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The Dulux shade for 2020 is Tranquil Dawn – a soft green hue that Marianne Shillingford, Dulux’s creative director compared with ‘the space between the land and sky’.
Four steps to follow for picking the right colour for your home

Focusing on how the design of our homes and the spaces we spend time in affect behaviour and mood is something very dear to my heart. By shifting the(...)

Painting ceilings and woodwork the same colour throughout is an easy way to create flow
Five ways to make your interiors stylishly ‘flow’

There was a trend in the 1980s for decorating every room in the house in a completely different colour. Even bathrooms had their own colour scheme, co(...)

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Anatomy of a refurb: how to get the most out of €100,000

We carried out a study recently of people planning a home improvement project this year and unsurprisingly nearly three quarters of respondents cited (...)

Dominique McMullan at home loading the dishwasher
‘Our flat’s so small I can load the dishwasher from the couch’

There’s one problem – the Dublin housing market. In reality we can’t afford to buy what we want. And listening to our friends’ experiences we’re not s(...)