On location, location, location: 'Our homes to earn their keep as film sets'

We talk to the homeowners who 'put their houses to work' as a location properties for movies and photoshoots

The spacious kitchen and dining area of Martina Mahady's woodland home.

Making your home available to companies for photoshoots and filming might not occur to most people, even those documenting their home interior projects on social media. Handled well, and having a flexible outlook, it can be a low-effort way of helping your home earn its keep.

When interior designer Stephanie O’Sullivan built her house in Dublin on the site of an old warehouse in 2020, she had it in mind to use it as a location house.