'I turned an old caravan into the tiny-house cabin of my dreams' 

When Erica Bracken is in her woodland 'carabin' she feels like she's on holiday. Here's how she created her garden retreat 

Happy camper: Erica Bracken relaxing the caravan she converted into a cabin at the end of her garden.

Who has not had that childhood dream of moving lock, stock and barrel into a cabin close enough to home to be in a position to pop back in time for tea, should the mood take us?

Well, a Cork woman has blended that aspiration with the perennial grown-up real-estate fantasy of conjuring extra living space from the ether.