Lived-in home, replete with character

There is abundant evidence of its owners’ interests in this home, says Tommy Barker.

IN interior terms, there’s the minimalist look — and then there’s the likes of Tig na Carrige, a West Cork home where its owners lived life to the full, and filled their home with evidence of their life passions.

A new market arrival post-Christmas, it’s a busy building, full of nooks and crannies and quirks, and all of them packed. Full of myriad books, opera and classical records, posters, pictures, sculpture, framed certs and collages of work triumphs, all topped off with a kitchen that clearly was the centre of this home, and used by people who knew how to cook.