Saara McLoughlin with daughters Lily and Ella and her husband Mike outside their semi-detached four-bedroom house in Limerick which appears on the upcoming RTÉ Home of the Year series. Photo: Joe McCallion
On the face of it, her home is a standard semi-d in a Limerick suburb, but Saara, now a trained interior designer, has put such an individual stamp on it, that it was chosen to feature as one of the 21 houses in RTÉ One s Home of the Year series this year, produced by ShinAwiL, which is due on our screens shortly.
Given that weather played a part in her decision to leave Finland, one might wonder why Saara didn t opt for a warmer clime than ours. Fortunately, she had no illusions about the Irish weather - she had lived here for a year when she was 12 and knew exactly what it was like.