Renovations and bespoke joinery in Ranelagh.

The area

What we know about renovating in Ranelagh.

Ranelagh is one of the most architecturally identifiable postcodes in Dublin: Victorian and Edwardian red-brick terraces, three windows wide, with the bay or oriel detailing on the front and a long thin garden out the back. The classic Ranelagh renovation move is to open up the ground floor and add a rear extension to the kitchen and living area, while preserving the front rooms with their original cornicing, ceiling roses, picture rails and shutters.

We do this work properly. Cornicing is patched to match where partitions are removed; original shutters and architraves are kept and re-finished; the new ground-floor extension is detailed so the transition between the period rooms and the modern open-plan space reads as deliberate, not accidental.

Many Ranelagh terraces are protected structures or sit within an Architectural Conservation Area — we check planning context at first visit and coordinate with the conservation officer where required.