Welcome a new season with gentle pastels in soft washes.
With grey skies overhead for much of the year, homes in Ireland need all the additional colour they can get.
Bring it in, in soft washes that will add warmth and personality but won’t overwhelm.
Steal inspiration from primroses sheltering on windswept embankments, carpets of crocuses in indigos, pinks and purples and the palest of blush colour returning to cheeks after a long winter.
Primrose pretty kitchen
This is a modern German range of kitchens that offers a contemporary look and colour.
With primrose yellow doors featuring soft, on-trend curves, limed oak details and slim, stainless-steel handles on the base units, it delivers a sleek modern design aesthetic without compromising on personality.
Prices start from about €15,000. As pictured, the design, excluding countertops and appliances, will cost about €16,000 from House Kitchens, a sister company to Noel Dempsey Design.
Bands of sunshine in bedrooms
This yellow and soft white striped muslin duvet set comes in a double size only, but will immediately freshen the look of your bedroom.
Made from a soft and luxurious high-quality 100 per cent cotton muslin, this 200 cm square cover has a cream and yellow stripe pattern on the front with a natural-coloured reverse.
The set includes two matching pillowcases.
It costs €98, excluding delivery. From Oliver Bonas.
Bird’s egg blue storage
With its embossed front and bi-fold doors, this Sagmastare metal cabinet offers character, colour and function.
At just 128 cm long and 36 cm deep, it will fit in even a compact hall or bathroom, its turned legs and rounded corners, allowing for greater circulation.
It costs €90 from Ikea.
Tea-time express for everyday lifts
Not all of us want to drink tea out of a dainty cup.
Those of us in the builders brigade like a large mug, and finally, the design fraternity has cottoned on.
Made of porcelain Frizbee Ceramics 275 ml super cup also features smiling characters that will banish all morning grouch moods.
Shown here with the rest of the collection, it comes in five different colourways and costs €35, excluding delivery, from Finnish Design Shop.
Let there be light
Holi is a hexagonal light that can be wall or ceiling-mounted.
Seen here on the wall, it has a sea green ceramic surround and an opaline glass bulb that diffuses a soft light.
Designed by La Redoute Intérieurs it is about 15.5 cm wide and long and has a depth of 13.5 cm.
It also comes in pale, marshmallow pink and is one of a selection of similar designs by the catalogue company that cost €56.99 each, excluding delivery.
In the pink
The new LNH Easter collection features this stock of rock pink striped range.
Shown here is a ruffle-trim, striped tablecloth, from €112.50, matching napkins, €32.50 for a set of four, beaded trim charger plates, 5.95 each and the pink beaded glass Alice tumblers, €49.95 for a set of six.
Blush complexion sofas
Ted Baker’s sofas exude mid-century good looks and Wuthering Heights complexions after a day spent on the moors.
Shown in the lead shot and above, a Kensington settee in a cream bouclé fabric, €1,749, sits opposite a blush-coloured four-seat sofa, €1,879, in a primrose-textured velvet. Both feature bolster cushions as arm supports.
Between them is a large bench-style Highgate footstool, €648. All are available to order at DFS.
