Making it Work

Design company Hide offers high-quality garden rooms as an alternative to home extensions

Hide, a sister company to craft window specialist Lambstongue, is aiming to provide ‘something that people will look out of their house at and think is beautiful’

Alexander Downes, co-founder, Hide, which designs small but high-quality structures which can act as workspaces, studios or retreats. Picture: Fergal Phillips

As a founder of Lambstongue, the craft window specialist that has worked on properties such as Adare Manor and Leinster House, Alexander Downes is used to tackling projects on a grand scale. But his new venture aims to offer a luxurious alternative to a home extension or a regular garden shed.

Hide, which Downes has co-founded with Sean Byrne, builds small but high-quality structures which can act as workspaces, studios or retreats. Based in Wexford, ...