Jennifer Sheahan: Build, repair and maintain your dream home
There are many reasons to learn how to build, design, or maintain your home. File picture
There are many great reasons to learn how to build, design, or maintain your home. Not least of which is the abysmal state of the Irish housing market and the associated difficulty finding reliable tradespeople, but necessity aside, there is a huge sense of satisfaction and accomplishment with building, designing, or repairing something all by yourself. It’s good for our brains to learn how to do something new, and with a long, lovely bank holiday stretching out ahead of us and a new school year quickly approaching, now is a good time to think about doing just that.
There are plenty of excellent courses across the country that will take you all the way from building your own home from scratch, through designing your dream home, and finally to maintaining that home with DIY skills. I am highlighting three that I have heard first-hand rave reviews about from trusted friends who have taken these courses, and which I therefore feel confident recommending to you.
