Inside RTÉ Home of the Year 2026 — and why it's pick of the bunch 

And check out the two runners-up, the 'magical' gate lodge and 'serene' Dublin city-centre apartment

Home of the Year 2026 winners Lorcan Burke and Adrian Sharpe with Siobhán Lam, Hugh Wallace, and Amanda Bone and left, inside their Kildare home. Pictures: Kelan Molloy

Its seamless connection between indoors and outdoors has meant a Kildare property is the pick of the bunch as it took the title Home of the Year 2026.

Back in 2005, its owners, Lorcan Burke and Adrian Sharpe, set out to build their “forever home” on family land.