{"id":26749,"date":"2025-09-17T09:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/26749\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T09:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:31:11","slug":"my-self-build-story-the-design-and-lightweight-materials-meant-i-could-work-away-myself-it-was-just-me-a-ladder-and-a-single-storey-log-cabin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/26749\/","title":{"rendered":"My self-build story: \u2018The design and lightweight materials meant I could work away myself. It was just me, a ladder and a single-storey log cabin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nInspired by the iconic designs of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Cork woman Deirdre O\u2019Sullivan took on the solo construction of her cosy cabin in the wood. And by doing much of the work herself, she was able to build her dream home for just 230k\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Deirdre O\u2019Sullivan at her home in Blarney, Co Cork. Photo: Daragh Mc Sweeney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Deirdre renovation 002.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Deirdre O\u2019Sullivan at her home in Blarney, Co Cork. Photo: Daragh Mc Sweeney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">If you\u2019re Irish, then you\u2019ve likely spent a few weeks of a youthful summer sandwiched between siblings and cousins in the confines of a caravan or mobile home fighting over the last packet of crisps. But could you live in one for five years while your dream home was being built?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Few of us, if given the option, would actively choose to hunker down in the chaos of a renovation or build project, but for Cork native Deirdre O\u2019Sullivan, moving a mobile home into her parents\u2019 garden on the boundary of Blarney Castle in Cork was the perfect plot in which to visualise the home of her dreams. In fact, it was the humble mobile which inspired her design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inspired by the iconic designs of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Cork woman Deirdre O\u2019Sullivan took on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-26749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}