When you are planning a refurbishment, it can be easy to forget about things like coat storage, laundry room, linen cupboards, says Denise O’Connor.

Carol O’Callaghan visits the new family room at the Mercy University Hospital’s Children’s Leukaemia Unit.

A teenager’s inspired make-over of a hospital storeroom will help make treatment for young cancer patients a little easier to bear.

Does your home ache for a makeover? Is a new extension the cure for your storage problems, or is it lack of light that’s making you gloomy?

Sea horses to sofas, Mole’s breath to teapots — it’s all part of Esther N McCarthy’s wishlist this week.