Eve Kelliher gets a preview of the townhouses at new luxury Cork development Arbutus Montenotte.

Having worked as an estate agent in the vast expanse of Texas, there was no way the woman of this house was ever going to build small, or put up with pokey rooms, when she returned to her native Cork, writes Tommy Barker. 

A HOUSE constructed to today’s regulations will be far superior to those of just 10 years ago because of higher insulation and air-tightness guidelines, along with heat extraction systems and low carbon heating.

BUILDING a one-off house is considered a trial by most people, something to only be tackled once in a lifetime.