Explore the home of vintage treasure hunter Katrina Carroll

Mary Cate Smith’s imagination runs wild as she visits the eclectic wonderland created by Vintage Irish Kat

Katrina Carroll in her sitting room. Pictures: Moya Nolan

By the time Katrina Carroll had gut-renovated a three-bed semi-detached house in Walkinstown in Dublin, there were limited funds for decoration. Lucky then, the Instagram content creator was a bona fide treasure hunter and had been since finding a second-hand Mousetrap game at her first jumble sale in 1991.

Nothing in Katrina’s house is “just stuff” — and everything has a story. Whether those stories are true or not is still to be determined…