Inis Oírr - External walls

Despite gale force winds Jim and his team were able to construct the gable walls to completion - this would not have been possible with the conventional concrete block construction!

Inis Oírr

Our contractor and the team on the island are flying it!!!

Padar makes the break-through.

Off he goes - 'Digger Happy'

Along come Jim and his team - and voila we have a slab!

After the next blink we are watching the Poroton Block walls rise.

Five days later; completion of the ground floor exterior and interior walls despite previous awful weather conditions, but today...

a glowing site and

 a happy Client!



more soon.....

Open House Limerick 19th - 21st October 2012

Come see Zero Waste in Limerick City with guided tours by the architect on Saturday and Sunday 2-5pm.

Open House Limerick

Town House Refurbishment in Nenagh

Coming to completion our recent project on-site a town house refurbishment. We relocated the lower staircase and lined it up under the new staircase leading to the attic. This opened up space especially in the ground floor. In the first floor we also reduced the oversized bathroom and created an open-plan utility area which creates an impression of a larger space as well as bringing additional light into the stairwell. Our aim was to keep as many of the original features as possible, for example the tiles in the ground floor and stripping back the existing wooden floors as well as repairing the existing fireplaces. With good work from Contractor Jim Hogan and his team we got the project on time and on budget. See below photos for our successful outcome.

Feature staircase first floor:
















Floor plans before:

Floor plans now:

Staircases before:

after:

Entrance before:                                     after:

 

Living room before:

 

New living room:

Kitchen before:

after:

Bedroom before:                                    after:

Attic before:                                           after:

Back garden:

International Selection, CI Magazine Issue 11, Vol 5

Article by Patti O'Neill and Sharon O'Brien

Step by step

Steady progress with a town house refurbishment in Nenagh:

Cloughjordan eco house, CI Issue 10 Volume 5

Construct Ireland recentlty featured a house in Cloughjordan which is a fine example of self-build architecture.

The result, says architect Patti O’Neill, makes it hard to believe there were no design professionals involved. She visited the house during a tour of the Cloughjordan eco-village in November. “The Hutchinsons' house proves that care, patience and perseverance are the main ingredients for good architecture, whether trained or untrained,” she says. “As opposed to learning by doing or experimentation on site, their thorough planning approach prior to construction has resulted in the optimal placing of the building on the site, room layout arrangements and excellent detailing.”

Simon Open Door on 12th & 13th May 2012

 

Please help us help the homeless of Ireland. Book an hour's consultation with an architect for a €50 donation to the Simon Community. We are giving our time for free that weekend. Please book a consultation with us or any other architects on the list of the RIAI Simon Open Door 2012, and tell all your friends and family. It's for a good cause!

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