Sublime Sligo cottage offers promise of the good life for €250,000
Thistledome Cottage comes with separate work studio and treehouse on an acre of land
Thistledome Cottage, Castlebaldwin, Co Sligo
If you’ve been dutifully nurturing a sourdough starter, growing your own vegetables or coveting a vintage Laura Ashley midi dress or frilly blouse, then whether you know it or not, you’re already across cottagecore, an internet movement that in real life is a response to lockdown living and the increasing time spent on screens. It’s also part of a shift as fashion’s pendulum swings, as it does, from glossy and urbane to keeping it country.
In the quest for more space, less mortgage pressure and a response to Covid-19, the last 12 months have seen many city slickers leaving the capital for pastures greener.