The Great House Revival: See the home Cork teacher and landscaper 'grew organically’

Eve Kelliher talks to Grace Cotter who shares how she and her husband John went from being fans to featuring on the TV show

Grace and John Cotter with Sophia, Everly and Samuel. Picture: Enda Murphy

Two properties turned out to be portals to her future for Grace Cotter. When the secondary school teacher received the keys to the first residence she purchased, she vowed that the house in Douglas in Cork would be her forever home. “I bought it as a single woman so I was so proud of it. I swore I would never sell that house, never. It was my nest egg,” Grace tells Irish Examiner Home.

Fate had other plans up her sleeve. Grace met her now-husband John, a landscape gardener, on Tinder and that's how Rockhouse, entered her life. “Daft [the property website] is his addiction — and wherever he’s working he’ll look at what’s on sale in the area,” says Grace.