Jennifer Sheahan: We rarely think about bins when designing a dream home

Jennifer Sheahan is consumed by the problem of where to store rubbish between collections

Foxes and seagulls often rip the binbags apart where Jennifer Sheahan lives. 

I have expended considerable brainpower recently thinking about bins. One bin, specifically, mine, the outdoor one. It’s not typically a subject that inspires much excitement in the world of interior design, and I can’t say I’m excited about it myself, but I am consumed by it, and it is driving me around the bend.

I live in a tiny cottage in Dublin, on a street of similarly tiny cottages, and we have no wheelie bins.