THE INTERIOR of 55 Waterloo Road (see page 8) is wall-to-wall with ideas to steal. But the study focuses on another element altogether, the floor. The art-nouveau style tiled floor is not architectural salvage but new and made from concrete. The tiles add colour and texture and authenticity. They come in a mixed box which expressly tells you not to try and form a pattern. They cost €85.50 a sq m and require minimum maintenance.

The cherrywood Radius desk and Regent swivel chair are both by American Designer Thomas Moser, as are many other pieces in the house. They cost €7.250 and €1,575 respectively. The easel was an art-shop buy.

Elsewhere there is an extremely elegant and ladylike Pasedena dining table, €5,600, and matching curvy chairs, prices from €1,900 to €2,500 each.

The kitchen has Newport chairs with a cherrywood frame and ash spindled back, €1,200 each, which are teamed with an Eastwood bench, price €2,100.

The house owner is Dean Hickey and all the pieces listed are available through his import company, New England Designs (01-614 4872) which you can view this weekend at the Interior Design Show at the RDS.

Bathrooms rarely enjoy adjacent glass walls but they do in this house. Many don’t even have an external light source. But if you would like to explore the idea of doing something similar with your home then you need to investigate SuperGlass, which offers cotton batons of transparent blinds sandwiched in between two pieces of double or triple-glazed glass. This glazing offers maximum light and privacy and is custom-built by Galway-based Niveau Ireland (091-867067).

The feature walls as pictured in this bathroom will cost approximately €10,000, depending on your own specifications. The sanitaryware is all Villeroy and Boch.

Niveau also supplied all the double glazed German FSC Hardwood Meranti windows and doors. Double doors in hardwood double glazing cost from €4,000.