Fiona Kelly has serious ambition having purchased a dilapidated Georgian terraced house in the heart of Phibsborough in north Dublin dating back to 1826. Once an impressive townhouse for a well-to-do tradesman, Fiona’s house has been witness to the passing fortunes and misfortunes of Dublin over the centuries, and was occupied as a tenement home right up to the 1960s.
With slanted door frames, crooked floors and a tumbling roof, Fiona and her building contractor friend Philip, have taken on a building on the brink of collapse. Her timeframe for the project starts out as an ambitious 6 months, but with problem after problem, the timeline expands to deal with the challenges the building presents. Rainsoaked and rotten in parts, the building presents one of the biggest challenges we have ever seen on the Great House Revival.
