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How to get your balcony blooming: Gardening advice for city dwellers How to get your balcony blooming: Gardening advice for city dwellers

Good containers, thoughtfully planted can transform these small, windy spaces

Your grand design: an expert guide to renovating or extending Your grand design: an expert guide to renovating or extending

Spend on light and insulation and do your sums, advise our architect and QS team

Going local: the key to housing, and to saving the world Going local: the key to housing, and to saving the world

Using local materials and skills are key to vernacular homes and have much to teach us about creating a more sustainable future for our planet

‘Captain Cook’, one of greatest finds in Irish auction history ‘Captain Cook’, one of greatest finds in Irish auction history

in Kilkenny 30 years ago, a lost portrait sold for IR£27K. Months later it made £600K

Oven envy: meet the grand cru of stoves Oven envy: meet the grand cru of stoves

Deep in the heart of Burgundy, the gastronomic capital of France, Lacanche is still making its cookers by hand

New to the Market

Pottery cottage in one of Ireland’s prettiest villages: €349K Pottery cottage in one of Ireland’s prettiest villages: €349K

Three-in-one cottage in Inistioge, Co Kilkenny, was sold in boom for €600,000

Bigger and better on Leeson Park for €2.45m Bigger and better on Leeson Park for €2.45m

Spacious renovated four-bed Victorian house ideally situated in Ranelagh

Egyptian columns, a pool and earthquake-proof in Castleknock for €2.49m Egyptian columns, a pool and earthquake-proof in Castleknock for €2.49m

Supersized house built to highest standards features five en suite bedrooms, a swimming pool and a lift

Wired for sound at smart Portobello redbrick for €750K Wired for sound at smart Portobello redbrick for €750K

Former musician’s home in Dublin 8 has period details and contemporary comforts

Copper Face Jack’s in Blackrock? Now you can live there Copper Face Jack’s in Blackrock? Now you can live there

Georgian conversion in former summer home of Earl of Clonmel, aka Copper Face Jack

Edwardian elegance on exceptional gardens in Guinness heartland Edwardian elegance on exceptional gardens in Guinness heartland

Four-bedroom house with extensive attic features fine views and spacious living area

Design

Your grand design: an expert guide to renovating or extending Your grand design: an expert guide to renovating or extending

Spend on light and insulation and do your sums, advise our architect and QS team

Oven envy: meet the grand cru of stoves Oven envy: meet the grand cru of stoves

Deep in the heart of Burgundy, the gastronomic capital of France, Lacanche is still making its cookers by hand

Seven tips for staging your home for sale Seven tips for staging your home for sale

Going to market? Here’s your checklist

This old house: at home in Kinsale with Marc Ó Riain

This old house: at home in Kinsale with Marc Ó Riain ‘Maser and Banksy are brilliant, anti-establishment, ballsy and with something to say’

Top tips from architects, interior designers and surveyors

Top tips from architects, interior designers and surveyors Here is our line-up of talks on the ‘The Irish Times’ Home & Design theatre stage at the Ideal Home Show next bank holiday weekend

Cradle of civilisation: Nurseries rock a contemporary new look

Cradle of civilisation: Nurseries rock a contemporary new look Grey comes into its own as neutral shade while pink and blue are banished

The kitchen gadgets food pros can't do without

The kitchen gadgets food pros can't do without Blending, blitzing and the one-pot wonder are always close to hand in these kitchens

Property Clinic

Can I cut CGT on house my father bought but which I paid for? Can I cut CGT on house my father bought but which I paid for?

Revenue can look to commercial reality of any transaction and apply legislation to case

Sort It

How the starter home died – and how it can be resuscitated How the starter home died – and how it can be resuscitated

A UK firm built compact apartments for young Londoners. Could that work here?

Art, Antiques and Collecting

‘Captain Cook’, one of greatest finds in Irish auction history ‘Captain Cook’, one of greatest finds in Irish auction history

in Kilkenny 30 years ago, a lost portrait sold for IR£27K. Months later it made £600K

Design Moment: Duralex Picardie glass, c. 1945

The glass is one of those rare designs that is still ubiquitous because of its perfect combination of elegance and durability

From graffiti artist to most expensive painter in America From graffiti artist to most expensive painter in America

After U2, now Yoko Ono is selling her Basquiat as prices for the artist soar

‘Celtic Phoenix is well and truly in flight,’ say Whyte’s, as Paul Henry’s ‘West of Ireland Bog’ sells for €100,000 ‘Celtic Phoenix is well and truly in flight,’ say Whyte’s, as Paul Henry’s ‘West of Ireland Bog’ sells for €100,000

Winners and losers in the autumn art auctions

Gardens

How to get your balcony blooming: Gardening advice for city dwellers How to get your balcony blooming: Gardening advice for city dwellers

Good containers, thoughtfully planted can transform these small, windy spaces

How to birdwatch in the garden this winter How to birdwatch in the garden this winter

Even a small suburban garden can host 25-30 species of birds in winter

Latest Homes & Property

Grant scheme for first-time buyers to only see minor changes
Cairn chief says new homes not behind ‘pretty scary’ house price rise
Paschal Donohoe rules out cut to VAT on building houses
Scrapping Help-to-Buy would be a mistake, says housing official
Plans for over 8,000 new Dublin homes to be published in weeks

Take 5

What can you buy in the US, Italy, France and Kilkenny for €225,000 What can you buy in the US, Italy, France and Kilkenny for €225,000

We compare a Co Kilkenny four-bed bungalow with a selection of foreign choices

Look Inside

Dalkey’s one-time ‘most expensive home’ finds buyer3:16 Dalkey’s one-time ‘most expensive home’ finds buyer
Luxury living in Lansdowne Place, a stone’s throw from the Aviva2:47 Luxury living in Lansdowne Place, a stone’s throw from the Aviva
€3.75 million for solicitor Gerald Kean's home in Wicklow2:36 €3.75 million for solicitor Gerald Kean's home in Wicklow
€8.5 million for luxurious Dalkey home with panoramic views 2:49 €8.5 million for luxurious Dalkey home with panoramic views
Fran Rooney's northside 'Nirvana' for sale at €2.95 million2:31 Fran Rooney's northside 'Nirvana' for sale at €2.95 million

Most Read in Life & Style

1 Richie Sadlier: When I first spoke publicly about attending therapy, years after I first went, four friends contacted me to say they had done likewise Richie Sadlier: I kept quiet about therapy because I was ashamed
2 Joshua Burns: ‘I was besotted with the place from the very beginning.’ Teaching English abroad wasn’t all I thought it would be
3 Joe O’Farrell (left) of the Shackleton Museum Athy and Sven Habermann of Conservation Letterfrack peer into the cabin in which the explorer died in the Antartic on January 5th, 1922. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien Shackleton's sea-bedroom was little more than a glorified packing case
4 The British Cheese Board argued that the high levels of tryptophan in cheese, an amino acid involved in our sleep cycle, meant that cheese actually helped us to fall asleep. Photograph: Getty Images Having cheese and crackers before bedtime? Read this first
5 The psychological component of vaginismus can be related to strict religious upbringing, fear of pregnancy, past negative experiences or other internalised sexual messages. Photograph: iStock I want to have sex, but I know sex shouldn’t feel like this
6 Life-changing and devastating: “There is not enough support for people with brain injuries, and the funding we get is not enough to meet demand,” says clinical psychologist Dr Brian Waldron Mental health after brain injuries: ‘People’s sense of self can be shattered’
7 Carmel Stelzner’s son Alexander on his way to a school sleepover in Oslo last week. Sleepover in school? How our kids spend mid-term in Norway
8  Traffic on  the  M50: The 45.5-kilometre  road  now carries an average  of 142,496 vehicles a day; up from 109,434 in 2009. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times M50 blues: Ireland’s busiest road, Dublin’s biggest car park
9 Sean Hughes: ‘In London, once we took off the balaclavas there was a certain hipness to being a Celt.’ Photograph: Alan Betson Sean Hughes: ‘I would have done anything for Ireland except live there’
10 The Pottery, Inistioge, Co Kilkenny Pottery cottage in one of Ireland’s prettiest villages: €349K
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