Operation renovation: 'After years of squeezing past each other in a cramped kitchen, it's so lovely to feel the open space'
Seeing the ‘potential’ in a neglected house often reeks of real estate hyperbole — a last-resort plea to get it off the books. But when Maria Buckley and Alan Brosnan first saw their then 75sqm 1930s ex-corporation house in Cabra, Dublin, they immediately envisaged their dream home, despite its shabby state.