Organisation: Farrow & Ball

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

<p>Setting Plaster by Farrow & Ball, left, Batch Loaf is one of Colourtrend's neutrals, top right; walls finished in Acres Hall's Clay Bowl neutral hue, bottom right.</p>

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Revealed: Top paint colours for home makeovers this spring

Think bright colours and warm neutrals as decorating trends lighten up with the approach of the new season

<p> Serving suggestion: Immerse the kitchen in a total tomato ketchup theme by colour drenching walls and cabinetry.</p>

home and gardens

How to use ketchup-coloured paint in any room in your home

<p>Rich, enfolding, perfect with rattan, weaves and pale reflective shades to freshen in a relaxed vintage style. Fleetwood Urbane Bronze (Vogue collection), from €25 per litre, fleetwood.ie.</p>

home and gardens

Home interiors: Take a fresh look at brown to revamp your space

home and gardens

Take a fresh look at the colour brown. It’s a gamechanger in room revamps

home and gardens

Vintage View: Georgian colour scheming does not spell simply pale and uninteresting

home and gardens

Your paint primer for the season ahead

Wish List: Lifting the home with bright spring colours

With spring in the air it could be the right time to give your home a lift with these bright ideas, writes Esther N McCarthy.

Sat, 16 Feb, 2019

Wishlist: Interior ideas for all your needs

Esther N McCarthy rounds up the freshest interior ideas for your every need.

Sat, 03 Mar, 2018

New interior hues for the new year

 Carol O’Callaghan takes a look at the top fashion colours for home decorating in 2018. 

Sat, 30 Dec, 2017

Steep your home in moody blue hues for spring

Kya deLongchamps reviews paint schemes in the €10-€15 a litre range that are all you need to magic up that must-have blue-grey palette for spring.

Sat, 04 Mar, 2017

House of the week: North Circular Rd, Limerick €465,000

With its prestigious address and its elegant interior, this North Circular Rd, Limerick, property called Merebank is likely to attract a good attendance at its first open viewing this morning. 

Sat, 14 Jan, 2017

The New Year interior colour trends you need to know about

Colour trends for the New Year offer all sorts of decorating possibilities, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

Sat, 17 Dec, 2016

Interiors wish list: The Citrus Clock

Preparing for advent is on the horizon for Esther N McCarthy this week...

Sat, 12 Nov, 2016

Top 8 spooky treats for Halloween

Watch out for scary mini monsters who haunt your house at Halloween.

Fri, 21 Oct, 2016

How to brighten up your home with colour for the winter months ahead

Kya deLongchamps shows how to use on-trend paint and accessories in a way that will brighten up the house now that the wet and dull days of winter lie ahead.

Sat, 17 Sep, 2016

It’s hard to imagine this 19th-century Limerick home was ever a wreck

A serial renovator, it took Geraldine Dennehy over six months to refurbish Cosima, writes Trish Dromey.

Sat, 17 Sep, 2016

Colours don't necessarily have to clash in home design

I harbour admiration for colour brave-hearts who embrace tones, shades and hues with gusto. 

Sat, 14 May, 2016

Shades of grey can add a sense of light and space to a kitchen

If your creativity is hampered by your budget remember that a kitchen is a sum of all its parts and careful choices can ring fabulous changes, writes Kya deLongchamps.

Sat, 20 Feb, 2016

The new colours of the year - and how they influence our behaviour

Carol O’Callaghan looks the new colours of the year — rose quartz and serenity — as chosen by Pantone.

Sat, 19 Dec, 2015

Chalky black is a daring choice for your interiors scheme

For the spooky, scary weekend that’s in it, Kya deLongchamps is going back to matt black for her hallway. And, she says, it’s a look that’s really cool right now.

Sat, 31 Oct, 2015

Pink Please

BY the end of the month we’ll start to see a stretch in daylight, and although still in the clutch of winter, that light will show up paintwork yellowed by open fires, and black patches on walls above radiators.

Sat, 03 Jan, 2015

Quirky names, cool colour combinations for 2014

Kya deLongchamps looks ahead to the shades shining from the colour palettes of the top paint houses for 2014.

Sun, 03 Nov, 2013

Wishlist: Patchwork quilt

Esther N McCarthy picks her favourites for your interiors pleasure. This week there’s foxy cushions, colour conundrums and furniture with knobs on.

Sun, 11 Aug, 2013

Bye magnolia, hello bold colours

Kya deLongchamps recommends bursting into spring with an antidote to winter’s greyness

Sun, 24 Mar, 2013

Dealing with the dark side

Time to bring light to a northern exposure and ease to the east, says Kya de Longchamps

Sat, 05 May, 2012

Ask the designer

Interior designer Denise Walsh, of Donovan Walsh Design Ltd in Limerick, www.donovanwalshdesign.com, answers all your attic conversion questions. Email: interiors@examiner.ie

Sat, 28 Jan, 2012

Ask the designer

Interior designer Denise Walsh of Donovan Walsh Design Ltd in Limerick, www.donovanwalshdesign.com, answers your design dilemmas. Email your queries to interiors@examiner.ie.

Sat, 14 Jan, 2012

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Sat, 05 Nov, 2011