What to read…before you renovate

Decorating, renovating, or extending your home? Before you dive in, read The Little Book of Irish Design - the Sunday Business Post’s smart guide to upgrading and adding value to your property.

Start with interiors expert Fiona McPhillips’sguide to “Identifying Your Needs”, where you can tackle issues around design planning, budget and futureproofing, while swotting up on expert tips for working with light and texture in your home.

Colour obsessive Roisin Lafferty of KLD Designencourages the introduction of bold, brave colour into Irish homes. “Just because a space is small it doesn’t mean that you need light and bright walls,” she advises, “I personally love dark colours like deep navy and green.”