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    Out of the woods

    When designer Stephen Maughan and his wife Jenny decided to build themselves a family home in Co Sligo, they couldn’t believe their luck when they came across a 3,500sqm site within the walls of an old country estate. Despite being heavily wooded and overgrown there was an obvious clearing which they recognised would allow them […] More

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    Problems With Wood

    The main problem with wood is that it is natural. We have all become so accustomed to man made products designed to perform exactly as we wish and always in the same way, it’s easy to forget that wood is a living material. As such therefore, the source of the difficulty lies in that fact […] More