Thoughtfully built.
Beautifully livable.

Nestra builds high-quality, design-led garden homes and granny flats that bring more space, comfort and possibility to the place you already call home.

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Inside a Nestra garden home — open-plan kitchen with dark timber cabinetry, warm oak flooring, a sofa with a green throw and a round dining table beside a tall window facing the garden.
01Why Nestra

More space. More freedom.

Whether it's for family, work or a new way of living, every Nestra is built to blend seamlessly with your lifestyle and your property — designed by an architect, finished by hand, set down in days.

  • Architecturally Designed
  • Sustainable & Energy Efficient
  • Built to Last
  • End-to-End Support
A Nestra garden room at dusk — pale vertical timber cladding, charcoal aluminium window frames, a single dark front door, warm interior light spilling onto a clipped lawn.
6 weeks
On-site, start to keys
24–58m²
Footprint range
€55k+
All-in, no surprises
12 yrs
Structural guarantee
—The Nestra estimator

A real price for your garden, in five minutes.

Tell us your garden size, pick a model, and choose your finishes. We'll show you photos as you go and email a written quote. No sales pitch, no pressure — just a number you can plan with.
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02What we build

Small homes that fit the way Irish gardens actually work.

Designed for parents to live near, for adult children to start out, for working from home or letting out — built off-site to a single high standard, then settled into your garden in days. We handle planning, foundations, services and finishes. You get the keys.
Studio 24 floor plan — 6.0 × 4.0 m multi-purpose studio.
Studio 24 →24 m²
Office · teen den · retreat
From €55,000Explore
Studio 34 floor plan — 7.0 × 5.0 m multi-purpose studio with WC.
Studio 34 →34 m²
Studio + compact WC
From €72,000Explore
Oak 32 floor plan — 8.0 × 4.0 m one-room layout with wet room and kitchenette.
Oak 32 →32 m²
1 room · wet room · kitchenette
From €82,000Explore
Elm 45 floor plan — 7.5 × 6.0 m two-bedroom layout with bathroom and garden door.
Elm 45 →45 m²
2 bed · kitchen + living
From €128,000Explore
03How it works

Frames built off-site, then settled into your garden in six on-site weeks.

01
Site visit
We walk the garden, listen, sketch. Free.
02
Design + planning
We draw the plans and lodge the application.
03
Off-site frame
Your home is framed in our workshop in Athlone.
04
Six weeks on-site
Foundations, set-down, finish — keys at week six.
↳ Interior · Elm 58, looking through to garden
04A recent build

The Brennan home, Wicklow

An Elm 58 placed quietly behind a stone wall, oriented to catch the morning. Larch cladding will silver in five years. The kitchen window faces the apple tree, on purpose.
ModelElm 58
SetMar 2026
CladdingIrish larch
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05The way we work
We build small. We finish well. We turn up when we said we would.
Nestra is run by builders, joiners and one architect, working out of a workshop in Athlone. Every home we build is one we'd put our own family in. There is no other way we know how to do this.

Walk your garden with us.

Free site visits, anywhere on the island. We'll bring the tape and a flask. No pressure, no upsell.
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