Back to the drawing board for homely chic

Step outside the ordinary and embrace the things you love, says Kya deLongchamps, to create some home style charm.

I WAS sitting on the edge of a tense linen sofa and reflecting on the fact that something rather sad has happened to standard Irish interiors.

Somewhere along the way, possibly when we had the money to invest in demented showing off, we lost our confidence. We bowed down to more informed voices telling us that this or that product and scheme, reflects what we feel about ourselves and mirrors that back to an astonished audience.