A timber-clad Móro home glowing at dusk, set in a landscaped Irish back garden with lawn, path and planting

Live lighter.

A certified, planning-exempt home for your garden. Built in Longford, installed in months.

12 weeks

From deposit to install. Your home is built offsite while the site is prepared, so you skip the long on-site build.

Starting from €95,000

Includes VAT, foundations, service connections and site clearance on a standard site.

€16,000 tax-free*

A year if you choose to let it, under rent-a-room relief on a certified home in your own garden.

* Subject to the Government maintaining rent-a-room relief, which we understand is intended. Letting income, tax treatment, mortgageability, insurance and valuation depend on your property and circumstances — please take your own advice from your lender, insurer, valuer and accountant.

The real difference

This is not a garden room.
It's a home.

Garden rooms, pods and cabins can look the part, but they fall short the moment you try to mortgage one, insure it or add real value with it — most simply aren't Building Regulations compliant. A Móro is, and it is one of the very few built to guarantee it.

Planning-exempt

Our units, built to 45 m² and under, are designed to sit within Ireland's rear-garden exemption, where the qualifying conditions are met. No application to lodge, nothing to wait on.

Building Regulations compliant

Meets the Building Regulations in full and is independently certified against them — not a garden structure built to look the part.

Permanent & insurable

Fixed and permanent once installed rather than a mobile unit, so it takes standard home insurance, subject to your insurer.

Mortgageable

A genuine, self-contained dwelling a bank can lend against — subject to the lender's own valuation and requirements.

Adds real value

Counts as demised living space when your property is valued, rather than sitting in the garden as a shed.

Yours to let

A legally lettable home that can turn the bottom of the garden into steady monthly income.

A true home extension, with all the value that brings. It simply stands on its own in the garden rather than being bolted to the house.

Planning exemption applies where the qualifying conditions are met, confirmed for your site. Mortgage, insurance, valuation and rental outcomes depend on your property and circumstances — confirm them with your lender, insurer, valuer and accountant.

A fibre-cement clad Móro glowing warm at dusk in a suburban garden
Live lighter

A real home. In your own garden. In months, not years.

The range

Three homes,
one certified system.

A deliberately focused range. Every one is a complete, certified home — the difference is how much room you need. Tap any home for the full detail.

Móro Studio in white render, a certified compact home in an Irish garden
Móro Studio

One bright room to live, sleep and cook in. The whole home, distilled to 32 m². BER A-rated, with a heat pump and radiators throughout.

Floor area
32 m²
Layout
One-bed studio
Starting from
€95,000
Explore the Studio →
Móro One in timber-effect cladding, a certified one-bedroom home at dusk
Móro One

A proper one-bedroom home, with the bedroom drawn off as its own quiet room. 45 m². BER A-rated, with a heat pump and radiators throughout.

Floor area
45 m²
Layout
One bedroom
Starting from
€135,000
Explore the One →
Móro One + Office in fibre-cement cladding, a certified home with a home office
Móro One + Office

The one-bedroom home, plus a dedicated room to work from — or to let. 45 m². BER A-rated, with a heat pump and radiators throughout.

Floor area
45 m²
Layout
One bed + office
Starting from
€155,000
Explore One + Office →
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Your buildIn progress

Being built in Longford.

Site
Utils
Factory
Fitout
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Move in
On track. Move-in Fri 17 Oct.
Your Móro being built in the Framespace factory
Today 09:40Glazed gable installed. Airtightness test underway.
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Your Móro account

Once you order,
watch it come to life.

Every Móro customer gets a private account to follow their build in real time, from foundations to the day you move in. No chasing for updates. Just open the app and see exactly where your home is.

  • Live progress through every stage of your build, the way you'd track a delivery
  • Photo updates from the factory and site, and a message away from your Móro guide
  • Your full certification pack, in one place, ready to download
A timber-clad Móro home glowing warm at dusk in an Irish back garden

Live lighter.

A real home, in your own garden, in months rather than years.

About Móro

A real home,
in the space you already have.

Móro makes compact, certified homes for calmer, lighter living. Designed in Ireland, built offsite, and delivered in months rather than years. We sell a feeling, not a floor area.

Our mission

To put an extra home within reach. Compact, certified, properly built homes that let people in Ireland live lighter, without the years, the fortune or the compromise of a garden shed.

What Móro stands for

The name is short on purpose. Four principles we won't compromise on.

M

Made properly

Certified, engineered and built like a house, because it is one. Full Building Regulations compliance, made in Longford.

Ó

Owned, for good

A genuine asset, not an ornament. Mortgageable, insurable and counted in your home's value. Yours to keep, let or pass on.

R

Real homes

Warm, planning-exempt living space you can actually live in. A proper bedroom, a full bathroom, an A-rated fabric.

O

Open and human

Honest prices, no jargon, no pressure. A named person with you from the first click to long after the keys.

Why we exist.

Ireland needs homes, and people need room to live: for an ageing parent, a grown-up child, a space to work, or a calmer chapter of their own. A full build takes years and a fortune. A shed isn't a home. Móro is the third way, a real, warm, properly built home that settles into your garden in a matter of months.

A fibre-cement clad Móro home glowing at dusk in an Irish garden
Framespace offsite manufacturing in Longford
Made in Ireland

Made by Framespace, in Longford.

Móro is the brand; Framespace is the certified offsite manufacturing system behind it, holding ISO 9001, EN 1090 and NSAI Agrément. Beautiful on the outside, serious underneath. It's how a home this compact can still be one you can mortgage, insure and pass on.

The Homely group

Móro is part of the Homely group.

The team behind Móro reviewing home designs together
The team behind Móro

Móro is part of the Homely group, the Irish home brand on a mission to turn renters into owners. Homely has already built a community of people who want a place of their own, and the guidance and tools to help them get there.

Móro is the natural next step. Where Homely helps people onto the ladder, Móro helps homeowners add a home: for an ageing parent, a grown-up child, an income, or simply a lighter way to live. Every Móro is designed in Ireland and built by Framespace, the group's certified offsite manufacturer, on the same system it uses for houses and apartments. One group, one belief: a good home should be within reach.

Shared mission

A good home, within reach. Homely for the first step onto the ladder; Móro for the next.

One community

Móro joins a community Homely has already built, with thousands already following along.

Irish through and through

Both built in Ireland, for the way people here actually live, and both here for the long run.

A white-render Móro home in an Irish garden

Ready when you are.

Three homes, one certified system.

A deliberately focused range, built on the same proven structural system and the same set of finishes. Tap any home for the full spec, finishes and pricing.

Móro Studio in white render

A self-contained studio.

A one-bed studio with open-plan living, a proper sleeping area and a full bathroom. The most affordable way into a certified home, and an easy one to let.

32 m²Floor area
1 modSingle lift install
WCFull bathroom
Starting from
€95,000
Móro One in timber-effect cladding

A complete one-bedroom home.

Open-plan kitchen, dining and living, an integrated utility with laundry and storage, a full bathroom and a separate double bedroom. A genuine home inside the planning-exempt band.

45 m²Floor area
2 modTwo-module install
~2.5 mCeiling height
Starting from
€135,000
Móro One + Office in fibre-cement cladding

One bed, plus a home office.

Our most versatile design. Two larger rooms for you to set out as you wish, a bedroom and a dedicated home office in the same 45 m² footprint. Live in it, work from it, or let it out.

45 m²Floor area
1 bedPlus home office
2 modTwo-module install
Starting from
€155,000
Inside

The 45 m² layout, to the millimetre.

Open-plan living, a proper double bedroom, a full bathroom and real storage. Every room is drawn and dimensioned before a single panel is cut, so nothing is left to chance on site. Bedrooms are sized to the same minimums used in new apartments (7.1 m² for a single, 11.4 m² for a double), so they are genuine, liveable rooms.

Dimensioned floor plan of the 45 m² Móro: bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and open-plan living
7.87 × 6.97 m
External footprint on its deck
23 m²
Open-plan living, kitchen & dining
11.6 m²
Double bedroom
4.7 m²
Full, level-access bathroom

A real home, room by room.

Open-plan living and dining, a proper double bedroom and a full, level-access bathroom. Not a token box in the garden, a home you would actually want to live in.

Interiors shown are illustrative, a sense of what you could do with the space rather than the finished specification.

45 m², with or without a home office.

The same footprint, drawn two ways: a one-bedroom home with generous storage and utility, or the One + Office, where the second room is set up as a home office or study rather than a bedroom.

Dimensioned floor plan of the one-bedroom 45 m² Móro
One · 45 m²
Dimensioned floor plan of the One + Office 45 m² Móro, with a home office in place of a second bedroom
One + Office · 45 m²

One home, many faces.

The same quiet home, dressed for its place. Five exterior finishes, at home in a leafy suburb or a city garden.

Móro One in white render
White Render
Móro One in timber effect cladding
Timber Effect Cladding
Móro One in fibre cement cladding
Fibre Cement Cladding
Móro One in aluminium standing seam
Aluminium Standing Seam
Móro One in brick slip
Brick Slip

Made in Ireland, properly.

Móro is the brand. Framespace is the certified, in-house manufacturing system behind it. Beautiful on the outside, serious underneath.

Framespace LGS system

Structure, certified

Every element designed and certified by a qualified structural engineer.

Fire & acoustic

Full suite of loaded fire and acoustic testing on the real system.

Fabric & comfort

Full thermal modelling. Warm, quiet, airtight homes that cost little to run.

ISO 9001 & Agrément

EN 1090 steel production, ISO 9001 and Irish Agrément. Audited yearly.

Made offsite

Built in a controlled factory. Precise, low-waste, weather-proof.

Scale to deliver

A serious manufacturing base. Móro can grow without a capacity ceiling.

See it priced.

Choose your model, finish and options and watch the price update live, VAT and delivery included.

Configure your Móro Book a call

Engineered. Certified.
Insurable.

Every Móro is built by Framespace in Longford on a fully certified, ISO-audited offsite system, which is why we'd rather compete on what's behind the wall than on price alone.

ISO 9001
ISO 9001
IQNet & NSAI quality system, audited annually.
EN 1090
CE / EN 1090
European structural steel conformity mark.
NSAI Agrément
NSAI Agrément
IAB Cert. 22/0429. LGS Building System.
A1 A2 A3 B1 B2 B3 C1 C/D E/F G A BER · SEAI
BER A std.
~3 m³/hr/m² airtight. Ahead of Building Regs.
Fully insurable
Standard residential cover, critical for mortgages.
PI PI INSURED Chartered structural engineers
PI insured
Chartered engineers, 3D steel-detailed, signed off.

A serious manufacturing base.
Not a shed.

Framespace has been manufacturing offsite in Longford since 2016. Up to 40% faster than traditional construction.

2016
Manufacturing since
Decade of certified offsite delivery.
120,000 ft²
Factory floor
Longford, Co. Longford. Ireland.
150
Factory team
People building homes in Longford, every day.
200+/yr
Homes a year
Framespace's current annual output, and growing.

Framespace uses both 2D closed-panel and 3D volumetric light-gauge steel systems. The right system is chosen per unit. All structural elements are designed using 3D steel-detailing software and signed off by qualified, PI-insured structural engineers.

A garden room can't do
what a Móro does.

Most garden rooms, pods and cabins aren't Building Regulations compliant. So they can't be mortgaged, insured, legally let, or counted toward your home's value. Framespace-built Móro homes are certified. That's the difference between a garden ornament and a home you own.

What Móro / Framespace stand behind

Independently certified, every year.

  • ✓ISO 9001 quality management. Accredited via IQNet & NSAI; audited annually by the NSAI.
  • ✓EN 1090 conformity for structural steel components. The European mark of factory-controlled production.
  • ✓Irish Agrément Board Certificate No. 22/0429 covering the LGS Building System.
  • ✓BER A standard. Airtightness of roughly 3 m³/hr/m², well ahead of current Building Regs.
  • ✓Fully insurable. Standard residential cover, not a specialist policy.
  • ✓PI-insured, in-house structural engineering. All elements 3D-detailed and certified.
Why it matters for buyers

An asset, not an ornament.

  • →Mortgageable. Modular to build, but once craned onto its foundations it is fixed and permanent, not a mobile or removable unit. That permanence, with full insurance and Agrément behind it, is what lets a bank lend. Most cabins they can't.
  • →Insurable. Standard residential cover applies. Not specialist policies.
  • →Rentable. A self-contained, compliant dwelling you can legally let for income.
  • →Adds to your valuation. Counts as demised living space when your property is valued. Not a shed in the garden.
  • →Compliant. Meets Building Regs. Works under the new Exempted Development rules and beyond.
  • →Audited. NSAI walk the factory floor every year. Quality isn't a marketing claim.
  • →Built to last. Engineered design life consistent with conventional houses.
Compliance checklist

Not all garden buildings
are equal.

Ireland's new 2026 exemption (Class 3A) lets you place a home in your rear garden without planning permission. But only if it meets every condition. A certified Móro is built to. Most garden sheds and log cabins simply can't.

What the rules require
MóroMóro
Shed / cabinShed
Planning-exempt in your rear garden under Class 3A
✓
✕
Built to the Building Regulations in full, including fire safety
✓
✕
A permanent home. Not a caravan, mobile or temporary structure
✓
✕
32–45 m² of habitable space, roof height within the 4 m limit
✓
✕
Independently certified. NSAI Agrément, ISO 9001, EN 1090
✓
✕
BER A. Airtight, insulated and warm all year
✓
✕
Fully insurable and mortgageable
✓
✕
Counts as habitable living space in your home's valuation
✓
✕
Compliant siting. Boundary set-backs, access and 25 m² of garden kept
✓
✕
Help with your planning submission
✓
✕
Building Control certification. Commencement Notice, assigned certifier and a Certificate of Compliance on Completion
✓
✕

Based on Ireland's new back-garden exemption (Class 3A), which came into force on 27th July 2026 and runs to end-2030. Conditions apply per site and we confirm your eligibility before you order. Available to owner-occupiers only, not investors or companies. The homeowner lives in the main house and the unit shares its services. Letting is allowed; short-term letting is not. Any Rent a Room tax relief depends on your circumstances, so confirm it with your accountant.

What's in the price.
What's not.

Our prices are clear. Foundations, standard service connections and site clearance are in the figure for a standard site. Anything your garden needs beyond that is priced after the site survey, before you sign. The full standard specification and site conditions are set out in a three-page document you can read before you enquire.

Included in the price

The home, on its foundations, connected.

  • ✓Manufactured structure, envelope, roof, windows and doors.
  • ✓Insulation, airtightness and Cedral timber-effect cladding. A-rated fabric.
  • ✓Air-to-water heat pump as standard, ready for second-fix finishes.
  • ✓Foundations for normal ground conditions.
  • ✓Standard service connections to the property, subject to early confirmation that your connections are of a standard setting.
  • ✓Standard site clearance and preparation (typically around €4,000; unusually difficult sites are quoted separately).
  • ✓Delivery to site and installation by the Framespace crew.
  • ✓Full certification pack. Agrément, BER and structural sign-off.
  • ✓A dedicated customer manager and 12 months of aftercare.
  • ✓VAT. Every price we quote includes VAT.
Not included. Genuinely site-specific

The site, and the extras you choose.

  • →The site itself.
  • →Non-standard groundworks: piling or retaining works if poor ground is found.
  • →Off-mains services: septic tank or wastewater treatment, well or borehole.
  • →Driveway, paving, fencing and landscaping.
  • →Professional fees, only if a planning application is needed (most exempt sites won't).
  • →Planning levies and development contributions (where applicable).
  • →Premium cladding, glazing and interior upgrades. Priced live in the configurator.
  • →Internal fit-out beyond standard: premium kitchen and fitted wardrobes.

From deposit to install
in 12 weeks.

About 12 weeks from deposit to install. Your home is built offsite while your site is prepared in parallel, so you skip the long on-site build.

Wk 0
Phase 01
Order & design freeze
Configurator confirmed, deposit paid, site survey returned.
Wk 1–4
Phase 02
Site prep in parallel
Boundary works, services, drainage and foundations advanced while we manufacture.
Wk 6–12
Phase 03
Factory build
Structure, envelope, windows, doors, insulation, airtightness. Assembled offsite.
Wk 10–14
Phase 04
Delivery & hand-over
Crane on, install, second-fix, certification pack, keys.

In line with CIF.
Not the cheapest.

CIF aligned
Construction Industry Federation

Pricing sits in line with CIF standard build costs. A certified, A-rated, fully insurable home cannot be delivered at "shed" prices. What you get: engineered, certified, insurable, mortgageable. Built fast offsite.

One clear figure, agreed before you sign

Foundations, standard connections and site clearance are already in the price. The only real variables are the site itself and any off-mains services or upgrades you choose.

You see the figure up-front, and we confirm your site is standard before anything is committed.

Built to a standard you can stand behind.

Móro is live. Enquire now to be first in line, or design your home and see the price now.

Enquire now Configure your Móro

Design your Móro.

Make it yours. From model and cladding to finishes. Every detail is up to you, and the price updates live. No quote wall.

Your Móro, as configured
Choose your base model
The starting point. Everything else builds on this.
Choose your cladding
The exterior finish — it changes the look, and the live preview.
Choose your roof finish
Interior finish
The level of finish inside. Kitchen, joinery and fittings.
Bespoke is priced on application, following your design consultation.
Furniture pack
An optional pack added onto any interior finish. Price on application.
Optional upgrades
Nice-to-haves. A heat pump, radiators and integrated white goods come as standard on every home.
Base home, incl. VAT€95,000
Interior finishIncluded
Cladding & roofIncluded
Furniture pack—
Upgrades—
As configured, incl VAT€95,000
Price ex VAT€83,700
VAT at 13.5%€11,300
20% deposit to reserve & build€19,000
Balance on installation day€76,000

Every price includes VAT, delivery and installation on a standard site. Any extra site work is priced after the survey, before you sign. To spread the cost, talk to your bank or mortgage lender about the financing options available to you.

Submit your configuration

Illustrative estimate only, VAT included, for the home. This is not a quote. Any quote follows a site inspection and is subject to contract. Excludes site works, foundations beyond the standard allowance and service connections.

Rent it out

Could it pay for itself?

Put a Móro in the garden and let it. Pick your home, set the rent, and see how quickly it pays for itself.

Choose your home
Monthly rent€1,150
€900€2,500

Rent-a-room relief lets you take up to €16,000 a year (about €1,333 a month) tax-free, while you keep living in the main house. Your own tax position is worth checking with an accountant.

Pays for itself in
7.2 yrs
A year in rent€13,800
All tax-free under the rent-a-room scheme, while you live in the main house.

Illustrative, before running costs and any finance. Rent-a-room relief conditions apply. Short-term letting is not permitted under the exemption.

Enquire now.

Móro is live and orders are open. Enquire now for early access and first pick of build slots. Prefer to talk it through first? Book a call with our customer care team.

Prefer to talk?
Book a call with customer care

A relaxed call with our team to answer your questions and talk through your site. No pressure and no sales script.

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Inside the Framespace factory in Longford

We handle everything.
You just move in.

Every Móro is built in the Framespace factory in Longford, while your site is prepared in parallel. That is how a real, certified home lands in months, not years.

The process

From our factory floor to your foundations.

Four phases, and around 12 weeks from deposit to keys. Your home is built in our Longford factory, while your site is prepared in parallel, so nothing waits in a queue.

01
Week 0

Design & order

Configure your Móro online, book a call with our team, then lock in your model and finish and pay your deposit. We survey the site and confirm your Class 3A exemption.

  • Configure your Móro online
  • Book in a call with our team
  • Lock in your model & pay your deposit
02
Weeks 1–4

Site prep, in parallel

While your home is built, your foundations, drainage and service connections go in. This is where the time saving comes from.

  • Boundary works & access
  • Water, power and drainage to site
  • Pad or strip foundation
03
Weeks 4–10

Factory build

Your home is built offsite in our Longford factory, weatherproof throughout and finished to CNC tolerances before it ever leaves.

  • Steel frame & roof structure
  • Windows, doors, insulation, airtightness
  • Quality-checked before dispatch
04
Weeks 10–12

Delivery & keys

Craned onto your foundations, often in a single day. External finish, second fix, the full certification pack, and the keys.

  • Craned into place
  • External finish + second fix
  • Cert pack (BER, Agrément, insurance) + keys
Plus 12 months of aftercare as standard. We don't disappear once the keys are handed over.
Before you build

Find your council, and where the notice goes.

Class 3A needs a short planning notification to your local authority at least 14 days before works begin. Tap your county for your council, the notification template, and where to send it. We handle this paperwork with you as part of your build.

Carlow Cavan Clare Cork Donegal Dublin Galway Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Laois Leitrim Limerick Longford Louth Mayo Meath Monaghan Offaly Roscommon Sligo Tipperary Waterford Westmeath Wexford Wicklow
Your local authority

Tap your county.

Ireland has 31 local authorities across 26 counties. Select yours for the details.

← Choose your county on the map.

Ready when you are.

Design your Móro and see the price in minutes, then enquire. Our customer care team is on hand any time.

Design your Móro Book a call
FAQ

Questions, answered.

The things people ask us most. Can't find it here? Send us a note. We reply within a working day.

Planning & exemption06
Most likely not. Under the Class 3A planning exemption introduced in July 2026, an eligible homeowner can place one detached 32–45 m² dwelling in the rear garden without a planning application, provided all conditions are met. A key requirement is full compliance with the Building Regulations. Every Móro home is designed to comply, but several site-specific elements need to be considered too. Without these, the Class 3A exemption does not apply and you may be in breach of the planning regulations and subject to enforcement.
Class 3A allows one detached 32–45 m² garden dwelling without planning permission up to the end of 2030, subject to conditions. These include owner-occupation of the main home when works begin, Building Regulations compliance, maximum roof heights of 4 m pitched or 3 m flat, at least 0.6 m from boundaries, at least 25 m² of remaining private open space, no separate sale from the main house and no short-term letting.
Móro homes are manufactured by Framespace using its NSAI-certified building system (Irish Agrément Certificate 22/0429). Compliance is then dealt with through the Building Control process and certification for your individual project.
Two steps are required before work starts: a planning notification to your Local Authority at least 14 days before works commence, and a Commencement Notice to Building Control within the required 14–28 day window. The Building Control process identifies the builder/manufacturer and Assigned Certifier. We manage this process with you. Find your council and download its Class 3A notification template on our interactive council map.
It is for homeowners. You must own the main house and use it as your sole or main residence when works begin. The main house cannot already be subdivided into separate units. The Móro can then be used by a family member or tenant under licence; you do not have to occupy it yourself. We confirm eligibility at site survey stage.
Existing sheds, garages or greenhouses over 13 m² can count towards the 45 m² Class 3A limit. If they take the site over the permitted limit, part or all of an existing structure may need to be removed or reduced. We check this at site survey stage.
The build05
Yes. Although the relevant Building Regulations do not prescribe minimum bedroom sizes for a house in the same way as apartments, we design Móro bedrooms to comparable apartment standards. In the Móro One 45 m² layout, the double bedroom is 11.6 m², alongside 23 m² of open-plan living/kitchen/dining space and a 4.7 m² level-access bathroom.
Every Móro is designed to BER A performance, with a heat pump as standard and airtightness of approximately 3 m³/hr/m². We also provide a BER certificate on completion, even though a BER certificate is not legally required for a dwelling under 50 m².
Each Móro uses Framespace's light-gauge steel building system, CNC-cut and assembled in its 120,000 sq ft Longford factory. The standard finish is Cedral timber-effect fibre-cement, with render, metal or aluminium standing seam available as upgrades. The system holds NSAI Irish Agrément Certificate 22/0429 and the steel is recyclable at end of life.
Most sites use a simple pad or strip foundation on firm, level ground, included within the standard allowance. Sloping, soft or sensitive sites may require different foundations or additional groundworks. Any additional cost is identified in your proposal before you commit.
Framespace has manufactured offsite since 2016 and has delivered more than 500 houses and apartments for developers, State bodies, Local Authorities, Approved Housing Bodies and private clients. Móro uses the same NSAI-certified building system.
Money & value06
Because a Móro is a certified residential home, not simply a garden room. It is built using Framespace's NSAI-certified system to comply with the Building Regulations, is designed to BER A performance and comes with the project certification and professional protections associated with a new home. That specification and certification are reflected in the price.
A Móro is designed and certified as a compliant residential dwelling and is eligible for HomeBond if selected. Some lenders will lend against a Móro and most home insurers can insure it, but lender and insurer criteria vary. We recommend confirming your position with your own lender and insurer before proceeding.
A Móro is designed as planning-exempt, certified residential accommodation and may therefore be taken into account when your property is valued. The effect on value depends on the property, location, specification and the individual valuer or lender. If value or borrowing capacity is important to your decision, take independent advice from a qualified valuation surveyor and/or your lender. We can provide the technical and certification information they need.
Yes. A Móro is a self-contained residential dwelling and can be used as a home for a parent or adult child, as a home office, or as a rental. Short-term letting such as Airbnb is not permitted under Class 3A. Rent-a-Room relief may become relevant to garden dwellings, subject to the scheme being extended and to your individual circumstances, so take tax advice before relying on it.
The standard price includes the manufactured and finished home, site clearance, standard foundations and service connections, kitchen and appliances, bathroom, heating, wiring, plumbing, finishes, delivery, installation, certification pack and the required Local Authority and Building Control paperwork. Landscaping and specification upgrades are extra and are agreed in advance.
A 20% deposit reserves your Móro and books your factory slot, and the balance is due on installation day. Every price includes VAT, delivery and installation on a standard site. Any extra site work is priced after the survey, before you sign. If you would like to spread the cost, talk to your bank or mortgage lender about the different financing options available to you.
Ordering & delivery03
Approximately 12 weeks from contract signing and deposit payment to delivery, installation and handover, subject to site conditions and the required approvals and notifications. Offsite manufacture can run in parallel with site preparation.
Across Ireland. Móro homes are manufactured by Framespace in Longford and delivered to site. Crane access and suitable utility connections are key site requirements and are checked during the site survey.
Every Móro comes with its certification pack, applicable design and product warranties, Professional Indemnity cover and 12 months of dedicated aftercare. HomeBond can also be arranged if selected. A Customer Success Manager supports you from order through handover and aftercare.
Certification03
Yes. Certification should be checked before buying any garden dwelling intended as a home. For an offsite-built dwelling, obtain written confirmation from a suitably qualified and insured Assigned Certifier that the proposed home can comply with the Building Regulations and Building Control process. Móro is specifically designed around those requirements.
Before occupation, the relevant certifier must confirm compliance with the Building Regulations and a Certificate of Compliance on Completion (CCC) must be registered with Building Control. Móro provides the required project documentation and certification process, including the CCC on completion.
You receive the full certification pack together with applicable design and product warranties for key elements of the home. Professional Indemnity insurance is maintained during the project.

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Registered partners

Help us build Ireland's
lighter homes.

We're rolling Móro out nationally, and we can't do it from Longford alone. If you're a builder, a groundworks or crane contractor, or a supplier who can help deliver Móro homes in your region, we'd like to hear from you.

Installers Groundworks & foundations Delivery & craning Supply chain
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Ways to partner with Móro.

A national rollout needs a trusted local network. We're building a register of vetted partners across four areas.

Registered installers

Local building contractors trained and certified to prepare sites and install Móro units to our spec.

Groundworks & foundations

Groundworks contractors for foundations, drainage and service connections, running in parallel with our build.

Delivery & craning

Haulage and mobile-crane operators to move and place modules safely on install day.

Supply chain

Manufacturers and suppliers of materials, finishes, kitchens, glazing and renewables we need to scale.

What we look for

Proven track record

Relevant experience, references and the right insurance and certifications.

Regional coverage

Capacity to serve a county or region reliably as demand builds.

Quality first

A finish and standard that matches a certified, mortgageable home.

Shared values

Honest, tidy, calm delivery. The way we like to work.

Apply to join the register.

Tell us who you are and how you'd like to work with us. We review every application and come back to you. Usually within a few working days. With the next steps and our partner pack.

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Partnerships team

Send your company profile and coverage area and we'll take it from there.

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Partner application
Register your interest.
How can you help? (tick all that apply)

We'll only use your details to assess your application and contact you about partnering with Móro.

Hospitality

Móro for hospitality.

Thinking of setting up a hospitality business? We partner with you on a full white-glove service, from the first idea to the day your guests arrive. The same certified homes behind Móro, delivered as a scheme built entirely around your model.

From a single lodge to a full site.

Whether it is a cluster of luxury lodges, a glamping site or a boutique retreat, we take the stress out of setting up a new hospitality business in Ireland. Most schemes start at three units, and we can deliver up to 20 to 30 units per scheme, designed, certified and installed around your model.

Holiday & short lets

Turnkey, certified units for holiday-home portfolios and self-catering sites.

Glamping & eco-retreats

Warm, A-rated cabins that stay comfortable and rentable all year, not just in summer.

Lodge parks & resorts

Clusters of high-end lodges for a resort, holiday park or destination stay.

Tourism & wellness retreats

Calm, warm, year-round spaces for wellness, activity and experience-led stays.

A Framespace development

Drumhierny Woodland Hideaway.

Just outside Leitrim Village, Framespace, the certified manufacturer behind Móro, delivered 16 high-end holiday chalets set in the woods. Each is BER A rated and sits on a screw-pile foundation, so no concrete was needed on site. It is the same offsite system that builds every Móro, scaled into a working hospitality business.

A Framespace-built holiday chalet at Drumhierny Woodland Hideaway, set in the woods near Leitrim Village
Drumhierny Woodland Hideaway, delivered by Framespace. Architect: Davitt Plan & Design Associates.
16Holiday chalets
BER AEvery unit
Screw-pileNo concrete on site
LeitrimJust outside the village
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A hospitality scheme falls outside the planning exemption.

The Class 3A garden exemption covers a single home behind your own house, not a hospitality development. A scheme like this needs full planning permission, and usually input on fire, access, services and the environment. That is exactly what the white-glove service is for. We handle the design and the certified build, and work alongside you and your planning team, so setting it up is far less daunting than going it alone.

The white-glove service

We take the stress off you.

01 · Scope

We start with your model, site and numbers, and shape a unit mix and layout around it.

02 · Design & planning

Planning-ready drawings and full certification, coordinated with your planning consultant.

03 · Manufacture

Phased factory delivery from Longford, built to the same certified standard as every Móro.

04 · Install & support

Delivery, install and handover across the whole scheme, with one point of contact throughout.

Tell us what you're building.

Send us a few details on your project and a Móro hospitality rep will be in touch to set up a consultation call. No obligation, just a proper conversation about what is possible.

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Hospitality team

Tell us the type of project, rough number of units and location, and we'll take it from there.

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Hospitality enquiry
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Journal

The Móro journal.

Notes on compact living, Irish planning, and building a home that lasts.

A timber-clad Móro at dusk in an Irish back garden
Housing · New

Your garden could earn you €16,000 a year, tax free

Thousands of Irish homeowners are sitting on garden space that could legally house a person or family, in months not years. Under rent-a-room relief, that same space can earn up to €16,000 a year, tax free.

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New writing from the Móro team, added regularly.

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Housing

Your garden could earn you €16,000 a year, tax free

Móro Journal · October 2026 · 4 min read

And play a real part in Ireland's housing crisis.

Ireland has a housing problem. You already know this. Families stuck on waiting lists. Young people living at home into their thirties, and their forties. Renters paying prices that make saving for a deposit feel like a joke. The planning system moves slowly, and large developments take years from conception to a front door opening.

There is something that could help right now. Not in five years. Not after a planning battle. Right now.

Thousands of Irish homeowners are sitting on garden space and land that could legally house another person or family. No single garden unit, an Accessory Dwelling Unit or ADU, is going to fix Irish housing. But if even a fraction of eligible homeowners acted on this, you are talking about real homes for real people in existing communities, delivered in months not years. That is not nothing. For the person or family who gets housed, it is everything.

And it works for you too

Under rent-a-room relief, income from renting a qualifying ADU on your property is exempt from income tax up to €16,000 a year. That is money generated from land you already own and are currently not using. No additional income, or even a pension supplement. No second property to buy. Just existing space, properly used, generating real value for both you and the occupant.

This is where people get caught out

The market for garden structures has moved fast, and almost none of it is built to the high standard required to rent a unit legally and claim the tax relief. The new Exempted Development regulations set a clear technical threshold for what qualifies as an ADU. Fire safety. Disability access. Structural and energy performance. A unit that does not meet these is not a rentable dwelling. It is a garden room. You cannot put a tenant in it. You cannot claim the €16,000 relief. It is very difficult to insure and almost impossible to take out a mortgage on.

Before signing anything with anyone, ask them directly: will this unit meet full Building Regulations compliance? Does it satisfy the Exempted Development technical standards? Can I legally rent it and claim rent-a-room relief? If the answers are vague, walk away.

What we built Móro to do

Every Móro home is manufactured by Framespace to the full Building Regulations. Fire separation and detection designed in from the start. Level access and door widths that meet Part M requirements. A structure your local authority, your insurer, your tenant and your lender can all stand behind.

We started Móro because we believe Ireland's current homeowners have a practical, and a moral, near-term role to play in the country's housing situation. Not a silver bullet on its own. Just a real option that puts a roof over someone's head today, in your community, while making your property work harder for you.

Your garden is probably doing nothing. It could be doing quite a lot.

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Every Móro is a real, certified home — BER A, fully insurable, built on Framespace's NSAI-certified system. The exact standard this piece is about.

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Certification

Planning-exempt is not standards-exempt

Móro Journal · By Frank Madden, CEO of Framespace · 6 min read

The new garden-home exemption is a genuine opportunity for Irish homeowners. Just make sure the home you put in your garden is a real one.

Ireland has just introduced one of the most practical housing measures we have seen in years. The new exempted development regulations let you place a self-contained home of between 32 and 45 square metres in your back garden, without a planning application, whether it is for your own use or for someone else to live in. At Framespace we welcome it warmly. Used well, it could put thousands of high-quality homes into gardens across the country, in months rather than years.

But there is one point every homeowner needs to understand before they spend a cent, and it is easy to miss in the excitement.

No planning permission does not mean no rules

The exemption removes the planning application. It does not remove the building regulations. A home meant to be lived in all year round still has to comply, in full, with the Building Regulations and the Building Control Regulations that apply to any other new home in Ireland. Structural safety, fire safety, ventilation, insulation, energy performance, accessibility. All of it.

In fact the two are linked. If a garden dwelling does not meet the building regulations, it may not qualify for the planning exemption at all. So a cheap unit that skips the standards is not just a lower-quality home. It may not be a legal one.

Why NSAI certification is the thing to look for

This is where certification by the National Standards Authority of Ireland matters, and matters greatly. There is a common source of confusion here worth clearing up. You will often see products described as CE marked. CE marking covers individual building products. It does not cover a whole building system, and it does not tell you how all those components behave together as a finished structure.

NSAI certification does exactly that. For modern methods of construction, which includes offsite and modular homes like ours, the NSAI provides the technical evaluation, quality testing and certification that proves a complete system is safe and compliant. It looks at how the building performs as a whole in real Irish conditions: adverse weather, noise, cold, heat and the range of sites a home might sit on. The new exemption does not change any of that. The NSAI's role is as important as ever.

This is not just our opinion. The Government's own information note on these homes says the same thing in plain terms: modern methods of construction, which includes modular, should be certified by NSAI Agrément. That same note is clear that a garden home still needs a Building Control commencement notice and an assigned certifier before work starts, and a Certificate of Compliance on Completion that has to be registered before anyone can move in. It is the standard we build to as a matter of course.

What happens if you get this wrong

An uncertified unit dropped into a back garden is unlikely to be financeable. It is unlikely to be insurable for use as a home. And where cover is offered, a claim can be refused later if the insurer finds the unit never complied in the first place. That is a hard lesson to learn after you have handed over a large sum of money.

Your checklist before you buy

Before you sign anything with any supplier, make sure you can tick off every one of these:

  • ✓The home genuinely qualifies for the exemption and satisfies every condition.
  • ✓It is designed and made to comply in full with the building regulations: accessibility, structural safety, fire safety, ventilation, insulation and energy performance.
  • ✓All building control and certification requirements are met.
  • ✓The maker provides structural engineering and design certification, with professional indemnity cover behind it.
  • ✓You know the Building Energy Rating (BER) of the finished home.
  • ✓Electrical and plumbing work is completed and certified by qualified contractors.
  • ✓It can be connected safely to water, wastewater and electricity.
  • ✓The maker can show a full set of engineering, design and certification documents proving it is fit for permanent living.
  • ✓You get warranties comparable to standard house-building, covering latent and other defects.
  • ✓The home is insurable specifically for residential use.

If a supplier is vague on any of these, treat that as your answer, and walk away.

Why we can say all this with a straight face

Framespace is not new to this. For more than ten years we have designed, manufactured and installed apartments, houses and duplexes for some of the country's leading developers and for State-funded bodies, all to exacting standards, from our facility in Longford. Delivering real homes offsite is in our DNA.

Our NSAI certification was hard-earned. The NSAI evaluated our structures, their airtightness and ventilation, their acoustic and thermal performance, audited our factory and our processes, and checked how we install on site. We are also a HomeBond registered contractor, one of very few modular builders in Ireland that is. Móro is the garden home built on that same certified system.

A window worth using well

This exemption is time-limited and is set to expire at the end of 2030. My hope is that over the next few years we see strong demand met by genuinely high-quality supply, alongside real regulatory oversight of everyone making these homes. I would be glad to see other manufacturers achieve NSAI certification too, so that together we can deliver compliant garden homes at the scale Ireland needs.

Good regulation protects everyone. It protects homeowners making a significant investment. It protects the people who will live in these homes. And it protects the responsible manufacturers who have done the work to meet Ireland's standards. Every habitable home, including a home in a garden, deserves nothing less.

Frank Madden is the founder and CEO of Framespace, the certified manufacturer behind Móro.

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Planning

The 45 m² rule

Móro Journal · October 2026 · 6 min read

For the first time, Irish homeowners can add a full second home to their back garden without a planning application. Here is exactly what the new 2026 rules allow, and where the limits sit.

Until now, anything you placed in your garden without planning permission was capped at 25 square metres and could not be used as living accommodation. It was a shed, an office or a store, and nothing more. The Planning and Development (Exempted Development) Regulations 2026, which came into force on 27th July 2026, introduce a new category, Class 3A, that changes the picture completely. A self-contained house of up to 45 square metres can be placed in the rear garden of an existing home with no planning application at all.

It is one of the fastest housing levers the State has, arriving at a time when Ireland needs to build in the region of 35,000 homes a year. Instead of waiting on a planning system under strain, a homeowner can add a compliant home in a matter of months.

The numbers that define it

The exemption is precise. The home must be between 32 and 45 square metres of floor area. A pitched, tiled or slated roof can rise to 4 metres, while any other roof is capped at 3 metres. You have to retain at least 25 square metres of private open space in the garden, and the structure must sit at least 0.6 metres back from any boundary or party wall, with any windows at least 0.6 metres from the boundary they face.

Before work starts, you notify your local Planning Authority at least 14 days in advance, stating the location and the Eircode and confirming that the site meets the conditions. Each authority keeps a register of these notifications and reports the numbers to the Minister every year.

Compliance is not optional

The word "exempt" refers to planning permission only. The full Building Regulations still apply, including Part B for fire safety, along with the Building Control Regulations. The home cannot be temporary in nature, so a caravan or mobile unit does not qualify. In practice that means a properly engineered, certified building, which is exactly where most garden cabins fall down.

What it is, and is not

Class 3A adds a home to your property, it does not split it in two. You keep living in the main house, the unit shares its services, and it cannot be sold or subdivided separately. You can let it on the private market. Depending on your circumstances, that income may qualify for Rent a Room relief, up to €16,000 a year tax free while you live in the main house, though the tax position sits outside the planning rules and is always worth confirming with your accountant. Short-term letting is not permitted, and there is no new entrance onto the road.

A few situations fall outside Class 3A. It is only open to owner-occupiers: you have to own the main house and be living in it as your sole or main residence on the day works begin, so it is not available to investors, companies, charities or institutional owners. It does not apply if the main house has already been divided into separate units. You cannot form a new entrance onto the road, and the garden home shares the existing water and drainage rather than taking its own connection, so where a house is on a septic tank that tank has to have spare capacity. And if a site would need an environmental assessment, or an old planning condition restricts further building on it, the exemption switches off and normal permission is needed. These are exactly the checks we run at the site survey, before you commit.

One point worth knowing, and one that housing groups such as Threshold have raised publicly, is that as the rules stand a person renting one of these garden homes is treated as a licensee rather than a Residential Tenancies Board tenant. If you do let one, our view is simple: build it properly and treat the person living in it like a tenant, because a real, certified home deserves nothing less.

The window runs to the end of 2030: a home completed by 31st December 2030 keeps the exemption after that date. For homeowners with a suitable garden, it is a genuinely new option, and it is the exact envelope a certified Móro is designed to fit.

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Compliance

Garden room or real home?

Móro Journal · October 2026 · 6 min read

In a photo, a garden room and a certified home can look identical. On paper, and in your bank's eyes, they are worlds apart.

The garden-building market is crowded with pods, cabins and rooms that photograph beautifully. The difference shows up the moment you try to do something real with the space: use it as a genuine home, borrow against the house, insure it properly, or sell up and expect the building to count. Most of these products are not built to the Building Regulations, are not independently certified, and do not register as habitable living space.

The five questions worth asking

Before buying anything for the garden, ask whether it is certified to a recognised standard. A Móro carries ISO 9001 quality management (accredited through IQNet and the NSAI), EN 1090 conformity for its structural steel, and Irish Agrément Board Certificate No. 22/0429 for the building system, all audited by the NSAI every year. Ask whether it hits BER A, with airtightness of around 3 cubic metres per hour per square metre, well ahead of current regulations. Ask whether it is fully insurable, so a bank will actually lend against it. Ask whether the structural design is signed off by PI-insured engineers. And ask whether it will count in your property's valuation. For a typical flat-pack cabin, the honest answer to most of those is no.

The numbers behind the gap

The clearest place to see the difference is heat. A typical garden room loses heat at a U-value of around 0.35 to 0.45. The legal maximum for a dwelling is 0.18, and a genuinely compliant compact home needs walls closer to 0.14 and a floor around 0.10. Put simply, most garden rooms leak two to three times more heat than a home is allowed to, which is why they cannot pass as habitable space, cost a fortune to run, and will never carry a BER A rating.

Why certified costs more, and why it is worth it

The gap is measurable in euro too. Turnkey garden rooms sell for roughly 1,700 to 2,500 euro per square metre, while a habitable, compliant unit costs closer to 3,000 to 3,500 euro and up, which puts a 45 square metre compliant home somewhere around 120,000 to 155,000 euro. A fully certified, A-rated, fully insurable home built to the current regulations simply cannot be delivered at the prices some uncertified suppliers advertise. Móro's own pricing sits in line with Construction Industry Federation standard build costs, and the manufactured home is roughly 65 to 75 percent of the total keys-in-the-door figure once site works, connections and fees are added. Móro's own prices, which include VAT, delivery and installation on a standard site, run from 95,000 euro for the studio to 155,000 euro for the one-bed-with-office.

People in the trade expect the new rules to split the market in two. The builder Joe Savage has warned of a coming divide between a sub-standard shed at around 60,000 euro and a properly compliant home at around 130,000, with buyers who go cheap finding out too late that they cannot rent, insure, mortgage or even legally live in what they bought. Móro is built for the right side of that line.

What that buys is an asset rather than an ornament. It holds its value the way a stick-built house does, insures under a standard residential policy, has an engineered design life comparable to a conventional home, and stands up to Irish weather for decades. That is the real line between something in the garden and a home you own.

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Every Móro is a real, certified home — BER A, fully insurable, built on Framespace's NSAI-certified system. The exact standard this piece is about.

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Design

Living lighter

Móro Journal · October 2026 · 5 min read

A compact home does not have to feel cramped. Light, proportion and honest materials do far more than square metres ever could.

People often worry that a compact home will feel cramped. In practice, the spaces that feel most generous are rarely the largest. A Móro One fits a full open-plan living area, kitchen, bathroom and double bedroom into 45 square metres, and it reads as a home rather than a box because of how it is designed, not how big it is.

Light does the heavy lifting

Ceilings sit at around 2.5 metres and each module is 3.485 metres wide, which keeps the main living space open and calm. Large, well-placed windows and the option of full-height glazed doors pull the garden inside, so even the 32 square metre Studio feels like a retreat. A BER A rating and airtightness of roughly 3 cubic metres per hour per square metre keep the home warm and quiet, with running costs a fraction of an older build.

Less, but better

Built-in storage, an integrated utility with laundry, and a single considered material palette all buy back room without adding a metre. Móro works from seven warm tones, from sand and stone to clay, timber, moss and charcoal, and offers five exterior finishes, so the same quiet home can sit comfortably in a rural townland or a city garden.

Because every home is built offsite in a controlled factory in Longford, the finish is precise and the tolerances are tight. Whether it becomes a home office, a gym, a studio, a guest room, independent space for a parent or a home of its own, living lighter is not about doing without. It is about keeping what matters and letting the rest go.

Certified, not cabin

Every Móro is a real, certified home — BER A, fully insurable, built on Framespace's NSAI-certified system. The exact standard this piece is about.

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