How being shot in the back inspired an Irish artist’s painting'I thought I was dying.' When Emma Sheridan was the victim of a random shooting in London, she used painting to help her healWed Sept 21 2016 - 16:00
The teenage bedroom: stop seeing it as part of your houseGive them a blank canvas and one or two boundariesSat Sept 17 2016 - 00:00
Victorian with an Italianate twist for €4.5mA picture-perfect, detached five-bed in Blackrock has been beautifully maintained and comes with a private walled back gardenThu Sept 15 2016 - 05:00
Bay views in Dalkey for €1.32mBeautifully kept family home is beside Killiney Hill and a short walk to DartThu Sept 15 2016 - 05:00
Glorious vistas from Killiney HillVictorian five-bed with sea views and star-studded history for €2.9 millionThu Sept 15 2016 - 05:00
House Rules: How to have flower powerMaster florist Lamber de Bie will give a talk on Culture Night at the National Craft Gallery, KilkennySat Sept 10 2016 - 06:00
Gemma Tipton: Art imitates life, and life messes up artNothing clutters up an architect’s vision quite like people and their thingsSat Sept 10 2016 - 04:00
Artist’s D4 home for €1.25mBernadette Madden’s home comes with a separate, easily converted artist’s studioWed Sept 07 2016 - 11:30
Pieces of Me: Jonathan Legge, Makers & BrothersRunning a website that sells beautiful things has made Jonathan Legge pretty picky about what he puts into his own home. He’s happiest in a room that has a window and a fireSat Sept 03 2016 - 06:00
Old-world charm in Terenure for €1.675mFive-bed redbrick with scope to create a lovely family homeThu Sept 01 2016 - 05:34
Georgian style with leisure and pleasure in mindThis 525sq m house stands on seven acres in the heart of horse-breeding country and comes with plenty of mod-cons and generous spacesThu Sept 01 2016 - 05:22
Dream holiday cottage on the shores of Lough DergThis lakeshore house, on 1.4 acres in Co Tipperary, has sheltered patios, rolling lawns with mature oak and native trees - and comes with fishing rightsWed Aug 31 2016 - 12:30
House Rules: The unnecessary things you really wantThere are teams of people dedicated to solving problems we didn’t know we had, and selling them to us on rainy SundaysSat Aug 27 2016 - 06:00
Gemma Tipton: Designing memorable memorials is harder than it soundsArt, music and literature are responding to the challenge of remembering momentous eventsSat Aug 27 2016 - 06:00
Culture Shock: Never mind the cult of youth – let’s hear it for the auld onesAre you washed up creatively at 40? Doomed to average ordinariness in all things?Sat Aug 27 2016 - 05:00
House Rules: Don’t try this at homeThe top five things hosehold things never to attempt, even in the presence of expertsSat Aug 20 2016 - 00:00
Get into some great houses for Heritage WeekGo on, go on: play ‘Game of Thrones’ at Castle Ward, or have a cup of tea at Father Ted’s House. Some of Ireland’s finest big houses are open to the public this weekSat Aug 20 2016 - 00:00
House Rules: How to man up (or man down) your homeEven the ultimate bloke’s pad can be made livable with a little aesthetic compromiseSat Aug 13 2016 - 15:00
Pieces of Me: David O’Donoghue, fine art printerAn industrial dishwasher, a vintage car and a “soggy-bottom” chairSat Aug 13 2016 - 06:00
Culture Shock: Art’s meant to be about all of us, not just middle-class white menIreland’s galleries almost all reflect western European and North American culture, but that’s not what our society looks like any moreSat Aug 13 2016 - 01:00
What are skeuomorphs, and why do we need them in our lives?We are surrounded by objects modelled on older technologies, connecting the past with the present and making change easier to deal withSat Aug 06 2016 - 05:45
House Rules: Does embroidery make you cross (stitch)?Like tea towels with motivational slogans and anything resembling a pig, one piece per room will sufficeSat Aug 06 2016 - 05:45
Why copper is good for youThe metal is able to kill germs quietly, all on its ownSun Jul 31 2016 - 12:50
Pieces of me: Ann Mulrooney, director of the Visual Arts Centre in CarlowAnn Mulrooney’s penchant for understatement and natural materials was brought to bear when she renovated a coach house, working with its idiosyncrasiesSat Jul 23 2016 - 05:45
Weaving the fabric of life, history and cultureTextiles are frequently ignored, simply because they are so fundamental. But this is changingSat Jul 23 2016 - 05:45
Hipster Bingo: has your town turned into hipsterville?Telltale signs that your town has become hipsterville centralWed Jul 20 2016 - 12:15
House Rules: How to have a ‘summer house’Your first option is to accessorise. Splash out on a couple of throws, scatter cushions, and possibly a selection of plates and bowls in this season’s vibrant huesSat Jul 16 2016 - 00:00
Give Me a Crash Course In . . . Ecoc 2020Prefer plain English? Galway will be Ireland’s European Capital of Culture for 2020Fri Jul 15 2016 - 17:00
And Ireland’s European Capital of Culture 2020 is . . . GalwayLimerick, Kilkenny, Waterford and Wexford were also in the running for titleFri Jul 15 2016 - 12:38
After a few drinks with Hennessy, Imma to start spending on its collectionThe new Hennessy Art Fund will help the Irish Museum of Modern Art plug the gaps in its collection over the next three yearsThu Jul 14 2016 - 14:55
House Rules: Cleaning with cola and other handy tipsTurn minor household disaster into triumph with the help of perky internet adviceSat Jul 09 2016 - 05:49
Who will win the European Capital of Culture?As the judges arrive in Ireland, before making a decision on Friday, we look at the best bits from our European Capital of Culture proposals from Limerick, Galway and the Three SistersSat Jul 09 2016 - 05:30
Money, sex workers and an awful stench in ZurichCompacted excrement, a poker game between transgender prostitutes, and a floating wheelchair all vie for attention at the jam-packed art biennial Manifesta 11Thu Jul 07 2016 - 05:00
Minimal spaces with maximum punchTwo houses, two styles: A modern three-bed terraced house in the city centre or a refurbished two-bed with a large garden in MonkstownWed Jul 06 2016 - 16:00
Gemma Tipton: Pretentious? Moi? And your problem is?Most of us are caught in an odd limbo between wanting to be part of the group, and having stirring feelings of exceptionalismSat Jul 02 2016 - 05:47
House rules: Living with a celebrity – the George Foreman grillYounger readers might not realise that George Foreman was once better known as a two-time world heavyweight boxing championSat Jul 02 2016 - 04:55
The Oakes twins follow art down the rabbit holeRyan and Trevor Oakes are undertaking brilliant experiments with observation and perception, changing views on reality along the wayThu Jun 30 2016 - 06:00
House Rules: Handy guide to making stuff out of junkAs pay by weight looms, what creative ways can we use to lighten load of reusable refuse?Sat Jun 25 2016 - 02:00
Farmhouse to country house for €2.45mSeven-bed property in Co Cork with trout fishing and riverside walksThu Jun 23 2016 - 06:00
Gemma Tipton on . . . the cost of loveBeing loving and giving makes you feel good until you feel taken advantage ofSat Jun 18 2016 - 04:00
Jupiter Artland: An out-of-this-world experience in EdinburghRobert and Nicky Wilson’s incredible sculpture park in the grounds of Bonnington House, a restored Scottish manor, has to be seen to be believedSat Jun 18 2016 - 00:00
Ireland finally falls for modernism a century onModernist houses have long been favoured backdrops for Hollywood baddiesSat Jun 18 2016 - 00:00
House Rules: On how to look IntelligentWhat to do do if you (a) don’t read, or (b) have consigned all your literature to Kindle?Sat Jun 18 2016 - 00:00
Detached Wicklow home on 10 acres for €1.35mFormer cottage has been extended into an elegant five-bed pile with tennis courtThu Jun 16 2016 - 05:00
Dutch-style ranch house in Cavan for €400,000Light-filled lodge with sun terrace and lake views is close to BallyjamesduffThu Jun 16 2016 - 05:00
Pieces of me: artist Anita GroenerThis Dutch-born artist loves her studio and says interiors without art and books are lifelessFri Jun 10 2016 - 15:30
Former school turned family home in Wicklow for €595,000Old School House in Avoca has five bedrooms and large open-space living roomThu Jun 09 2016 - 01:00
Country house on two acres in west Cork for €1.25mRambling four-bed on banks of the Bandon is just half an hour from Cork cityThu Jun 09 2016 - 01:00
Gottfried Helnwein’s Tipperary castle a great backdrop for his artThe painter’s life and art is a hybrid of trad and neo-Gothic with a touch of HollywoodSat Jun 04 2016 - 05:22
Magic thinking and deep faith can add a priceless value to any itemSt Anthony’s relics will tour Ireland from June 9thSat Jun 04 2016 - 05:13
