Ireland Home and Garden

The emphasis of having a single bathroom in a home has been eroded by the presence of en-suite bathrooms and showers in the master bedroom and perhaps many other bedrooms in the typical Irish home. Now a large common bathroom can serve as a relaxation room in which you spend downtime, almost like having home spa indeed. Luxury fittings and therapeutic aids can transform your plain old bathroom to a distinct leisure area in the home.

Now that the king of the flat pack furniture brigade, IKEA, has arrived in Ireland with outlets in Belfast and Dublin, one can almost visibly see the frustration as homeowners unpack their wonderful bargain piece of furniture and try in vain to assemble it. There is nothing more annoying than putting together a kit form piece of [...]

It never ceases to amaze the consumer in Ireland when they see the effects of de-regulation of semi-state authority control over goods and services. Once deregulation occurs, private sector competition enters the market and suddenly prices start to fall. Lean, mean business models hustle aside the monolithic and letargic public service offering that is weighed down [...]

Apart from the incessant rain Ireland has experienced in the last month, the weather is now turning cold and thoughts are turning to checking fuel supplies. Despite the fact that almost every commodity you can buy in Ireland has dropped in price, oil and gas prices have increased due to world demand and external control [...]

The floods in Ireland may be starting to subside but the anger of those affected by them is rising.
RTE programme Frontline exposed the truth of the awful planning decisions that led to thousands of homes being built on flood plains in the madness that was the property boom. No account seemed to have been taken by the [...]

How much have you got your house insured for? Check it now because you probably have it overvalued. And the insurance companies are not going to tell you. Huge profits are made by the insurance underwriters from the apathy of the customer. They send you out an automatic renewal notice with the value of the [...]

As the madness of the Christmas season approaches, an interesting test for Irish householders arises. With the brutal recession impacting savagely on spending, will Christmas 2009 see the demise of the gaudy lighting that afflicts seemingly every home in the country. This tasteless phobia was introduced from where else but America to Ireland about 15 [...]

The worst floods in the history of Ireland have brought despair and disaster to so many homes across the country, particularly those in the south and west.  For those unfortunate families affected, mention of climate change improvement and cessation of building on flood plains brings scant consolation as they survey the damage caused to their [...]

Christmas is on the 25th December every. It is one day in the year. It is of course a holy festival and of late a consumer festival, the altar of which we must splay ourselves, it seems. It is merely, however, one day out of 365 other great days. Yet we all go mad in [...]

Welcome to the Ireland Home and Garden Website.
This site will cover all areas of the home and garden in Ireland. We will cover all the areas  from the kitchen, the bathroom, and  the conservatory to the issues of home heating, attic conversions, effective lighting and the latest in garden news, equipment and events.
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