For over a year now, Rodney Gale has lived in a space measuring 6ft by 13ft. His Dublin rental is a former garage that was converted into a dwelling by his landlady, Esther Waters, an interior designer who specialises in small spaces. The garage adjoins Waters’s own home, a three-bedroom semi detached house in a quiet road in Blackrock.

Waters, who works with colleagues Caitriona O’Brien and Lorraine Able on a variety of private and commercial projects in their interiors business, The Design Team, decided to tackle the conversion on her own doorstep after becoming interested in the “Tiny House Movement”. Her tenant, Gale’s own journey to small space living started out of necessity.