Home Style DIY

At last, I discover the source of those steel-​black painted name plates seen on front gates and stoops throughout Dublin.
Thinking of naming your bungalow? Want a carved wooden plaque or a brass plate to tell the neighbours just who they’re living next to?
It’s here.
Home Style DIY also specialises in door handles (huge crystal disco ball types), locks and other home hardware sure to spruce up a door or two. The shop is also a magnet for curiousity seekers, drawn as they are to the ornate lettering, window full of odd bits of door and an alluring red interior. Inside the shop there’s hardly any room to move between stacks, boards and shelves of fittings.

I don’t know if you guys know this, but the economy ain’t looking so good … in fact the only tiger left in Dublin is in the zoo (haw haw haw). The newspapers tell me that despite the overabundance of property that was developed during the boom years, people have started hiding their money under their mattresses instead of investing in homes they’ll never use and that those who did want to move into a new house are redecorating their houses and flats instead.
Enter DIY Home Style. Admittedly the outside of the shop looks a bit like a cheesy American Country Western idea of a saloon, but they’ve got a decent supply of stuff inside. If you live in the Mary Street area and you want to put a fresh paint of coat on those walls to surround yourself in ‘new’ surroundings it’s not a bad little shop.