The place
A period family farmhouse on a working farm in North County Dublin. Twelve minutes from Dublin Airport and a world from anything corporate.
Linda, Richard and Richie host. Two bedrooms. An AGA kitchen, a snug with a wood-burning stove, a fire pit and koi pond in the garden. Pedigree free-range hens, peacocks, two cats, a dog. On the grounds: a thatched cottage (the famine-era cottage Linda hopes to restore) and original outbuildings.
Most guests describe it as feeling like family, not like accommodation. That comes up so consistently in reviews that it's effectively the brand. Linda, Richard and Richie are the heart of the place — guests talk about them by name more than they talk about the house.
What we're going for
Two timelines, side by side.
The objects, the rooms, the light, the rhythms of this farmhouse haven't really changed in generations. A copper pot in the kitchen today is the same kind of copper pot that was in this kitchen a hundred years ago. The AGA, the fireplace, the original floors, the ivy at the windows, eggs in a basket — all of these are artefacts that sit comfortably across decades.
The brand work so far has been exploring this through illustration: linocut prints, watercolours, scenes that could have been made in 1850 or last Tuesday. The typography is Bookman, originally cut in the 1850s, so even the lettering is part of the continuity.
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Light is the thread
Daylight, firelight, candlelight. These are the same light the farmhouse has always had. They predate electricity and they outlast it. We'd love to lean into that — natural light, no flash, no colour grading pushing things in a particular direction. The light should feel like it belongs to the house.
Three things worth knowing
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The hens lay mixed-colour eggs
Pale cream, warm brown, speckled, and the occasional pale blue. Guests collect them themselves — it's one of the most-mentioned details in reviews. A basket of varied eggs is essentially the brand's signature image.
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The family is welcome to be in the work
Naturally, not posed. Linda at the AGA, Richard with the dog, the family at the kitchen table. Reviews talk about them by name more than they talk about the house. If the moment's there, take it.
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Full property access
The two guest rooms, the kitchen, the snug, the garden, the thatched cottage, the outbuildings, the surrounding fields and the old stone bridge. Linda will be on site. Trust your eye on what's worth shooting.
The visual world we're building
For context — these are the directions we've been developing in parallel. Not a brief to imitate, just so you can see where the brand is heading and what feels at home in it.
Colour palette
For reference only. We're not asking you to colour-grade towards these — just sharing the world the photographs will sit alongside.
Practical
- Output
- High-resolution files for web, print and editorial use. RAW files appreciated where workflow allows.
- Usage
- Rowlestown Farm's website, social, location-hire enquiries, and Linda's editorial blog.
- Date
- Provisionally Monday 11 May 2026, to be confirmed with Linda.
- Access
- Full property access. Linda on site.
- Contact
- Gabriel Fleming · Linda directly for site logistics.
The brand idea above is a gift if it lands for you, not a brief to deliver against. If your instincts pull you somewhere we haven't anticipated, follow them. We'd rather have your eye on this place than ours.