Room to Improve’s Celene Collins opens interior design studio in Cork
An exciting addition to Paul Street’s Fifth Quarter Shopping Centre Interior designer Celene Collins at the launch of her new studio (Image: Joleen Cronin) Room
An exciting addition to Paul Street’s Fifth Quarter Shopping Centre Interior designer Celene Collins at the launch of her new studio (Image: Joleen Cronin) Room
ECHO, 15th April, 2026 Cork interior designer Celene Collins is hosting a free event this week aimed at people planning a home build or renovation.
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You can make your home feel a little more luxuriant by taking a few simple actions: either by adding something subtle, or by taking something away. We’ll give you five examples…
Colour is weird. In my latest article, I look at how colours, contrasts, context and shape can trick your eye into seeing something that isn’t there—and how you can use colour tricks in your interior design and decor.
This is the second part of our series of tips about giving your home a luxurious feel, without giving your bank account an equally luxurious trim.
If you missed the first part, you can read it here: Design a Luxurious Home without Breaking the Bank.
In this post, you’ll find five more top tips to help you turn your living spaces into magical places.
Here is one of my favourite pieces of wisdom:
“Style is a concept that cannot be precisely defined, and yet, we know it when we see it.
It is little to do with fashion or trends, it is a way of life and a reflection of one’s self.”
(Rice-Carmen, Rhonda. Designers at home, Rizzoli International Publications 2012)
The words beautifully describe how to approach interior design.
You could say I’m a bit of a fibber. I tell everyone I’m an interior architect and designer. But that’s not really why people hire
The challenge was daunting. Take an existing business space and give it a complete makeover—both public spaces and staff spaces. While the business continued to
Accessorising your rooms is an easy and effective way to give them warmth and character, especially if you are brave and allow your accessories to express who you are. Not only will doing so make your rooms places where you really want to be, it will also make it easier for you to decide what goes in and what is thrown out.
In this article, we’re going to give you 12 tips to help you accessorise your rooms effectively and efficiently, so they sparkle with your character.
Have you ever been inside a house that didn’t hang together very well?
I don’t mean one where you feared for your life because the ceiling was sagging, and a bit came off the house whenever someone pressed the doorbell.
I mean a house in which every room felt radically different. The kind of home that looked like it had been put together using leftover rooms from other houses. That kind of a house?
Maybe you’re a bit worried now that your house is like this?
In this article, we’ll look at how that can happen, and what you can do about it.