East Cork residence has interior styling down to a fine art

What happens when an art and design-savvy family makes a house a home? Tommy Barker finds out 

4 Church Hill, Lisgoold East, Leamlara, Co Cork. Pictures: Larry Cummins

Our homes are personal to ourselves, it almost goes without saying. They reflect our personality, preferences and tastes, family shape and size, our budgets, what we own when we buy/move/rent, and what we take with us when we leave. They reflect what we covet, and prize, and our property prejudices.

The urban art and design-savvy young family who bought this Cork house in 2017 very much made it their own, when they moved to Ireland from Jersey (she’s from Cork city, he’s from the Channel Islands).