Before and after - what a transformation! Scroll down to read about the surprising discoveries Padraig and Gráinne Haughney made when converting a 200 year old commercial building in Ballyragget into their forever home! (And wowed the judges on RTE's Home of the Year!) Click 'NEXT' to see more before and after photographs! Grain left behind 150 years ago, business receipts from 80 years ago… not what people usually find when they move into a new home, but just some of the amazing finds uncovered when a family decided to turn a boarded-up, old shop into their comfortable, forever home. Padraig and Gráinne Haughney invested blood, sweat and tears alongside their creativity and modest budget into the old commercial building in the centre of Ballyragget. In doing so they not only built their forever home but a stylish house chosen to take part in RTE’s Home of the Year. TV viewers were impressed with the beautiful home, in Ballyragget, when the show aired, last week. So were the judges, with the sometimes hard-to-impress Hugh Wallace giving the home 10/10. But what the show didn’t have time to tell was the fascinating history of the building. Built in 1820, what was to become home to Padraig, Grainne and their three boys Paddy, Fionn and Donnacha, 200 years later, was originally a town centre, business. Padraig told the Kilkenny People they’re not sure what business it was at first, but it became a grain store, a butchers, then a pharmacy. It even housed a veterinary practice for a short time.It had been a pharmacy, or ‘Medical Hall,’ for 50 years, before being boarded up, and in all that time none of the internal fixtures and fittings inside had been changed. “It literally hadn’t been touched. It was like something from a bygone era,” Padraig described when he and Grainne first saw inside the ‘for sale’ building. She had been in there as a little girl, with her granny, and remembered some hair clips that were still there when she viewed the premises with Padraig! When they found
Amazing before and after pics of renovated Kilkenny home that wowed Home of the Year judges!
What a difference a few years make! Not only did the Haughneys transform the front of the building, they also welcomed another son! BEFORE AFTER Gráinne and Padraig with their boys Donnacha, Paddy and Fionn Click 'NEXT' to see more before and after photographs
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What a difference a few years make! Not only did the Haughneys transform the front of the building, they also welcomed another son! BEFORE AFTER Gráinne and Padraig with their boys Donnacha, Paddy and Fionn Click 'NEXT' to see more before and after photographs
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Click 'NEXT' to see more before and after photographs! BEFORE It started out as an abandoned commercial building... AFTER ... and became a love-filled, family home
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Click 'NEXT' to see more before and after photographs! BEFORE It started out as an abandoned commercial building... AFTER ... and became a love-filled, family home
