Textiles and Pattern for the brave and the bold While clearing out my parents’ home I discovered this incredible piece of fabric. Not something you see …
Textiles: A Portal To A Past Life
Laundry? What Do I Know About It?
Home designs rarely accommodate the full laundry process – even though technology aims to ease this perpetual chore.
Student Accommodation – Design Is For Life.
Student accommodation is an essential rite of passage, learning to live independently, managing finances. For many, it is when they begin to collect their own household belongings and express their own sense of design.
Twenty Five Years: “A Thousand Pieces Of Gold”
An Inch of Space…. Is Worth A Thousand Pieces of Gold In 1998 my film, “A Thousand Pieces of Gold”, won a Gold award in the …
Instagram – A Moment Of Your Time
(See: Anyone_At_Home on Instagram) Instagram is direct, it’s fun, it’s creative and, yes – inspiring. A flicker of image becomes an instant connection. This is …
Poems – The Words of A Life Lived
Poems and songs are a huge part of the Irish cultural tradition. At school, one poem we learned (by rote) – The Old Woman Of …
Support For Homelessness And Trauma – By Design
Trauma informed interior design. My interview with Kieran Hughes from The Welcome Organisation, Belfast was an eye-opener. A glimpse of an alternative world – that …
Homeless Support – When You Need It
If you couldn’t pay your rent or mortgage for a few months and didn’t have a family support network…very quickly you could find yourself struggling. Interview with …
The Unique Experience of The Patient
As a patient on a hospital ward.… It’s difficult to sleep. You are not in your own bed. You are not in your own home. …
Just Me, My Husband And Our Dog
We have lived here for 19 years – just me, my husband and our dog. It is a semi-detached 3 bedroomed house with living room and kitchen/diner. …