What a difference a day makes on new RTÉ programme The Good Room

Carol O’Callaghan goes behind the scenes of a new RTÉ Player home interiors programme that transforms a room in just 24 hours.

Doesn’t the expression ‘the good room’ have a tone of days gone by about it? Visions conjure of polished furniture, Victorian lace cloths and antimacassars in a rarely used space, reserved for feast days and high holidays.

Now it’s brought up to date with a new RTÉ programme which turns the expression on its head by taking rooms which have become dumping grounds, due to be sorted but never getting done, and transforming them into more useable spaces.