Query:  Do you think a frosted bathroom window needs a window treatment? and if so, what would you suggest for a simple minimal way to dress up the window?
Answer:
Yes, I do.  While a frosted window will provide a certain amount of privacy, body shapes can be seen if it is dark outside and the lights [...]

This Friday’s  ‘Interior Design solution’ post is doubling as a ‘Before and After’.  Here is a suggestion for an upstairs landing – how to have an attractive wall visible to the people in the hall downstairs yet not too flamboyant and ‘in your face’.
 Here is a photo from a client’s hallway.  I only have the ‘after’ photo [...]

Fed up of low ceilings? Yearn after the high ceilings in Victorian and Georgian houses? How to make your ceiling appear higher?  This is a common query and as it was something we were addressing in a client’s house during the week, I thought I would do a blog post on it for this week’s Fix-it post.  High ceilings [...]

Mag from Goatsbridge Trout Farm tweeted me with some photos and a query.  She’s looking for some ideas for this space in her home.

It is located beside this sitting /dining room and the door open out into this space.

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What do I suggest? Well, as you can see the sitting and dining room is quite traditional [...]

Query:  What kind of window treatment would be most suitable for a kitchen window in front of the sink? I like curtains but feel they may be impractical.
For most kitchen worktop areas, curtains are impractical – in danger of getting wet from the sink, grubby from splashes, damp from steam and maybe even a fire hazard if [...]

Dee from Greenside Up emailed me looking for a solution to dressing an arched window in their playroom cum guestroom.  The other window in the room is standard and hence, has an ordinary pole with red velvet curtains.  This window is single-glazed (rescued from an old convent and much loved) so needs insulation in the form [...]

It is coming to that time of year that people will be thinking about using their conservatories and sunrooms soon again.  Even if the weather isn’t as sunny as we would like here in our very green Emerald Isle, conservatories and sunrooms are a great room to use to optimise the amount of light coming [...]

If you have any queries re interior design for your home be it paint colours, choice of wallpaper or fabric or indeed anything else, do email me at info@garrendennylane.ie or leave a comment. I intend to resume the Friday Fix-it posts next week and have one or two to write up and then I [...]

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Little girls bedrooms are a common query and one I dealt with a little while ago in this post but the request this week was for a more grown up look for a 9 year old, one that she would like now but that would last for quite some time so here’s some suggestions.
The [...]