A spacious, civilised place to call home

During the bubble, few new homes were well conceived or built, writes Rose Martin of one of the exceptions

It could be said that the building bubble produced very little in terms of quality housing stock save for very many, ticky-tacky apartments often massed on roundabouts, (Fingal Co Dublin is a case in point).

And the result is not only poor quality builds, (Priory Hall is just one proven example), but smaller houses — we linger at second from bottom for average house size in the developed world. The Brits sink lowest with the average house coming in at around 76 square metres — we’re just slightly more at 88 sq m, which in terms of our larger family sizes, is positively Dickensian.