The beauty’s in the planning — and the execution

All the plans for this house were concocted by its intrepid owner. Rose Martin investigates.

THERE’S a quiet little neighbourhood in a quiet little backwater of Glanmire, Co Cork, where the 21st century has finally struck. In house styles.

Not here the naff embellish-ments of neo-this or neo-that, neither are there disproportionate properties harking back to another period, or even, the same old tired pattern book of forms.