15 houses and one Grand Design later, the Burkes settled in Dunmore East 

Catherine Shanahan talks to the vendors of a unique bespoke timber-frame family home on the market in Co Waterford

ANYONE whose notion of a home is a bricks and mortar build need only watch Channel 4 series Grand Designsto see just how many options are open to pioneering householders.

One particular series, called The Street, featured 10 households who undertook incredible self builds on a single street outside Oxford. The final episode was truly uplifting — after a series of seemingly insurmountable financial setbacks, an older couple succeeded in building their dream home — or at least succeeded in paying for it to be built in a factory.