SUNDAY TIMES - Finn Lough: The £35,000 bubble dome: view not included

Publication: Sunday Times

Date: 27/08/2017

THE £35,000 BUBBLE DOME: VIEW NOT INCLUDED

The pressurised PVC chamber has 215 sq ft of living space that includes an ensuite with a rolltop bath, perfect for stargazing.

First came the shed, then the chalet, the lodge, the rustic cabin, the shepherd’s hut — we all know who bought one of those earlier this summer — and now the Dome. The blue-sky brainchild of Michael Beare, 33, a former City banker, the Dome is your chance to live, literally, in your own bubble. The pressurised PVC chamber has a diameter of 16ft; with an entrance hall and an ensuite with a rolltop bath, perfect for stargazing, there’s 215 sq ft of living space.

Beare has developed seven bubbles that are dotted around the woods of Finn Lough, the holiday resort near Enniskillen, in Co Fermanagh, where he grew up, and which he and his sister now run. In the wake of the recession…