Esther N McCarthy swoons over Smeg and purrs over pompoms this week.

Esther N McCarthy focuses on the bedroom this week, from headboards to jewellery stands, lampshades to desks.

As a part of Scéal: A story of Irish Design, Kilkenny welcomes recent jewellery design graduates from the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCoI) Jewellery and Goldsmithing Course in Co Kilkenny to find Ireland’s best emerging jewellery designer in it’s ‘From Bench to Business’ programme.

As we progress through the second half of the year into colder, shorter days, there’s plenty of advice for interiors enthusiasts on what’s new for autumn and winter, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

Rise to the occasion and give your wardrobe a reason to celebrate, writes Annmarie O'Connor.

Esther N McCarthy offers some ideas for Mother’s Day treats, from luxury skincare products to vintage Champagne.

Decorating a Christmas tree for the first time? From history and family traditions to interior trends and home-made baubles, Caomhan Keane has all you need to know

Noah’s Ark is a whimsical throw blanket for the little boy or girl in your life, packed with cheerful creatures from the sky, sea and land. 

The chief executive of the company which owns home furnishings and accessories store Meadows & Byrne is entitled to exercise a 51% voting right to increase the number of directors on the firm’s board, the High Court has ruled.

Celebrating 2015, The Year of Design, Refract presents the astonishing work of 20 glass designers from Britain, Czech Republic, Costa Rica, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, and the USA.

Faith Ryan finds some gorgeous, eclectic new buys to make your home life as unique as you are.

Appeals have been lodged in relation to planning approval for a major mixed development at the ESB headquarters near Dublin City centre.

Did you know sleeping on silk has all kinds of benefits that 50 Shades never even thought of, says Esther McCarthy.

Every house has its weak spot, that place where the odds and ends of domestic life gather, says Carol O’Callaghan.

The founding premises of homewares specialist store, Meadows & Byrne, in Cork City’s Academy Street will only be vacated and leased to restaurant chain, Nando’s, if planning is secured for change-of-use.

This week Esther N McCarthy fills her hand-made basket with some early seasonal treats.

BATTEN down the hatches and put on the kettle: the season of gloomy Sunday afternoons is upon us — when lighting the fire and watching an old film seems like the best way of dealing with dark days.

AS agents Savills predict that 2015 will be the best year for retail in Cork since the downturn began in 2008, and witha number of tenant deals and relocations completed along Patrick’s Street (including SuperDry into the Moderne), a 75,000 sq ft site is now on the market for €6m at Grand Parade/Patrick Street: and retail deals are also flowing at suburban Mahon Point Shopping Centre for its owners, Deka.

Dare I mention the ‘C’ word in October? I’d prefer if it were banned until a week before December 25, but while I indulge in a little bah-humbug, I admit certain preparations need to take place weeks before we celebrate the high feast of retail.

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This week, Esther N McCarthy gets her heart in a flutter for fabulous Valentine’s Day gift ideas.

The prospects are good for a start-up firm that has the technology to provide the media with instant access to brand images.

Carol O’Callaghan has some great buying ideas for those who may be stuck for inspiration at this time of year.

Barbecuing, beauty and babies is what it’s all about this week for Esther N McCarthy who offers an sunlit selection for your delectation.

This week Esther N McCarthy considers luxe lounging on a delicate, but fabulous chaise and 21st century portraits in wool, would you believe? If you have a favourite product you’d like to see featured, email: interiors@examiner.ie

This week Esther N McCarthy scrabbles for bright ideas, including a clever home-grown gift, a striking pouffe and some very NYNY wallpaper — plus some practical stuff too.

IT’S time for summer entertaining, and even if we’re still frozen stiff we can muster a sense of summer indoors.

Modern coffee-making technology and retro styling make this Nespresso machine a practical but attractive piece of kit for the kitchen (Maestria model €399 at Brown Thomas).

The German design trio Ding3000 has created a whisk for Normann Copenhagen that is sculpturesque, space-saving and functional all at the same time.

Add a little flutter to your walls with the butterfly box art trio, €23.50 from Littlewoods.

Liam Casey saw a potential gap in a rapidly developing market. Now the Cork-born entrepreneur employs 1,200 people across the globe, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

STAGING houses is now all the rage, especially at the upper ends of house sales. You’ve seen in on the telly, you see it in some bigger house sales, and it is going to become more common.

One hundred and twenty jobs are to be created at a new €15m retail complex being developed by the Blarney Group in Co Tipperary.

BLARNEY Woollen Mills has denied its decision to take the company private has anything to do with paying tax to the Irish exchequer.