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VERY bit as genteel now as it was a century ago when built, the Edwardian semi-d Villa Nova is a big Cork city home buy, full of pleasant original features, and standing

fine-boned rooms, graced by period details, pristine fireplaces, and age-appropriate wall-papers in a sort of William Morris style. The owners have kept faith and worked with the house’s vintage, so all fireplaces proud. (about six in all) are original, and gleaming, with Located directly across the College Road from the brass and tile inserts, the wide hall and rear-annexe Bon Secours hospital (with major investment plans kitchen have polished original floor tiles, ceilings are still in the offing) and 200 yards from UCC’s main coved and the front room’s bay window is a generous gates, this should be a seller to those who want a beauty, with nine upright panes, topped by even more period home, and a frosted glass in smaller great location — and panes. Location: College Road, Cork at a big price An almost polished€540,000 reduction from the last Price: smooth front door bell successful comparable carries the faint legend Size: 261 sq m (2,800 sq ft) sale on the row. “night bell”, indicating Bedrooms: 5/6 Last year, agent that at some time Villa Brian Olden of Lisney Nova’s occupants may BER rating: Pending sold the nearby have been medics on Broadband: Yes Edwardian/Arts and call at the Bons. Crafts home, 2 Carrig throughout Best asset: Size, period detail and location theCeilings Fern, in immaculate house are high, and polished order, for an it’s a fairly deep unconfirmed €800,000 (he’d been asking €850,000) and property too, with a large rear annex to the left hand now he has the quite similar Villa Nova to sell, and it side, home to a guest bathroom with shower and green too has been owned for years by a family working marble tiled floor, plus the somewhat dated pine nearby. kitchen with dark, part-tiled walls, along with pantry He guides it at €540,000, and the biggest difference in and utility with garden access. specification is the fact Villa Nova has a fairly The floor plan is more or less replicated on floor one, standard sized back garden, in comparison to 2 Carrig with the master bed to the front with two feature Fern’s 180’ long ‘dog-leg’ woodland-like back garden casement windows, and a wall of built-ins (presumably which bordered the Bons sisters’s La Retraite grounds. covering a fireplace), behind is a south-facing bed two Here at Villa Nova, the south-facing back garden is with fireplace, and across the stair return is bed stepped up, fully walled in, mature, home to two old three/quiet study, and a freshly re-tiled bathroom in apple trees, and private. It’s a sun-trap of a space, pale blue. maximised or at least acknowledged by the presence of Hop up another floor level, and there are three more a sun room off the rear reception room, one of two rooms, two of them interconnected and so there might

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TRADING UP Thyme up for Rosemary? A bungalow called after the herb may be uprooted.

STARTERS A townhouse’s corner site gives it a double frontage and a different layout

FEATURE Big price cuts apply to re-launched Edwarding-styled Ashley houses

10 COVER STORY Country meets contemporary in Kerry’s Behy Valley

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be privacy issues if both are used bedrooms. The one further in, to the front of the house with dormer window, has a lovely attic/sloped ceiling feel and charm in particular. Well-tended Villa Nova has had windows replaced to the back with double glazing, and the front ones remain original, keeping a real visual and architectural integrity to the face this house presents to the front, where’s there’s also off-street parking, garden plus garage. VERDICT: They don’t make houses with features to last the test of time like this too often any more. New owners might want to look at opening up the kitchen space a bit more, though.

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INTERIORS DIY IN THE GARDEN ANTIQUES CLASSIFIED

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

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VERY bit as genteel now as it was a century ago when built, the Edwardian semi-d Villa Nova is a big Cork city home buy, full of pleasant original features, and standing

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TRADING UP Thyme up for Rosemary? A bungalow called after the herb may be uprooted.

STARTERS A townhouse’s corner site gives it a double frontage and a different layout

FEATURE Big price cuts apply to re-launched Edwarding-styled Ashley houses

10 COVER STORY Country meets contemporary in Kerry’s Behy Valley

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We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country Ovens

€695,000

Melrose, Grange Cross �� Call Sheila O’Flynn 086 2574948 /021 4937418 or Norma Healy 086 8525940 /021 4937406

MAGAZINE ROAD, CORK €350,000 Sq m: 100 (1,100 sq ft) BER rating: N/A

Bedrooms: 3 Broadband: Yes

CARRIGTWOHILL, CORK €280,000 Sq m: 219 (2,280 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Bedrooms: 6 Broadband: Yes

WHAT you see isn’t what you’ll get at the old-fashioned bungalow, Rosemary: because of its setting, and the house’s condition, it is being sold on future promise. “We’re marketing the property as a site in the belief that the site value is in excess of the house value,” says agent Gerard O’Callaghan, of REMAX. “It would have attracted huge interest in the past, from small- and medium-sized developers, but would now most probably be bought by someone looking for a site for a large, one-off house.” Rosemary is on a site of 0.28 of an acre in Lima Lawn, off the Magazine Road, and its mature-boundary site backs onto neighbours on Bendemeer Park. Given its proximity to University College Cork, the Cork Institute of Technology, the Bon Secours and more, O’Callaghan says it will be viewed for a one-off, and reckons a 2,500 or 3,000 sq ft new build would sit easily on the site. It has mains services and O’Callaghan prices it at €350,000, but says he is open to offers and to see what the market for it is. “A side-garden site in this area could make between €150,000 and €250,000, and it has to be worth more than that,” he says.

THE six-bedroomed home Mount Verdant is a bit of a whopper, fitting in almost 2,300 sq ft of space under its dormer roof. New to market, but older in style, the detached family home is on a large site within Carrigtwohill village, a 15 minute commute east of Cork city. Up for sale with Claire O’Sullivan of Savills who guides it at €280k, it now needs modernising, but that’s surely reflected in the price given the scope that’s here. Mount Verdant has a big, south facing garden in front, with parking behind, as well as a detached garage, and its main rooms (the 17’ by 13 living room, and 13’ by 12’ dining room) have big picture windows to the south. The kitchen currently is to the rear, and the house’s layout is pretty adaptable, as the ground level currently has a play room off one gable, and two bedrooms plus bathroom with bath at the far end. Overhead are four more bedrooms, plus another bathroom. Internally the house is “of its time”, as they say, with parquet floors in the hall, and two main reception rooms, and now it all needs a bit of TLC and an energy efficiency upgrade.

VERDICT: There’s already some newbuilds gone into this Lima Lawn location. Worth pacing out.

VERDICT: A family looking for space will find it here, close to the village’s services

MONTENOTTE, CORK €219,000 Sq m: 93 (1,000 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

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Bedrooms: 3 Broadband: Yes

Sq m: 190 (2,025 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Bedrooms: 4 Broadband: Yes

BUILT 12 years ago on an elevated, quarter-acre site in Cork’s Glanmire, No 1 Glencairn is a four-bed, 2,000-plus sq ft family home on a corner plot. Selling agent Matt Fallon of FML Properties prices the dormer at €399,000 and says it’s a great buy for families trading up to a Glanmire address, with neighbouring families all to hand in a cul de sac setting with 17 houses in all. WIth a large landscaped corner site, and room for a garage as well, No 1 has a part-brick facade, with dormers in the tiled roof and ornamental ridge tiles, and there’s brick in the front drive’s paving. Gardens front, side and back are above average, and the stepped/tiered back includes climbers along the boundary walls. Inside, there’s the imprint of an interior designer and pale colours predominate, with two interlinked reception rooms, one with an integrated stove, and the kitchen units are in American oak. The ground level includes an office/ family room, utility, and guest bedroom. Overhead, one of the three other bedrooms is also en suite.

VERDICT: It’s going to suit a buyer who wants to be close to the city centre, and to put their own decorative stamp on a purchase.

VERDICT: Great trader-up, showing well, is bright and airy, and ticking lots of boxes for families in the area.

IN FAMILY terms, this house is just about right at 2,500 square feet — plenty big enough for one’s own family and visitors, and still small enough to manage. And with an acre of ground (plus the option of an acre and a half more), this home at Rylane, Co Cork, could support the most idyllic of childhoods. Room for horses, hamsters, dogs, cats and sleep-overs — and it’s close to school in the village, with Cork a half hour’s commute away. The property is on the market with Tom Heffernan of Sherry FitzGerald Heffernan Macroom, who’s giving a guide in the region of €330,000 for this walk-in proposition.

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€585,000

Auction (unless previously sold) 11am 26th Oct, Sherry FitzGerald, 6 Lapps Quay, Cork �� Call Sheila O’Flynn 086 2574948 /021 4937418 or Johnny O’Flynn 086 6015560 /021 4937411

GLANMIRE, CORK €399,000

IF you hurry up to viewings at Ard Mo Croí (it’s misspelling for height of my heat, Ard Mo Chroí), in Cork’s St Anne’s Drive between Montenotte and Mayfield, you can harvest some windfall cooking apples from the house’s large back garden - apple trees are the present that keeps giving. This older-style three-bed semi-d is an attractive option for buyers looking for the chance to now put their own mark on a family home in a great city suburban location, as it needs modernisation. It comes to market as an executors sale, open to offers, and guiding at €219,000, via agent Vincent Clinch of F&V Sheahan auctioneers. “It’s there to be sold, and will make a lovely family home, with an attached garage giving potential, and an attractive back garden as well, all with a few minutes walk of St Luke’s Cross and a stroll to the city centre,” he observes. There’s a full range of services nearby, including a national school a minute away at Gardiner’s Hill. Mid-way along the sloping road at St Anne’s Drive, No 31 or Ard Mo C(h)roí has front and back gardens, and offstreet parking.

RYLANE, CO CORK €330,000

Model Farm Road, Shanid

Sq m: 233 (2,500 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Bedrooms: 5 Broadband: Yes

The layout is great: there’s a huge kitchen diner, separate lounge with country style brick fireplace, another living room and a games room, which could also be a fifth bedroom, plus shower room and a utility. The overhead space has four bedrooms and a family bathroom while three of the rooms have walk-in wardrobes and the master bedroom is en suite. Verdict: A good buy for growing families looking for space and a rural environment. The mid-Cork location is very close to Macroom and is also an easy commute to Cork city.

Ellenville

Marble Hall Park �� Call Ann O’Mahony 086 8055834 /021 4937409

€310,000

16 Bishopscourt Avenue �� Call Johnny O’Flynn 086 6015560 /021 4937411

Silversprings

€195,000

Kinsale, Abbey Fort

59 Ashmount Mews �� Call Michael O’Donovan 021 4937407 /086 8205474

Bishopstown

€450,000

€250,000

Silversprings

€220,000

14 Mount Eden, Kenley �� Call Johnny O’Flynn 086 6015560 /021 4937411

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Nothing Selling? Our team don’t think so.

Bishopstown

88 Ashmount Crt �� Call Michael O’Donovan 086 8205474 /021 4937407

Since January we have sold & sale agreed over 150 properties in Cork & surrounding areas. Plus we currently have 40 under offer! For all your residential property needs, contact Cork’s most successful & busiest agents.

Scan the code below to see all our current properties for sale SHEILA O’FLYNN Managing Director 086 257 4948 ��

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TRADING UP

We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country Ovens

€695,000

Melrose, Grange Cross �� Call Sheila O’Flynn 086 2574948 /021 4937418 or Norma Healy 086 8525940 /021 4937406

MAGAZINE ROAD, CORK €350,000 Sq m: 100 (1,100 sq ft) BER rating: N/A

Bedrooms: 3 Broadband: Yes

CARRIGTWOHILL, CORK €280,000 Sq m: 219 (2,280 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Bedrooms: 6 Broadband: Yes

VERDICT: There’s already some newbuilds gone into this Lima Lawn location. Worth pacing out.

VERDICT: A family looking for space will find it here, close to the village’s services

MONTENOTTE, CORK €219,000 Sq m: 93 (1,000 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

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Bedrooms: 3 Broadband: Yes

Sq m: 190 (2,025 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Bedrooms: 4 Broadband: Yes

VERDICT: It’s going to suit a buyer who wants to be close to the city centre, and to put their own decorative stamp on a purchase.

VERDICT: Great trader-up, showing well, is bright and airy, and ticking lots of boxes for families in the area.

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€585,000

Auction (unless previously sold) 11am 26th Oct, Sherry FitzGerald, 6 Lapps Quay, Cork �� Call Sheila O’Flynn 086 2574948 /021 4937418 or Johnny O’Flynn 086 6015560 /021 4937411

GLANMIRE, CORK €399,000

RYLANE, CO CORK €330,000

Model Farm Road, Shanid

Sq m: 233 (2,500 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Bedrooms: 5 Broadband: Yes

Ellenville

Marble Hall Park �� Call Ann O’Mahony 086 8055834 /021 4937409

€310,000

16 Bishopscourt Avenue �� Call Johnny O’Flynn 086 6015560 /021 4937411

Silversprings

€195,000

Kinsale, Abbey Fort

59 Ashmount Mews �� Call Michael O’Donovan 021 4937407 /086 8205474

Bishopstown

€450,000

€250,000

Silversprings

€220,000

14 Mount Eden, Kenley �� Call Johnny O’Flynn 086 6015560 /021 4937411

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from €165,000 �� Call Sheila O’Flynn 086 2574948 /021 427 3041 or Paul Reid 086 8303220

Nothing Selling? Our team don’t think so.

Bishopstown

88 Ashmount Crt �� Call Michael O’Donovan 086 8205474 /021 4937407

Scan the code below to see all our current properties for sale SHEILA O’FLYNN Managing Director 086 257 4948 ��

ANN O’MAHONY Sales Manager 086 805 5834 ��

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MICHAEL O’DONOVAN Senior Negotiator 086 820 5474 ��

JOHNNY O’FLYNN Senior Negotiator 086 601 5560 ��

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Family home with modern makeover

Spacious family home with a difference upfront gives good size

This three-bed detached home looks brand new, writes Tommy Barker

Tommy Barker on a unique three-bed townhouse in Cork’s Silversprings

ARDFERT, KERRY €250,000 Sq m: 140 (1,500 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Bedrooms: 4 Broadband: Yes

THE interior of this West Commons, Ardfert Co Kerry family home on a half acre with scenic views has been laid out to be open and practical, says selling agent Sherry FitzGerald Stephenson Crean, who’ve just shaved a bit off the asking price, down to €250k. Within easy reach of Tralee, and beaches at Banna and elsewhere, it’s a modern home, with one en suite, and a good kitchen/ diner plus living room, whilst its rear is west-facing and best placed for mountain views. Although a basic bungalow shape, there’s a stonefaced front porch and bay window to break up the facade, and the grounds are lawned. VERDICT: A comfortable take on the traditional bungalow.

COACHFORD, CO CORK €205,000 Sq. m: 168 (1,800 sq ft) BER rating: Pending SIMPLY designed but quite pretty, this bungalow packs a surprising amount of space, and has even more in the attic on offer. On the market with Killian Lynch of KL Auctioneers, the house at Rusheen, Coachford, is on offer at €205,000 and taking the site of an acre and the quality of the house into account, you couldn’t build the property for that. Private and in a mature leafy setting, this house

Bedrooms: 4 Broadband: Yes

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

Silversprings, Cork €175,000 Sq. m 93 (1,033 sq ft) 3 C1 Yes

ALL the main space seems to be up to the front of 30 Ashmount Court, a double-fronted and consequently decent-sized three bed townhouse in Cork’s Silversprings, close to the north ring road. Built about five years ago by O’Brien and O’Flynn, it’s a corner house in the terrace, which means given the angle of the terrace — it’s narrower at the back, and the rear garden is quite long and narrow. The front impresses, from its gated and cobblelocked entrance drive inwards, with a main living room to the front with bay window, while kitchen/diner is off to the right, with two frontfacing windows.The owners upgraded the kitchen, adding extra units, put in a Stira for attic access, did the front drive and added new gates, with off-street parking for two cars, and landscaped the gardens. The back garden has a seating/patio space, plus lawn. In all, there’s just over 1,030 sq ft now, with an oakfloored hall, the lounge with window bay to the front is also floored in oak, and has a gas fire, with sliding door to the back garden. The upgraded kitchen has units in walnut, plus there’s a guest WC and utility with garden access. Overhead are three bedrooms, two of them doubles and one is en suite, plus main family bathroom. VERDICT: An off-standard layout makes No 30 feel that bit fresh and different.

has a lot of offer as a starter home. Verdict: Huge first floor bedroom space in a good, solid house. The driveway too is 100 years old and a gem.

Ardán Cúil Fliuch TOWER, CORK 5 ONLY - 2 REMAINING

UNCHING in in rude good health after a fairly substantial makeover and upgrade is the detached three-bed home 32 Grange Erin, just above Douglas village. Three-bed detacheds are an uncommon enough offering in any case, and while No 32 dates to the 1980s, its

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No 7 Rosebank needs working on, and maybe drawing up a renovation budget might inform a subsequent bid under its €250k asking price, but this is a suburban semi-d that will earn its keep over the coming years. The three-bed, on the market with Cohalan Downing, is at the top of this mid 1900s residential estate between the two principal roads from Cork city to Douglas, and both city and the ‘village’ are a handy walk., so the car can be parked up.

3 Semi Detatched Homes with Sunrooms. Finished to an exceptionally high standard throughout. In the heart of Tower Village adjacent to all amenities Schools, Shops, Bus Stops. etc,

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• Modern Secure Gated Development with private cobble-lock driveway • 3/4 bedroom with private south-facing lawn/patio

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Whitebon Developments Ltd.

021-4382233 087-2611588 Sunberry, Blarney

Auctioneers, Valuers & Estate Agents m.i.p.a.v.

Email: info@harkinandassociates.com www.harkinandassociates.com

about €265,000, this house, with its front facade gable, has an attached garage which is handy for utility/storage uses, and its two main reception rooms are inter-linked, and oak-floored. The front living room has an open fireplace, while the rear, and adjacent, dining room has patio access. The kitchen is also fresh,

8 AYLSBURY COURT, BALLINCOLLIG, CO. CORK

• Prime location close to UCC, CUH & city centre

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VERDICT: Innersuburban locations are only going to grow in demand.

15 THE CRESCENT, FARRANLEA ROAD, CORK

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Douglas, Cork €265,000 118 sq m (1,275 sq ft) 3 Pending Yes

out-of-the-box, with ivory gloss units, slate floor and the sale includes appliances. There’s off-street parking for a couple of cars in front of No 32. VERDICT: A pristine three-bed Douglas detached for the price of a semi-d.

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DOUGLAS, CORK €250,000 Sq. m: 93 (1,000 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

specification is far more modern. It has been insulated, has new roof tiles, insulated attic, relined chimney, new kitchen, new floors, and new bathrooms and tiling too, both in the main suite and in the master bed’s en suite. On the market with Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald for

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• Private cul-de-sac location with tarmac driveway

• Two car spaces, Large private rear garden • Solicitor: Marie Coleman, P.J.O’ Driscoll & Son, 73 South Mall, Cork

Price: €160,000

Global Properties Ltd., Main Street, Ballincollig, Co. Cork 021-4877133 Website: www.globalproperties.ie

BUTLERSTOWN, BANDON

Global Properties Ltd., Cook Street, Cork 021-4273038 www.globalproperties.ie

Farranbrien West, Minane Bridge, Near Ballyfeard • c.3000 sq ft, 2 storey det. property on 1/2 acre • Beautiful location - 6 miles from Carrigaline • 6 beds, 2 living rooms, kit/ dining room, sunroom, utility, 2 bathrooms, ensuite • Central Vacuum System, Underfloor Heating, Sliderobes

• Spacious Detached bungalow in excellent order with spectacular sea views • Walking distance to village and local beaches • 4 bedrooms 2/3 living rooms • Large garage and gardens • Early viewing recommended

• Matured Three bedroomed Semi-Detached home with very spacious accommodation incl utility and two bathrooms (ground and first floor). • Very convenient location in nice popular park. • Pleasant garden with favourable aspect. Price: POA

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

• Three-bedroom,Central location with extension to rear

Price: €310,000

Global Properties Ltd., Main Street, Ballincollig, Co. Cork 021-4877133 Website: www.globalproperties.ie

Timothy Sullivan & Associates Ltd

• Four-bedroom dream family home with south- facing balcony

• Spacious designer rear garden, mature shrubs and patio

Price: €299,500

11, SLIEVE MISH PARK, TURNERS CROSS, CORK

31 CLARKES ROAD, BALLYPHEHANE, CORK

PRICE GUIDE €360,000

LEE PROPERTY LEE PROPERTY Bridge House, Bandon, Co. Cork ESTATE AGENT • AUCTIONEER • VALUER

Tel: 023 8829500 / www.leeproperty.ie

Guide Price €395,000

Dooley & Howard

42 South Mall, Cork T: 021 4273800 M: 087 2833109 dan@dooleyandhoward.com

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Family home with modern makeover

Spacious family home with a difference upfront gives good size

This three-bed detached home looks brand new, writes Tommy Barker

Tommy Barker on a unique three-bed townhouse in Cork’s Silversprings

ARDFERT, KERRY €250,000 Sq m: 140 (1,500 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Bedrooms: 4 Broadband: Yes

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

Silversprings, Cork €175,000 Sq. m 93 (1,033 sq ft) 3 C1 Yes

has a lot of offer as a starter home. Verdict: Huge first floor bedroom space in a good, solid house. The driveway too is 100 years old and a gem.

Ardán Cúil Fliuch TOWER, CORK 5 ONLY - 2 REMAINING

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3 Semi Detatched Homes with Sunrooms. Finished to an exceptionally high standard throughout. In the heart of Tower Village adjacent to all amenities Schools, Shops, Bus Stops. etc,

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• Modern Secure Gated Development with private cobble-lock driveway • 3/4 bedroom with private south-facing lawn/patio

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THIS SUNDAY 2.30PM-5PM or anytime by appointment

Whitebon Developments Ltd.

021-4382233 087-2611588 Sunberry, Blarney

Auctioneers, Valuers & Estate Agents m.i.p.a.v.

Email: info@harkinandassociates.com www.harkinandassociates.com

8 AYLSBURY COURT, BALLINCOLLIG, CO. CORK

• Prime location close to UCC, CUH & city centre

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VERDICT: Innersuburban locations are only going to grow in demand.

15 THE CRESCENT, FARRANLEA ROAD, CORK

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Douglas, Cork €265,000 118 sq m (1,275 sq ft) 3 Pending Yes

Properties on the move

DOUGLAS, CORK €250,000 Sq. m: 93 (1,000 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

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• Private cul-de-sac location with tarmac driveway

• Two car spaces, Large private rear garden • Solicitor: Marie Coleman, P.J.O’ Driscoll & Son, 73 South Mall, Cork

Price: €160,000

Global Properties Ltd., Main Street, Ballincollig, Co. Cork 021-4877133 Website: www.globalproperties.ie

BUTLERSTOWN, BANDON

Global Properties Ltd., Cook Street, Cork 021-4273038 www.globalproperties.ie

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

• Three-bedroom,Central location with extension to rear

Price: €310,000

Global Properties Ltd., Main Street, Ballincollig, Co. Cork 021-4877133 Website: www.globalproperties.ie

Timothy Sullivan & Associates Ltd

• Four-bedroom dream family home with south- facing balcony

• Spacious designer rear garden, mature shrubs and patio

Price: €299,500

11, SLIEVE MISH PARK, TURNERS CROSS, CORK

31 CLARKES ROAD, BALLYPHEHANE, CORK

PRICE GUIDE €360,000

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Guide Price €395,000

Dooley & Howard

42 South Mall, Cork T: 021 4273800 M: 087 2833109 dan@dooleyandhoward.com

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ORK done on west Cork’s Reenroe House, shower provided for, and other rooms include a by Drimoleague and Skibbereen’s Ilen drawing room, with white marble fireplace and coved river has been entirely to the benefit of ceiling with chandelier. Doors here are glazed with the house and its surrounds — it comes white frames for a bright, yet appropriate period feel, up for sale as a lovely-looking mix and rural retreat. adding to the retained architectural features such as The period home of over 2,000 sq ft on six acres with internal arches. guest cottage, and stone outbuildings, is a new-toThe kitchen is country style, with four-oven Aga market arrival with agent Ray O’Neill of Sherry (central heating is oil-fired), and overhead are three FitzGerald O’Neill, bedrooms plus bathroom. guiding at €520,000. Externally, there’s a side/ Location: Drimoleague, Cork For that, buyers get rear courtyard, graveled and Price: €520,000 a period house, which with a low stone wall despite its age is an boundary, leading up/ Size: 194 sq m (2,000 sq ft) entirely manageable sheltering a low-slung 3 plus 1 and comfortable home, Bedrooms: detached guest apartment/ with added-on sunsmall self-contained suite with BER rating: E2 room which has some bedroom and bathroom. Broadband: Yes remarkable extras, The lofted stone such a hand-painted outbuildings further away Best feature: Easy to keep period home motifs and trompe include a stable block and and grounds l’oueil columns and workshop, which Sherry painted-on panelling FitzGerald say “could easily around this sunny spot’s windows. Floor here is adapt to new uses”. Liscannor stone, contrasting with a painted panelled Along the Skibbereen-Drimoleague Road and along ceiling. the Ilen River valley as well, Reenroe House is inside Other stand-out features of the look — but modest entrance pillars and a few hundred yards up a presumably not part of the sale — include a tall, winding private drive, by recently planted woodland. mossy-green painted music organ in a music/family The avenue splits before the house, by a stand of room off the formal dining room, showing the level of mature screening hardwood trees, with one route to ‘noted’ engagement the owners have had with their the courtyard, the other to the front of the house. home. Given the height of the organ and its gleaming pipes, it’s appropriate that the ceiling in this room is VERDICT: Lovely grounds, and an upgraded period extra high, in a sort of coffered shape. home that can be fully utilised near the market town Reenroe House has been extended at ground level, of Skibbereen should see both local and farther-flung with a back hall, laundry, utility and guest WC with viewing interest rolling up.

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The top-class homes at Ashley have it all — and at slashed prices too, writes Tommy Barker

IGNIFICANT price cuts, high energy efficiency storey houses. ratings, solar panels, extensive wiring for Sheila O’Flynn and Ann O’Mahony of Sherry technology and entertainment and a host more FitzGerald (joining now with agents Savills) extras, plus a plush interior finish and fit-out rave about the standards seen in the €670,000 fullywill bring the new-build Edwardian style houses at finished showhouse, done by architect Fiona Ashley back on buyers’ radar: that, and a showhouse McDonald, although buyers need to be aware they opening this mightn’t get afternoon 2 to everything to the Location: Rochestown, Cork 4pm. same level in the Price: €580,000 and €670,000 The three other, appointment of a externally-finished Size: 252 sq m (2,700 sq ft) new joint selling only, similar 2,700 sq Bedrooms: 4 agent, a fresh ft homes. marketing They’re all rich in BER rating: A campaign and architectural prices which must Broadband: detailing outside, Yes be below original with an Arts and Best feature: Quality materials, classic design cost see four of Crafts look and some these Rochestown hand-made clay Road Cork homes offered at 580,000 apiece, or €670,00 feature bricks (the essential structure is timberfor the extremely high-spec walk-in showhouse job -— framed,) with French clay tile roofs, finials, bonnet down from the €1.3 million hope when first launched tiles on the sloping ridges and roof hips, window sills in October 2009. Now, there’s a second round of price are granite and windows are quality, low-e sash cuts, the site is cleaned up, and two remaining sites double glazing (there’s also attractive rounded, period are being grassed pending sales so that buyers of these appropriate windows, with lead canopies. Houses are four will have green surrounds. wired for CAT 5 IT links, plus alarm, and the These houses were built by a team involving showhouse has multi-media sound in all rooms, even members of the O’Connor family, some of who were in the coved ceiling en suite shower rooms. There’s behind Cork’s best-selling Lindville scheme in also a central vacuum system gone into all four houses Blackrock. Lindville was Victorian in character, to date. Ashely by contrast is Edwardian/Arts and Crafts Location is by the church on Rochestown Road, just style, with huge detail paid to external finishes, and off the south ring road, and individual site sizes are easy to live with floor-plans whilst also being threecompact, at best, with the largest site shown to best

Pictures: Denis Scannell

effect in the landscaping accompanying the €670k showhouse. Oh, what conflicts? Given there’s €90,000 separating what will be the finished state of three of the houses, and the showhouse done to the sort of standard that might not be seen until the next economic boom, it is likely some buyers will be scrabbling to afford the bigger spend. Truth be told, there’s far inferior secondhand stock out there at the same and higher price levels, although most likely in finished, settled mature locations and almost certainly on bigger sites than here. Layout sees a large formal drawing room to the front with bay window, a study, and a massive Lshaped kitchen/dining/family space, some 30’ wide and the steps down to the family rom bring the other long dimension of the ‘L’ to about 28’. The first floor has three en suite bedrooms, with a further big en suite fourth bedroom with dressing area at second floor level. Showhouse bathrooms are in white Carrara marble, with Villeroy and Bock sanitary ware and Hans Grohe powered showers, and the kitchen is hand-made in solid tulip wood and granite, with Smeg double oven, while the step-d0wn family space has a sealed solid wood stove he help keep up the house’s ‘A’ BER rating. VERDICT: The fantastic showhouse is as good as when done two years ago, its grounds are more mature, but buyers will have to make a small leap to image just how the others, as yet unfinished inside, will compare. But, there’s unprecedented value now.

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do up some drawings, and then progressed to the build with the back-up of local engineer Frank Curran, who worked well with her brother Brendan. At the finishing stages, their sister Marjorie Griffin came on board for perfectionist painting, inside and out. Internally, the two-storey house is fairly open plan, flooded with light, which

bounces off the red oak flooring and Spanish and Italian glazed porcelain tiling. There’s also a glazed and polished white oak stairs designed by Bernadette, and made by Carrolls of Killarney. In keeping with the modern look, but with the oldest of materials, Bernadette used Valentia slate for the feature stone finishes inside and out, with mason Gary Sheahan skilfully mixing cut and some rough stone for best contrast effect. Here, the completed kitchen is high-gloss with granite tops, lighting is recessed with some feature lamps, and the main living space is open plan off the kitchen, with a dining room down a step or two. This space could be covered in for a fourth bedroom if required. Upstairs has three carpeted bedrooms, two of them en suite, plus main family bathroom, and good use is made of mirrors. Other rooms include a utility, and a sun-room, and the house has several break-out small sections plus broad sweeps of well-placed windows to take away any block-bungalow look. Build materials include painted render, slate roofs, oak-effect pvc glazing and fascias, and that Valentia stone, locally sourced and with consequently low air-miles. Bernadette says she deliberately tried to source as much stuff as she could locally (saving that Spanish and Italian porcelain), and that Valentia proximity also paid dividends in the centrepiece chimney-breast. VERDICT: Five major towns, seven golf courses, three major fishing lakes and their rivers, are within an hour’s drive of this ‘centre of Kerry’ retreat, as are the Macgillycuddy Reeks, Carrantuohill, angling and sailing harbours and an international airport.

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2. Furniture in a holiday home doesn’t have to be cheap, or pine. This is from Square Deal.

3. Build in a beautiful spot. And, if you can’t, frame up one of the Irish Examiner’s Denis Scannell pictures instead.

Pictures: Denis Scannell of my father’s genes too as I have a grá for buildings and for building models and projects/ programs in my work life,” says Bernadette. She came up with the house design and interior look from places she had seen when working in New York and which she reckoned would work for her site. Bernadette had an architect

GETTHELOOK 1. Rough with the smooth: Mixing cut and slightly rough Valentia stone internally adds texture.

This Kerry property mixes local materials and tasteful imports to create an impressive home in a lovely location, writes Tommy Barker

COUPLE of Kerry family generations steeped in the building business have come to the fore in the case of Behy Valley. Driven on by a women developer with a passionate eye for detail, the scheme of just five contemporary-styled houses is on the edge of superscenic seaside Glenbeigh, a couple of miles from Rossbeigh beach. Across the valley is wooded Curra mountain, in between runs the Behy river emptying Coomasaharn lake into Dingle Bay, and all around is tranquillity. This is not your standard, speculative holiday home scheme. Now, the showhouse comes up for sale on the back a surprising run of successful holiday/second home sales in Ballinskelligs. Auctioneers for Glenbeigh’s Behy Valley, Sherry FitzGerald Stephenson Crean, had advertised eight holiday homes in Sunny Beach Ballinskelligs (on the same Iveragh peninsula) in these pages in June, and all are sold — very much against the run of the current depressed market for holiday homes: prices there averaged€155,000, and buyers came from Dublin, Cork and Kerry. Now, a bit dearer but way further up the desirability scale is Behy Valley, a kilometre from Glenbeigh, and where No 5, done to city showhouse standards, is on offer for €265,000 with agents SFSC. That’s for a fully finished and furnished detached c 2,000 sq ft two-storey home, on a site of 0.29 of an acre, superbly built and finished by builder Brendan Teahan. His client was his sister Bernadette Teahan, and the siblings’ father, the late Paddy Teahan, was also a highly regarded builder in the county in his day. Behy Valley was a project they clearly took in their stride. “I guess I myself have some

Glenbeigh, Kerry €265,000 185 sq m (2,000 sq ft) 3 Pending Contemporary style at home in country setting

4. Bathrooms at Behy Valley are done to hotel standard.

SOURCEBOOK Estate agents: Sherry FitzGerald Stephenson Crean, Tralee. 066-7180822. .................................................................................................. Builder: Brendan Teahan Construction, Glenbeigh, Co Kerry. 066-7131522. .................................................................................................. Engineer: Frank Curran, Cahirciveen, Co. Kerry. 066-9481719. .................................................................................................. Lighting: HomeBase, Deer Park, Killarney. ..................................................................................................

Builders Providers: MD O’Sheas, Killarney and Boyle’s, Killorglin.

.................................................................................................. Furniture: Square Deal, Washington Street, Cork; and Object, Newcastlewest, Limerick. .................................................................................................. Stairs: O’Carroll Engineering/Signature Stairs Tiernaboul Ind Est, Killarney. 064-6632055 ..................................................................................................

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2. Furniture in a holiday home doesn’t have to be cheap, or pine. This is from Square Deal.

3. Build in a beautiful spot. And, if you can’t, frame up one of the Irish Examiner’s Denis Scannell pictures instead.

GETTHELOOK 1. Rough with the smooth: Mixing cut and slightly rough Valentia stone internally adds texture.

This Kerry property mixes local materials and tasteful imports to create an impressive home in a lovely location, writes Tommy Barker

Glenbeigh, Kerry €265,000 185 sq m (2,000 sq ft) 3 Pending Contemporary style at home in country setting

4. Bathrooms at Behy Valley are done to hotel standard.

Builders Providers: MD O’Sheas, Killarney and Boyle’s, Killorglin.

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Kya deLongchamps looks at the increase in fun home interior products and how to make them work well in our homes.

Left: The Bubble by Calligaris takes mirrors out of the frame and reinvents them as an objet d’art and a witty conversation piece (from Objekt €276). Right: What seems like an eclectic mis-match of fabrics have been carefully chosen by Irish upholsterer Kelly Swallow using material from textile companies such as Designers Guild, Kenzo, Zoffany and Sanderson to revamp this Chesterfieldstyle conversation piece sofa (€2,700 + del www.kellyswallow.co.uk). Below left: Terence Conran has taken the popular, practical and plain dining chair cover and imprinted it with a kitchen chair graphic for M&S (two chairs and covers €399). Below right: Don’t want to be saddled with something too bright and colourful? The latent Rooster Cogburn in you might be tempted by the Saddle easy chair (€1,579 at Caseys Furniture).

HEY say sales of red lipstick soar during recession as an antidote to the economic gloom, so perhaps recession also accounts for the increasing rise in witty and fun — but essentially practical — home interiors products available to cheer up our domestic environment and bring a smile to our faces. No aspect of our interiors is escaping the trend, as humour is injected into everything from tablewares and textiles to wallpaper and furniture. As with all trends, it’s best to proceed with caution unless you want to end up with a look that will date quickly. With this trend, brevity is advisable unless you want the house of fun look, bearing in mind that an injection of fun can run from subtle wit to laugh-out-loud ridiculous and requires an approach that is more

opportunity led that deliberate. In other words, don’t go hunting for something fun which will seem contrived and probably miss the point. Keep an eye open and wait for the right item to come along. Consider a single chair or a sofa upholstered in a fun print fabric. If your space is small then such a chair will provide a great focal point, but beware of cluttering the room with furniture as your witty chair will likely scream fuss. A large room will carry off a fun sofa and, teamed with neutrally upholstered furniture and plain walls, will make for a great conversation piece. For a subtle hint of wit, try a quirky lamp or simply replace a plain lamp shade. Pop Art and cartoon depictions applied to lampshade material is popular and can reinvent an otherwise

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ordinary lamp stand. Our old reliable friend the cushion has become the subject of much re-design. New shapes ranging from animals to letters of the alphabet provide a quick, easy and affordable way of providing a subtle hint of fun. More humble items normally bought purely for their function rather than their looks are enjoying elevated status. Door mats sport witty greetings to stop guests in their tracks before trampling the mat underfoot. Tea-towels have been given the design treatment for some time now and moved away from the predicable checks to witty patterns lovely enough to display, thanks to the naive-style and cartoonish graphics of kitchen produce and activities. A clever development in recent years has been the advent of the dining chair

cover idea has transformed many a shabby seat into a colour co-ordinated beauty, often finished with a bow as seen at wedding receptions. Now the idea has gone a step further with the application of stylish graphics to the fabric which are bound to stimulate conversation. Also consider some wallpaper, especially the interactive variety with peel-away sections so when you tire of the pattern you can remove the sections to reveal a new pattern. Or rectify the eternal problem of how to hang pictures on patterned paper without making the walls seem busy by using a paper that have ready-made frames drawn. Just think about the dusting you’ll avoid. Next week we go wild for animal prints and motifs.

There seems to be no end to new developments in wallpaper. Now it has gone interactive where you can doodle within sketched frames or add photography. Try it on a single wall and have fun (Frames wallpaper by Graham & Brown approx. €20 p/roll).

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■ Wit can be subtle and chic to raise a smile rather than a hearty chuckle. The Mormor collection of kitchen and dining wares by Gry Fager for Danish design company Normann Copenhagen takes textiles as its inspiration, particularly dish clothes and tea towels.

The range includes items for breakfast, lunch or a picnic.

Lighten up Practical, everyday objects are livened up with a little happy colour and a lively imagination. Brighten up the dull jobs of chopping and carving with a happy pink knife block (approx. €45 from M&S).

Try a new approach to lighting with a Climbing Light, which fixes to a wall or bookcase with a single screw (€37.50 from www.black-blum.com and design shops nationwide).

The Rainbow clock from Homebarn is a fun addition to the practical environment of the kitchen (€35).

Factoring in some humour Textiles are perfect for introducing wit into your surroundings and very affordable too. Let your doorstep greet and say farewell to your guests with the Welcome and Goodbye coir mat (€9.99 at Argos).

Spell out your initials with the alphabet cushions and display on your sofa (€39 from Bo Concept).

The M&S tea-towel set is witty and colourful, yet has a sophisticated touch (set of three €17.50).

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The range includes items for breakfast, lunch or a picnic.

Try a new approach to lighting with a Climbing Light, which fixes to a wall or bookcase with a single screw (€37.50 from www.black-blum.com and design shops nationwide).

The Rainbow clock from Homebarn is a fun addition to the practical environment of the kitchen (€35).

Spell out your initials with the alphabet cushions and display on your sofa (€39 from Bo Concept).

The M&S tea-towel set is witty and colourful, yet has a sophisticated touch (set of three €17.50).

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How to create a découpage chair There’s something refreshing about a splash of colour in an all-white room. Save those old comics your children are fed up with, or ask friends for their old copies for this decoupage with a difference. Similar chairs feature online for a serious price. WHAT YOU NEED: ■ A wood chair of no great value but with a good line and open frame back ■ Medium grade sandpaper ■ Scissors (safety scissors for children under 6) ■ Comic books (cartoons are ideal but magazine images of anything you like will work). Dialog boxes and large lettering adds interest

A blanched, neutral look is uplifting, accentuates architecture and the paint is cheap to buy, says Kya deLongchamps

AR from being an aesthetic copout, it takes confidence to decorate with white, but handled correctly the rewards can be a remarkable, fluent space full of character and charm. White highlights great architecture, where the only emphasis that’s needed is the naturallyoccurring shadow, not a trumpeting of colour. Despite the bohemian fantasies imposed on their wide-eyed clientele, visit the homes of many TV celebrity designers and you would find clean white interiors, not a pickling of aubergine over gilded tomato reds. Dramatic, spiritually-uplifting white is worth consideration if you’re drowning in paint cards and feeling visually overwhelmed. In the future, white or pale off-white will offer a superb undercoat if you decide to punch up the colour scheme in a total re-do or feature wall. Oh, and by the way, white paint, pure white paint, is cheap, cheap, cheap, often half the price per litre of its tinted companions. OFF-WHITE STORIES White that’s ‘pure as driven snow’ is a blue-based white and it can be somewhat overwhelming, cold and unsuited to our similarly cool, bluebased winter light here in Ireland and full, north-facing rooms. Even in a room with full sun for most of the day, white as a base colour must be used carefully. Unadulterated white over every surface can be repelling, with an unpleasant glare in a heavily-glazed space. The family of white paint comes in shades from purest of crisp, chalky white through a popular generation of offwhites, some of which stray into a substantial colour and are set at the pale section of suggested schemes by paint-makers and interior designers. Look out for whites tinted with blue, beige, yellow, pinks, and greens, creams and even putty blues. Layering these plays of white onto each other can produce beautiful effects while retaining the purity, lightenhancing innocence of white’s essential character. Whites bruised with blue have a metallic edge more suited to contemporary interiors. Smaller windows and less light? Warm things up with the yellow tones of a suitable offwhite. The period off-whites, such as B&Q’s popular antique white originally used in old houses with smaller windows, are very suitable, but using a test card is the ultimate.

■ Wallpaper paste ■ Paintbrush ■ Small sponge to catch excess paste

RIGHT WHITE As you would with any colour, pick up a sampler pot of your potential white, paint up a large piece of lining paper or card with two coats, and place it in a vertically-hanging position (to catch higher and lower light). Examine it at different times of the day and switch on your lights after dark. CFL light bulbs can deliver a cold fluorescent effect, so choose bulbs with a warming glaze and see how the test card responds. The finish of the white will make it respond differently to the light and colour of objects around it. Even a small amount of shine will create highlights and reflections that will add to its character and pick up tones from the more colourful objects around it. The undertone (the tint added to the plain white) will become immediately obvious when you put two off-whites together. Before committing to accessories, pale wood colours or soft furnishings in other whites, put it against your wall colour. You might be surprised at how aesthetically-disconnected they can be.

■ Clear varnish

Above: This month houseworks are launching the latest development from SieMatic — ‘FloatingSpaces’ — integrating kitchen and living areas in the home with fluid aesthetics. www.houseworks.ie. Top right: Unashamed modern warms to white, with plenty of light diffused off a soft grey buffed floor. Danish themed interior by BoConcept Urban Design, Dublin. 01-8045881. www.boconcept.ie.

SUGGESTED SCHEMES Simply gorgeous are white walls with an ochre tint teamed to toffee-dark wood furnishings, subtle pattern, robust natural fabrics and lace. Country simplicity that will never date. For a 21st century take, utilise Perspex or glass furnishings. Black and white is the ultimate in

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‘White is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, so gaudily, as when He paints in white.’ — GK Chesterton (Victorian writer)

BUILDING THE PICTURE Where colour is not the main player, texture, shapes and even the shadows they create are vital to a white scheme’s success. Texture draws your senses towards the room. A toe-swallowing wool rug, distressed leather with handsome planes of stitching, voile panels, textured wallpaper — anything that encourages you to reach out. Where colour is largely absent, the shapes of your furniture and the fixed features of the room (fire surrounds, recesses, window shapes) will take on a stark relief. It’s the best background imaginable for art work and sculpture and that includes great furnishings with lines you want to play up for all they are worth. Why do you think galleries set their works up against pure white in most of their rooms? Where you do put in a feature wall or colour block with paint or furniture, it will really jump out at the eye.

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An example of a decoupage rocking chair seen on www.ohdeedoh.com

cool grey walls and furnishings married to pure white woodwork, recommended by Farrow & Ball in their cool grey palette. www.farrow-ball.com and Dulux’s Night Jewels collection. www.dulux.co.uk. White can be teamed to colour blocks in areas of wall, paintings, and furniture colours, taming its sometimes overwhelming dazzle. Give white a strong but supporting role in one wall, or as a group of white-resin chairs and a table floating in a coloured space.

Wipe down to remove any dust that has gathered Cut out your motifs using a sharp scissors. Paste the chair in sections. Wipe away excess glue with your sponge Wrap your chair in overlapping layers of cartoon scenes, dialogue boxes and characters, using a paintbrush to flatten them without tearing Apply at least three layers of clear varnish when the chair is dry to seal your work Replace seat

Go Further: Choose a chair with a drop in upholstered seat and make a cover with a stretchy fabric in a primary colour to complement your chair. Secure the fabric with a staple gun underneath, folding neatly at the corners. Pull the fabric taut as you work.

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Above: A monochrome floral paper dances against a romantic scheme of chalk white. Faktum frame cabinets, and Minna 100% cotton curtains. All furnishings by IKEA. www.ikea.ie. Right: Warm wood glows in a traditional white room-scape. Comptoir de Famille Boudoir Dining table €1,190. Boulevard Interiors, Cork. www.boulevard.ie.

interior theatrics, and used extensively in contemporary urban interiors. It works because the contrast brings both tints into searing relief. Silver, black and white deliver the art deco aplomb of Hercule Poirot’s apartment. Later chrome-and-black furnishings and reproductions in the style of Eames, Jacobsen, Van der Rohe, and their fellow design gods, will look utterly fantastic staged here. For modernity with an underlying cosy feel that’s easier to live with, try

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PAINT TIP: Worried that your room may feel too cold with all the whiteness? A secret ingredient to keep your home warm while looking cool is a the arrival of Thermilate Warmcoat Advanced Insulating Paint. The paint’s reflective thermal properties has the effect of “bouncing back” a significant amount of the room's heat. Something to help keep the home heating bills down and the chills at bay.

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Q. How can I be sure the gloss white going over my skirting will not turn an ugly yellow?

Q. I would love to use a white carpet in my living room. Is there anything I can do to ensure its survival?

A. Choose a water-based gloss such as B&Q’s Ecosure gloss. It is chemical change in the oily gloss paints, heavy with nasty Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), that cause that colour change.

A. You’re very brave. Have the carpet treated with a stain repellent product and if possible use indoor shoes or bare feet to cross it. I suggest hardwood flooring accented with large pale rugs would be a less problematic choice.

Q. Can I mix my own off-white paint using standard emulsion. It’s so cheap and I want to do the whole house in a green/white top to bottom.

Q. I’m looking for a totally over the top white 70s-style bed under €1,500. Any ideas?

A. Certainly, having done sample painted areas, use exactly the same blend of colour taken from clean, well stirred quantities from the first can to the last. Keep a record of the recipe. You could play with the mixture to make a shade darker or lighter for accenting, just don’t confuse the cans.

A. Littlewoods’ new collection has an utterly fabulous white faux leather bed with crystal detail and a mechanised end to hang and store your flat screen television at the foot of the bed. There’s even a place for your DVDs. Prices for the Monroe Bedframe starts at €1,399 with a Sweet Dreams Palm Springs mattress. www.littlewoodsireland.ie. ■ Answers by Kya deLongchamps

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A blanched, neutral look is uplifting, accentuates architecture and the paint is cheap to buy, says Kya deLongchamps

■ Wallpaper paste ■ Paintbrush ■ Small sponge to catch excess paste

■ Clear varnish

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Having removed any seat sand the chair all over, providing a good key

Do you have a DIY question you would like answered? Send it to interiors@examiner.ie

Q. How can I be sure the gloss white going over my skirting will not turn an ugly yellow?

Q. I would love to use a white carpet in my living room. Is there anything I can do to ensure its survival?

A. Choose a water-based gloss such as B&Q’s Ecosure gloss. It is chemical change in the oily gloss paints, heavy with nasty Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), that cause that colour change.

Q. Can I mix my own off-white paint using standard emulsion. It’s so cheap and I want to do the whole house in a green/white top to bottom.

Q. I’m looking for a totally over the top white 70s-style bed under €1,500. Any ideas?

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PEN the front door of any show-house and what do you first notice? It’s that lovely shoulder-lifting ‘new’ smell. It’s hard to describe, but we all know it. It says clean, taut, immaculate, highly desirable. It’s amazing that a breath of fresh air has become indistinguishable from the chemical cocktail that’s jetting from those aerosol cans. What you might not realise is that much of that perfume is provided by a stew of airborne gases leaking from the paint, furnishings and flooring as the new materials heavy with chemical ingredients settle into their new surroundings. When you make home improvements, put some thought into just your purchases. Choose low-VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) paint and non-vinyl wallpaper. All paint (bar natural varieties) contains carbon-based compounds termed VOCs. Solventbased gloss is alive with VOCs, including a range of performance ingredients from formaldehyde to Toluene. Look out for low-VOC emulsions (1% or less in Crown Earthbalance, for example) or stretch to zero-VOC products. Natural paint suppliers include Biochrome.ie, Healthbuild.ie (Aura), EcoFriendlyPaints.ie, and stonewarestudios.com (Earthborn). Use solid wood. Medium-density fibreboard (MDF) is a wonder product. It’s cheap, engineered to be stable and using waste wood as its base. The trouble is the binders holding MDF together, which include formaldehyde. Choose formaldehyde-free MDF

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(Medite, available at jpcorry.com) or E1grade MDF boards with a finish in varnish or paint. Wood flooring will always outstrip carpet for cleanliness. A good vacuum with HEPA filtrations is your greatest defense against allergens. When you carry most soft furnishings into your home, chemical finishers and fire-retardants are masked with a fabric whiff. Get any plastic coverings off and air the room until any smell evaporates. Investment buys include organic or unbleached cotton, wool,

hemp and linen, which tend to have their original colour or feature natural dyes. There is a wide range of air-purifying machines you can install for regular or temporary use. Bionaire is available in many DIY outlets with the HEPA filtration, static electric dust collectors, carbon filtration and ionisers to tackle standard air home pollution problems. Online suppliers include cleanair.ie, heavenfresh.ie and orca-air.ie. Plants also take chemicals from the air. Choose Areca or the butterfly palm.

■ WiFi, is the local area network or WLAN used by your computers to connect by wire-free radio frequencies. It’s been around our homes for around five or six years now and has proved popular for setting up, for example, internet connectivity for several computers without trailing wiring everywhere. ■ It’s a form of electromagnetic frequency (EMF) and despite having 100,000 times less microwaves than a microwave oven, it has raised some health concerns. WiFi operates in the 2.4 GHz range, a relatively high frequency compared to, say, a cell phone or a traditional radio set. ■ The router bringing your internet connection into the house is on 24/7, but as you’re not holding it to your head, its influence on your body and the amount of microwave reaching the body is currently thought to be negligible. Where the signal does get close, and some would say too close for comfort, is with a lap-top computer, something easily solved by using a dedicated lap desk on your knees.

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LAST year we installed a wood-burning stove in an existing fireplace — but due to the limited space, whenever the door is opened, embers fall out onto the carpet – what should I do?

A. I think you might need to look at whether your stove meets the safety requirements that should be adhered to during installation. For instance, the area of “non-combustible material around the stove” (ie the hearth) should be at least 6” deeper than the stove door – so if the door is 12” deep, the hearth should be 18”, and so on. If it’s not possible to redress this, you will need to

Safe to come home to, (Volatile Organic Compounds) VOC-free, breathable with a mellow tone, Earthborn Claypaint has a high solid content and high opacity. Available with its sister emulsion from The Stoneware Studios, Pilmore, Youghal. See www.stonewarestudios.com or ring 024-90117.

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either replace the hearth or lay a stone, marble or tile trim to bring it up to standard.

Ideas for beech wood floor colour scheme.

Q. After my mum died, I moved back into the family home. Although the living room is very small, I can’t bear to part with any of the ornaments and photos she left behind. Any thoughts?

keep your mum’s personal touch, is to get some storage boxes and separate the items into groups (eg family heirlooms, winter ornaments, etc) – and then simply alternate the items whenever you feel like a change.

A. We Irish are a nation of hoarders — and in this case, it’s entirely understandable that you don’t want to simply toss items of sentimental value. However, we don’t have to have everything we own on display. A great trick to de-clutter your living room, but

Q. I have a south-facing top floor apartment with beech wood floors — what colour scheme would you recommend for the space?

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A. Balance is the key here — dark colours will absorb light, while colours

that are too light will appear clinical. As beech is a light wood, you can afford to introduce darker colours into the space and still maintain that allimportant balance. As it has a pink/orange hue in the grain, I’d steer clear of that side of the colour palette. Go for the opposite side of the colour wheel. Greens or even blues will work well as a south-facing room gets plenty of light. Try a textured wall paper to add interest to the room and pull the scheme together with a large patterned or shaggy rug.

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LAST year we installed a wood-burning stove in an existing fireplace — but due to the limited space, whenever the door is opened, embers fall out onto the carpet – what should I do?

WiFi at home. Is it safe?

either replace the hearth or lay a stone, marble or tile trim to bring it up to standard.

Ideas for beech wood floor colour scheme.

Q. After my mum died, I moved back into the family home. Although the living room is very small, I can’t bear to part with any of the ornaments and photos she left behind. Any thoughts?

Q. I have a south-facing top floor apartment with beech wood floors — what colour scheme would you recommend for the space?

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Take the lowly, functional computer mouse and give it a little oomph with the addition of some pink bling (Satzuma Diamonte mouse €12.49 at Argos).

Quookertap offers 24 hour boiling water, dispensing with the need for a kettle and claims to have energy savings so it costs 6 cent per day to run (from Houseworks €992). The Hotpoint Ultima dishwasher claims to be extra quiet making it a suitable choice for the open plan kitchen (approx €750 from good appliances stores).

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Bedding down for the winter

PRING bedding is a rather colourless term for a wide choice of evergreen, winterspring-flowering plants. They may have a different character from the permanent inhabitants of the garden; something to do perhaps with their soft, thin, foliage, contrasted with strong heads of colour, but these brave, elegant plants are well worth investing in. They can be used in pots and containers, in window boxes and the open garden and even on apartment balconies. Spring bedding has become a forgotten area of gardening for many, which is a great shame. With the summer display cleared away, there is room now for a wonderful combination of bulbs and hardy bedding plants that will provide colour throughout late winter and early spring. Plant-breeding developments with pansies and violas (for example) over the past few decades have produced stunning results. ‘Universal’ was the first series of pansies that really did perform well during the cold, dull months of the year, followed by ‘Universal Plus’ and both series offered a good colour range to choose from. Today, gardeners can enjoy the Matrix strain of pansy, offering superior all-round performance capable of creating a swathe of striking colour as varied as you could imagine. Where else could you possibly see the likes of copper next to cobalt, pinks turning to mauve, and yellows wandering off into cream? These are mixtures hard to convey in train-tracks of black and white text, for virtual reality in still not possible with the printed word. Apart from pansies, there are wallflowers, Brompton stocks, forgetme-nots, Sweet Williams and the

Cooker hoods can be cumbersome and unsightly but the Franke Roller Hood is compact and stylish (€1,139 from good electrical stores nationwide).

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A nice uncomplicated washing machine from Beko comes at the wallet-friendly price of around €430 (from electrical stores nationwide).

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■ Mitchelstown Flower and Garden Club are hosting a Floral Demonstration with Margot Allen in the town hall on Thursday at 8pm.

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■ Apple Day at The Secret Garden, Newmarket on tomorrow from 1pm to 5pm. For information call 029-60084 or visit www.thesecretgardener.com ■ Glenville Flower and Garden Club will host Shanagarry potter Stephen Pierce at the Kades Kounty on Tuesday at 8.30pm. ■ The Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland presents a lecture; A Plantsman’s Garden including Roses and Clematis, by Carl Dacus in Wesley House, Leeson Park, Dublin 6 on Wednesday at 8pm. Details can be had from 01-235 3912 or at www.rhsi.ie ■ Alpine/Hardy Plant Society presents Julian Sutton of Desirable Plants Devon to speak on Adventures With Fancy Foliage on Thursday in the Lavanagh Centre at 7.45pm. ■ Lough Flower and Garden Club will hold their Annual Dinner on Tuesday at 8pm in the Rochestown Park Hotel. Tickets from Peg at 021-4966068 ■ Blarney and District Flower and Garden Club present The Gardens of Blarney Castle by Adam Whitbourn, on Thursday at 8pm in Whitechurch Hall.

An attractive pot filled with one or two pansies or violas will surely brighten your surroundings during the long dull days of winter. In beds and borders these flowers will create a swathe of striking colour as varied as you could imagine.

double daisy flowered Bellis perennis to choose from. Many of these combine perfectly with springflowering bulbs so by inter-planting say your wallflowers with tallergrowing tulips of a contrasting colour you can put on quite a show. Don’t forget some of the earlyflowering perennials, which can be treated as bedding plants. These include aubretia, arabis, auricula and doronicum, with its yellow daisy flowers. Support these when creating formal designs with low shrubs, such as clipped box. Start work as soon as possible, even if it means clearing away summer

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Get ready for the Panasonic 42“, 3D, Irish HD ready, 600hz television set from Sound Store (€699.99).

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WINTER WEATHER; The pleasant weather in the far south has helped with clearing and preparing the garden for its winter rest. And yet, despite the elation of completion and consummation (of the gardening year) we gardeners are beginning to get a little nervous. We ponder the coming winter with trepidation and show fear by digging up dahlias (that were never dug) and dragging large pots of Agapanthus, Argyranthemums (Marguerites), Cordylines and all the better Salvias under all kinds of cover. Tree ferns are being wrapped with triple folds of fleece and their crowns stuffed with enough dried leaves and chopped bracken to keep a Siberian winter at bay. At least I’m taking all these precautions having lost (like everyone else) mature and expensive stock not once, but twice, during 2010. What is the lesson of last year and what are we to do to protect all those valiant remnants that barely survived to the current season? Many are still invalids and in no way able to withstand another lash of prolonged sub-zero temperatures. Use bracken I suggest, chopped, shredded, or as long fronds as it gathered from the countryside. Lay in loosely over suspect tender plants and if you live in a windy area, secure it with domes of chicken wire. Invest in fleece, bubble wrap (for insulating greenhouses) and any other

■ Owenabue Flower and Garden Club meet on Monday at 8pm in the C of I Primary School. Eileen O’Brien is to give a talk, titled The Spirit of the Season.

bedding that still looks presentable. The ground needs preparing so the spring bedding can become well established before conditions get much colder. Plants hate a heavy or waterlogged site, so fork over to improve aeration and drainage, and mix in extra compost. Sprinkle a generous application of fertiliser over the area to boost growth (fish, blood and bone meal, despite its rather odious name, is a really good organic food which I can thoroughly recommend) and water during mild periods to ensure plants reach maximum size. Keep potted plants in reserve to fill any gaps in spring.

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■ Blackrock Flower and Garden Club host a Christmas Demonstration with Margaret Walsh on Tuesday, November 1 in the Ursuline Secondary School Blackrock at 7.30pm. The event will support Cystic Fibrosis Association. Tickets €15 includes supper and are available at the door. ■ The Spiro Singers will be in concert at Hosfords of Enniskeane’s Blue Geranium Café on Sunday, October 30 at 2pm, followed by The Dandelion Puppet Theatre at 3pm. ■ Turn that patio into an outdoor room this winter is the title of a talk (followed by a gourmet lunch for €10) at Griffins, Dripsey on Tuesday and Thursday next at noon. ■ Professor Pádraig Ó Macháin and Crónán Ó Doibhlin are to give a talk on the Book of Lismore, at Pugin Hall, Lismore Castle this Tuesday at 7pm. Entry is €10.

material which can be draped lightly over all tender plants. In reality of course all you can do is to keep your fingers crossed and hope that the doomsday weathermen are way off the mark. EVERGREEN: Plants come into their own at this time of the year and they will continue to stand and take pride of place in the spotlight until early spring. For this reason, pay particular attention to any shrubs or trees which take your fancy and jot down the names of those with especially attractive berries or leaf colour. As regards attractive leaves, can I suggest a relatively cheap introduction from the family Osmanthus, one which will surely liven up a dark corner of your garden for the next few months? The suggested variety is low-growing, short jointed and densely evergreen (should that read “ever-yellow”?) for it has attractive yellow foliage which looks very much like holly. It’s sold as Osmanthus heterophyllus Aureus and it remains yellow-leaved right throughout the year. With a pyramidal shape just like its betterknown cousin, Osmanthus heterophyllus tricolour, this interesting introduction has in recent times become a most sought-after garden plant.

MODEL FARM ROAD, CARRIGROHANE, CORK www.nangles.ie | info@nangles.ie

Tel. 021 4871297

Nangles Fantastic HEDGING Sale! 20% off ALL hedging for 1 week (FROM THIS SATURDAY TO BANK HOL. MONDAY.)

Examples: Laurel (100cm) €14.50, Red Robin (100cm) €22.50, Portuguese Laurel (80cm)€15.75 all less 20%. Also new stock of large rhododendrons and azaleas.

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Take the lowly, functional computer mouse and give it a little oomph with the addition of some pink bling (Satzuma Diamonte mouse €12.49 at Argos).

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Bedding down for the winter

Cooker hoods can be cumbersome and unsightly but the Franke Roller Hood is compact and stylish (€1,139 from good electrical stores nationwide).

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A nice uncomplicated washing machine from Beko comes at the wallet-friendly price of around €430 (from electrical stores nationwide).

GARDENNOTES

■ Mitchelstown Flower and Garden Club are hosting a Floral Demonstration with Margot Allen in the town hall on Thursday at 8pm.

by Charlie Wilkins

WORK FOR THE WEEK

Get ready for the Panasonic 42“, 3D, Irish HD ready, 600hz television set from Sound Store (€699.99).

IN THE GARDEN

■ Owenabue Flower and Garden Club meet on Monday at 8pm in the C of I Primary School. Eileen O’Brien is to give a talk, titled The Spirit of the Season.

by Charlie Wilkins

MODEL FARM ROAD, CARRIGROHANE, CORK www.nangles.ie | info@nangles.ie

Tel. 021 4871297

Nangles Fantastic HEDGING Sale! 20% off ALL hedging for 1 week (FROM THIS SATURDAY TO BANK HOL. MONDAY.)

Examples: Laurel (100cm) €14.50, Red Robin (100cm) €22.50, Portuguese Laurel (80cm)€15.75 all less 20%. Also new stock of large rhododendrons and azaleas.

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400-lot sale has strong Asian section Des O’Sullivan reveals that wares from the Ming and Qing dynasties are going under the hammer

N Irish Georgian library table and a Regency foldover games table c1820 are among the furniture highlights at Hegarty’s sale in Bandon at 4pm tomorrow. A 400lot sale includes a strong Asian section with early

Chinese jade, monochrome wares from the Ming and Qing dynasties, bronzes, porcelain, Sikh interest watercolours and Japanese items including a Meiji period (1868-1912) doll. There is a tribal carved ivory figure and a figure from

Easter Island each estimated at €400-€500. The sale includes a Chinese imitation bronze porcelain baluster vase (€800-€1,200), a Chinese vase with the seal mark of potter Wang Bing Rong (€800-€1,200) and an Imperial quality baluster vase with crackle glaze

and four character Qianlong seal mark (€800€1,200). The sale includes 19th century and early 20th century furniture, silver, art and collectibles. Viewing is from 11am to 5pm today and from noon to the start of the sale at 4pm tomorrow.

This 9th century Chinese blue & white vase with 4 character mark, 31cm high, is in the Hegarty’s sale tomorrow.

Gaelic manuscript goes on display

HE Book of Lismore, a 15th century Gaelic manuscript discovered within the walls of Lismore Castle, encapsulates the cultural heritage of Cork, Munster and Ireland. Never before publicly displayed it is on show at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery in Cork until October 30. The Book of Lismore illustrates multi-layered histories and traditions of our past. Professor Pádraig Ó Macháin of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and Crónán Ó Doibhlin, head of Special Collections, Archives and Repository Services, Boole Library,

UCC, will give a talk on the book at Pugin Hall, Lismore Castle this Tuesday at 7pm. Details from gallery@lismorecastlearts.ie.

The Book of Lismore, subject of an exhibition at the Glucksman Gallery and a talk in Lismore. Picture: Piotr Stotwinski

KANTURK ROAD BUTTEVANT, CO. CORK

Paul McCartney’s 1960 letter — wanna be the drummer in The Beatles? is estimated at £7,000£9,000 (€7,900 to €10,200) at Christie’s.

Clearance sale of high class antique furniture and effects For the executor of the late Canon Michael O’Brien

Sale on Thursday Next, 27th October, at 2pm sharp on the premises

Items include: Victorian Mahogany dining table, 6 Victorian Mahogany dining chairs, 3 Victorian Mahogany bookcases, Victorian Mahogany Dumb Waiter, Antique Mahogany hall stand, Mahogany China cabinet, 2 Mahogany Scotch chests, Victorian Mahogany dressing table, Mahogany wardrobes, Mahogany beds, Mahogany chest of drawers, Victorian half moon table, Brass tender, dinner set, occasional tables, large selection of books (Religion, History & Science), Ornaments, electrical appliances, telescopes, kitchen utensils and ware, T.V’s, electrical saws and garden tools etc.

Potato Gatherers by Markey Robinson (1918-1999) was the top lot at the Morgan O’Driscoll art sale in Cork on Monday. It made a hammer price of €6,400.

DIARY The National Antique and Art Fair takes place in the South Court Hotel in Limerick on Saturday, November 12 and November 13, from 11am to 6pm. ......................................................... About 300 lots of affordable Irish art come under the hammer in Dublin tomorrow. The Sunday Sale by de Veres at the D4 Berkeley Court Hotel at 2pm features art with reduced estimates. ......................................................... Clonmel Park Hotel is the venue for an antiques fair tomorrow. Opening times are from 11am to 6pm. ......................................................... O’Donovan & Associates will conduct a sale of coins, medals, stamps, maps, books, bank notes, postcards, antiques and household effects at the Key House, NewcastleWest, on November 12 at 11am. For more information visit odonovan.ie. ......................................................... A letter written by Paul McCartney inviting an unknown drummer to audition for The Beatles is to be sold at Christie’s Rock and Memorabilia auction in South Kensington, London, on November 15. Dated August 12, 1960, it was discovered by a collector inside a book at a car boot sale in Bootle, Liverpool. It is estimated at £7,000£9,000. ......................................................... There will be a house clearance auction at Kanturk Road, Buttevant, Co Cork, on Thursday at 2pm. Property Partners Dick Barry and Son will conduct a 150-lot sale.for the executor of the late Canon Michael O’Brien. Victorian furniture includes a dining table, dining chairs and a dumb waiter. Viewing is from 2pm to 5pm next Wednesday.

Viewing Wednesday next from 2-5pm • Admission by catalogue only €2 • Terms: Cash or guaranteed cheques

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26 Patrick Street, Fermoy (025) 31577

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400-lot sale has strong Asian section Des O’Sullivan reveals that wares from the Ming and Qing dynasties are going under the hammer

This 9th century Chinese blue & white vase with 4 character mark, 31cm high, is in the Hegarty’s sale tomorrow.

Gaelic manuscript goes on display

UCC, will give a talk on the book at Pugin Hall, Lismore Castle this Tuesday at 7pm. Details from gallery@lismorecastlearts.ie.

The Book of Lismore, subject of an exhibition at the Glucksman Gallery and a talk in Lismore. Picture: Piotr Stotwinski

KANTURK ROAD BUTTEVANT, CO. CORK

Paul McCartney’s 1960 letter — wanna be the drummer in The Beatles? is estimated at £7,000£9,000 (€7,900 to €10,200) at Christie’s.

Clearance sale of high class antique furniture and effects For the executor of the late Canon Michael O’Brien

Sale on Thursday Next, 27th October, at 2pm sharp on the premises

Potato Gatherers by Markey Robinson (1918-1999) was the top lot at the Morgan O’Driscoll art sale in Cork on Monday. It made a hammer price of €6,400.

Viewing Wednesday next from 2-5pm • Admission by catalogue only €2 • Terms: Cash or guaranteed cheques

Contact:

DICK BARRY & SON

26 Patrick Street, Fermoy (025) 31577

SILVER, PAINTINGS & COLLECTIBLES AUCTION - NOVEMBER 9th - Final Entries Now Invited

WOODWARDS AUCTION ROOMS 26 COOK ST CORK ∙ 021-4273327 ∙ www.woodward.ie

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