Marie Kondo

A child comes home with an assignment for which the teacher has given a mark of 90 per cent and shows it proudly to the parents. They respond by askin(...)

Have you found your ikigai? Have you even started to look? You see, Danish hygge is old hat. Forget the tea candles, scratchy woolen jumpers and Scan(...)

It's spring and everybody’s cleaning. Or, at the very least, they are talking about it. It has been barely a month since Tidying Up with Marie Kondo l(...)

“How are you feeling?” People are routinely beaming at me as though I’ve invented penicillin, or won an Oscar. It seems churlish to admit to the truth(...)

‘I was such a city girl my parents didn’t think I’d last three weeks down here – and yet I’ve been at Ballymaloe almost three decades now,” says Rache(...)

It’s like Come Dine with Me for Airbnbs; a group of short-term letting “hosts” team up to visit each other’s properties and then mark them out of 10. (...)

This weekend heralds the busiest time in the clutter-clearing calendar, when homeowners who didn’t get their act together to do a pre-Christmas clear-(...)

Christmas has left an awful lot of freshly acquired stuff behind and our cottage seems to have shrunk. For years a slow motion tsunami of accumulating(...)

Suffering from Janennui? After you’ve carefully picked yourself up from under the mound of Celebrations wrappers and with every available surface look(...)

The new year presents the perfect opportunity to spring clean your kitchen. It’s a real breath of fresh air to spend an hour or two going through the (...)