When people buy a house, they usually have a list of must-haves, and invariably topping that list these days are light and a connection to nature and the garden. More often than not, particularly if it’s not a new house, they end up extending the property to meet these two requirements.
Post pandemic, our world fully opened up in February last year and life has more or less got back to normal. That said, we will probably be finding out new things about the pandemic, the lockdowns and their effects on people and places for many years to come.
Not long before she received her PhD in psychology, Dr Katriona O’Sullivan was waiting outside a Trinity College classroom when a mature student pulled her up for being in the ‘wrong’ place. “You can’t clean in here now,” the fortysomething student said, appraising O’Sullivan’s messy bun, hoodie and jeans. “We have class.”
There’s a bottle of Fairy Liquid in most kitchens in Ireland but in glamorous kitchens in Los Angeles, not so much, except in the stunning home of hairdresser to the stars, Andrew Fitzsimons.