Personal Style

The owner of this recently built mews style house has been able to create a home that truly reflects her style and personality.

Working with an interior designer, the owner of this Dublin home has been able to create an inspiring space, to remove the old fashioned look and create a contemporary and functional home. As the interior designer Jane Higgins comments, ‘The client’s brief was to design and source all the items for the reception room and kitchen which included the lighting, colour scheme and bespoke furniture and to design storage for the bedrooms.’ The original décor included yellow flock wallpaper, dark shiny grey carpets, florid fireplaces and dark floors in the entrance hall, all this was stripped out to make way for a much more modern look in keeping with the owner’s tastes.

The main reception room was earmarked to be the owners ‘grown-up’ sanctuary, with no television and a space away from the busy household. Now refitted with a new limestone fireplace, the simple design adds a contemporary looking focal point to the whole room. It is painted in Railings; a dark colour that provides a sophisticated backdrop and allows the luxurious furnishings to take centre stage. They include a profile sofa and matador armchairs from Roche Bobois and coffee tables, credenza lamp and footstool, by Gallotti and Radice, which sit beautifully on the handwoven rug by The Rug Company. Completing the look in this room, midcentury-inspired lamps from Bert Frank and bespoke cushions commissioned from Aoife Mullane pull the whole look together.