHROE, CO. CORK

Contact Gary O’Donnell

087 7522244

HILLGROVE, 64 COMMONS ROAD, CORK

Contact Sean McCarthy

086 8385768

IVERAGH, 125 BLARNEY STREET, CORK

Contact Michael Downey

087 7777117

3 PARNELL TERRACE, POULADUFF, CORK 2 bed terraced townhouse in need of complete modernization.

Long back garden.

Close to UCC

INTERIORS EDITOR Sue O’Connor, 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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AIRPORT VIEW, BALLINHASSIG, CO. CORK

Contact Michael Downey

HROW a stone out the door or front garden of main bathroom. The main bedroom has two tall sash Holmville, at 92 Sunday’s Well in Cork city, windows, south facing, flooding the room with light, and there’s the chance you’ll hit a medic, or and open up views toward UCC over the River Lee one of their families. Give it five minutes, and which can be barely glimpsed from part of this tall, there’ll be a doctor attending the stone-hit victim — upright, grand old dame of a house. and probably a lawyer or two also... this venerable old Apart from the re-roofing, a lot of the wiring was city suburb has played host to all of the well-heeled replaced a few years ago, but the middle floor professions. especially still has all the sign of work done, but not And, Holmville in its midst has current and reinstated decoratively. Bring the tradesmen, and a previous links to one of decorator, and maybe an Cork’s old medical families, architect too.

Location: Sunday’s Well, Cork the Conlons, and only comes On the positive side, it Price: €495,000 up now to market as part of hasn’t been mucked with, so an executor sale, with agent original features like sash Size: 2,300 sq ft TJ Cronin of Irish and windows, tiled and old pine Bedrooms: 5 European, who guides the floors, numerous fine period-era home (but not a fireplaces and decorative BER rating: Pending rigidly planning-controlled plasterwork are all thankfully Broadband: Yes protected structure) at in situ. €495,000.

The old-fashioned kitchen to Best asset: Location and history It’s a pretty big, yet the back is home to an manageable, home in enormous, low-slung black anyone’s book especially for a city house, punching in cast iron range. Holmville has two well-proportioned at about 2,300 sq ft. The ‘manageability’ may yet be reception rooms to the front, one with elegant bay important to buyers and the next occupants, as it window, a great place to sit in an armchair and soak does, indeed, need work now and consequent further up the sun’s rays, and then later in the day turn back spending on all three of its levels. However, this to the open fireplace for evening heat (though you Holmville home has been fully re-roofed, with work might want to put in central heating as well for the indone now certified as to standard, with a Velux over between winter spells. the stairs at the back and there’s a new quality timber No 92 is on the eastern end of a terrace of just three sash window on the top, front gable — so the bones of imposing homes, with equally fine homes to either the top floor are ready for the next phase of side, and in front, so all in good company, really. renovation.

Neighbours have spent willingly on their homes of There’re two very rudimentary bedrooms up here at similar vintage, and more than a few have managed to attic level, with great views from the front one, while fit in off-street parking in the front, without the middle floor is home to three more bedrooms plus

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MILLWYND, ORCHARD ROAD, CORK

Detached Bungalow on 1/3 of an acre with the added benefit of full planning to construct a new 2 storey house.

ASKING PRICE: €135,000 Contact Michael Downey

087 7777117

Spacious and modern this 3 bed townhouse is an ideal starter home or investment.

ASKING PRICE: €125,000 Contact Sean McCarthy

086 8385768

ASKING PRICE: €80,000

Super 3 bed townhouse in a convenient location close to UCC and Apple Computers.

ASKING PRICE: €125,000 EXAMINERContact Property&Interiors | 03.12.2011 3 Sean McCarthy Contact Michael Downey 086 8385768 7777117 087IRISH

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Tommy Barker reports

WE HAVE MOVED TO 8 SOUTH MALL, CORK TEL: 021-4905000

T

CONTENTS TRADING UP Views of a real Disney castle come with a Coolmaine seaside cottage.

6

STARERS A Clarecastle home on half an acre has an upside-down living layout.

7

NEWS Wipe the slate at slate-hung Drumcora House, now hugely down in price.

8

COVER A Bantry Bay newbuild shows contemporary architect looking right at home.

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compromising architectural integrity.

So it may well be the case here, and indeed any builder tacking the work needed will relish the prospect of getting off the street/road for loading/ unloading, skips, storage and parking. The fact there’s almost 100’ of front garden (and a similar amount behind, with raised sun-trap decking) from the preserved front gate and cast iron railing means no diminution in privacy or loss of amenity: quite the opposite, in fact.

VERDICT: A grand old home, in a ‘pleased with itself ’ salubrious suburb, showing its age, but more than willing to go again with a bit of cash and a bit more care lavished on it.

9 NEWLYN VALE, ROCHESTOWN, CORK

WINDSOR, WATERFALL, CO. CORK

Ideally situated this 4 bed detached has immense potential with a south facing back garden.

ASKING PRICE: €500,000

Substantial 6/7 Bedroom Detached Dormer on a large private 1.5 acre site.

ASKING PRICE: €375,000

Most Attractive and spacious 5 Bed detached just off the Rochestown Road ASKING PRICE: €350,000

Fantastic 5 Bedroom detached dormer bungalow over 2,000 sq. ft. on one third of an acre ASKING PRICE: €350,000

INTERIORS DIY HOME ECONOMICS ANTIQUES GARDENING

IRISH EXAMINER Property&Interiors | 03.12.2011

Contact Michael Downey

087 7777117

Contact Sean McCarthy

086 8385768

Contact Michael Downey

087 7777117

1 DOUGLAS TERRACE, BALLINLOUGH, CORK

HAZELTON, CROSSHAVEN, CO. CORK

GREENGATES, MAYFIELD ROAD, CORK

Period 4/5 bed house set in an exclusive park set around a fantastic private green.

ASKING PRICE: €320,000

Extended 4/5 bed semi just off the Ballinlough Road with a super back garden.

ASKING PRICE: €275,000

Superb 4 bed detached bungalow on a picturesque site close to the coast. Attic has been converted.

ASKING PRICE: €250,000

Charming 3 bed detached dormer bungalow with a beautiful mature back garden.

PRICE ON APPLICATION

087 7777117

Contact Sean McCarthy

086 8385768

Contact Sean McCarthy

086 8385768

Contact Michael Downey

087 7777117

2 BEECHWOOD PLACE, DOUGLAS ROAD

76 ASHBROOK, CARRIGTWOHILL, CORK

10 BROMLEY, DONNYBROOK, DOUGLAS

THE COTTAGE, CLOGHEEN, CO. CORK

4 Bed mid terrace townhouse in a super location.

Many original features.

ASKING PRICE: €175,000

Luxurious 2 bed Ground floor floor apartment in turnkey condition. Very spacious 720 sq. ft. approx.

ASKING PRICE: €125,000

Lovely 3 bed semi within walking distance of Douglas village. Private back garden with potential to extend.

ASKING PRICE: €185,000

Traditional style cottage in need of renovation on a fine two thirds of an acre site. Great views.

ASKING PRICE: €175,000

Contact Sean McCarthy

PROPERTY EDITOR Tommy Barker, 021 4802221 property@examiner.ie

087 7777117

4 WELLINGTON SQUARE, CORK

Contact Michael Downey

086 8385768

THE BUNGALOW, CLOGHROE, CO. CORK

Contact Gary O’Donnell

087 7522244

HILLGROVE, 64 COMMONS ROAD, CORK

Contact Sean McCarthy

086 8385768

IVERAGH, 125 BLARNEY STREET, CORK

Contact Michael Downey

087 7777117

3 PARNELL TERRACE, POULADUFF, CORK 2 bed terraced townhouse in need of complete modernization.

Long back garden.

Close to UCC

INTERIORS EDITOR Sue O’Connor, 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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AIRPORT VIEW, BALLINHASSIG, CO. CORK

Contact Michael Downey

HROW a stone out the door or front garden of main bathroom. The main bedroom has two tall sash Holmville, at 92 Sunday’s Well in Cork city, windows, south facing, flooding the room with light, and there’s the chance you’ll hit a medic, or and open up views toward UCC over the River Lee one of their families. Give it five minutes, and which can be barely glimpsed from part of this tall, there’ll be a doctor attending the stone-hit victim — upright, grand old dame of a house. and probably a lawyer or two also... this venerable old Apart from the re-roofing, a lot of the wiring was city suburb has played host to all of the well-heeled replaced a few years ago, but the middle floor professions. especially still has all the sign of work done, but not And, Holmville in its midst has current and reinstated decoratively. Bring the tradesmen, and a previous links to one of decorator, and maybe an Cork’s old medical families, architect too.

Location: Sunday’s Well, Cork the Conlons, and only comes On the positive side, it Price: €495,000 up now to market as part of hasn’t been mucked with, so an executor sale, with agent original features like sash Size: 2,300 sq ft TJ Cronin of Irish and windows, tiled and old pine Bedrooms: 5 European, who guides the floors, numerous fine period-era home (but not a fireplaces and decorative BER rating: Pending rigidly planning-controlled plasterwork are all thankfully Broadband: Yes protected structure) at in situ. €495,000.

The old-fashioned kitchen to Best asset: Location and history It’s a pretty big, yet the back is home to an manageable, home in enormous, low-slung black anyone’s book especially for a city house, punching in cast iron range. Holmville has two well-proportioned at about 2,300 sq ft. The ‘manageability’ may yet be reception rooms to the front, one with elegant bay important to buyers and the next occupants, as it window, a great place to sit in an armchair and soak does, indeed, need work now and consequent further up the sun’s rays, and then later in the day turn back spending on all three of its levels. However, this to the open fireplace for evening heat (though you Holmville home has been fully re-roofed, with work might want to put in central heating as well for the indone now certified as to standard, with a Velux over between winter spells. the stairs at the back and there’s a new quality timber No 92 is on the eastern end of a terrace of just three sash window on the top, front gable — so the bones of imposing homes, with equally fine homes to either the top floor are ready for the next phase of side, and in front, so all in good company, really. renovation.

Neighbours have spent willingly on their homes of There’re two very rudimentary bedrooms up here at similar vintage, and more than a few have managed to attic level, with great views from the front one, while fit in off-street parking in the front, without the middle floor is home to three more bedrooms plus

4

MILLWYND, ORCHARD ROAD, CORK

Detached Bungalow on 1/3 of an acre with the added benefit of full planning to construct a new 2 storey house.

ASKING PRICE: €135,000 Contact Michael Downey

087 7777117

Spacious and modern this 3 bed townhouse is an ideal starter home or investment.

ASKING PRICE: €125,000 Contact Sean McCarthy

086 8385768

ASKING PRICE: €80,000

Super 3 bed townhouse in a convenient location close to UCC and Apple Computers.

ASKING PRICE: €125,000 EXAMINERContact Property&Interiors | 03.12.2011 3 Sean McCarthy Contact Michael Downey 086 8385768 7777117 087IRISH

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WATERGRASSHILL, CORK €335,000 Sq m: 205 (2,200 sq ft) BER rating: C2

Bedrooms: 5 Broadband: Yes

GOOD space for any family trading up, in an over-size dormer home in a small niche development a short commute from Cork city, is on offer at No 4, Bishopsgate, Watergrasshill.

It’s a four/five-bed home with an adaptable range of rooms, with an optional ground-level bedroom or home office, and four bedrooms overhead, though one is very much on the nursery end of the size scale, and a little under 6’ wide, but over 12’ long.

Selling agent Jeremy Murphy says this is a home to see for its warmth and good ground-level floor plan, with three reception rooms (two, including a dining room to the rear are interlinked) plus kitchen, space internally is bright, he says, and the back garden has a southerly aspect.

Murphy is seeking offers of €335,000 for No 4, which has an unusual front facade for a dormer, with a full twostorey height and a dash finish contrasting with the rest of the brick.

No 4 has good overall specification, a solid C2 BER rating, an alarm, gas heating and “is a great family home for those looking to upgrade and get more space for a growing family, with a good range of services to hand in Watergrasshill,” says Murphy.

VERDICT: One of the better trading-up options locally for families outgrowing a starter home.

MODEL FARM ROAD €895,000 Sq m: 260 (2,800 sq ft) BER rating: B

Bedrooms: 4 Broadband: Yes

THIS house isn’t built yet — but it will be built to the same standard as the truly fine home next door.

This property offer, of a house to be built over a 12-month contract to a set standard, comes after the prior 2006 sale of a 1970s Danish-design 5,000 sq ft house, called Tanglewood, on a 0.8-acre site in the up-market Hilton park off Cork’s Model Farm Road.

The second, replacement property will be 2,800 sq ft plus a convertible attic.

Its purchaser knocked the original and built a sizeable new family home to an Edwardian design, using the best of materials, and now is selling the other half of the 0.8-acre site with full planning for a similar new-build. You just have to see one to imagine the other, say selling agents, Irish and European.

They’ve reduced the asking price from c €1m to €895,000, and there’s a comprehensive specification list.

The vendor has worked in top-end construction projects and brought some of that expertise and level of detailing home here, so expect things like Bangor Blue slate, cast-iron rainwater goods, hardwood windows, limestone sills, a block-on-flat construction and concrete slab floors, and neat, white mortar detailing in the brickwork.

VERDICT: The price drop makes this prospect well worth exploring.

BALLINCOLLIG, CORK €350,000 Sq. m: 162 (1,740 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

VERDICT: Five beds and 1,740 sq ft is normally the sort of offering out on rural sites. No 5 Westcliffe has Ballincollig’s myriad services on its doorstep.

IT’S all about the view here with this house at Carrigrohane —it sits on a high hill overlooking the Lee Fields and has a panoramic scope.

Facing full south on a 3/4 acre site, this unspoilt location is still only minutes from town.

Located close by Mount Desert care centre, the house is off the Lee Road, which is part of a popular, healthy Slí na Sláinte loop.

And while the old style bungalow is need of a overhaul and a good bit of investment, sales are few and far between around here, which should pique interest.

The other major selling point is that it’s only 3km

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Bedrooms: 5 Broadband: Yes

FACING directly south, in a high pitch above Ballincollig town’s western main stretch is the large family home 5 Westcliffe.

It is within a couple of minutes of every amenity, from shops to schools, as well as the riverside walks at the Powdermills park, says auctioneer Norma Healy of Sherry Fitzgerald.

“It’s probably one of the very biggest family homes in Ballincollig of its era, she notes of the five-bed detached home with a sturdy 1,740 sq ft of space, which she guides at €350,000 and is open to offers around that level.

“It’s a great trading up opportunity, with a big back garden, three reception rooms, two of them with fireplaces, a modern kitchen with walnut units and American fridge, and one of its five bedrooms is en suite, plus there’s a guest bathroom and utility,” she notes of the house which ticks so many attributes for buyers on the move.

It has oil heating, double glazing and “this particular home is amongst the best of its type to be found at this location; there’s only a small number of homes in Westcliffe and they don’t come up for sale very often,” adds Ms Healy.

LEE ROAD, CORK €300,000

KILBRITTAIN, CORK €205,000 Sq m: 70 (750 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Bedrooms: 2 Broadband: Yes

THERE could be a Disney Fairytale ending to the proposed sale of this compact coastal cottage — appropriate, as it has captivating sea views stretching across Coolmaine beach to the renovated castle owned by the late Roy Disney.

Just as a cat can look at a king, a cottage can look at a castle, and it is those mixed views that will bring buyers to this half-acre slice of property, says estate agent Henry O’Leary.

“You could do a lot to this property, for very reasonable money. It doesn’t need a huge budget,” he says of the twobed offering on a south-east facing half acre site above the tourist road from Kinsale to Clonakilty.

Billing the location as both special and sensational (and there are fairly swanky homes all around) he says he’s optimistic about a sale here: “There’s money out there for exceptional value, and for exceptional properties, and this meets both criteria,” he enthuses.

The single-storey four room bungalow/cottage, with tiny kitchen and bathroom behind, has most of its site to the side and rear, and a smart extension will draw in light and views.

VERDICT: Coming to market with rotten timing, winter gales and economic woes, this is nonetheless a property prospect to get excited about.

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The house has breathtaking views, he adds, with good privacy on its steep site. Access is via a boreen from the Lee Road, and as it can’t be seen on a drive-by, potential viewers might try the Straight Road — with binoculars.

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WATERGRASSHILL, CORK €335,000 Sq m: 205 (2,200 sq ft) BER rating: C2

Bedrooms: 5 Broadband: Yes

GOOD space for any family trading up, in an over-size dormer home in a small niche development a short commute from Cork city, is on offer at No 4, Bishopsgate, Watergrasshill.

It’s a four/five-bed home with an adaptable range of rooms, with an optional ground-level bedroom or home office, and four bedrooms overhead, though one is very much on the nursery end of the size scale, and a little under 6’ wide, but over 12’ long.

Selling agent Jeremy Murphy says this is a home to see for its warmth and good ground-level floor plan, with three reception rooms (two, including a dining room to the rear are interlinked) plus kitchen, space internally is bright, he says, and the back garden has a southerly aspect.

Murphy is seeking offers of €335,000 for No 4, which has an unusual front facade for a dormer, with a full twostorey height and a dash finish contrasting with the rest of the brick.

No 4 has good overall specification, a solid C2 BER rating, an alarm, gas heating and “is a great family home for those looking to upgrade and get more space for a growing family, with a good range of services to hand in Watergrasshill,” says Murphy.

VERDICT: One of the better trading-up options locally for families outgrowing a starter home.

MODEL FARM ROAD €895,000 Sq m: 260 (2,800 sq ft) BER rating: B

Bedrooms: 4 Broadband: Yes

THIS house isn’t built yet — but it will be built to the same standard as the truly fine home next door.

This property offer, of a house to be built over a 12-month contract to a set standard, comes after the prior 2006 sale of a 1970s Danish-design 5,000 sq ft house, called Tanglewood, on a 0.8-acre site in the up-market Hilton park off Cork’s Model Farm Road.

The second, replacement property will be 2,800 sq ft plus a convertible attic.

Its purchaser knocked the original and built a sizeable new family home to an Edwardian design, using the best of materials, and now is selling the other half of the 0.8-acre site with full planning for a similar new-build. You just have to see one to imagine the other, say selling agents, Irish and European.

They’ve reduced the asking price from c €1m to €895,000, and there’s a comprehensive specification list.

The vendor has worked in top-end construction projects and brought some of that expertise and level of detailing home here, so expect things like Bangor Blue slate, cast-iron rainwater goods, hardwood windows, limestone sills, a block-on-flat construction and concrete slab floors, and neat, white mortar detailing in the brickwork.

VERDICT: The price drop makes this prospect well worth exploring.

BALLINCOLLIG, CORK €350,000 Sq. m: 162 (1,740 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

VERDICT: Five beds and 1,740 sq ft is normally the sort of offering out on rural sites. No 5 Westcliffe has Ballincollig’s myriad services on its doorstep.

IT’S all about the view here with this house at Carrigrohane —it sits on a high hill overlooking the Lee Fields and has a panoramic scope.

Facing full south on a 3/4 acre site, this unspoilt location is still only minutes from town.

Located close by Mount Desert care centre, the house is off the Lee Road, which is part of a popular, healthy Slí na Sláinte loop.

And while the old style bungalow is need of a overhaul and a good bit of investment, sales are few and far between around here, which should pique interest.

The other major selling point is that it’s only 3km

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Bedrooms: 5 Broadband: Yes

FACING directly south, in a high pitch above Ballincollig town’s western main stretch is the large family home 5 Westcliffe.

It is within a couple of minutes of every amenity, from shops to schools, as well as the riverside walks at the Powdermills park, says auctioneer Norma Healy of Sherry Fitzgerald.

“It’s probably one of the very biggest family homes in Ballincollig of its era, she notes of the five-bed detached home with a sturdy 1,740 sq ft of space, which she guides at €350,000 and is open to offers around that level.

“It’s a great trading up opportunity, with a big back garden, three reception rooms, two of them with fireplaces, a modern kitchen with walnut units and American fridge, and one of its five bedrooms is en suite, plus there’s a guest bathroom and utility,” she notes of the house which ticks so many attributes for buyers on the move.

It has oil heating, double glazing and “this particular home is amongst the best of its type to be found at this location; there’s only a small number of homes in Westcliffe and they don’t come up for sale very often,” adds Ms Healy.

LEE ROAD, CORK €300,000

KILBRITTAIN, CORK €205,000 Sq m: 70 (750 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Bedrooms: 2 Broadband: Yes

THERE could be a Disney Fairytale ending to the proposed sale of this compact coastal cottage — appropriate, as it has captivating sea views stretching across Coolmaine beach to the renovated castle owned by the late Roy Disney.

Just as a cat can look at a king, a cottage can look at a castle, and it is those mixed views that will bring buyers to this half-acre slice of property, says estate agent Henry O’Leary.

“You could do a lot to this property, for very reasonable money. It doesn’t need a huge budget,” he says of the twobed offering on a south-east facing half acre site above the tourist road from Kinsale to Clonakilty.

Billing the location as both special and sensational (and there are fairly swanky homes all around) he says he’s optimistic about a sale here: “There’s money out there for exceptional value, and for exceptional properties, and this meets both criteria,” he enthuses.

The single-storey four room bungalow/cottage, with tiny kitchen and bathroom behind, has most of its site to the side and rear, and a smart extension will draw in light and views.

VERDICT: Coming to market with rotten timing, winter gales and economic woes, this is nonetheless a property prospect to get excited about.

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from Cork’s western suburbs and its various institutions — selling agent Shay Cronin of Property Partners Burke Wall, has good medics/hospital-based interest, he says.

The house has breathtaking views, he adds, with good privacy on its steep site. Access is via a boreen from the Lee Road, and as it can’t be seen on a drive-by, potential viewers might try the Straight Road — with binoculars.

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STARTER HOMES CLARECASTLE, CLARE €180,000 Sq m: 130 (1,399 sq ft) BER rating: Pending UPSIDE-down living, with an upper floor open plan dining, cooking and living area, comes with this Killoo, Clarecastle three-bed cottage.

Recently renovated and extended to nearly 1,400 sq ft, it’s semi-detached, but still has a half acre site, notes selling agent Helen Gallery in Ennis, who seeks €180,000 for the property with a cottage feel downstairs mingling with open-plan

Bedrooms: 3 Broadband: Yes

No 19 Dunvale Crescent is close to two shopping centres, Tommy Barker reports Location: Price: Size: Bedrooms: BER rating: Broadband:

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ALTHOUGH it is in seven bedsits, No 7 Maryville on Cork city’s Southern Road near the South Infirmary hospital will easily convert back to a four-bed family home, on the fringe of the city centre.

So says estate agent Garry O’Donnell of ERA Downey McCarthy as he offers the terraced home, guiding €199,000 — small backyard, concrete paved front, off-street parking, and scope for three reception rooms, four bedrooms, two bathrooms and kitchen.

THERE’S a nice bit of extra greenery immediately around 19 Dunvale Crescent, a three-bed semi for sale with an extra large side garden.

It carries a €230,000 asking price with agent Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald, who rates its position within this Frankfield, Douglas, Cork, scheme built about a decade ago.

No 19’s position means it is toward the end of a cul de sac, faces a green and there’s public open space as well to the side/rear, so there’s a good feeling of openness for an estate house. It’s back garden/kitchen faces south, and the house’s elevation in Frankfield gives it distant views over Cork’s suburbs.

This 1,300 sq ft home is, say the selling agents, in

Drumcora dates back to early 1800s. Now its guide price has been cut to €495,000, writes Tommy Barker

Pictures: Denis Scannell

turnkey condition and has a front reception room with bay window and fireplace, with a rear dining room 17’ by 11’ that ties into the single storey kitchen extension, pushing out about 6’ from the house’s back wall.

Overhead are three bedrooms, one en suite, plus family bathroom, which added to the ground floor guest WC gives three bathrooms in all.

VERDICT: Dunvale, and Frankfield generally, is well serviced, with an Aldi, SuperValu, a new national school and has easy proximity to Douglas’s two shopping centres and bars and restaurants in one direction with the south city ring road and the Kinsale Road roundabout half a mile the other direction.

The slate hung house, Drumcora on Blackrock Road in Cork city, used to serve at the sports and social club of the Dunlop company.

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

MAYFIELD, CORK €139,000 Bedrooms: 3 Broadband: Yes

SMART and well presented, this three- bed end-ofterrace home at 47 Ashford Heights, Banduff, is a new market entrant with Terry Hayes of Remax and will suit first-time buyers. Located off the Banduff road, this well-maintained house has a large living/dining room, a lounge with cast iron fireplace, three bedrooms and a main bathroom.

VERDICT: Good house and with a good aspect too — it’s south-west facing at the rear.

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Douglas, Cork €230,000 95 sq m (1,030 sq ft) 3 Pending Yes

VERDICT: The location is super-convenient, and a few neighbouring houses have been recently done up.

Sq m: 93 (1,001 sq ft)) BER rating: Pending

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airiness above. The mix includes a large double garage with overhead storage, and rear, private decking area, all two minutes from the motorway/N18, near the Shannon estuary.

CORK CITY €199,000 Sq m: 134 (1,440 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Three-bed Douglas semi in turnkey condition boasts extra large garden

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Tivoli, Cork €215,000 112 sq m (1,200 sq ft) 4 Pending Yes

€215,000 for spacious demi-d with four bedrooms and three bathrooms

No 91 Ashmount Court, Cork, has bright, light hued interior, Tommy Barker reports THERE’S around 1,200 sq ft of living space for a couple or a family to colonise at 91 Ashmount Court, high up above Cork at Silversprings, Tivoli.

Here, this four-bed home with a bright and lighthued interior and a stepped-up back garden is for sale with Matt Fallon of FML Properties, who seeks offers around €215,000 for the walk-in condition home.

Ashmount’s builders were O’Brien and O’Flynn, and the scheme includes a good mix of house types.

This is one of the larger homes up here, fitting in four bedrooms and three bathrooms, and the front,

main reception room is a decent size at 17’ by 12’ with bay window and open hearth fireplace.

Keeping a nice crisp look is the light-coloured floor tiles used in the kitchen/dining room (white units too) and in the long hall, and upstairs one of its four bedrooms is en suite.

No 91 has off-street parking on a cobble lock drive, side entrance to the back garden, which is slightly tiered, with lawn and seating area.

VERDICT: A spacious semi-d, just off Cork city’s northern ring road.

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HERE’S been some illustrious local additions, and there’s still 4,800 sq ft over its three professional and business names associated levels, with some key retained architectural detailing. with Drumcora — so, who’ll be next? The It needs a sense of drive to make it once more distinctive Georgian, slate-hung and doublesomething fairly special, so a confident buyer, taking bow-fronted house on Cork city’s Blackrock Road most advantage of the huge price drops, should employ a recently served as the sports and social club of the good conservation architect/engineer, and back-up Dunlop rubber company, but it its earliest days it was crew, plus a sensitive builder, to reinstate its original lived in by the noted architect Sir Thomas Deane. grandeur. A good garden designer, and a digger, would Deane had bought it in 1823 also transform the from the estate of a bankrupt, grounds, most of which Location: Blackrock, Cork for £5,000, and he called it are now tarmac for car Price: €495,000 Herculaneum. parking.

It went through several According to Lisney, Size: 626 sq m, (6,700 sq ft) changes of name, and family “there are few Bedrooms: Not yet ownerships, owned by a opportunities to Captain Sherlock, who sold it acquire such a BER rating: Exempt to the Mahony family of substantial family Blarney textiles fame, and it home — albeit in need Broadband: Yes ended the 1800s owned by of refurbishment — in Best feature: Period home and location wine and grocery wholesaler one of Cork’s most Dominic J Daly. sought-after locations.

It later provided charitable accommodation for Drumcora has it all — internal space, site size, needy families, and by the 1940s it was associated with location, aspect and period pedigree. With imagination the Doyle family of stevedores, and was acquired by and a clever team it offers tremendous potential to Dunlops from the Egan family in the early 1970s for anyone seeking a private setting, with direct access £20,000. onto Blackrock Road, behind its ashlar stone and cast After three years on the market for the social club iron entrance gateway.” members, its price has now been reduced from a high They add that its protected structure status doesn’t hope of €1.5 million to €495,000 with agents Trish preclude changes nor exclude development or Stokes and John Paul Sheehan of Lisney, who feel that alteration. However, it does require the owner or this week’s significant price reduction should get a occupier to consult with the planning authority, either wider net of buying interest. through pre-application discussions, the planning The property on a quarter acre on the main application process, or through a declaration to ensure Blackrock Road is a protected structure, with 6,700 sq that elements that make the structure significant are ft right now: strip away the low-grade mid-1900s not lost during development.

MEANWHILE, in a broadly similar opportunity, Savills now quote €850,000 for the large, early 1900s property Villa Franca, on a 0.57 acre site on Cork’s main Douglas Road. Used for several decades as professional offices, and by Atkins engineers since the 1970s, it has over 5,500 sq ft of space, over three levels.

It is sizeable and solid, west-facing, and its € 850k AMV is half the €1.7m it was floated at in June 2008.

It has access both off the main Douglas Road, and via Ballincurrig Park, and has zoning for both commercial and residential uses, but will need to be reconfigured for private domestic use. It has huge privacy and potential and isn’t listed.

An aerial view of Villa Franca on the main Douglas road.

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STARTER HOMES CLARECASTLE, CLARE €180,000 Sq m: 130 (1,399 sq ft) BER rating: Pending UPSIDE-down living, with an upper floor open plan dining, cooking and living area, comes with this Killoo, Clarecastle three-bed cottage.

Recently renovated and extended to nearly 1,400 sq ft, it’s semi-detached, but still has a half acre site, notes selling agent Helen Gallery in Ennis, who seeks €180,000 for the property with a cottage feel downstairs mingling with open-plan

Bedrooms: 3 Broadband: Yes

No 19 Dunvale Crescent is close to two shopping centres, Tommy Barker reports Location: Price: Size: Bedrooms: BER rating: Broadband:

Bedrooms: 4 Broadband: Yes

ALTHOUGH it is in seven bedsits, No 7 Maryville on Cork city’s Southern Road near the South Infirmary hospital will easily convert back to a four-bed family home, on the fringe of the city centre.

So says estate agent Garry O’Donnell of ERA Downey McCarthy as he offers the terraced home, guiding €199,000 — small backyard, concrete paved front, off-street parking, and scope for three reception rooms, four bedrooms, two bathrooms and kitchen.

THERE’S a nice bit of extra greenery immediately around 19 Dunvale Crescent, a three-bed semi for sale with an extra large side garden.

It carries a €230,000 asking price with agent Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald, who rates its position within this Frankfield, Douglas, Cork, scheme built about a decade ago.

No 19’s position means it is toward the end of a cul de sac, faces a green and there’s public open space as well to the side/rear, so there’s a good feeling of openness for an estate house. It’s back garden/kitchen faces south, and the house’s elevation in Frankfield gives it distant views over Cork’s suburbs.

This 1,300 sq ft home is, say the selling agents, in

Drumcora dates back to early 1800s. Now its guide price has been cut to €495,000, writes Tommy Barker

Pictures: Denis Scannell

turnkey condition and has a front reception room with bay window and fireplace, with a rear dining room 17’ by 11’ that ties into the single storey kitchen extension, pushing out about 6’ from the house’s back wall.

Overhead are three bedrooms, one en suite, plus family bathroom, which added to the ground floor guest WC gives three bathrooms in all.

VERDICT: Dunvale, and Frankfield generally, is well serviced, with an Aldi, SuperValu, a new national school and has easy proximity to Douglas’s two shopping centres and bars and restaurants in one direction with the south city ring road and the Kinsale Road roundabout half a mile the other direction.

The slate hung house, Drumcora on Blackrock Road in Cork city, used to serve at the sports and social club of the Dunlop company.

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

MAYFIELD, CORK €139,000 Bedrooms: 3 Broadband: Yes

SMART and well presented, this three- bed end-ofterrace home at 47 Ashford Heights, Banduff, is a new market entrant with Terry Hayes of Remax and will suit first-time buyers. Located off the Banduff road, this well-maintained house has a large living/dining room, a lounge with cast iron fireplace, three bedrooms and a main bathroom.

VERDICT: Good house and with a good aspect too — it’s south-west facing at the rear.

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Douglas, Cork €230,000 95 sq m (1,030 sq ft) 3 Pending Yes

VERDICT: The location is super-convenient, and a few neighbouring houses have been recently done up.

Sq m: 93 (1,001 sq ft)) BER rating: Pending

PROPERTY FEATURE

airiness above. The mix includes a large double garage with overhead storage, and rear, private decking area, all two minutes from the motorway/N18, near the Shannon estuary.

CORK CITY €199,000 Sq m: 134 (1,440 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Three-bed Douglas semi in turnkey condition boasts extra large garden

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Tivoli, Cork €215,000 112 sq m (1,200 sq ft) 4 Pending Yes

€215,000 for spacious demi-d with four bedrooms and three bathrooms

No 91 Ashmount Court, Cork, has bright, light hued interior, Tommy Barker reports THERE’S around 1,200 sq ft of living space for a couple or a family to colonise at 91 Ashmount Court, high up above Cork at Silversprings, Tivoli.

Here, this four-bed home with a bright and lighthued interior and a stepped-up back garden is for sale with Matt Fallon of FML Properties, who seeks offers around €215,000 for the walk-in condition home.

Ashmount’s builders were O’Brien and O’Flynn, and the scheme includes a good mix of house types.

This is one of the larger homes up here, fitting in four bedrooms and three bathrooms, and the front,

main reception room is a decent size at 17’ by 12’ with bay window and open hearth fireplace.

Keeping a nice crisp look is the light-coloured floor tiles used in the kitchen/dining room (white units too) and in the long hall, and upstairs one of its four bedrooms is en suite.

No 91 has off-street parking on a cobble lock drive, side entrance to the back garden, which is slightly tiered, with lawn and seating area.

VERDICT: A spacious semi-d, just off Cork city’s northern ring road.

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HERE’S been some illustrious local additions, and there’s still 4,800 sq ft over its three professional and business names associated levels, with some key retained architectural detailing. with Drumcora — so, who’ll be next? The It needs a sense of drive to make it once more distinctive Georgian, slate-hung and doublesomething fairly special, so a confident buyer, taking bow-fronted house on Cork city’s Blackrock Road most advantage of the huge price drops, should employ a recently served as the sports and social club of the good conservation architect/engineer, and back-up Dunlop rubber company, but it its earliest days it was crew, plus a sensitive builder, to reinstate its original lived in by the noted architect Sir Thomas Deane. grandeur. A good garden designer, and a digger, would Deane had bought it in 1823 also transform the from the estate of a bankrupt, grounds, most of which Location: Blackrock, Cork for £5,000, and he called it are now tarmac for car Price: €495,000 Herculaneum. parking.

It went through several According to Lisney, Size: 626 sq m, (6,700 sq ft) changes of name, and family “there are few Bedrooms: Not yet ownerships, owned by a opportunities to Captain Sherlock, who sold it acquire such a BER rating: Exempt to the Mahony family of substantial family Blarney textiles fame, and it home — albeit in need Broadband: Yes ended the 1800s owned by of refurbishment — in Best feature: Period home and location wine and grocery wholesaler one of Cork’s most Dominic J Daly. sought-after locations.

It later provided charitable accommodation for Drumcora has it all — internal space, site size, needy families, and by the 1940s it was associated with location, aspect and period pedigree. With imagination the Doyle family of stevedores, and was acquired by and a clever team it offers tremendous potential to Dunlops from the Egan family in the early 1970s for anyone seeking a private setting, with direct access £20,000. onto Blackrock Road, behind its ashlar stone and cast After three years on the market for the social club iron entrance gateway.” members, its price has now been reduced from a high They add that its protected structure status doesn’t hope of €1.5 million to €495,000 with agents Trish preclude changes nor exclude development or Stokes and John Paul Sheehan of Lisney, who feel that alteration. However, it does require the owner or this week’s significant price reduction should get a occupier to consult with the planning authority, either wider net of buying interest. through pre-application discussions, the planning The property on a quarter acre on the main application process, or through a declaration to ensure Blackrock Road is a protected structure, with 6,700 sq that elements that make the structure significant are ft right now: strip away the low-grade mid-1900s not lost during development.

MEANWHILE, in a broadly similar opportunity, Savills now quote €850,000 for the large, early 1900s property Villa Franca, on a 0.57 acre site on Cork’s main Douglas Road. Used for several decades as professional offices, and by Atkins engineers since the 1970s, it has over 5,500 sq ft of space, over three levels.

It is sizeable and solid, west-facing, and its € 850k AMV is half the €1.7m it was floated at in June 2008.

It has access both off the main Douglas Road, and via Ballincurrig Park, and has zoning for both commercial and residential uses, but will need to be reconfigured for private domestic use. It has huge privacy and potential and isn’t listed.

An aerial view of Villa Franca on the main Douglas road.

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A labour of love that produced spectacular results This west Cork beauty puts huge emphasis on harnessing natural light and making the most of its setting, writes Tommy Barker

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HOUSE to match its setting — that’s this west Cork new-build, just coming up on its first anniversary, and already looking and feeling comfortably at home in its scenic site.

Dramatic in an understated way, with an angled or folded metal roof that looks like it just might have been lifted a bit off its walls and kinked by windy gusts and gales, it’s a retirement home of sorts for an early-retired couple with deep roots to this seaside site.

They’d built an earlier house here, about 30 years ago, and happily raised a family of three. But, when faced with the ‘empty nest’ scenario (and considering renovations of their familiar home), they decided instead to chuck the old nest altogether, in favour of something a bit more striking.

Inspired in some ways by the outline of a dolmen, the roof has been lifted to allow views and light underneath it, and the result is a place looking almost ready to take flight.

That winged roof stands at odd angles, raised slightly clear of the walls thanks to separating clearstory windows ringed all the way round.

It serves to ‘lighten’ this fairly sizeable house from the outside, while adding to the multiplicity of eye-engaging views from within. Because the occupants knew every detail of light play and timing of views from their previous 30 years here, every window is painstakingly-sited to catch a ray or a play of light on a feature.

That popped-up, folded metaldeck roof also creates a host of fascinating shadow opportunities and unexpected roof and ceiling angles internally. Pity, and praise, the building crew that did this roof.

It came down to precise engineering calculations to minimise the steel needed to both support the metal-clad

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Pictures: Denis Scannell roof and to stop it lifting off in a wind, and to keep the supports as light as possible.

Atlantic south westerlies tunnel up the bay, driving waves onto the so-called Thunder Rock near this house, amplifying the sound, and sending salty spray to pepper the glazing. Even lesser winds blow patio furniture and barbecues across the gardens, which is why the main sitting out space is in a sort of internal courtyard, facing the

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avenue and the nearby hills and walking routes to the south.

Built over an 18-month period, it was quite a project, but the quality of the two-anda-half acre site, with its scooped-out shingle beach sort of inspired the drive to maximise it all. Fuelling the commitment to go for it was the owners’ passion for architecture and design, and the comfort factor of having a nephew who’s a highly-

regarded architect. Happily stepping up to the mark was Patrick O’Toole of PLM Architecture (they have offices in Cork, Kenmare and Dublin) and it was a labour of love for him. “We worked very well and it was a pleasure,” say the happily-ensconced occupants, part of whose design brief was to address “the redemptive qualities of daylight”.

Well, they’re flooded in light, and have a huge delight and pride in what’s been delivered.

But, that passion and pride spills over into the setting not just their footprint and toe-hold on it: they absolutely appreciate the location. They’re no blow-ins, and after 30 years in the locale are as taken still by its beauties.

They point towards Hungry Hill on the Beara Peninsula, and say, “We can tell in the morning if there has been a lot of rain in the night, there’ll be a waterfall visible on the mountain”.

They’ll rate the silvery reflections of Whiddy Island’s outline and oil tanks glinting on Bantry Bay’s waters when stilly-calm, relish the churning sea in storms as it throws foam and flotsam on their nook of a shingle beach, and will point out the bay-long view to Castletownbere in one direction, and back east to closer landscape intrigues.

When re-landscaping the grounds in front of the house, the owner directed the digger inch by inch, so the site was recontoured to mimic the profile of the hills across the bay. A lot of extra work went into compensating for the fact the main water and bay views were to the north, and this meant that the extensive glazing had to be ultra-high performance to compensate.

Materials used in the build are sufficient to bring the house to passive standard in terms of energy demands, but compromises for lifestyle (such

as lots of opening and closing of windows) mean it actually hits a B1 BER level, not the high As, but most glazing is triple and walls have 8” of external insulation, finished in a mix of plum-hued Valentia stone, or white STO render.

Glazing is Produkt, from Germany and about as good as it gets technically and in tactile terms of sliding huge glazed door with an easy- glide action, with more windows from Danish firm Velfac, plus C&W from Ballincollig doing the clearstory windows just under the folded roof and origami-like soffits.

“I’ve never had so engaged or prescriptive a client,” notes architect Patrick O’Toole, the ‘P’ in PLM. “He gave me a narrative brief that was like a novella, they knew from the

previous house here what they did and didn’t want.”

Despite its size, and the fact the main floor level is higher than the upper floor of the house it replaced, the roof ridge is a deal lower that the previous house, and its surrounds/paths and patios are in Kilkenny/Carlow limestone, spattered with fossil prints; the random stone wall facing is Valentia stone, as are the external sills.

Looking out over gentle hill and shoreline views is the kitchen and home-hearth, with low-key understated units from Maurice Prendiville in Killarney. The units are topped with deep counters in white Corian (the dining table also has a thick Corian top), and units have with large handles in lush walnut designed by

Luke Hickson of PLM, who worked closely on the interiors with the woman of the house.

So thoughtful are the sight lines that the cooking hob’s ceiling-mounted extractor (from Miele) actually rises and falls electrically, so as to remove it from prime viewing when it isn’t sucking diesel.

The vista from the room-wide kitchen window, meanwhile, makes doing the dishes a pleasant distraction.

So, while the special setting has been captivating for the couple’s decades’ stint here, that’s nothing compared to the captivity another party ended up enjoying, who’d tried to buy the site before them It’s recounted locally that one of the infamous Kray twins (of London East End criminal fraternity notoriety) had put a

deposit on this very site in the 1960s, “but wasn’t able to proceed as he was detained at Her Majesty Pleasure”.

This is a house with a bit of heft, given that it punches in at about 6,000 sq ft, fitting in five en suite bedrooms, a large angular hall full of architectural edges and geometry, and long sight lines through rooms, windows and wings. And all those views are scene-stealers themselves. In fact, there isn’t a bad aspect in all of the compass points — nor is there a window that you would or could be bored by if plonked down beside it for an hour.

Builders were Murphy Construction from Carrigtwohill, best known for quality housing schemes across the county in east Cork, and

helping deliver architect Patrick O’Toole’s vision was another family member, engineer Liam O’Toole, who’d worked with Denis O’Sullivan Associates in Ballincollig. All parties to the build seemed to work well together: the owners had moved half a mile away when they knocked the last house and started rebuilding, cycling back every morning to view progress and see it all come together.

It’s effectively a single-storey build, over a full basement, with the lowermost level home to the master bedroom with His and Hers dressing rooms and bathrooms. There’s virtually a ‘grand entrance’ carpeted and slightly splayed staircase down to this suite, suddenly revealing sea views at the last step only from >>>

Because the occupants knew every detail of light play and timing of views from their previous 30 years here, every window is painstakingly-sited

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A labour of love that produced spectacular results This west Cork beauty puts huge emphasis on harnessing natural light and making the most of its setting, writes Tommy Barker

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HOUSE to match its setting — that’s this west Cork new-build, just coming up on its first anniversary, and already looking and feeling comfortably at home in its scenic site.

Dramatic in an understated way, with an angled or folded metal roof that looks like it just might have been lifted a bit off its walls and kinked by windy gusts and gales, it’s a retirement home of sorts for an early-retired couple with deep roots to this seaside site.

They’d built an earlier house here, about 30 years ago, and happily raised a family of three. But, when faced with the ‘empty nest’ scenario (and considering renovations of their familiar home), they decided instead to chuck the old nest altogether, in favour of something a bit more striking.

Inspired in some ways by the outline of a dolmen, the roof has been lifted to allow views and light underneath it, and the result is a place looking almost ready to take flight.

That winged roof stands at odd angles, raised slightly clear of the walls thanks to separating clearstory windows ringed all the way round.

It serves to ‘lighten’ this fairly sizeable house from the outside, while adding to the multiplicity of eye-engaging views from within. Because the occupants knew every detail of light play and timing of views from their previous 30 years here, every window is painstakingly-sited to catch a ray or a play of light on a feature.

That popped-up, folded metaldeck roof also creates a host of fascinating shadow opportunities and unexpected roof and ceiling angles internally. Pity, and praise, the building crew that did this roof.

It came down to precise engineering calculations to minimise the steel needed to both support the metal-clad

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Pictures: Denis Scannell roof and to stop it lifting off in a wind, and to keep the supports as light as possible.

Atlantic south westerlies tunnel up the bay, driving waves onto the so-called Thunder Rock near this house, amplifying the sound, and sending salty spray to pepper the glazing. Even lesser winds blow patio furniture and barbecues across the gardens, which is why the main sitting out space is in a sort of internal courtyard, facing the

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avenue and the nearby hills and walking routes to the south.

Built over an 18-month period, it was quite a project, but the quality of the two-anda-half acre site, with its scooped-out shingle beach sort of inspired the drive to maximise it all. Fuelling the commitment to go for it was the owners’ passion for architecture and design, and the comfort factor of having a nephew who’s a highly-

regarded architect. Happily stepping up to the mark was Patrick O’Toole of PLM Architecture (they have offices in Cork, Kenmare and Dublin) and it was a labour of love for him. “We worked very well and it was a pleasure,” say the happily-ensconced occupants, part of whose design brief was to address “the redemptive qualities of daylight”.

Well, they’re flooded in light, and have a huge delight and pride in what’s been delivered.

But, that passion and pride spills over into the setting not just their footprint and toe-hold on it: they absolutely appreciate the location. They’re no blow-ins, and after 30 years in the locale are as taken still by its beauties.

They point towards Hungry Hill on the Beara Peninsula, and say, “We can tell in the morning if there has been a lot of rain in the night, there’ll be a waterfall visible on the mountain”.

They’ll rate the silvery reflections of Whiddy Island’s outline and oil tanks glinting on Bantry Bay’s waters when stilly-calm, relish the churning sea in storms as it throws foam and flotsam on their nook of a shingle beach, and will point out the bay-long view to Castletownbere in one direction, and back east to closer landscape intrigues.

When re-landscaping the grounds in front of the house, the owner directed the digger inch by inch, so the site was recontoured to mimic the profile of the hills across the bay. A lot of extra work went into compensating for the fact the main water and bay views were to the north, and this meant that the extensive glazing had to be ultra-high performance to compensate.

Materials used in the build are sufficient to bring the house to passive standard in terms of energy demands, but compromises for lifestyle (such

as lots of opening and closing of windows) mean it actually hits a B1 BER level, not the high As, but most glazing is triple and walls have 8” of external insulation, finished in a mix of plum-hued Valentia stone, or white STO render.

Glazing is Produkt, from Germany and about as good as it gets technically and in tactile terms of sliding huge glazed door with an easy- glide action, with more windows from Danish firm Velfac, plus C&W from Ballincollig doing the clearstory windows just under the folded roof and origami-like soffits.

“I’ve never had so engaged or prescriptive a client,” notes architect Patrick O’Toole, the ‘P’ in PLM. “He gave me a narrative brief that was like a novella, they knew from the

previous house here what they did and didn’t want.”

Despite its size, and the fact the main floor level is higher than the upper floor of the house it replaced, the roof ridge is a deal lower that the previous house, and its surrounds/paths and patios are in Kilkenny/Carlow limestone, spattered with fossil prints; the random stone wall facing is Valentia stone, as are the external sills.

Looking out over gentle hill and shoreline views is the kitchen and home-hearth, with low-key understated units from Maurice Prendiville in Killarney. The units are topped with deep counters in white Corian (the dining table also has a thick Corian top), and units have with large handles in lush walnut designed by

Luke Hickson of PLM, who worked closely on the interiors with the woman of the house.

So thoughtful are the sight lines that the cooking hob’s ceiling-mounted extractor (from Miele) actually rises and falls electrically, so as to remove it from prime viewing when it isn’t sucking diesel.

The vista from the room-wide kitchen window, meanwhile, makes doing the dishes a pleasant distraction.

So, while the special setting has been captivating for the couple’s decades’ stint here, that’s nothing compared to the captivity another party ended up enjoying, who’d tried to buy the site before them It’s recounted locally that one of the infamous Kray twins (of London East End criminal fraternity notoriety) had put a

deposit on this very site in the 1960s, “but wasn’t able to proceed as he was detained at Her Majesty Pleasure”.

This is a house with a bit of heft, given that it punches in at about 6,000 sq ft, fitting in five en suite bedrooms, a large angular hall full of architectural edges and geometry, and long sight lines through rooms, windows and wings. And all those views are scene-stealers themselves. In fact, there isn’t a bad aspect in all of the compass points — nor is there a window that you would or could be bored by if plonked down beside it for an hour.

Builders were Murphy Construction from Carrigtwohill, best known for quality housing schemes across the county in east Cork, and

helping deliver architect Patrick O’Toole’s vision was another family member, engineer Liam O’Toole, who’d worked with Denis O’Sullivan Associates in Ballincollig. All parties to the build seemed to work well together: the owners had moved half a mile away when they knocked the last house and started rebuilding, cycling back every morning to view progress and see it all come together.

It’s effectively a single-storey build, over a full basement, with the lowermost level home to the master bedroom with His and Hers dressing rooms and bathrooms. There’s virtually a ‘grand entrance’ carpeted and slightly splayed staircase down to this suite, suddenly revealing sea views at the last step only from >>>

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GETTHELOOK

Some great ideas for you to use in your home and where to get them

1 First impressions set a tone. Here, the gates have laths that pick up on design features of the front door.

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2 Rise and fall. This extract can retract electronically closer to the ceiling so as not to block a view

3 Beveled walnut handles set a rich and warm contrasting tone for glossy kitchen cabinets

4 Grate expectations: This effective fireplace has a double front, warming two rooms

5 Off the peg: this bespoke coat rail designed by Luke Hickson of PLM has a sculptural quality

6 High-level or clearstory windows just under a roof allow a whole new perspective and light

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lawn level through wide windows to the sea. Other parts of this lower level are given over to utilities, plant rooms for the solar heating paraphernalia and huge hot water storage tanks (the oversupply helps pre-warm water to about 15 degrees for the underfloor heating), and there’s a games room and a music recording studio.

The family’s musicality has produced a talented multi-instrumentalist, who has plans to make professional use of the recording studio. In fact, the house’s plan is so cohesive, and thought-through, that the lower ground/basement studio is linked back up to the Kawai baby grand piano in pride of place in the open plan living space.

Finishes are kept to a fairly simple palette, so there’s white render with shadow-gap detailing, especially around the stairwell, and most flooring is American walnut, in varying plank widths. In contrast, the womb-like family/TV room in the house’s core is cosy, with high-level clearstory windows, and its walls are lined with horizontal bands of untreated and unvarnished walnut.

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This room shares a glass-screened, doubleaspect fireplace with the main living room the other side of the dividing wall, and each side has recessed opes framed in polished walnut for stacking chopped timber, with space in the handy integrated carport for a cord or two of cut wood to dry out over a year or so.

Approached from the public road by a short avenue running beside a well-used tennis court and vegetable garden, this house’s front door signature timber vertical strips is picked up in vertical slats, in cedar, on the entrance gates: just a detail, but considered, linking each welcoming stage.

When parking, occupants have the option of using the drive, by the front door and up the Kilkenny limestone steps, or of making use of the attached, angle-roofed carport with a gently-sloping ramp to the back/ utility room door, for easy of access for the less mobile.

One would suspect the owners “will have to be carried back out of the place”, such is their affection for it. They really have left a mark to stand the test of time.

Architects/Interiors: PLM Architecture 15, Fr Mathew Quay, Cork 0214226090, www.plm.ie ............................................................... .

Builders: Murphy Construction, Cork. www.murphyconstruction.ie ............................................................... .

Roofing: Multi-roofing Systems Ltd e-mail mrs@multiroofing.ie. ............................................................... .

Structural steel: www.noelcduggan.com ............................................................... .

Plumbing/Heating/Solar: Mechanical & Building Services, e-mail martin@mbscork.ie, 0214507444 ............................................................... .

Blinds, fabrics: Bailick Blinds, www.bailickblinds.ie, 0214613100 ............................................................... .

PRACTICE PROFILE

PLM Architecture: “WE Listen.”

That’s the claim of the principles of PLM Architecture, a young design practice set up in 2002 by Patrick O’Toole, Luke Hickson and Mark

External Stone: Valentia Slate Ltd, www.valentiaslate.com, 066-9476922 ............................................................... .

Paving, car-port: Martin Crean, Mallow 022 29164. ............................................................... .

Kitchen, utility, built-ins, etc: Maurice Prendiville Kitchens, Woodland Industrial Estate, Killarney 064-6632612. ............................................................... .

Landscaping and paving, raised beds, etc: Colm Cronin, Bantry www.colmcronin landscaping.com, 086-8158943 ............................................................... .

Mechanical services: EDC Ltd, www.edc.ie, 0214280476 ............................................................... .

Electrical: Tony Ahern, Carrignavar Electrical 0876802728

Floors: Ebony & Co, www.ebonyandco.com ............................................................... .

Lighting: Willie Duggan Lighting, www.willieduggan lighting.com, 056-7764308, Nirvana Lighting, www.nirvanalighting.com ............................................................... .

Corian Worktops: Obre Fabrication Ltd, www.obre.ie, 054-69054 ............................................................... .

Fireplace: www.focuscreation.com ............................................................... .

Windows: www.produkt.ie, www.velfac.ie, www.weathermaster.ie ............................................................... .

Interiors: Luke Hickson PLM

Dignam. Employing up to 25 at peak, it has offices in Dublin, Cork and Kenmare, with completed projects all over Ireland, the continent and in Poland.

“Our core philosophy is simple — ‘Do everything

well’.

“We are fervently antistyle — each project deserves its own individual solution cognisant of the strengths and opportunities particular to that project.”

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GETTHELOOK

Some great ideas for you to use in your home and where to get them

1 First impressions set a tone. Here, the gates have laths that pick up on design features of the front door.

1

2

3

4

5

6

2 Rise and fall. This extract can retract electronically closer to the ceiling so as not to block a view

3 Beveled walnut handles set a rich and warm contrasting tone for glossy kitchen cabinets

4 Grate expectations: This effective fireplace has a double front, warming two rooms

5 Off the peg: this bespoke coat rail designed by Luke Hickson of PLM has a sculptural quality

6 High-level or clearstory windows just under a roof allow a whole new perspective and light

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lawn level through wide windows to the sea. Other parts of this lower level are given over to utilities, plant rooms for the solar heating paraphernalia and huge hot water storage tanks (the oversupply helps pre-warm water to about 15 degrees for the underfloor heating), and there’s a games room and a music recording studio.

The family’s musicality has produced a talented multi-instrumentalist, who has plans to make professional use of the recording studio. In fact, the house’s plan is so cohesive, and thought-through, that the lower ground/basement studio is linked back up to the Kawai baby grand piano in pride of place in the open plan living space.

Finishes are kept to a fairly simple palette, so there’s white render with shadow-gap detailing, especially around the stairwell, and most flooring is American walnut, in varying plank widths. In contrast, the womb-like family/TV room in the house’s core is cosy, with high-level clearstory windows, and its walls are lined with horizontal bands of untreated and unvarnished walnut.

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This room shares a glass-screened, doubleaspect fireplace with the main living room the other side of the dividing wall, and each side has recessed opes framed in polished walnut for stacking chopped timber, with space in the handy integrated carport for a cord or two of cut wood to dry out over a year or so.

Approached from the public road by a short avenue running beside a well-used tennis court and vegetable garden, this house’s front door signature timber vertical strips is picked up in vertical slats, in cedar, on the entrance gates: just a detail, but considered, linking each welcoming stage.

When parking, occupants have the option of using the drive, by the front door and up the Kilkenny limestone steps, or of making use of the attached, angle-roofed carport with a gently-sloping ramp to the back/ utility room door, for easy of access for the less mobile.

One would suspect the owners “will have to be carried back out of the place”, such is their affection for it. They really have left a mark to stand the test of time.

Architects/Interiors: PLM Architecture 15, Fr Mathew Quay, Cork 0214226090, www.plm.ie ............................................................... .

Builders: Murphy Construction, Cork. www.murphyconstruction.ie ............................................................... .

Roofing: Multi-roofing Systems Ltd e-mail mrs@multiroofing.ie. ............................................................... .

Structural steel: www.noelcduggan.com ............................................................... .

Plumbing/Heating/Solar: Mechanical & Building Services, e-mail martin@mbscork.ie, 0214507444 ............................................................... .

Blinds, fabrics: Bailick Blinds, www.bailickblinds.ie, 0214613100 ............................................................... .

PRACTICE PROFILE

PLM Architecture: “WE Listen.”

That’s the claim of the principles of PLM Architecture, a young design practice set up in 2002 by Patrick O’Toole, Luke Hickson and Mark

External Stone: Valentia Slate Ltd, www.valentiaslate.com, 066-9476922 ............................................................... .

Paving, car-port: Martin Crean, Mallow 022 29164. ............................................................... .

Kitchen, utility, built-ins, etc: Maurice Prendiville Kitchens, Woodland Industrial Estate, Killarney 064-6632612. ............................................................... .

Landscaping and paving, raised beds, etc: Colm Cronin, Bantry www.colmcronin landscaping.com, 086-8158943 ............................................................... .

Mechanical services: EDC Ltd, www.edc.ie, 0214280476 ............................................................... .

Electrical: Tony Ahern, Carrignavar Electrical 0876802728

Floors: Ebony & Co, www.ebonyandco.com ............................................................... .

Lighting: Willie Duggan Lighting, www.willieduggan lighting.com, 056-7764308, Nirvana Lighting, www.nirvanalighting.com ............................................................... .

Corian Worktops: Obre Fabrication Ltd, www.obre.ie, 054-69054 ............................................................... .

Fireplace: www.focuscreation.com ............................................................... .

Windows: www.produkt.ie, www.velfac.ie, www.weathermaster.ie ............................................................... .

Interiors: Luke Hickson PLM

Dignam. Employing up to 25 at peak, it has offices in Dublin, Cork and Kenmare, with completed projects all over Ireland, the continent and in Poland.

“Our core philosophy is simple — ‘Do everything

well’.

“We are fervently antistyle — each project deserves its own individual solution cognisant of the strengths and opportunities particular to that project.”

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HOME FROM HOME

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This week we love...

■ Have you ever picked a few daisies or buttercups, or brought a few sprigs of beautifully scented lavender indoors but couldn’t display them as all your vases are too big? Cork-based ceramicist Sara Roberts has come up with the wall-mounted Flower Pocket which is just big enough — but not too big — for displaying these little garden treasures. You’ll find her work at The National Crafts & Design Fair this weekend at Dublin’s RDS, at 2020 Fine Art Gallery and the Lavitt Gallery.

Comfort factor

Carol O’Callaghan says preparing a room for an overnight guest at Christmas need not involve expensive redecoration

A few well-chosen accessories can make your guest’s stay all the more comfortable.

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N a moment of seasonal beneficence, did you invite overnight guests for Christmas? So now, on top of an already busy workload of preparations, you have to make time to turn a messy or shabby room into guest accommodation. First of all, stay calm and console yourself with the reminder you don’t need to decorate if there’s no one to take on that particular chore, and doing it yourself fills you with dread. Little B&B-style touches will transform a room in a few hours and you might actually enjoy the process.

Before contemplating what you might need to buy, deal with the very basic practicalities. If space is tight and you can’t empty an entire wardrobe and chest of drawers for your guests, free up a few hangers’ width of space and at least one drawer, and clear the surface of the chest of drawers for their personal effects.

Also, put a chair in the room: you may not think it necessary for a short stay, but some people don’t like sitting on the bed to tie shoelaces, fearing they’ll squash a feathery eiderdown.

A chair is also a handy place to drape clothes they don’t want to put back in the wardrobe, or it can be used to perch a suitcase so guests don’t have to kneel on the floor to unpack. If hanging space is really a problem, try something as simple as a hook on the back of the door to hold a garment bag for easy access to its contents.

A table or night-stand beside the bed is a must, topped with a lamp, as there’s nothing worse than being in a strange room, switching off the main light and then having to feel your way around the walls to find the bed, especially after consuming a thimbleful or two of Christmas cheer. Don’t forget to add a few books and magazines, just in case your guests want a quiet minute alone during the day.

If you’re not in the market for new bed linen, do choose some new towels and fold them neatly, corner to corner, and place on the bed topped with a bar of herb-scented hand-soap and a little box of paper handkerchiefs.

Chances are you won’t be able to allocate a bathroom for the sole use of your guest, so make sure you have a mirror in the bedroom for hair brushing

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A pull-out bed is ideal when you have guests, particularly when children have to “double-up”. (The Hornblower pine is from EZ Living @ Right Price €550).

Haven’t got time for redecorating your spare room? Brighten it up with some gorgeous bed linen like the Chinoise (duvet cover €82, pillowcases €48, lime pompom bed spread €210, peacock cushion €18 from the Matthew Williamson Butterfly range at Debenhams.

A water carafe beside the bed provides a guest with a refreshing sip during the night. (French water carafe €25 from Designist).

Put a lovely little tray with water and snacks beside your guest bed like the Fairy Cakes version (from Kilkenny €8.95).

Make their stay cosy Traditional flat cotton towels are back in vogue and make a lovely change in a guest bathroom (Flower towels from The Drapery Shop €15).

A few cosy textiles will add some extra comfort and homeliness to your guest room.

Pop a pillow filled with lavender on your guest bed to promote good sleep (lavender wheat pillow for €28.94 www.notonthehighstreet.com).

White towels are the perfect choice for guests, but are hard to maintain. Try one with a little colour detail like the Japanese Crysanthemum (€14 at Littlewoods Ireland).

In the absence of a spare room for your Christmas guests, a sofa bed with lovely linens is a great way to accommodate a much-wanted friend or relative over the holidays. This Geneva sofa bed for two is from Casey’s Furniture for €849).

and make-up application.

Be careful, however, not to go over the top: your efforts to attend to all the little details to make your guests feel at home may actually have the opposite effect, so stop short at putting a kettle in the

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room just in case they think they’re not free to pop into the kitchen to make a cup of tea. Instead, set a tray with minisize snacks and a bottle or two of mineral water, or a water carafe if you have one, and a glass.

Any guests who regularly get an attack of the midnight munchies, or those who might feel a little delicate and wish to counteract the effects of that thimbleful, will appreciate this enormously.

■ Next week we’re looking at all the necessities for entertaining in the festive season.

Left: Dulux Jasmine White paint is softer than gleaming white and has a ‘warmer’ tone that makes it a lovely choice for a guest room (€53.99 for five litres). Right: A hot water bottle makes your guest’s bed cosy. Add a throw for warmth and comfort (hot water bottle €6, cushion €10, throw €20 at Penneys).

Place a little toe-snuggling rug beside the bed to avoid the shock of stepping on to a cold floor (Pemberley rug from M&S approx €20).

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HOME FROM HOME

Pillow talk

This week we love...

■ Have you ever picked a few daisies or buttercups, or brought a few sprigs of beautifully scented lavender indoors but couldn’t display them as all your vases are too big? Cork-based ceramicist Sara Roberts has come up with the wall-mounted Flower Pocket which is just big enough — but not too big — for displaying these little garden treasures. You’ll find her work at The National Crafts & Design Fair this weekend at Dublin’s RDS, at 2020 Fine Art Gallery and the Lavitt Gallery.

Comfort factor

Carol O’Callaghan says preparing a room for an overnight guest at Christmas need not involve expensive redecoration

A few well-chosen accessories can make your guest’s stay all the more comfortable.

I

N a moment of seasonal beneficence, did you invite overnight guests for Christmas? So now, on top of an already busy workload of preparations, you have to make time to turn a messy or shabby room into guest accommodation. First of all, stay calm and console yourself with the reminder you don’t need to decorate if there’s no one to take on that particular chore, and doing it yourself fills you with dread. Little B&B-style touches will transform a room in a few hours and you might actually enjoy the process.

Before contemplating what you might need to buy, deal with the very basic practicalities. If space is tight and you can’t empty an entire wardrobe and chest of drawers for your guests, free up a few hangers’ width of space and at least one drawer, and clear the surface of the chest of drawers for their personal effects.

Also, put a chair in the room: you may not think it necessary for a short stay, but some people don’t like sitting on the bed to tie shoelaces, fearing they’ll squash a feathery eiderdown.

A chair is also a handy place to drape clothes they don’t want to put back in the wardrobe, or it can be used to perch a suitcase so guests don’t have to kneel on the floor to unpack. If hanging space is really a problem, try something as simple as a hook on the back of the door to hold a garment bag for easy access to its contents.

A table or night-stand beside the bed is a must, topped with a lamp, as there’s nothing worse than being in a strange room, switching off the main light and then having to feel your way around the walls to find the bed, especially after consuming a thimbleful or two of Christmas cheer. Don’t forget to add a few books and magazines, just in case your guests want a quiet minute alone during the day.

If you’re not in the market for new bed linen, do choose some new towels and fold them neatly, corner to corner, and place on the bed topped with a bar of herb-scented hand-soap and a little box of paper handkerchiefs.

Chances are you won’t be able to allocate a bathroom for the sole use of your guest, so make sure you have a mirror in the bedroom for hair brushing

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A pull-out bed is ideal when you have guests, particularly when children have to “double-up”. (The Hornblower pine is from EZ Living @ Right Price €550).

Haven’t got time for redecorating your spare room? Brighten it up with some gorgeous bed linen like the Chinoise (duvet cover €82, pillowcases €48, lime pompom bed spread €210, peacock cushion €18 from the Matthew Williamson Butterfly range at Debenhams.

A water carafe beside the bed provides a guest with a refreshing sip during the night. (French water carafe €25 from Designist).

Put a lovely little tray with water and snacks beside your guest bed like the Fairy Cakes version (from Kilkenny €8.95).

Make their stay cosy Traditional flat cotton towels are back in vogue and make a lovely change in a guest bathroom (Flower towels from The Drapery Shop €15).

A few cosy textiles will add some extra comfort and homeliness to your guest room.

Pop a pillow filled with lavender on your guest bed to promote good sleep (lavender wheat pillow for €28.94 www.notonthehighstreet.com).

White towels are the perfect choice for guests, but are hard to maintain. Try one with a little colour detail like the Japanese Crysanthemum (€14 at Littlewoods Ireland).

In the absence of a spare room for your Christmas guests, a sofa bed with lovely linens is a great way to accommodate a much-wanted friend or relative over the holidays. This Geneva sofa bed for two is from Casey’s Furniture for €849).

and make-up application.

Be careful, however, not to go over the top: your efforts to attend to all the little details to make your guests feel at home may actually have the opposite effect, so stop short at putting a kettle in the

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room just in case they think they’re not free to pop into the kitchen to make a cup of tea. Instead, set a tray with minisize snacks and a bottle or two of mineral water, or a water carafe if you have one, and a glass.

Any guests who regularly get an attack of the midnight munchies, or those who might feel a little delicate and wish to counteract the effects of that thimbleful, will appreciate this enormously.

■ Next week we’re looking at all the necessities for entertaining in the festive season.

Left: Dulux Jasmine White paint is softer than gleaming white and has a ‘warmer’ tone that makes it a lovely choice for a guest room (€53.99 for five litres). Right: A hot water bottle makes your guest’s bed cosy. Add a throw for warmth and comfort (hot water bottle €6, cushion €10, throw €20 at Penneys).

Place a little toe-snuggling rug beside the bed to avoid the shock of stepping on to a cold floor (Pemberley rug from M&S approx €20).

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Brussels Sprout Christmas Wreath Use this humorous take on the traditional wreath this Christmas. Curiously appealing it’s ideal for a front door as the cold will keep the vegetables fresh, ensure you pick out all the wire if you devour it in the New Year!

WHAT YOU NEED: ■ A couple of nets of brussels sprouts. Nice tight, fresh ones plus some flower shaped ones (probably out of date and reduced in price).

■ Florists wire.

■ A wire or moss florist’s form. Try a heart shape or circle.

Putting a little sparkle into your tired looking home need not cost you the earth, writes Kya deLongchamps

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T’S a demanding time of year, Christmas. We are visited or all but invaded by friends, family and even complete strangers, and no one’s shy about saying “can I have a look around?” If you’re jaded with your home and want to ring a few inexpensive, no-fuss changes, let’s refresh, accentuate the positive, shake up what we all ready have in accessories and furnishings and throw a polite veil over the worst of it.

THE COMMANDO DE-CLUTTER Alright so you’re not about to do a lifealtering purge of your domestic overflow so close to Christmas, but this is a great time to have a try at the Six Month Rule. Look around for things you ‘might’ be able to live without. Box them up neatly and shift them to the shed or garage. First of all, this clears the decks and, secondly, in six months, if you haven’t had to dig anything out, the whole lot can be recycled, donated or dumped.

SIMPLY CLEAN There’s nothing as uplifting as clean surroundings, so it’s time to get those public rooms sparkling from skirting to ceiling. Roll dryer sheets over those fabric shades and woven curtains. Plane a synthetic duster over the walls and poke the vacuum pole up into those hard to reach corners. Wipe down the architectural woodwork with something like Pledge Soapy Cleaner for Wood (€3 for 750ml). If you have dirt-caked windows, start with a wash with hot water and washing up liquid (a drop only). Rinse and apply a 1:3 mixture of white vinegar and water. Spray on and buff off with scrunched up newspaper.

OCCASIONAL SPACES Every house and apartment has some secret forgotten space, a lonely corner or generous transition area that languishes either completely unused or unappreciated for its full multi-task potential. Every metre counts. Here are two fast ideas: ● Stand a full length mirror on the floor one side of a corner, and throw a cosy rug into the corner area. Stage a low ottoman intimately close to the mirror.

Use the mirror corners or hang a number of hooks (a rail unit is ideal) for outfits you intend to wear later in the day for that Christmas party or for work. Use the free wall space to place a couple of pictures you’ve never hung, and you have a diminutive dressing room.

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■ Needle noses pliers for those final twists.

A throw can deliver a new bedhead, recreate a couch or utterly disguise a boring chair. Shabby chic throws from House of Fraser from €42.

● Even a narrow hall can accommodate a slender side table. Hang a pier-style mirror with a vertical thrust politely close to the table and put a small vase of fresh flowers doubling its show in the reflection of the mirror. An ideal spot for placing keys and gloves as you come inside, and the mirror will amplify available light.

FURNITURE RESHUFFLES Before hysterically throwing money at your dump, explore the possibilities of simply lifting and shifting what you already own. Most rooms can be rearranged in several different ways using either the pieces you already have or by borrowing items from adjoining rooms. Stark centrifuged arrangements with furniture whip-lashed in orderly lines against the walls are formal and uninviting. Angle pieces for interest and create relationships between chairs, tables, paintings and rugs to suggest independent groups. If the traffic areas flow well into seating areas and so on, you’re getting there. Clear the view to your home’s architectural strengths — a view to the garden, an attractive fireplace. Don’t obstruct their charms with orphaned furnishings.

SOME SENSE OF ORDER If your storage is under strain even after the Six Month Rule has been cracked in every room — box, shelve and gather using decorative storage elements. For smaller items around the house (the bathroom is generally the issue here), wrangle things more diminutive than your palm into attractive baskets or open boxes. For shoes grab some sexy shoe-boxes from Penneys for just €5 a piece. It’s amazing how just putting the spines of books in neat parallel alignment and grouping ornaments into multi-level arrangements can do. Use the cleaning stage of your re-do to replace objects in order. Shelving is cheap, and pine shelving ridiculously cheap. A light sand and paint to the wall colour and you have a receding, gentlemanly support. Woodie’s DIY offer pre-sanded timber from 585mm lengths with supports at €2.99 and three tier storage units from €14.99, so there’s no excuse.

DISGUISE THE WORST OFFENDERS If you’re renting and stuck with a heaving 1970s patterned carpet or simply trying to hide something you can’t afford to replace — rug it over. A plain pale rug taking a colour note from the underlying offender will take the

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■ Showy contrasting wide ribbon in red, green or tartan to hang.

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Scandinavian simplicity with STRÅLA pendant lights from €12.99 and two Trollsta tables lending timeless support. €49. IKEA. www.ikea.ie.

Poke a length of wire through the bottom few centimetres of hard sprout stalk and pull through gently. Ensure the wires are well disguised in the leaves.

Twist to fix on the wire form from behind. The moss provides a nice nest for the sprouts and you can poke them into place after fixing.

Continue to cover the form thickly, including the sides and inside edge. This could take a good couple of hours to complete.

Secure the ribbon in a glorious bow, trailing its ends over the centre of the wreath.

● Go Further: Try using the odd lime and red or yellow chilli for a river of witty colour on your wreath. If you’re careful, you might manage to rivet a few cranberries in there too.

Julien MacDonald’s glassware will lift a table alone or carrying flowers. Gold swirl vase €53, small round gold fleck vase €27, animal lustre bowl €42.

Q&A

Do you have a DIY question you would like answered?

Send it to interiors@examiner.ie

Q. I really want a piece of Charles Eames furniture. Will a reproduction really be as good as an original?

John Rocha delivers with a Bamboo tray €30, bowl €10.50, serve bowl €27, salad servers €22.50, Pico red dinner plate €4.50, side plate €12, platter €53, salad bowl €45, mirror polished 16 piece cutlery set €90. Debenhams. Right: White Scandinavian-style candlesticks from Dunnes Stores. €10 and €12.

groove out of a nauseating pattern and be infinitely useful elsewhere if you change the floor cover in the New Year.

Equally, if the colour scheme is a fainting neutral with no character, a rug adds instant character and texture, and defines a function area. We love the handmade, deep pile Flora Rug from Argos, in pure new wool. W120cm X180cm. €109.

DRAPE Throwing large bolts of material over

furnishings is an age old cheat and it has survived because it works. Large cotton bedspreads (tuck them well to prevent slipping), vintage curtains, and inexpensive pound shops throws can cover up and deliver a colour block in a flash. If you’re using throws in the living room, consider layering a variety of textures for luxury. A fleece meant for the floor can lie on a chair back. In the bedroom, a stunning old quilt or any material with presence can be deposited over an open frame or fabric headboard

A trail of fairy lights draws attention to strong architectural quality of this chimney breast.

Accessories by M&S. Advent Calendar €47.

to transform the headboard.

REFRESH WITH INEXPENSIVE CLASSICS Cheap doesn’t have to mean tatty, and there are plenty of iconic pieces, sumptuous materials and inspired knock-offs in the two figure mark.

Consider the space before you buy, gathering predetermined items like you would a wardrobe of complimentary clothes rather than haphazardly adding.

Look at the catwalk of great design

These very sexy little shoeboxes will lift and separate any shoe collection. Penneys €5 each.

online or in magazines, noting designs and colours that appeal, then trawl the less financially demanding outlets. It’s impossible not to mention IKEA who reinterpret antique favourites such as the Middle Eastern tray table in their Trollsta tables in a sophisticated black at €49. If your bathroom towels are shot and in disparate colours, buy some thick white bales, roll and stage in your immaculate bathroom. Argos does an Everyday Egyptian cotton Bale (4) for €26.99.

A. Vitra and Herman Miller are licensed to make Eames furniture and what they make is original which is why there is little difference in price between one made in the 1950s and one made today. Copies are what are made by companies not licenced to do so. The older models are sometimes more expensive because they were the first ones made to the designs and therefore deemed collectible. To buy one in Ireland, contact Lost Weekend in Wexford and Blackrock, Dublin www.lostweekend.ie.

words ‘in the style of’, ‘inspired by’ or no mention of manufacturer should alert you to the fact it may be a reproduction or a lesser maker. If you love its line and quality and it’s cheap, why not buy it and enjoy.

Q. I recently had a poor valuation for a Knoll Barcelona I thought would have been worth tens of thousands.

Why was it so low?

A. Valuations depend on many factors including condition, but with some designs still in production or widely available second hand, not all good vintage pieces are necessarily very expensive. A good thing for potential collectors to keep in mind.

Q. 1950s design really appeals to me, especially industrial office furniture.

How do I know I’m buying the real deal in a designer brand and not a knock-off?

A. I would suggest picking up a copy of Fay Sweets’ Vintage Furniture (Carlton €33) to train your eye. Secondly, the

An example of a Knoll Barcelona couch from www.knoll.com.

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Brussels Sprout Christmas Wreath Use this humorous take on the traditional wreath this Christmas. Curiously appealing it’s ideal for a front door as the cold will keep the vegetables fresh, ensure you pick out all the wire if you devour it in the New Year!

WHAT YOU NEED: ■ A couple of nets of brussels sprouts. Nice tight, fresh ones plus some flower shaped ones (probably out of date and reduced in price).

■ Florists wire.

■ A wire or moss florist’s form. Try a heart shape or circle.

Putting a little sparkle into your tired looking home need not cost you the earth, writes Kya deLongchamps

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T’S a demanding time of year, Christmas. We are visited or all but invaded by friends, family and even complete strangers, and no one’s shy about saying “can I have a look around?” If you’re jaded with your home and want to ring a few inexpensive, no-fuss changes, let’s refresh, accentuate the positive, shake up what we all ready have in accessories and furnishings and throw a polite veil over the worst of it.

THE COMMANDO DE-CLUTTER Alright so you’re not about to do a lifealtering purge of your domestic overflow so close to Christmas, but this is a great time to have a try at the Six Month Rule. Look around for things you ‘might’ be able to live without. Box them up neatly and shift them to the shed or garage. First of all, this clears the decks and, secondly, in six months, if you haven’t had to dig anything out, the whole lot can be recycled, donated or dumped.

SIMPLY CLEAN There’s nothing as uplifting as clean surroundings, so it’s time to get those public rooms sparkling from skirting to ceiling. Roll dryer sheets over those fabric shades and woven curtains. Plane a synthetic duster over the walls and poke the vacuum pole up into those hard to reach corners. Wipe down the architectural woodwork with something like Pledge Soapy Cleaner for Wood (€3 for 750ml). If you have dirt-caked windows, start with a wash with hot water and washing up liquid (a drop only). Rinse and apply a 1:3 mixture of white vinegar and water. Spray on and buff off with scrunched up newspaper.

OCCASIONAL SPACES Every house and apartment has some secret forgotten space, a lonely corner or generous transition area that languishes either completely unused or unappreciated for its full multi-task potential. Every metre counts. Here are two fast ideas: ● Stand a full length mirror on the floor one side of a corner, and throw a cosy rug into the corner area. Stage a low ottoman intimately close to the mirror.

Use the mirror corners or hang a number of hooks (a rail unit is ideal) for outfits you intend to wear later in the day for that Christmas party or for work. Use the free wall space to place a couple of pictures you’ve never hung, and you have a diminutive dressing room.

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■ Needle noses pliers for those final twists.

A throw can deliver a new bedhead, recreate a couch or utterly disguise a boring chair. Shabby chic throws from House of Fraser from €42.

● Even a narrow hall can accommodate a slender side table. Hang a pier-style mirror with a vertical thrust politely close to the table and put a small vase of fresh flowers doubling its show in the reflection of the mirror. An ideal spot for placing keys and gloves as you come inside, and the mirror will amplify available light.

FURNITURE RESHUFFLES Before hysterically throwing money at your dump, explore the possibilities of simply lifting and shifting what you already own. Most rooms can be rearranged in several different ways using either the pieces you already have or by borrowing items from adjoining rooms. Stark centrifuged arrangements with furniture whip-lashed in orderly lines against the walls are formal and uninviting. Angle pieces for interest and create relationships between chairs, tables, paintings and rugs to suggest independent groups. If the traffic areas flow well into seating areas and so on, you’re getting there. Clear the view to your home’s architectural strengths — a view to the garden, an attractive fireplace. Don’t obstruct their charms with orphaned furnishings.

SOME SENSE OF ORDER If your storage is under strain even after the Six Month Rule has been cracked in every room — box, shelve and gather using decorative storage elements. For smaller items around the house (the bathroom is generally the issue here), wrangle things more diminutive than your palm into attractive baskets or open boxes. For shoes grab some sexy shoe-boxes from Penneys for just €5 a piece. It’s amazing how just putting the spines of books in neat parallel alignment and grouping ornaments into multi-level arrangements can do. Use the cleaning stage of your re-do to replace objects in order. Shelving is cheap, and pine shelving ridiculously cheap. A light sand and paint to the wall colour and you have a receding, gentlemanly support. Woodie’s DIY offer pre-sanded timber from 585mm lengths with supports at €2.99 and three tier storage units from €14.99, so there’s no excuse.

DISGUISE THE WORST OFFENDERS If you’re renting and stuck with a heaving 1970s patterned carpet or simply trying to hide something you can’t afford to replace — rug it over. A plain pale rug taking a colour note from the underlying offender will take the

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■ Showy contrasting wide ribbon in red, green or tartan to hang.

1 2 3 4

Scandinavian simplicity with STRÅLA pendant lights from €12.99 and two Trollsta tables lending timeless support. €49. IKEA. www.ikea.ie.

Poke a length of wire through the bottom few centimetres of hard sprout stalk and pull through gently. Ensure the wires are well disguised in the leaves.

Twist to fix on the wire form from behind. The moss provides a nice nest for the sprouts and you can poke them into place after fixing.

Continue to cover the form thickly, including the sides and inside edge. This could take a good couple of hours to complete.

Secure the ribbon in a glorious bow, trailing its ends over the centre of the wreath.

● Go Further: Try using the odd lime and red or yellow chilli for a river of witty colour on your wreath. If you’re careful, you might manage to rivet a few cranberries in there too.

Julien MacDonald’s glassware will lift a table alone or carrying flowers. Gold swirl vase €53, small round gold fleck vase €27, animal lustre bowl €42.

Q&A

Do you have a DIY question you would like answered?

Send it to interiors@examiner.ie

Q. I really want a piece of Charles Eames furniture. Will a reproduction really be as good as an original?

John Rocha delivers with a Bamboo tray €30, bowl €10.50, serve bowl €27, salad servers €22.50, Pico red dinner plate €4.50, side plate €12, platter €53, salad bowl €45, mirror polished 16 piece cutlery set €90. Debenhams. Right: White Scandinavian-style candlesticks from Dunnes Stores. €10 and €12.

groove out of a nauseating pattern and be infinitely useful elsewhere if you change the floor cover in the New Year.

Equally, if the colour scheme is a fainting neutral with no character, a rug adds instant character and texture, and defines a function area. We love the handmade, deep pile Flora Rug from Argos, in pure new wool. W120cm X180cm. €109.

DRAPE Throwing large bolts of material over

furnishings is an age old cheat and it has survived because it works. Large cotton bedspreads (tuck them well to prevent slipping), vintage curtains, and inexpensive pound shops throws can cover up and deliver a colour block in a flash. If you’re using throws in the living room, consider layering a variety of textures for luxury. A fleece meant for the floor can lie on a chair back. In the bedroom, a stunning old quilt or any material with presence can be deposited over an open frame or fabric headboard

A trail of fairy lights draws attention to strong architectural quality of this chimney breast.

Accessories by M&S. Advent Calendar €47.

to transform the headboard.

REFRESH WITH INEXPENSIVE CLASSICS Cheap doesn’t have to mean tatty, and there are plenty of iconic pieces, sumptuous materials and inspired knock-offs in the two figure mark.

Consider the space before you buy, gathering predetermined items like you would a wardrobe of complimentary clothes rather than haphazardly adding.

Look at the catwalk of great design

These very sexy little shoeboxes will lift and separate any shoe collection. Penneys €5 each.

online or in magazines, noting designs and colours that appeal, then trawl the less financially demanding outlets. It’s impossible not to mention IKEA who reinterpret antique favourites such as the Middle Eastern tray table in their Trollsta tables in a sophisticated black at €49. If your bathroom towels are shot and in disparate colours, buy some thick white bales, roll and stage in your immaculate bathroom. Argos does an Everyday Egyptian cotton Bale (4) for €26.99.

A. Vitra and Herman Miller are licensed to make Eames furniture and what they make is original which is why there is little difference in price between one made in the 1950s and one made today. Copies are what are made by companies not licenced to do so. The older models are sometimes more expensive because they were the first ones made to the designs and therefore deemed collectible. To buy one in Ireland, contact Lost Weekend in Wexford and Blackrock, Dublin www.lostweekend.ie.

words ‘in the style of’, ‘inspired by’ or no mention of manufacturer should alert you to the fact it may be a reproduction or a lesser maker. If you love its line and quality and it’s cheap, why not buy it and enjoy.

Q. I recently had a poor valuation for a Knoll Barcelona I thought would have been worth tens of thousands.

Why was it so low?

A. Valuations depend on many factors including condition, but with some designs still in production or widely available second hand, not all good vintage pieces are necessarily very expensive. A good thing for potential collectors to keep in mind.

Q. 1950s design really appeals to me, especially industrial office furniture.

How do I know I’m buying the real deal in a designer brand and not a knock-off?

A. I would suggest picking up a copy of Fay Sweets’ Vintage Furniture (Carlton €33) to train your eye. Secondly, the

An example of a Knoll Barcelona couch from www.knoll.com.

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Looking for that something special? Carol O’Callaghan has spotted some products that may tickle your fancy.

Try the Newbridge five-in-one silver candleholder as a dining table centrepiece or on a window sill to welcome guests. (€55 from Kilkenny and Blarney Woollen Mills).

A gorgeous comfortable chair will look perfect in front of the fire, or place it temporarily in the guest room if you have someone special staying over the holidays (€295 at Meadows & Byrne).

Throw a little light on your table while writing your shopping list with the modern task lamp (from M&S €40).

Help take some of the labour out of creaming butter and sugar, and whipping cream for mince pies with the Kenwood Chef (models from €229.99 at Sound Store).

Create your own wall-mounted clip board for notes and photos with the Klip by Klicity (from I Heart Design, Cork €20 for 4 in a variety of colours).

This Ted Baker laptop bag will get you in the mood for working nine to five. €37.50 from www.fionaturley.com

• Free Delivery • Free Assembly • Free Collection of your old Suite and Mattress • No parking problems spacious car park at rear of Store

Christmas specials at New Furniture Centre

Abandon florals and stripes and opt for a cushion finished in the urban house pattern (from www.nofixedabode.ie €45).

A colourful milk jug will brighten up plain tableware like the Orla Kiely Abacus version which plays on the current trend for all things 1970s (€19.95 from Kilkenny, Nest Kenmare, McAuliffes Dingle and fionaturley.com).

Knightsbridge 3+2 leather (choice of colours) RRP €1,595 Now €1,295

50% OFF selected Kingkoil and Odearest floor models

Furniture NEW

CENTRE

Louisa RRP €1,350 NOW €995

Dropleaf Table RRP €155 NOW €125 Nest of Tables RRP €275 NOW €220

Main Showroom: Watercourse Road, Blackpool, Cork Tel 021-4504366 Also Unit 1A | Lidl Retail Centre, Ballyvolane, Cork / Tel 021-4557693 OPENING HOURS: Monday - Saturday 9am - 6pm | Sunday 2pm - 6pm

Visit our new website: www.newfurniturecentre.com Brighten up your kitchen with a selection of tea-towels from the cottage range by Rachel Allen (two for €10 at Blarney Woollen Mills).

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Cat loving friends might fancy this little serving tray with a selection of cheeky moggies (€9.95 by Ulster Weavers at Brennan’s Cookshop).

50% OFF EVERYTHING

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Looking for that something special? Carol O’Callaghan has spotted some products that may tickle your fancy.

Try the Newbridge five-in-one silver candleholder as a dining table centrepiece or on a window sill to welcome guests. (€55 from Kilkenny and Blarney Woollen Mills).

A gorgeous comfortable chair will look perfect in front of the fire, or place it temporarily in the guest room if you have someone special staying over the holidays (€295 at Meadows & Byrne).

Throw a little light on your table while writing your shopping list with the modern task lamp (from M&S €40).

Help take some of the labour out of creaming butter and sugar, and whipping cream for mince pies with the Kenwood Chef (models from €229.99 at Sound Store).

Create your own wall-mounted clip board for notes and photos with the Klip by Klicity (from I Heart Design, Cork €20 for 4 in a variety of colours).

This Ted Baker laptop bag will get you in the mood for working nine to five. €37.50 from www.fionaturley.com

• Free Delivery • Free Assembly • Free Collection of your old Suite and Mattress • No parking problems spacious car park at rear of Store

Christmas specials at New Furniture Centre

Abandon florals and stripes and opt for a cushion finished in the urban house pattern (from www.nofixedabode.ie €45).

A colourful milk jug will brighten up plain tableware like the Orla Kiely Abacus version which plays on the current trend for all things 1970s (€19.95 from Kilkenny, Nest Kenmare, McAuliffes Dingle and fionaturley.com).

Knightsbridge 3+2 leather (choice of colours) RRP €1,595 Now €1,295

50% OFF selected Kingkoil and Odearest floor models

Furniture NEW

CENTRE

Louisa RRP €1,350 NOW €995

Dropleaf Table RRP €155 NOW €125 Nest of Tables RRP €275 NOW €220

Main Showroom: Watercourse Road, Blackpool, Cork Tel 021-4504366 Also Unit 1A | Lidl Retail Centre, Ballyvolane, Cork / Tel 021-4557693 OPENING HOURS: Monday - Saturday 9am - 6pm | Sunday 2pm - 6pm

Visit our new website: www.newfurniturecentre.com Brighten up your kitchen with a selection of tea-towels from the cottage range by Rachel Allen (two for €10 at Blarney Woollen Mills).

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Cat loving friends might fancy this little serving tray with a selection of cheeky moggies (€9.95 by Ulster Weavers at Brennan’s Cookshop).

50% OFF EVERYTHING

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Can you advise me what type of artwork is suitable for hanging on our dining room wall?

A. Decide what type of feel you want for the room. If you want a dramatic talking point, go for a bold pop-art print of flowers. For something serene, go for a nice landscape in muted colours. As it’s where you’ll be entertaining guests, avoid anything too controversial, such as nudes or religious imagery.

Irish artist Chára Nagle has just released a collection of limited edition prints from her Portrait of a Horse series (from €100) that would be ideal for your dining room. You can view them at No 15 Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, until December 11 or see www.charanagle.com.

Q. We have a bay window in our living room which we often use as a seat — but is it possible to have it upholstered into something more comfortable?

A. Your room with a view is a great place to relax — and, yes, it’s possible to have the window sill made into a seat.

For maximum comfort, it should be made to measure by a professional — we do them at www.kenjacksoninteriors.com. But you can also find out how to make it at home with plywood, upholstery and foam on www.ehow.com.

For luxury, I’d recommend having the seat stuffed with foam or go for featherand-down. And when choosing upholstery, remember to be sure it complements the rest of the room.

Interior designer Marion Ormond of Ken Jackson Interiors, Marina Commercial Park, Centre Park Road, Cork city, www.kenjacksoninteriors.com, answers your questions.

Email: interiors@examiner.ie

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Venturing into the blogsphere, household linens have a simple blog which is easy to navigate with images of their stock and a handy hints and tips section for all things bedtime. Its glossary of terms guides you through everything from what an Oxford pillowcase is to the dimensions of housewife pillow. Its A to Z of bed sizes is also a nice starting point for measuring what size sheets you will need for a King bed. Which is an American queen, by the way. Little facts simply presented makes for a pleasant potter on these pages.

■ www.householdlinenscork.com

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A. To create a sense of cosiness in your living room, play with the senses, both sight and touch. First, consider the colour of the room. Choose warm yellows, brown-red, orange-red, but avoid cool yellows and reds, black or white. Likewise, opt for rich woods, like walnut, above paler ones, like pine. The lighting should be soft and inviting, so go for pearl bulbs instead of clear ones.

Avoid angular furniture arrangements, instead aim for a flowing layout with the furniture pulled towards a focal point like the fireplace.

Finally, soft furnishings like a faux fur throw, heavier curtains and a large rug will help turn your living room into a cocoon in time for Christmas.

A. As promised last week, here are some more ‘Scroogetastic’ ideas to make your home feel festive. At the moment, Christmas decorations are everywhere — but I found some real bargains on the high street.

Something as simple as this snowflake cushion (€12 from Heatons) will add some festive cheer to your sofa.

Meanwhile, when you’re buying your tree, ask to keep any bits that have been cut or have fallen off. They’re great for making a Christmas swag for your door, table or fireplace — just add some ribbon, cinnamon sticks and mandarin oranges studded with cloves.

WEB WATCH Household Linens Cork

With some careful Christmas planning, we can avoid throwing out too much food, Kya deLongchamps reports

Q. My living room always feels cold and uninviting — how can I make it more inviting for the winter?

Q. With Christmas just a few weeks away, do you have any ideas to turn our home into a winter wonderland on a budget?

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Quirkiness and humour are order of the day on this website. It has dinner plates featuring bearded men, a cloud lightening cushion and some old school pouffes... remember them? Worth checking out is the idea of the house throw play den set, a great way to keep the little ones entertained over a Christmas night.

The play den is handcrafted from wood and looks like a skeleton of a perfect house. Throw the beautiful lambswool rug on as a roof and the children will have memories to last a lifetime.

■ www.donnawilson.com

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Body of Mind — Sea the Stars by Chára Nagle from her exhibition Portrait of a Horse — see www.charanagle.com Right: Majestic Renaissance — Teofilo

by Chára Nagle from the same exhibition as above.

Left: snowflake cushion €12 from Heatons nationwide — for more details see www.heatonsstores.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

Donna Wilson

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Putting waste to use CCORDING to figures published this year by Stop Food Waste, a programme developed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of the National Waste Prevention Programme, food waste across is costing the average Irish household between €700-€1,000 a year. Some 30% of what we buy we simply throw out, equating to 280kgs per man, woman and child.

Over Christmas, with concentration levels dimmed by the excitement of the holiday, the dumping of foodstuffs and their accompanying packaging becomes a Hedonistic tragedy in poor stock control.

The cost of producing, shipping and storing this doomed produce, much of which is hauled off to landfill to produce airborne methane, doesn’t bear thinking about. This damage can be subtly hidden, for example in the ‘embedded water’ used to make plants grow. Housekeeping used to be termed a domestic science, so let’s perk up those pantries and streamline the fridge to save money and help our environment.

Here’s 12 simple things you can try over the Christmas period to develop more intelligent habits around foodstuffs.

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Ubode

It is great to see such a fabulous and elegant website being 100% Irish owned and managed. It features brands such as Joseph and Joseph, Anglepoise and Clearview.

The site has tidily packaged off its contents under the brand name, product category or ‘popular tags’ from the home page. This leaves for clutter-free viewing and an easy shopping experience. It was set up by a furniture designer, Gary Tiernan, and also offers an interior design service for your home or office.

■ www.ubode.ie

3 4 Snuggle into this set from Little Thurloe Rose by V & A available from Household Linens in Cork.

Dancing around dates on foods

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A little bit of planning will ensure less food is thrown out in Irish homes.

Make a meal plan for the week and shop accordingly. Keep it in your hand and avoid impulse-buying perishable foodstuffs. Half of all salad bought by Irish consumers is currently dumped. Become more aware of what is wasted in your household.

Develop confidence, experience and determination in the use of leftovers.

If you cook a turkey, have something in mind for the off-cuts the next day.

Improving your cooking skills will make a leftovers regime a revealing challenge. Try www.leftoverchef.com and www.lovefoodhatewaste.com.

Be wary of buy-one-get-one-free deals on perishable foods such as fruit and vegetables. Even the most pert and promising lettuce has a shelf life of just four days and the goodness in tomatoes declines in just two. Buy smaller, loose quantities.

A full freezer is an efficient freezer. If you like those ‘special offers’ and bulk deal goods, putting food on ice can save you money. Read the instructions for freezing. Fresh herbs in season are among the many foods you can portion and freeze. Stop Food Waste has a handy PDF on the art of chilling food.

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Get bagging. Divide goods into meal-size portions that you can scoop out and use in a flash. A third of bread bought by consumers is dumped stale. Bread can be frozen in batches of slices when fresh and popped into the toaster directly.

Buy tinned and dry goods in bulk.

Rice, pasta, flour and many other foods can be kept in jars for months.

Ensure containers are properly sealed. Darina Allen has store cupboard lists in her classic books.

Keep vegetables that are not stored in the fridge in a cool, dark place.

Some fruits, including apples produce ethylene gas that will ripen and rot other vegetables and fruit.

Keep fruit and vegetables in separate chill bins. Pick up fresh vegetables locally as you need them.

Contain the wastage. Open packages are bad news. Look out for re-sealable bags and invest in some sealed containers in various sizes to put in the fridge and cupboards.

Batch cook when you have more time and then freeze in one meal portions, a key skill for the busy family home. Remember to take a meal out and defrost in the fridge the day before.

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Don’t cook too much food.

Portion size is a key element of healthy, economic eating. There are scales and devices for just about every food type that swells during cooking, including clever hoops to measure spaghetti.

Grow your own. We are not all adept in the garden, but there’s no excuse for not trying. Salad leaves are the most wasted food in Britain, and a doddle to grow most of the year. Many herbs can be coaxed into a repeated performance on nothing more than a splash of water and a sunny windowsill.

se-by and best-by dates, plus any added storage instructions, will get the best shelf life out of store bought food, delivering them at their most healthful and delicious. Reach to the rear of the shelf in your supermarkets for the longest dates.

Food may be safe after its ‘best-by’ or even the ‘use-by’ date, but the quality will have diminished. The most nutritious fruit and vegetables are the unprocessed ‘real’ food you scoop straight out of the garden.

The highly contentious ‘bestbefore’ date refers to the quality of the food rather than the safety of the food. If it looks and smells fine and you have stored it correctly, it’s safe to eat so long as it’s inside the ‘useby’ date.

Eggs are the exception, and should be eaten before or on their ‘bestbefore’ date. You can defy the dates on foodstuffs by freezing them if they are suited to it before they perish. Defrost, using them within 24 hours.

“Display until/Sell-by” are stocking instructions to the store staff not the consumer. Ignore them.

If you look around the discount area of most supermarkets you can find short-date foodstuffs at cutprices suitable to use right away or freeze, but keep in mind that jaded fruit, vegetables, meat, fish and dairy are often on their last chronological legs. Have a plan in mind to make use of them immediately.

Once you open foodstuffs it’s vital to adhere to the instructions such as “eat within three days of opening”.

Buying hefty kilos of inexpensive perishables and then opening bags, tins or packets without forward planning will inevitably fill the bin rather than the family.

Compost. A great deal of food waste can contribute to a nutrient rich compost you can use on your garden. Composting will ease up on those bin tags and adding regularly will improve the composter’s performance. You can compost uncooked vegetables and peelings, salad, tea-bags, egg shells, fruit and coffee grounds.

Useful links: ● www.stopfoodwaste.ie. ● www.lovefoodhatewaste.com. ● www.wrap.org.uk

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HOME ECONOMICS

ASK THE

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Can you advise me what type of artwork is suitable for hanging on our dining room wall?

A. Decide what type of feel you want for the room. If you want a dramatic talking point, go for a bold pop-art print of flowers. For something serene, go for a nice landscape in muted colours. As it’s where you’ll be entertaining guests, avoid anything too controversial, such as nudes or religious imagery.

Irish artist Chára Nagle has just released a collection of limited edition prints from her Portrait of a Horse series (from €100) that would be ideal for your dining room. You can view them at No 15 Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, until December 11 or see www.charanagle.com.

Q. We have a bay window in our living room which we often use as a seat — but is it possible to have it upholstered into something more comfortable?

A. Your room with a view is a great place to relax — and, yes, it’s possible to have the window sill made into a seat.

For maximum comfort, it should be made to measure by a professional — we do them at www.kenjacksoninteriors.com. But you can also find out how to make it at home with plywood, upholstery and foam on www.ehow.com.

For luxury, I’d recommend having the seat stuffed with foam or go for featherand-down. And when choosing upholstery, remember to be sure it complements the rest of the room.

Interior designer Marion Ormond of Ken Jackson Interiors, Marina Commercial Park, Centre Park Road, Cork city, www.kenjacksoninteriors.com, answers your questions.

Email: interiors@examiner.ie

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Venturing into the blogsphere, household linens have a simple blog which is easy to navigate with images of their stock and a handy hints and tips section for all things bedtime. Its glossary of terms guides you through everything from what an Oxford pillowcase is to the dimensions of housewife pillow. Its A to Z of bed sizes is also a nice starting point for measuring what size sheets you will need for a King bed. Which is an American queen, by the way. Little facts simply presented makes for a pleasant potter on these pages.

■ www.householdlinenscork.com

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A. To create a sense of cosiness in your living room, play with the senses, both sight and touch. First, consider the colour of the room. Choose warm yellows, brown-red, orange-red, but avoid cool yellows and reds, black or white. Likewise, opt for rich woods, like walnut, above paler ones, like pine. The lighting should be soft and inviting, so go for pearl bulbs instead of clear ones.

Avoid angular furniture arrangements, instead aim for a flowing layout with the furniture pulled towards a focal point like the fireplace.

Finally, soft furnishings like a faux fur throw, heavier curtains and a large rug will help turn your living room into a cocoon in time for Christmas.

A. As promised last week, here are some more ‘Scroogetastic’ ideas to make your home feel festive. At the moment, Christmas decorations are everywhere — but I found some real bargains on the high street.

Something as simple as this snowflake cushion (€12 from Heatons) will add some festive cheer to your sofa.

Meanwhile, when you’re buying your tree, ask to keep any bits that have been cut or have fallen off. They’re great for making a Christmas swag for your door, table or fireplace — just add some ribbon, cinnamon sticks and mandarin oranges studded with cloves.

WEB WATCH Household Linens Cork

With some careful Christmas planning, we can avoid throwing out too much food, Kya deLongchamps reports

Q. My living room always feels cold and uninviting — how can I make it more inviting for the winter?

Q. With Christmas just a few weeks away, do you have any ideas to turn our home into a winter wonderland on a budget?

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Quirkiness and humour are order of the day on this website. It has dinner plates featuring bearded men, a cloud lightening cushion and some old school pouffes... remember them? Worth checking out is the idea of the house throw play den set, a great way to keep the little ones entertained over a Christmas night.

The play den is handcrafted from wood and looks like a skeleton of a perfect house. Throw the beautiful lambswool rug on as a roof and the children will have memories to last a lifetime.

■ www.donnawilson.com

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Body of Mind — Sea the Stars by Chára Nagle from her exhibition Portrait of a Horse — see www.charanagle.com Right: Majestic Renaissance — Teofilo

by Chára Nagle from the same exhibition as above.

Left: snowflake cushion €12 from Heatons nationwide — for more details see www.heatonsstores.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

Donna Wilson

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Putting waste to use CCORDING to figures published this year by Stop Food Waste, a programme developed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of the National Waste Prevention Programme, food waste across is costing the average Irish household between €700-€1,000 a year. Some 30% of what we buy we simply throw out, equating to 280kgs per man, woman and child.

Over Christmas, with concentration levels dimmed by the excitement of the holiday, the dumping of foodstuffs and their accompanying packaging becomes a Hedonistic tragedy in poor stock control.

The cost of producing, shipping and storing this doomed produce, much of which is hauled off to landfill to produce airborne methane, doesn’t bear thinking about. This damage can be subtly hidden, for example in the ‘embedded water’ used to make plants grow. Housekeeping used to be termed a domestic science, so let’s perk up those pantries and streamline the fridge to save money and help our environment.

Here’s 12 simple things you can try over the Christmas period to develop more intelligent habits around foodstuffs.

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Ubode

It is great to see such a fabulous and elegant website being 100% Irish owned and managed. It features brands such as Joseph and Joseph, Anglepoise and Clearview.

The site has tidily packaged off its contents under the brand name, product category or ‘popular tags’ from the home page. This leaves for clutter-free viewing and an easy shopping experience. It was set up by a furniture designer, Gary Tiernan, and also offers an interior design service for your home or office.

■ www.ubode.ie

3 4 Snuggle into this set from Little Thurloe Rose by V & A available from Household Linens in Cork.

Dancing around dates on foods

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A little bit of planning will ensure less food is thrown out in Irish homes.

Make a meal plan for the week and shop accordingly. Keep it in your hand and avoid impulse-buying perishable foodstuffs. Half of all salad bought by Irish consumers is currently dumped. Become more aware of what is wasted in your household.

Develop confidence, experience and determination in the use of leftovers.

If you cook a turkey, have something in mind for the off-cuts the next day.

Improving your cooking skills will make a leftovers regime a revealing challenge. Try www.leftoverchef.com and www.lovefoodhatewaste.com.

Be wary of buy-one-get-one-free deals on perishable foods such as fruit and vegetables. Even the most pert and promising lettuce has a shelf life of just four days and the goodness in tomatoes declines in just two. Buy smaller, loose quantities.

A full freezer is an efficient freezer. If you like those ‘special offers’ and bulk deal goods, putting food on ice can save you money. Read the instructions for freezing. Fresh herbs in season are among the many foods you can portion and freeze. Stop Food Waste has a handy PDF on the art of chilling food.

5 6 7 8 9

Get bagging. Divide goods into meal-size portions that you can scoop out and use in a flash. A third of bread bought by consumers is dumped stale. Bread can be frozen in batches of slices when fresh and popped into the toaster directly.

Buy tinned and dry goods in bulk.

Rice, pasta, flour and many other foods can be kept in jars for months.

Ensure containers are properly sealed. Darina Allen has store cupboard lists in her classic books.

Keep vegetables that are not stored in the fridge in a cool, dark place.

Some fruits, including apples produce ethylene gas that will ripen and rot other vegetables and fruit.

Keep fruit and vegetables in separate chill bins. Pick up fresh vegetables locally as you need them.

Contain the wastage. Open packages are bad news. Look out for re-sealable bags and invest in some sealed containers in various sizes to put in the fridge and cupboards.

Batch cook when you have more time and then freeze in one meal portions, a key skill for the busy family home. Remember to take a meal out and defrost in the fridge the day before.

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12

Don’t cook too much food.

Portion size is a key element of healthy, economic eating. There are scales and devices for just about every food type that swells during cooking, including clever hoops to measure spaghetti.

Grow your own. We are not all adept in the garden, but there’s no excuse for not trying. Salad leaves are the most wasted food in Britain, and a doddle to grow most of the year. Many herbs can be coaxed into a repeated performance on nothing more than a splash of water and a sunny windowsill.

se-by and best-by dates, plus any added storage instructions, will get the best shelf life out of store bought food, delivering them at their most healthful and delicious. Reach to the rear of the shelf in your supermarkets for the longest dates.

Food may be safe after its ‘best-by’ or even the ‘use-by’ date, but the quality will have diminished. The most nutritious fruit and vegetables are the unprocessed ‘real’ food you scoop straight out of the garden.

The highly contentious ‘bestbefore’ date refers to the quality of the food rather than the safety of the food. If it looks and smells fine and you have stored it correctly, it’s safe to eat so long as it’s inside the ‘useby’ date.

Eggs are the exception, and should be eaten before or on their ‘bestbefore’ date. You can defy the dates on foodstuffs by freezing them if they are suited to it before they perish. Defrost, using them within 24 hours.

“Display until/Sell-by” are stocking instructions to the store staff not the consumer. Ignore them.

If you look around the discount area of most supermarkets you can find short-date foodstuffs at cutprices suitable to use right away or freeze, but keep in mind that jaded fruit, vegetables, meat, fish and dairy are often on their last chronological legs. Have a plan in mind to make use of them immediately.

Once you open foodstuffs it’s vital to adhere to the instructions such as “eat within three days of opening”.

Buying hefty kilos of inexpensive perishables and then opening bags, tins or packets without forward planning will inevitably fill the bin rather than the family.

Compost. A great deal of food waste can contribute to a nutrient rich compost you can use on your garden. Composting will ease up on those bin tags and adding regularly will improve the composter’s performance. You can compost uncooked vegetables and peelings, salad, tea-bags, egg shells, fruit and coffee grounds.

Useful links: ● www.stopfoodwaste.ie. ● www.lovefoodhatewaste.com. ● www.wrap.org.uk

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ANTIQUES AND FINE ART

ANTIQUES AND FINE ART

Jazz Babies

by Yeats in Adam’s sale

Collectibles at Hibernian Antique Fair

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IBERNIAN Antique Fairs are at Acton’s Hotel, Kinsale, from 11am to 6pm tomorrow with a variety of antique collectibles, art, furniture, silver and Christmas gifts.

In Bandon, Hegarty’s will offer 385 lots of antique furniture, art, collectibles and small items at their sale tomorrow at 3pm.

There is a rare pair of original Tiffany lamps and a 19th century Japanese Samurai sword.

Oriental porcelain includes a doucai plate and a Kangxi bowl.

There is a Moghul miniature painting and an Anglo-Indian ivory box, while furniture includes a Victorian dining table (€3,000-€5,000), a Regency Irish fold-over tea table, a William IV library table, an Edwardian bureau bookcase and an Edwardian envelope table.

Viewing today from 11am to 5pm, and tomorrow from 11am to 3pm.

A goldfish brooch from Weldon's stand at the Hibernian Antique Fair at Acton's Hotel, Kinsale tomorrow.

ANTIQUE AUCTION in Doneraile, Co. Cork.

Auction on Saturday 10th December @ 1.00pm

THE CHRISTMAS SALE - Our Auctions consist of approx 500 lots with interesting items for every room in the house. Our auctions appeal to everyone as we have items to suit every budget.

The Tony McNamara Sale Part 2: Having sold a large number of items from this estate in our Sixmilebridge Auction Rooms we are now pleased to offer the remaining items to include books, drawings, pictures, etc of Cork Interest together with house clearances from Bishopstown, Douglas, Kanturk and Mitchelstown. Sale includes Antiques, Paintings, Collectables, Books, Period and later furniture, Clocks, Ceramics, Glassware, Pictures and prints, Dining Tables, Sets of Chairs, Bedroom Cabinets, Wardrobes, Chest of Drawers, Occasional Tables and Chairs, etc.

For fully illustrated catalogue go to www.irishcountryhome.com VIEWING in our Auction Rooms: Friday 9th December (2-8pm) and the morning of the sale from 11am to start of sale at 1pm.

Des O’Sullivan previews Monday’s sale of important Irish art in Dublin

The Georgian three pillar dining table from Dunkathel House made €60,000 at the Lynes and Lynes sale in Carrigtwohill last Saturday.

Bought by the antique trade it is the most expensive single item of furniture ever sold at auction in Cork.

Left: Large famille vert rouleau vase 19ins high with six character Kangxi mark beneath for auction tomorrow with Hegarty’s in Bandon. Centre: This exceptional Killarney davenport is at Mealy’s in Castlecomer on Wednesday where it is estimated at €18,000€25,000. Right: This 1959 All Ireland Hurling Final programme is at O'Donovan's sale in Newcastlewest next Saturday.

AIDAN FOLEY ANTIQUE & FINE ART AUCTIONEER

The Old Schoolhouse Auction Rooms, Doneraile, Mallow, Co. Cork. 022-72992/086-8290680

The Kinsale Antique Fair

The Winter Fine & Decorative Art Sale 2011

THIS SUNDAY 4th DECEMBER

Tuesday 6th & Wednesday 7th December in Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny

ACTONS HOTEL - 11AM - 6PM

ALL ABOUT QUALITY, QUALITY, QUALITY

1,250 lots including the contents of Bushy Park, Mt Talbot, Co. Roscommon; 41 Sandford Road, Ranelagh on the instructions of Mrs. Mafra O’Reilly and a large single owner collection of Irish provincial and crested silver (200 lots).

This is a Hibernian Antique & Art Fair and amongst the 20+ stands are 8 members of the Irish Antique Dealers Asscociation IADA.

Further details available at WWW.MEALYS.COM Tel. 056 4400942. Fax. 0564400911. Email info@mealysfineart.com

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SATURDAY NEXT ANTIQUE AUCTION OF GEORGIAN AND VICTORIAN FURNITURE Including Jewellery, Gold Rings, Brooches, Coins, Gold Sovereigns, Rosewood Cased Boudoir Grand Piano, Circular Boardroom Table. Large collection of Books, Cork Glass, China, Ware, Silver, Silver Plate, Pewter.

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ON VIEW: THURSDAY AND FRIDAY NEXT 8TH AND 9TH DECEMBER, FROM 10.30 A.M. TO 9.00 P.M. INCLUDING LUNCHTIME AND MORNING OF SALE FROM 10.00 A.M.

More details on www.marshsauctioneers.ie

Marshs Auctioneers & Valuers Ltd, 17 South Mall, Cork. Tel 021-4270347 Celebrating 176 years in auctioneering this year

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Bluebeard’s Last Wife is the title of this 1921 miniature stained glass panel by Harry Clarke (1889-1931) in a cabinet by James Hicks at the James Adam sale of Irish Art in Dublin on Monday.

It is estimated at €50,000-€70,000.

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MARSHS SALE Unusual items at Marshs sale in Cork next Saturday include an 18th century oak corner barber’s chair and a Queen Anne low dresser.

The auction features antique furniture, jewellery, silver, porcelain and books including the library of the late Jim Foley. Viewing 10.30am to 9pm next Thursday, Friday and on Saturday morning. The sale is at noon. .....................................................................

600 LOTS A sale of 600 lots will take place at O’Donovan and Associates, Newcastle West, Co Limerick next Saturday at 11am. Georgian and Victorian furniture, silver, gold, coins, books, clocks, barometers, Waterford glass, paintings by Graham Knuttel, Peter Knuttel, John Skelton and George Vauser, along with porcelain and collectibles are all featured. .....................................................................

ART TALLY The Morgan O’Driscoll art sale in Cork on Monday realised €250,000. The top lot was a classic Markey Robinson work which made €7,800. Around 80% of lots were sold. .....................................................................

MEALY’S SALE A two-day sale of fine and decorative arts takes place at Mealy’s in Castlecomer next Tuesday and Wednesday at 10.30am on

each day. Glass, silver, porcelain, jewellery and tribal art are among the 631 lots to be sold. There are 600 lots of furniture, paintings, taxidermy, clocks baometers, wine, rugs and textiles on Wednesday. .....................................................................

AUCTION ROOMS The auction at Kerry Auction Rooms, Moyderwell, Tralee next Tuesday at noon features antique furniture, art, including work by Padraig Stephenson RUA, Stell Steyn and Mariano Fortuny, signed books and collectibles. Viewing today. .....................................................................

ARTIST’S EXHIBITION The Barrie Cooke exhibition which has travelled from IMMA runs at the Crawford Gallery in Cork until January 14. The artist is 80 this year.

He had his first solo exhibition in Dublin in 1955. .....................................................................

SALE TALLY The Whyte’s Irish art sale grossed over €800,000 in Dublin on Monday. Top lot was Paul Henry’s Altan Lough, Donegal which sold for €75,000 to an internet bidder. .....................................................................

ANTIQUE AUCTIONS There will be antique auctions at Mullens of Laurel Park, Bray, Co Wicklow on Monday at 10am and Ashgrove Auction Rooms, Ballybrittas, Co Laois on Tuesday at 4.30pm.

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ON SATURDAY NEXT, 10TH DECEMBER, AT 12 NOON Briefly: Georgian Breakfront four door Bureau Bookcase, Early Georgian Oak inlaid and crossbanded Low Dresser, Early Georgian Oak Corner Chair, Regency Inlaid Satinwood Demi Lune Side Cabinet, Regency Rosewood Sofa Table, Large Regency Gilt Settee, Georgian Writing Bureau, Regency Mahogany Sofa Table, Regency Crossbanded Library Table, Small Georgian Mahogany Desk, Georgian Inlaid Mahogany Teapoy, Georgian Mahogany Corner Cupboard, Georgian Inlaid Mahogany Writing Bureau, Georgian Inlaid Mahogany Serpentine fronted Sideboard, Georgian bow fronted Chest of Drawers and other Chests, Rosewood Boudoir Grand Piano, Antique inlaid Mahogany Square Piano, Mahogany Brass Dial Grandfather Clock, Pair of Mahogany Bachelor’s Chests, Sets of 12, 8, 6 and 4 Mahogany Diningroom Chairs, Large and Small Gilt Mirrors, Large Circular Boardroom Table (8ft. in diameter). Collection of Boxes including Limoges, Wedgewood, Crown Derby, Del Prado, Minton and others, together with a large selection of Porcelain, China, Ware, etc.

Large Selection of Books including The Georgian Society Records, Smiths History of Cork, Burke’s Peerage 1949. Large selection of Books on Antique furniture, Irish & English Houses, Art, and other interesting topics.

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HERE will be huge interest in how the work of Jack B Yeats fares at the James Adam sale of important Irish art in Dublin next Monday at 6pm. His Fair Day, Mayo made €1 million in September.

This time around Adam’s is offering a number of works by Yeats, headed by Jazz Babies, estimated at €500,000-€700,000.

Among the other Yeats pieces in the auction, Evening Kildare was once owned by George Bernard Shaw. It is estimated at €30,000-€50,000.

The sale also includes Harry Clarke’s Bluebeard’s Last Wife (€50,000-€70,000). This was one of only a handful of Irish pieces included in ‘The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America’ exhibition which toured America from 2004 to 2006.

Another unusual lot is John O’Connell’s pocket watch. O’Connell was caretaker at Glasnevin Cemetery. The watch he wore features in Joyce’s Ulysses. The estimate is €8,000-€10,000.

There is also a dinner menu from the Stephen’s Green Club to celebrate the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to WB Yeats in 1923. Signed by the poet, it is estimated at €300-€500. The sale is on view today, tomorrow and Monday.

IN BRIEF

ONLINE SALES Martin Stone No-Reserve Studio Sale A studio sale of over 100 artworks by local West Cork artist Martin Stone.

Starts: 19th Nov 2011 at 9am Ends: 12th Dec 2011 at 7pm

Viewing at The Old Cinema, Castlecomer:

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ANTIQUES AND FINE ART

ANTIQUES AND FINE ART

Jazz Babies

by Yeats in Adam’s sale

Collectibles at Hibernian Antique Fair

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IBERNIAN Antique Fairs are at Acton’s Hotel, Kinsale, from 11am to 6pm tomorrow with a variety of antique collectibles, art, furniture, silver and Christmas gifts.

In Bandon, Hegarty’s will offer 385 lots of antique furniture, art, collectibles and small items at their sale tomorrow at 3pm.

There is a rare pair of original Tiffany lamps and a 19th century Japanese Samurai sword.

Oriental porcelain includes a doucai plate and a Kangxi bowl.

There is a Moghul miniature painting and an Anglo-Indian ivory box, while furniture includes a Victorian dining table (€3,000-€5,000), a Regency Irish fold-over tea table, a William IV library table, an Edwardian bureau bookcase and an Edwardian envelope table.

Viewing today from 11am to 5pm, and tomorrow from 11am to 3pm.

A goldfish brooch from Weldon's stand at the Hibernian Antique Fair at Acton's Hotel, Kinsale tomorrow.

ANTIQUE AUCTION in Doneraile, Co. Cork.

Auction on Saturday 10th December @ 1.00pm

THE CHRISTMAS SALE - Our Auctions consist of approx 500 lots with interesting items for every room in the house. Our auctions appeal to everyone as we have items to suit every budget.

The Tony McNamara Sale Part 2: Having sold a large number of items from this estate in our Sixmilebridge Auction Rooms we are now pleased to offer the remaining items to include books, drawings, pictures, etc of Cork Interest together with house clearances from Bishopstown, Douglas, Kanturk and Mitchelstown. Sale includes Antiques, Paintings, Collectables, Books, Period and later furniture, Clocks, Ceramics, Glassware, Pictures and prints, Dining Tables, Sets of Chairs, Bedroom Cabinets, Wardrobes, Chest of Drawers, Occasional Tables and Chairs, etc.

For fully illustrated catalogue go to www.irishcountryhome.com VIEWING in our Auction Rooms: Friday 9th December (2-8pm) and the morning of the sale from 11am to start of sale at 1pm.

Des O’Sullivan previews Monday’s sale of important Irish art in Dublin

The Georgian three pillar dining table from Dunkathel House made €60,000 at the Lynes and Lynes sale in Carrigtwohill last Saturday.

Bought by the antique trade it is the most expensive single item of furniture ever sold at auction in Cork.

Left: Large famille vert rouleau vase 19ins high with six character Kangxi mark beneath for auction tomorrow with Hegarty’s in Bandon. Centre: This exceptional Killarney davenport is at Mealy’s in Castlecomer on Wednesday where it is estimated at €18,000€25,000. Right: This 1959 All Ireland Hurling Final programme is at O'Donovan's sale in Newcastlewest next Saturday.

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The Old Schoolhouse Auction Rooms, Doneraile, Mallow, Co. Cork. 022-72992/086-8290680

The Kinsale Antique Fair

The Winter Fine & Decorative Art Sale 2011

THIS SUNDAY 4th DECEMBER

Tuesday 6th & Wednesday 7th December in Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny

ACTONS HOTEL - 11AM - 6PM

ALL ABOUT QUALITY, QUALITY, QUALITY

1,250 lots including the contents of Bushy Park, Mt Talbot, Co. Roscommon; 41 Sandford Road, Ranelagh on the instructions of Mrs. Mafra O’Reilly and a large single owner collection of Irish provincial and crested silver (200 lots).

This is a Hibernian Antique & Art Fair and amongst the 20+ stands are 8 members of the Irish Antique Dealers Asscociation IADA.

Further details available at WWW.MEALYS.COM Tel. 056 4400942. Fax. 0564400911. Email info@mealysfineart.com

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SATURDAY NEXT ANTIQUE AUCTION OF GEORGIAN AND VICTORIAN FURNITURE Including Jewellery, Gold Rings, Brooches, Coins, Gold Sovereigns, Rosewood Cased Boudoir Grand Piano, Circular Boardroom Table. Large collection of Books, Cork Glass, China, Ware, Silver, Silver Plate, Pewter.

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More details on www.marshsauctioneers.ie

Marshs Auctioneers & Valuers Ltd, 17 South Mall, Cork. Tel 021-4270347 Celebrating 176 years in auctioneering this year

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Bluebeard’s Last Wife is the title of this 1921 miniature stained glass panel by Harry Clarke (1889-1931) in a cabinet by James Hicks at the James Adam sale of Irish Art in Dublin on Monday.

It is estimated at €50,000-€70,000.

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The auction features antique furniture, jewellery, silver, porcelain and books including the library of the late Jim Foley. Viewing 10.30am to 9pm next Thursday, Friday and on Saturday morning. The sale is at noon. .....................................................................

600 LOTS A sale of 600 lots will take place at O’Donovan and Associates, Newcastle West, Co Limerick next Saturday at 11am. Georgian and Victorian furniture, silver, gold, coins, books, clocks, barometers, Waterford glass, paintings by Graham Knuttel, Peter Knuttel, John Skelton and George Vauser, along with porcelain and collectibles are all featured. .....................................................................

ART TALLY The Morgan O’Driscoll art sale in Cork on Monday realised €250,000. The top lot was a classic Markey Robinson work which made €7,800. Around 80% of lots were sold. .....................................................................

MEALY’S SALE A two-day sale of fine and decorative arts takes place at Mealy’s in Castlecomer next Tuesday and Wednesday at 10.30am on

each day. Glass, silver, porcelain, jewellery and tribal art are among the 631 lots to be sold. There are 600 lots of furniture, paintings, taxidermy, clocks baometers, wine, rugs and textiles on Wednesday. .....................................................................

AUCTION ROOMS The auction at Kerry Auction Rooms, Moyderwell, Tralee next Tuesday at noon features antique furniture, art, including work by Padraig Stephenson RUA, Stell Steyn and Mariano Fortuny, signed books and collectibles. Viewing today. .....................................................................

ARTIST’S EXHIBITION The Barrie Cooke exhibition which has travelled from IMMA runs at the Crawford Gallery in Cork until January 14. The artist is 80 this year.

He had his first solo exhibition in Dublin in 1955. .....................................................................

SALE TALLY The Whyte’s Irish art sale grossed over €800,000 in Dublin on Monday. Top lot was Paul Henry’s Altan Lough, Donegal which sold for €75,000 to an internet bidder. .....................................................................

ANTIQUE AUCTIONS There will be antique auctions at Mullens of Laurel Park, Bray, Co Wicklow on Monday at 10am and Ashgrove Auction Rooms, Ballybrittas, Co Laois on Tuesday at 4.30pm.

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ON SATURDAY NEXT, 10TH DECEMBER, AT 12 NOON Briefly: Georgian Breakfront four door Bureau Bookcase, Early Georgian Oak inlaid and crossbanded Low Dresser, Early Georgian Oak Corner Chair, Regency Inlaid Satinwood Demi Lune Side Cabinet, Regency Rosewood Sofa Table, Large Regency Gilt Settee, Georgian Writing Bureau, Regency Mahogany Sofa Table, Regency Crossbanded Library Table, Small Georgian Mahogany Desk, Georgian Inlaid Mahogany Teapoy, Georgian Mahogany Corner Cupboard, Georgian Inlaid Mahogany Writing Bureau, Georgian Inlaid Mahogany Serpentine fronted Sideboard, Georgian bow fronted Chest of Drawers and other Chests, Rosewood Boudoir Grand Piano, Antique inlaid Mahogany Square Piano, Mahogany Brass Dial Grandfather Clock, Pair of Mahogany Bachelor’s Chests, Sets of 12, 8, 6 and 4 Mahogany Diningroom Chairs, Large and Small Gilt Mirrors, Large Circular Boardroom Table (8ft. in diameter). Collection of Boxes including Limoges, Wedgewood, Crown Derby, Del Prado, Minton and others, together with a large selection of Porcelain, China, Ware, etc.

Large Selection of Books including The Georgian Society Records, Smiths History of Cork, Burke’s Peerage 1949. Large selection of Books on Antique furniture, Irish & English Houses, Art, and other interesting topics.

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HERE will be huge interest in how the work of Jack B Yeats fares at the James Adam sale of important Irish art in Dublin next Monday at 6pm. His Fair Day, Mayo made €1 million in September.

This time around Adam’s is offering a number of works by Yeats, headed by Jazz Babies, estimated at €500,000-€700,000.

Among the other Yeats pieces in the auction, Evening Kildare was once owned by George Bernard Shaw. It is estimated at €30,000-€50,000.

The sale also includes Harry Clarke’s Bluebeard’s Last Wife (€50,000-€70,000). This was one of only a handful of Irish pieces included in ‘The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America’ exhibition which toured America from 2004 to 2006.

Another unusual lot is John O’Connell’s pocket watch. O’Connell was caretaker at Glasnevin Cemetery. The watch he wore features in Joyce’s Ulysses. The estimate is €8,000-€10,000.

There is also a dinner menu from the Stephen’s Green Club to celebrate the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to WB Yeats in 1923. Signed by the poet, it is estimated at €300-€500. The sale is on view today, tomorrow and Monday.

IN BRIEF

ONLINE SALES Martin Stone No-Reserve Studio Sale A studio sale of over 100 artworks by local West Cork artist Martin Stone.

Starts: 19th Nov 2011 at 9am Ends: 12th Dec 2011 at 7pm

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BLOOMING HIPPEASTRUM

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VERY corner of the garden is sopping.

The glare is feeble and the colour has drained from everything apart from some frosted hydrangea blooms and chrome yellow phormiums; pale beacons among the expanding brown and green.

They remind me of streetlamps in fog. Nothing moves in the persistent drizzle, nothing stirs anywhere! In desperation I reflect on the only urgency over the coming days; the removal of fallen and decaying leaves from gutters, drains and pond, along with potting a pair of Hippeastrum bulbs (Amaryllis) sourced from Aldi across the road.

Why do so many fail to bring these into bloom the year after purchase? These over-sized bulbs are usually found in garden outlets in the run-up to Christmas; huge fattened things, some as large as swede turnips (and weighing almost as much) either stuffed into ridiculously small pots containing just a fist-full of compost, or displayed heaped together, one on top of another in spacious brown

wicker baskets.

Much of the failure rate has to do with heat (the lack of it) for it they are to be flowered during early January and later adequate temperatures and perfect light must be provided from the outset.

However, if you are prepared to wait until April for those mighty trumpet-shaped blooms, (three, four and even five to a stem), then they can be stood on a bright windowsill and allowed to perform in their own good time.

Hippeastrums, unlike the majority of bulbs, begin their cycle of growth by flowering.

A stout naked stem (or stems) rise up from the neck of the bulb to two feet and more, terminating eventually in a group of buds which open to

reveal several trumpet-shaped blooms of massive proportions. The whole spectacle is wonderfully impressive. Later, the long strappy leaves arrive and it is then that watering and feeding must commence and be diligently maintained right through to late summer.

Towards August, watering can be restricted so that the leaves yellow and die away naturally and the bulb goes into a state of rest for all of September and October.

As soon as mid-November arrives, the tips of fresh young foliage will once again be noticed emerging from the neck of the half buried bulb, and the cycle of growth and flowering can begin all over again. However, some repotting will be needed for the

compost (now in its second season) will contain very little by way of nutrients. If the old compost is gently teased away from around the base of the bulb using an old biro or pencil as a scraper, the exercise will only take minutes. Top up with fresh “Seed and Potting” compost (allow the top one third of the bulb to remain uncovered) water to settle, and replace into its bright, warm position.

Don’t water again until active growth commences for the main danger to successful blooming will be from overwatering. Too much too soon would end in a sorry mush. To play their game properly, attention to feeding, watering, and re-potting will have to be diligently attended to.

Hippeastrum/ Amaryllis can produce a number of stems capable of bearing a cluster of buds which open to reveal huge trumpet-shaped blooms in pleasing colours. Feeding following flowering, and attention to watering will ensure a repeat year after year.

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Special family day on Sat 10th & Sunday 11th Meet and chat with Santa

Special Christmas Menu in our Clay Pot Café throughout the season

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■ Cork GIY have Woodkerne Nurseries, west Cork fruit tree specialists, talking at the South Parish community hall on Tuesday at 7.30pm.

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■ Blackrock flower and garden club’s Christmas party is on Tuesday, 7.30pm in the Ursuline convent.

■ Cork Garden Club Ashton School will have Charlie Wilkins talk on Thursday at 8pm.

■ Kinsale flower and garden club have Eileen O’Brien talking in St Multose Hall on Thursday at 8pm.

■ Peter Murray, director of the Crawford Gallery Cork, will talk on December 15 at Lismore Castle at 7pm about the visit to Lismore, Co Waterford of Lady Caroline Lamb in 1812. Tickets €10 from Paul McAree on 058 54061 or email gallery@lismorecastlearts.ie

■ ’The Art Of Floristry,’ a demonstration by Malcolm Kitt, is on in Bishopstown community school, Tuesday at 8pm. Tickets are €8 (or 3 for €20).

■ The re-scheduled official opening of The Sensory Garden at Cobh Hospital by the Minister for Health, Dr James Reilly takes place on Wednesday at 9am.

■ The Cork Association for Autism’s Christmas plant and pottery sale is on Wednesday to Friday, 10am to 3pm, at the Greenhouse, Greenville, Carrigtwohill. See www.corkassociationforautism.com.

Our Super Store is celebrating its first Christmas; we have a shop full of Christmas décor for inside and outside your home, large selection of practical and unusual gifts for all the family.

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■ The Irish Garden Plant Society will meet on Tuesday at the SMA hall, Wilton at 8pm. A talk entitled ‘Plant Hunting in California’ will be given

by Patrick O’Hara.

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Double flowered H torquatus hybrids are rather special and worth seeking out as are varieties of H x sternii ‘Blackthorn Group’.

Provided the ground is neither frozen nor waterlogged planting can take place after some enriching of the proposed site.

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Hellebores grow particularly well in partial shade and are good on limestone and chalk provided they’re kept well mulched with organic materials.

LAWNMOWERS: Remember to drain the petrol tank of lawnmowers before they are finally stored away. Petrol can deteriorate when stored for long periods. Change the oil after removing the petrol, sharpen the blade, and oil the wheels. Inspect all cables and try to trickle a little light oil down each so they won’t seize.

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■ Carrigtwohill flower and garden club will host a Christmas gala night, ‘“The Magic of Christmas,’ at Ballyseedy garden centre on Thursday at 8pm. Tickets €8.

■ Hosfords geranium and garden centre’s Christmas farmers’ market, is on tomorrow from noon to 5.30pm. From 1pm a Christmas concert in the Blue Geranium Café.

■ ’A Day for Simon’, a demonstration

by Rose Hickey at Carmel’s Garden centre, Kilworth, near Fermoy on Tuesday from 10.30am to noon.

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■ Free Christmas demonstrations at Griffin’s garden centre on Monday, Wednesday and Friday next at midday. See demos on Christmas tree dressing, mantelpiece swags, wreaths and garlands.

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■ Bantry flower and garden club’s demonstration by Chris Bailey is on Monday at 8pm in Westlodge Hotel, Bantry. Admission €7.

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BLOOMING HIPPEASTRUM

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VERY corner of the garden is sopping.

The glare is feeble and the colour has drained from everything apart from some frosted hydrangea blooms and chrome yellow phormiums; pale beacons among the expanding brown and green.

They remind me of streetlamps in fog. Nothing moves in the persistent drizzle, nothing stirs anywhere! In desperation I reflect on the only urgency over the coming days; the removal of fallen and decaying leaves from gutters, drains and pond, along with potting a pair of Hippeastrum bulbs (Amaryllis) sourced from Aldi across the road.

Why do so many fail to bring these into bloom the year after purchase? These over-sized bulbs are usually found in garden outlets in the run-up to Christmas; huge fattened things, some as large as swede turnips (and weighing almost as much) either stuffed into ridiculously small pots containing just a fist-full of compost, or displayed heaped together, one on top of another in spacious brown

wicker baskets.

Much of the failure rate has to do with heat (the lack of it) for it they are to be flowered during early January and later adequate temperatures and perfect light must be provided from the outset.

However, if you are prepared to wait until April for those mighty trumpet-shaped blooms, (three, four and even five to a stem), then they can be stood on a bright windowsill and allowed to perform in their own good time.

Hippeastrums, unlike the majority of bulbs, begin their cycle of growth by flowering.

A stout naked stem (or stems) rise up from the neck of the bulb to two feet and more, terminating eventually in a group of buds which open to

reveal several trumpet-shaped blooms of massive proportions. The whole spectacle is wonderfully impressive. Later, the long strappy leaves arrive and it is then that watering and feeding must commence and be diligently maintained right through to late summer.

Towards August, watering can be restricted so that the leaves yellow and die away naturally and the bulb goes into a state of rest for all of September and October.

As soon as mid-November arrives, the tips of fresh young foliage will once again be noticed emerging from the neck of the half buried bulb, and the cycle of growth and flowering can begin all over again. However, some repotting will be needed for the

compost (now in its second season) will contain very little by way of nutrients. If the old compost is gently teased away from around the base of the bulb using an old biro or pencil as a scraper, the exercise will only take minutes. Top up with fresh “Seed and Potting” compost (allow the top one third of the bulb to remain uncovered) water to settle, and replace into its bright, warm position.

Don’t water again until active growth commences for the main danger to successful blooming will be from overwatering. Too much too soon would end in a sorry mush. To play their game properly, attention to feeding, watering, and re-potting will have to be diligently attended to.

Hippeastrum/ Amaryllis can produce a number of stems capable of bearing a cluster of buds which open to reveal huge trumpet-shaped blooms in pleasing colours. Feeding following flowering, and attention to watering will ensure a repeat year after year.

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Special family day on Sat 10th & Sunday 11th Meet and chat with Santa

Special Christmas Menu in our Clay Pot Café throughout the season

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■ Cork GIY have Woodkerne Nurseries, west Cork fruit tree specialists, talking at the South Parish community hall on Tuesday at 7.30pm.

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■ Blackrock flower and garden club’s Christmas party is on Tuesday, 7.30pm in the Ursuline convent.

■ Cork Garden Club Ashton School will have Charlie Wilkins talk on Thursday at 8pm.

■ Kinsale flower and garden club have Eileen O’Brien talking in St Multose Hall on Thursday at 8pm.

■ Peter Murray, director of the Crawford Gallery Cork, will talk on December 15 at Lismore Castle at 7pm about the visit to Lismore, Co Waterford of Lady Caroline Lamb in 1812. Tickets €10 from Paul McAree on 058 54061 or email gallery@lismorecastlearts.ie

■ ’The Art Of Floristry,’ a demonstration by Malcolm Kitt, is on in Bishopstown community school, Tuesday at 8pm. Tickets are €8 (or 3 for €20).

■ The re-scheduled official opening of The Sensory Garden at Cobh Hospital by the Minister for Health, Dr James Reilly takes place on Wednesday at 9am.

■ The Cork Association for Autism’s Christmas plant and pottery sale is on Wednesday to Friday, 10am to 3pm, at the Greenhouse, Greenville, Carrigtwohill. See www.corkassociationforautism.com.

Our Super Store is celebrating its first Christmas; we have a shop full of Christmas décor for inside and outside your home, large selection of practical and unusual gifts for all the family.

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■ The Irish Garden Plant Society will meet on Tuesday at the SMA hall, Wilton at 8pm. A talk entitled ‘Plant Hunting in California’ will be given

by Patrick O’Hara.

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WORK FOR THE WEEK HELLEBORES: Between now and early spring is the ideal time to buy container-grown hellebores. Because they start flowering as early as the beginning of January you can choose plants in full bloom especially those with attractive colours.

Double flowered H torquatus hybrids are rather special and worth seeking out as are varieties of H x sternii ‘Blackthorn Group’.

Provided the ground is neither frozen nor waterlogged planting can take place after some enriching of the proposed site.

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Hellebores grow particularly well in partial shade and are good on limestone and chalk provided they’re kept well mulched with organic materials.

LAWNMOWERS: Remember to drain the petrol tank of lawnmowers before they are finally stored away. Petrol can deteriorate when stored for long periods. Change the oil after removing the petrol, sharpen the blade, and oil the wheels. Inspect all cables and try to trickle a little light oil down each so they won’t seize.

HOUSE PLANTS not only lift your spirits and your environment, they also purify the air by filtering out chemicals. And by raising humidity levels, they help to counteract the drying effects of central heating and reduce dust. Create a welcoming and restful environment and brighten up wintry rooms instantly with a few stylishly placed plants. Slipper orchids will add a hint of the exotic while for texture and colour choose Streptocarpus (Cape primrose).

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■ Carrigtwohill flower and garden club will host a Christmas gala night, ‘“The Magic of Christmas,’ at Ballyseedy garden centre on Thursday at 8pm. Tickets €8.

■ Hosfords geranium and garden centre’s Christmas farmers’ market, is on tomorrow from noon to 5.30pm. From 1pm a Christmas concert in the Blue Geranium Café.

■ ’A Day for Simon’, a demonstration

by Rose Hickey at Carmel’s Garden centre, Kilworth, near Fermoy on Tuesday from 10.30am to noon.

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■ Free Christmas demonstrations at Griffin’s garden centre on Monday, Wednesday and Friday next at midday. See demos on Christmas tree dressing, mantelpiece swags, wreaths and garlands.

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■ Bantry flower and garden club’s demonstration by Chris Bailey is on Monday at 8pm in Westlodge Hotel, Bantry. Admission €7.

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