A touch of art class in Ballincollig

You can tell this expertly done-up house in county Cork is the home of a serial renovator with a fine eye for design, writes Rose Martin.

You can kind of tell when you enter the home of a serial renovator — there’s a considered and clever approach to the decoration. Those ‘tells’ that let you know the person here has covered a few glossy magazine articles in their time, but also a person who can edit the trends and marry them with a good eye — not just for colour, pattern, furniture and finishing, but also for the area that’s being designed.

Spatial awareness is the fancy name. Knowing what fits is the less elegant way to describe it. Or perhaps the aphorism, ‘less is more’ works best of all.