Architect shares the magic of Home of the Year's 'Pink House' 

'We like to think we have brought a little bit of Spain to Stillorgan,' Courtney McDonnell tells Eve Kelliher

The open-plan kitchen living area. Pictures: Peter Molloy Photography

Pink plasterwork, blue skies, and a red-tiled Moroccan-style shower room — just three elements of one property that left the trio of Home of the Year judges feeling as if they had wandered onto balmier shores.

They weren’t far wrong. The south County Dublin house that was first on the itinerary as the 2023 RTÉ One series opened during the week was not only first through to the final but has been the homeowners’ “place in the sun” on many levels from the get-go.