Artist’s reworked canvas

POP artist Orla Walsh is a bit of a Desperate Housewife.

Already noted for her brush with fame on the art front (actor Colin Farrell, rugby star Brian O’Driscoll and Graham Linehan of Fr Ted writing fame all hang on her output), she also is no mean hand with a house makeover – a la Wisteria Lane, as it turns out.

The effervescent painter and mum of three girls fancied a lot of things about a particular 1980s-style family home up for sale in a Dublin suburb that suited their needs.