Chupi Sweetman reveals her second home renovation

Location, living close to loved ones and learning from experience all play roles in making a happy home for three generations of one family

Chupi Sweetman in her sitting room. Pictures: Moya Nolan

It wasn't a case of love at first sight when luxury jewellery entrepreneur Chupi Sweetman viewed the Dublin property which last year became home to her, husband Brian, daughter Aya, three, and her mother Rosita.

Looking at it now, it would be hard for any interiors enthusiast not to develop a strong crush on this 170-year-old beauty, built in the early Victorian era, but bearing the features of the Georgian period — lightsome rooms, elegant proportions and original features, including wooden floors, window shutters, and decorative stucco work worthy of Palladio.