Come on! Let's go shopping: The home interiors oases offering a bit of everything

Tucked away in unexpected places are home interiors oases offering a bit of everything and, often, something unusual to spark a fresh idea or finish a project, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

Stuck at traffic lights between Douglas Village Shopping Centre and Dino’s chip shop is an opportunity to take a turn into what used to be a hub of textile-making in Cork (St Patrick’s Woollen Mills) and discover some of the area’s best-kept shopping secrets when it comes to interiors.