A wonderful inspiring website you are very generous with your very practical ideas. November 2010
A wonderful inspiring website you are very generous with your very practical ideas. November 2010
“You visited our house earlier this year and gave us excellent advice and ideas. The work has finished and it looks brilliant! Thanks for everything. You introduced possibilities that we would never have thought of. Thanks again and hope you are busy!” 19 October 2010
“Thank you for your visit last week’ You’ve left us with loads of things to think about and work our way through. Thanks for your help and for pointing us in the right direction!” August 2010
“Great to meet you yesterday! Thanks for your wonderful ideas/solutions – I feel a weight has been offloaded. Thanks again.” June 2010
Thank you so much for your work today. We have a much clearer sense of how to progress with work on the house. You have a great gift for untangling ideas and communicating them clearly. We feel much more enthusiastic now that we can see a concrete plan, pardon the pun! May 2010
Many thanks for taking time to travel to Kilkenny yesterday. It was lovely to meet with you.I have been “stuck” for about 4 years so it was great to see the different possibilities you have come up with to solve our light problem. Brian was particularly pleased with the idea of swapping the kitchen round!!I was happy too with your suggestion re concentrating on kitchen/living area, tips re lay-out of furniture, opening doors in the opposite direction, etc.Your comment that painted wooden doors will “still be wooden doors underneath” is inspiring. I have had a mental block about painting them: my father is a carpenter/craftsman, so having grown up with an appreciation of wood, I have been very reluctant to paint the doors.Again, Eva thanks your your ideas and for giving me the confidence to move forward: your pictures paint a thousand words……May 2010
“We asked Eva to review our plans for enlarging our house prior to commencing work as we were not 100% convinced that they were right for us. Eva immediately established that the kitchen/dining area would be too small relative to the size of the house. She suggested how we could enlarge and lay out this space in detail, as well as showing us how to incorporate a Play Room close by, opening into the garden. This has now become one of the most important rooms in the house. The house now really meets our needs as a family in all ways.”
My 2 hours with Eva in my home opened up new possibilities and gave me some clever ideas. She also solved many issues I had with townhouse living: space is limited for me and moving house not an option. Solutions without spending a lot of money were addressed and I now have a new project. April 2010
“When we purchased our house, in 2006, the garden level was arranged as two bedsits, with a shared laundry room in the rear return. We had planned to convert one of the bedsits into a new kitchen, and the laundry room to a utility room. Before we commenced the works a friend recommended to us that we seek a consultation with Eva.
We strongly recommend that anyone considering a house extension or refurbishment, should seek a consultation with Eva. Eva’s advice to us resulted in a much more suitable house for our family, and probably a much more valuable house as it has created features we did not anticipate.”
Eva came to our house, “interviewed” us on our exact requirements, particularly in relation to the functions which we wanted our new layout to serve. Eva’s advice transformed our plans, all very much for the better. Eva’s focus was quite simple – use dark areas for storage and maximise the light filled areas. So, the room we intended to use as a utility room is now a delightful, west facing family room. It has become our favourite room in the house and our kids love it. The room has sliding doors opening onto a patio – its perfect.
Our hall is wide but typically dark, so Eva advised full height presses to run the length of the hall to accommodate coats and jackets, school bags, washing machine and tumble dryer, larder and lots of storage. So, the garden level, which is the busiest area in our house, thanks to Eva’s foresight and creativity, is free of all clutter, houses all storage and laundry functions in stylish, roomy presses and most importantly includes the bright, cheery family room which acts as a magnet for us all. March 2009
