GOOD TO see that interior designer Helen Turkington is not being overly affected by the recession, judging by her expansion plans in south Dublin. Having brought black, white and silver to Ranelagh some years back with the opening of her chi chi shop on Dunville Avenue, she is now going to open a second store, this time on Clonskeagh Road, at Terminus Mills.

The two-storey former industrial premises is set to be transformed, Turkington-style, to appeal to the vast middle-class hinterland.