Emma Cullinan

Emma Cullinan

Emma Cullinan is a contributor to The Irish Times and specialises in architecture, design and property

Striking design: the zinc roof points towards Dublin Bay
Dynamic Dalkey house rises from the rocks

A rocky north-facing site was the starting point for this stunning home with panoramic sea views

Dordogne, France
What will €255,000 buy in Greece, Turkey, Spain and Co Wicklow?

Take5: Sea views in Andalucia, Crete and Antalya and large living space in Dordogne

Town: 59 Malton House, Custom House Square, IFSC, Dublin 1
What will €365,000 buy in Dublin 1 and Co Cavan?

Town&Country: A one-bed in the financial district or grand five-bed in Bailieborough

This second-floor apartment in Bulgaria comes furnished.
What will €95,000 buy in France, Bulgaria, Spain, Italy and Co Clare?

Take5: Mountain views, olive groves and swimming pools

Town: 17 Park Street West, The Ranch, Ballyfermot, Dublin 10
What will €129,950 buy in Dublin 10 and Donegal?

Town&Country: A cottage in Ballyfermot or a modern four-bed near Letterkenny

Turkey: this 310sq m (3,336sq ft) house with infinity pool has views of Kalkan Bay
What you can buy for €370,000 in Italy, Turkey, France, Spain and Co Galway?

Take5: Tuscany, Kalkan, Pays de la Loire houses; Barcelona apartment, Ballyconneely cottage

Town: 64 Spencer House, Custom House Square, Dublin 1
What will €325,000 buy in Dublin’s docklands and Co Laois?

Town&Country: A two-bed apartment by the Luas or a detached five-bed with kennels

This French hunting lodge for nobility comes with two outbuildings.
What will €250,000 buy in the Caribbean, France, Italy, England and Co Carlow?

Take5: Beachside villa, hunting lodge, countryside retreat and guest house

Town: A two-bed apartment in Palmerstown, Co Dublin
What will €239k buy in west Dublin and Co Donegal?

Town&Country: A two-bed in Palmerstown or a detached five bed in Killygordon

France: Charente
What will €85,000 buy in Italy, the US, France and Mayo?

Take Five: Farmhouses in Charente and Molise, two apartments in Baltimore or a bungalow in Hollymount

Town: 18 Willsborough, Clonshaugh, Dublin 17
What will €199,950 buy in Dublin 17 and Co Cavan?

Town&Country: A duplex in Clonshaugh or a wheelchair-accessible three-bed

Italian find: this three-storey farmhouse in Le Marche is divided into three apartments
What can you buy for €399k in Thailand, France, Italy, Austria and Mayo?

Take5: Manor house, Koh Samui sea views, Salzburg ski chalet, Kilmeena three-bed

Town: 315 Edges One is in Beacon South Quarter, Sandyford, Dublin 18
What will €375,000 buy in Dublin 18 and Co Donegal?

Town&Country: Two-bed Sandyford apartment or detached Fahan four-bed

Take5: this Greek three-storey house with pool has sweeping views of the Aegean Sea
What can you buy in Greece, Italy, England, France and Cork for €290k?

Take5: Peloponnese and Sussex sea views, a Veneto farmhouse or a French manor

Town: 196 New Seskin Court is in block F at the Arena in Tallaght, Dublin 24
What will €260,000 buy in west Dublin and Co Galway?

Town&Country: A three-bed apartment in Tallaght or a three-bed Victorian in Loughrea

In Neuvy Bouin, this tower house is 70km away from Poitiers.
What you can buy for €75k in Turkey, Bulgaria, Italy and Cavan

Take5: Sea views in Sunny Beach, a French tower house or a Cavan small holding

Town: 48 Deerpark Place, Tallaght, Dublin 24
What will €175,000 buy in west Dublin and Co Donegal?

Town&Country: An apartment near the Luas line in Tallaght or a four-bed outside Derry

Two-bed canal-side apartment in Venice, Italy
What will €345,000 buy in Venice, Greece, Spain, France and Kildare

Take5: poolside villa, grand maison de maître, Venetian flat and Greek house

Sheila O’Donnell: Architect who has spent a lifetime building connections

Riba’s Woman Architect of the Year prize just the latest big award for Irishwoman

This Monaghan mansion includes three bedrooms in the basement.
What will €360,000 buy in Monaghan and Beaumont, Dublin 9?

Town and Country: Semi-detached suburbia or a seven-bed country mansion

Ireland: A four-bed bungalow in Maam Cross, Connemara, Co Galway
What will €155,000 buy in France, Hungary, Spain and Connemara

Take5: A village home in Charente, villa in Murcia and apartment in Budapest

42 Hampton Wood Avenue, St Margaret’s Road, Finglas, Dublin 11
What will €165,000 buy in Co Donegal and north Dublin?

Town&Country: A five-bed on half an acre or a one-bed apartment in Finglas

Five bedroom house in the French market town of Chauvigny
What will €240,000 buy in France, Turkey, Italy, Germany and Clare?

Take5: Options includes a Berlin urban hideaway and a grand Tuscan villa

106 Ballygall Parade, Finglas, Dublin 11
What will €280k buy in north Dublin and Co Leitrim

Town&Country: A three-bed near DCU or house at the foothills of Sliabh an Iarainn

Interior designer Jane Higgins in a new build house that she has recently decorated for a client. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times
True mews: gutting a new house to make it a real home

Owner of this new home felt the ready made interior wasn’t her so designer Jane Higgins gave it a whole new look

This Spanish east-facing house sits in its own land with a swimming pool.
What can you get for €390,000 in Turkey, Spain, Florence, France and Co Meath?

Take5: From breathtaking views to a stone house with its own bread oven

Berry’s Close, Inchicore
What will €224,950 buy in Dublin 8 and Westmeath?

Town&Country: A two-bed apartment in Dublin or a four-bed house in Westmeath

Italian offer: set in hills close to Chieti city, this three-storey stone property comprises two attached houses on about 1.5ac of land
What will €25,000 buy in England, France, Greece and Co Roscommon?

Take5: Middlesbrough and Poitou-Charentes town homes, Abruzzo and Corfu stone houses

Country: Swallows’ Nest, Waterdyke, Shanballymore, Mitchelstown, Co Cork
What will €395,000 buy in Co Cork and Dublin 5?

Mitchelstown four-bed with annex on 4.5ac or Artane three-bed

An extension to a Dublin house designed by Joe Fallon Design
Architect, engineer, technician or builder? Who to call when you plan to build

It pays to do your homework on the range of professional services available

€121,550: Apartment in Monenegro in a gated complex with infinity pool
What will €125,000 buy in Montenegro, Portugal, France, Italy and Offaly?

Take5: Period buildings in Abruzzo and Auvergne, apartments in Lisbon and Morinj

Town: 28 Greenhills Court, Greenhills Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24
What will €180,000 buy in Tallaght and Co Mayo?

Town&Country: Ground-floor apartment near The Square or a sheltered Kilkelly four-bed

Acquitaine: a 12-bedroom chateau, in need of work, for €246,100
What will €245,000 buy in Italy, Spain, Turkey and Galway?

Take5: Sea views in Tully Cross, a French chateau or a three-bed Turkish villa

Town: 26 Botanic Hall, Addison Park, Glasnevin, Dublin 11
What will €249,000 buy in Glasnevin and west Cork?

Town&Country: One-bed Dublin apartment or seven-bed former Durrus B&B

France: this maison de maître has lots of original features
What will €375,000 buy in St Lucia, Italy, Greece and Co Meath?

Take5: Original features, an art-nouveau villa, two properties with pools and a bungalow in Duleek

Town: 6 St Joseph’s Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
What will €350,000 buy in Dublin 9 and Co Westmeath?

Town&Country: Drumcondra terrace with attic conversion or Killucan parochial house

€45,000: two-bedroom home beneath Malgrate Castle bell tower, in Tuscan commune of Villafranca in Lunigiana
What will €48,000 buy in France, Italy, Bulgaria, Romania and Co Offaly?

Take5: Deux-Sèvres and Tuscany period homes, Burgas and Bucharest apartments

Town: 80 Rathgael, Clondalkin, Dublin 22
What will €169,000 buy in west Dublin and Co Sligo?

Town&Country: An apartment in Clondalkin or a former parochial house in Ballintogher

In the Dodecanese island of Symi, this three-bedroom villa overlooks the island’s Venetian harbour
What will €295,000 buy in Greece, Italy, Barbados, France and Co Kildare

Take5: A stone house in Le Marche, a schoolhouse in Auvergne, sea views in Barbados or a three bed in Kildare

22 Manor Villas, Mount Argus Grove, Harold’s Cross
What will €275,000 buy in Dublin 6W and west Cork?

Town and country: An apartment in Harold’s Cross, Dublin 6W, or an extended house in Skibbereen, Co Cork

What will €165,000 buy in Spain, Italy, France, Scotland, Donegal?

Take five: Sea views in Donegal, a medieval village in Tuscany or a Scottish farmhouse

Town: 3 Clarence Mangan Square, Christchurch, Dublin 8
What will €375,000 buy in Dublin 8 and Headford, Co Galway?

Town&Country: A Christchurch cul-de-sac terrace or a six-bed behemoth in Lettera

Peloponnese: three-bedroom house with balconies
What will €249,000 buy in France, Italy, Greece, Hungary and Kildare?

Take5: Poitou-Charentes, Massa-Carrara, Peloponnese, Budapest and Newbridge

15B Metropolitan Apartments, Kilmainham, Dublin 8
What will €225,000 buy in Ballinasloe, Co Galway and Kilmainham?

Town&Country: A one-bed apartment in Dublin 8 or a four-bed house in Ahascragh

Kalkan: uninterrupted views of the sea
What will €398,000 buy in Turkey, France, Croatia and Co Cork?

Sea views in Kalkan and Krilo Jesenice, pools in Andalusia and Poitou-Charentes

22 The Hampton, Santry Cross, Ballymun, Dublin 11
What will €150,000 buy in north Dublin and Offaly?

Town&Country: Bright Ballymun two-bed or former pub on Kilcormac main street

Fagus Werk factory: designed by Bauhaus school co-founder Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer
Bauhaus at 100: How German factories inspired global Bauhaus art movement

100 years ago, the functional designs of Gropius and his followers first saw light

Playa Flamenca: this Spanish apartment includes use of a communal pool
What will €145,000 buy in Portugal, France, Italy, Spain and Co Cork?

Take5: Alicante apartment, period houses in Piedmont, Alto Alentejo and Lot-et-Garonne

Town: 25 Waterville Row, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15
What will €220,000 buy in west Dublin and west Co Cork?

Town&Country: Blanchardstown apartment or Durrus sea views with a third of an acre

What will €220,000 buy in the US, Italy, France and Co Clare

Take Five: A five-bed bungalow in Clare or a grand colonial-style house in South Carolina

Town: 6 Hyacinth Street, North Strand, Dublin 3
What will €275,000 buy in West Cork and North Strand, Dublin

Town&Country: A five-bedroom house in West Cork or a three-bed terrace in D3

€350,000: two-bedroom house with outdoor pool and two-bedroom pool house
What can you buy for €350,000 in France, Cyprus, Italy and Galway?

Take5: An Alpine lodge, an Italian church, a Cyprus farmhouse or a Galway bungalow

France: A former presbytry, with many original features remaining
What will €199k buy in Greece, France, Italy, the Caribbean and Co Waterford?

Take5: A bungalow in Annestown or a turreted pile with artist’s studio in the Loire

Town: 55 Handel House, Loreto Abbey, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14
What will €350,000 buy in Tipperary town and Dublin 14?

Town&Country: A two-bed in Rathfarnham or a refurbished ex-postal sorting office by Limerick Junction railway station

France: A renovated chambre d’hôtes near the village of Champniers-et-Reilhac village
What will €265,000 buy in France, Italy, Spain, Madeira and Louth?

Take 5: Traditional homes in Le Marche and the Dordogne, villas in Valencia and Machico

Town: 26 The Granary, Longs Place, Dublin 8
What will €297,500 buy in Dublin 8 and Donegal?

Town&Country: A smart two-bed in a converted building or a nine-bed in Bundoran

Galway
What will €120,000 buy in Greece, Hungary, Spain and Galway?

Take5: French four-bed, Spanish villa, Greek sea views and a Hungary apartment

Town: 5 Brackenwood Place, Balbriggan, Co Dublin
What will €130,000 buy in Dublin and Monaghan?

Town&Country: a two-bed flat in Balbriggan or a three-bed with land in Carrickmacross

Limerick
What will €330,000 buy in Barbados, Thailand and Limerick?

Take5: Limerick bungalow, French chateau, Italian farmhouse, Caribbean cliff-top and Thai villa

Corgar, Ballinamore, Co Leitrim - former B&B with eight bedrooms
What will €369,000 buy in Dubin 11 and Leitrim?

A three bed in Glasnevin or an eight bed on the riverfront in Ballinamore

€379,500: six-bedroom Indre manor house
What will €400,000 buy in Italy, Portugal, France, the US and Co Meath?

Take5: Lazio palazzo, Florida five-bed, Leiria villa, Loire Valley manor, Enfield four-bed

Town: 51 Beauvale Park, Artane, Dublin 5
What will €270,000 buy in Cavan and Dublin?

Town&Country: A three-bed in Artane or a 3,000sq ft four-bed on an acre in Virginia

Bad Gastein, which is above the resort and town of Bad Hofgastein in Gastein valley, Austria
When ‘bad’ is good at a ski resort in Austria

A descent through powder on a wide gentle slope brings you to a small market in Kirchberg, where gluhwein turns this into a very m(...)

€44,995: ground-floor furnished apartment 250m from the Black Sea
What will €45,000 buy in France, Italy, Bulgaria, Spain and Co Tipperary?

Take5: Limousin pair, Black Sea apartment, Andalusian cave house, Clonmel cottage

55 Rialto Court, Rialto, Dublin 8; the apartment is on the ground floor
What will €170,000 buy in Dublin 8 and west Cork?

Town&Country: One-bed by Luas in Rialto or seaside three-bed with Bantry Bay views

€175,000: Douchapt house with outbuildings and 2ha of land
What will €175,000 buy in Greece, Slovenia, Italy and Mayo?

Dordogne home, Peloponnese tower house, Luce apartments, Apulia ‘trullo’, Carracastle three-bed

Town: 2 George’s Quay, Dublin 2
What will €335,000 buy in Dublin city centre and Co Carlow?

Town&Country: Two-bed flat opposite Liberty Hall or five-bed Rathvilly bungalow

€370,000: Alvito palazzo
What will €370,000 buy in Italy, France, Spain, England and Co Kerry?

Take5: Lazio palazzo, Picardie chateau, Catalan sea views, London flat, Killarney four-bed

Town: 6 Windmill Avenue, Crumlin, Dublin 12
What will €250,000 buy in west Dublin and Co Louth?

Town&Country: Waterside cottage on Carlingford Lough or two-bed in Crumlin

€224,700: former mill house in Mareuil
What will €255,000 buy in France, Spain, the Caribbean, England and Co Louth?

Take5: Dordogne mill house, homes with pools in Andalusia and Dominican Republic, Liverpool terrace, Dunleer cottage

Town: 129 Castleland Court, Balbriggan, Co Dublin
What will €125,000 buy in north Co Dublin and Co Galway?

Town&Country: Balbriggan one-bed flat or Kinvara thatched cottage, both near the sea

In the commune of Neuvy Bouin, this house comes with outbuildings, including a barn, pig sties and stables.
What will €75,000 buy you in Italy, France, Romania and Mayo

Take Five: live farm in Italy, villa in Spain, a place in France or Romania or cottage in Mayo

Town: 50a Smithfield Market, Smithfield, Dublin 7.
What will €395k buy in Dublin 7 and Waterford?

Town&Country: A two-bed in Smithfield or two houses side by side in Tallow for €395,000

Greece: €320,000 for this three-bedroom house in Mathes village, on Crete, with a pool and sea views
What will €320,000 buy in Greece, France, Italy, New Zealand and Co Kerry?

Take5: Pool homes in Crete, Tuscany and Auckland, Brittany pile, Fenit four-bed

Town: 63 Windmill Park, Crumlin, Dublin 12
What will €265,000 buy in Crumlin and Co Clare?

Town&Country: Two-bed with shed in Crumlin or six-bed on an acre in Scarriff

Those who insist on an immaculate home have often had a chaotic existence as a child, and the obsessive need for order is their way of trying to control their world
Time to come clean on the perfect home

The benefits of a tidy home are obvious but sometimes cleaning gets out of hand

Co Laois: €270,000 for this three-bedroom bungalow
What will €270,000 buy in France, Italy, Spain, Latvia and Co Laois?

Take5: Waterside in Pays de la Loire and Tenerife; the Tuscan hills; and modern Riga

Town: 22 St Canice’s Square, Finglas, Dublin 11
What will €150,000 buy in north Dublin and Co Westmeath?

Town&Country: Castletown with outbuildings or Finglas one-bed

Turkey: this Cukurbag Peninsula villa with sea views has its own pool
What will €375,000 buy in Turkey, France, Spain, Thailand and Co Cork?

Take5: Kalkan villa, eight-bed chateau, Malaga four-bed, Koh Samui villa, Glounthaune bungalow

Town: 24 Monksfield Court, Clondalkin, Dublin 22
What will €270,000 buy in west Dublin and Cavan?

Town&Country: Clondalkin four-bed or six-bed detached near a lake

Take 5: Tocane-St-Apre village four-bed
What will €135,000 buy in France, Turkey, Greece, England and Wexford?

Take 5: Dordogne four-bed, three-bed with pool in Aydin, New Ross three-bed with yard

59 Burnell Court, Northern Cross, Clarehall, Dublin 17
What will €160,000 buy in north Dublin and Co Galway?

Town&Country: One bed apartment in Clarehall or a four-bed house in Ballinsloe

France Poitou Charentes
What will €299,000 buy in Kildare, France, Portugal and the US?

Take 5: An Antebellum house in Georgia, a restored farmhouse in Italy or a bungalow in Kildare

Sydney Opera House. From the film ‘An Engineer Imagines’
The life of the Irish ‘magician’ behind the Sydney Opera House

New film ‘An Engineer Imagines’ explores the work of the boundary-pushing Peter Rice

64 Neagh Road, Terenure, Dublin 6
Yours for €400k: Terenure three-bed, or house with pool in Louth

A house on a tree-lined Dublin road, or one with pool, pizza oven and gym in Co Louth

Greece: this modern white house in the Peloponnese has a good balance of balconies and terraces
What will €350,000 buy in the Pyrenees, Greece, Andalusia and Galway?

Take 5: Adjoining apartments, a golf-resort villa, an olive grove, or a four bed in Menlo

A two-bedroom apartment in Swords is on the market for €239,000
What will €239,000 buy in north Dublin and Mayo?

Town & Country: A two-bed in Swords or a house with church and orchard in Hollymount

The Sliding Chapel in Byblos, Lebanon, was built in collaboration with an international team from Meeting of Design Students (Meds)
Irish architect’s big idea for a tiny place to still the mind

Kieran Donnellan’s 5sq m Sliding Chapel, in Lebanon, is perfect for contemplation

An aubergine cabinet adds colour in the kitchen and picks up on the plum theme throughout the house. Photograph: Matteo Tuniz
Coming back to a forever home in Ranelagh

After a long stint abroad, it was time to put down roots in a classic comfortable redbrick

Casa Marinella, in the Brancoli region of Italy, comes with a hectare of land dotted with olive trees
What will €60,000 buy in Italy, France, Spain, Turkey and Co Mayo?

Take 5: Stone houses in Lucca and Limousin, apartments in Valencia and Bodrum

Town: 12 Ardbeg Road, Artane, Dublin 5
What will €325,000 buy in Dublin and Co Kerry?

Town&Country: A three-bed in Artane or a four-bed former school near Kenmare

Dublin Road, Kingscourt, Co Cavan
What will €150,000 buy in France, Germany, Spain and Cavan?

Take Five: a stone house in France, an apartment in Berlin, a six-bed finca in Murcia, or a four/five bed in Kingscourt, Cavan

6 The Richmond, North Brunswick Street, Dublin 7
What will €220,000 buy in Dublin 7 and Co Cork?

Town&Country: A house by the beach near Rosscarbery or a one-bed in Dublin

What will €240,000 buy in Grenada, Tuscany, Florida and Athlone

Take Five: a slice of a French hamlet, a five-bed in Florida, or a three bed in Athlone

15 Park View, Rathborne, Ashtown, Dublin 15
What will €300k buy in north Dublin and Co Kilkenny?

Town & Country: a duplex in Ashtown or a six bed in Urlingford for €300k

What can you buy for €50,000 in France, Portugal, Italy and Roscommon?

Take Five: costal and traditional in Portugal and Italy or a two bed in Roscommon

Curraheen, Rosscarbery, Co Cork
What will €145,000 buy in Dublin and west Cork?

Town & Country: A one-bed in Ballymun or a cottage near the sea in Rosscarbery

What will €195,000 buy in Spain, Bulgaria, Italy and Kerry?

Take Five: a private Bulgarian chapel, French village life, a three-bed in Killarney

Town & Country: 109 Block 1, Bellevue, Islandbridge, Dublin 8
What will €295,000 buy in Longford and Dublin 8?

Town & Country: a two-bed in Islandbridge or a farm on 21 acres in Co Longford

George Town, the capital of Grand Cayman. Photograph: iStock
The Cayman islands: A relaxing haven for you (not just your money)

Chasing sharks, cuddling stingray, riding bareback in the warm sea, the Caribbean islands offer an exhilarating escape

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