Home designs rarely accommodate the full laundry process – even though technology aims to ease this perpetual chore.
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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.
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 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 …
Irrational Humans Living In Strange Times
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful _ William Morris We ditch things and …
Homes For Life, And A Lifetime
My garden backs onto sheltered homes – designed for people over 55. These compact, purpose-built bungalow homes each have with their own front door and …
Apartment Living – A New Experience.
Apartment: Interview March 2022 It’s a modern apartment. There is a small hallway when you come in …. a bathroom to the left… a double bedroom …
Geography And The Lived Experience Of Design.
Geography, Interior Design – and everything In Between There is more to interior design than ‘beautiful homes’. People tend to assume that interior design is …
I Am The Third Generation On This Hill Farm.
Farm: Interview October 2021 We built the house ourselves on a site on the family farm. Work started on 19 May 2000 and we moved …
To Be Near The Sea: To Paint, To Live.
Living by the sea: Interview October 2021 For 16 years my husband and I had been living in a really nice terraced farmer’s cottage in …