Brigitte Shelswell-White helped run her husband’s ancestral home for 40 years. Now she’s enjoying life in the gate lodge

Getting a foot on the property ladder wasn’t easy in 2018 but for some it worked out after years of planning and saving

Jack O’Hare’s life took off when his mother won a huge cash prize. Then Frank Lloyd Wright invited him to come work for him in the Arizona desert

Handmade pieces from a Waterford workshop are inspired by nature

Sent to work on the land at 15, Nell Scally still lives in the farmhouse that became her home

There were pigeons flying around the house when Alissa Blundell first bought her shop and home in Abbeyleix

Where the Heart is: Liz Fitzgerald wishes her late husband could see what she has made from their garden

Where the heart is: Louise Walsh on living in Drumcondra, in the house she shares with her husband Derek Maher and their two children

Ann Henning Jocelyn came to Ireland in the 80s to write, and settled in Doon House, where Poet Laureate Ted Hughes once lived after Sylvia Plath’s death

Lord Waterford last weekend witnessed close to 15,000 festival-goers descend on his ancestral home

The bank took the McGillycuddys' Kerry house after they went bust in the 1980s but then fate took a turn

Ger Kennedy was drawn back to the warm embrace of this Co Waterford seaside town

The Harveys were looking for a bolthole in Ireland but the tumbledown cottage they found is now a full-time home to their extended family

Where The Heart Is: Writer Suzanne Power knew instinctively that she wanted to build a home in the Wexford field she discovered in 2007

After a stint in Brussels, Dubliners Kate Cunningham and Conor O'Neill are putting down roots in D7