House of the week: Kinsale, Cork €430,000

Size: 155 sq m (1,650 sq ft)

Some day — who knows? — the kitchen at the house called Te Papa could be as valuable as the home itself. After all, the guy who made it — Joseph Walsh — is just about as famous, and as influential, as contemporary furniture makers can get. He’s even been mentioned in some dispatches as a 21st century Eileen Gray, and his fluid, twirling pieces can sell for hundreds of thousands of euro each, to discerning global clients, collectors and galleries (josephwalshstudio.com).

Walsh opened his own design studio near Riverstick in 1999, aged 20, and it’s probably fair to say he only did kitchens back in his formative years.