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Vaughan's excellent range of bathroom wall lights, as used in the Doonbeg Golf Club are IP44 rated with an ingenious water-proof fitting covering a small G9 bulb. This allows lampshades to be legally used on wall lights in a bathroom setting, providing an attractive warm atmosphere so often lacking in areas close to water. They are wired into the existing mains voltage - requiring no major rewiring. These have proved very popular with Hotel Groups and Doonbeg have used them throughout the Golf Club in various styles.
About the Hotel
Anchored by a Lodge daringly conceived by architect John Haley as a country house in the late Elizabethan style - all jutting gables and dormers, with mullioned bay windows and muscular stack chimneys, the building contains 15 elegantly furnished one to three-bedroom suites spread across three floors. Several feature winding staircases which add a touch of drama to the general feel of cosy luxury. There are also formal dining rooms and, in one wing, a club house including spacious bar, lounge, and billiards room. Locker rooms and a spa occupy the basement.
Set around the Lodge are lime-rendered buildings in a vernacular cottage style which house another 32 suites and form a courtyard that fulfils one of the concept's key objectives, to create, in Haley's words, "a shelter, an oasis from the rawness of the site." The $150 million development as a whole combines a bold creative vision with imaginative and eclectic use of furnishings and materials, and sensitivity to the geography and culture of the surroundings.
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