The Green-Door festival of rural architecture and design is back!

This year 39 homes with sustainable features and ways of living, many self-builds, renovations and extensions throughout counties Leitrim and Sligo are open to the public.

This is a unique opportunity to meet the home owners and builders, architects and suppliers to get first hand, honest information about the whole process of self-building, the choices made, the highlights and the lowlights.

Based at The Dock and the Leitrim Sculpture Centre the festival has a stimulating and inspiring programme of talks, workshops, exhibitions and demonstrations. Go to www.greendoorireland.ie for more information. Full programmes will be available from The Dock and the Leitrim Sculpture Centrefrom 26th August.