Cover story: Interior designer Jane delivers on her bigger home

A growing family prompted purchase and extension of 2,500-ft home, reworked to maximise the light.

BUYING a half-finished house through receivers (in effect, Nama), meant designer Jane Dennehy finally had a canvas big enough for her dam-burst of design ideas, but, also, a bigger house for her family, which is now up to six: two adults, au pair and three children, ranging from 7 to 1. She started out in a little, terraced house that astute readers might remember being covered on these pages, oh, three years or so ago.

In the meantime, and in a low time in the interior design industry, Jane added baby number three to the family, and a 2,500-plus square foot house to be finished.