The Great House Revival: See Cork post office transformed into family home

Meitheal tradition helps push build over the line: 'We’d be renting forever if it wasn’t for family and friends'

After: The kitchen in The Posthouse, Butlerstown. Pictures: Miki Barlok

West Cork couple Siobhan O’Mahony and Timmie O’Brien are quite the dream team. Siobhan, from Ballydehob, is a makeup artist and her eye for colour and design complement carpenter Timmie’s construction know-how, onsite experience and craftsmanship.

Both have a clear idea of how they want to get the one-time post office and shop in his home village of Butlerstown signed, sealed and delivered as a forever home for themselves and their two young sons, Jimmy and Miah, they tell host Hugh Wallace in The Great House Revival.