Forever Home

Margaret knew it was time to downsize once her daughters flew the nest, and so she decided to pour her heart and soul into restoring the Dublin home she grew up in.

This was always such a happy house,’ says Margaret of the three-bedroom terraced home in Dublin where she was brought up. ‘It always seemed to be full of people, cousins from England staying, and lots of friends and family visiting; my parents were very hospitable and kept an open house.’ Margaret inherited the house from her late mother. ‘It was so sad to see the house empty,’ she says. ‘For the next year I just had someone caretaking it, and postponed making any decisions about what to do with it.’

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