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Beauty expert Kellie Billings has the number of her house – No 27 – written out in mosaic tiles in her hall; It’s in a somewhat familiar script. She explains: “It’s the way Chanel numbers are done.”

Beauty expert Kellie Billings has the number of her house – No 27 – written out in mosaic tiles in her hall; It’s in a somewhat familiar script. She explains: “It’s the way Chanel numbers are done.”

Serendipity is defined as the occurrence of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way, and serendipity is the perfect word to describe the fact that Paris-based, Tipperary-born businesswoman Helen Lambert — a woman whose working life has revolved around beautiful textiles — found a house where the internal walls are almost completely covered in stunning French designer fabrics.

Serendipity is defined as the occurrence of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way, and serendipity is the perfect word to describe the fact that Paris-based, Tipperary-born businesswoman Helen Lambert — a woman whose working life has revolved around beautiful textiles — found a house where the internal walls are almost completely covered in stunning French designer fabrics.

“No-one else’s artwork is allowed on the walls here,” says Jennifer Rock, aka the Skin Nerd, with a fond laugh as she shows off the beautiful black-and-white pencil drawings of landmark Irish buildings by her fiancée Jill Deering hanging on the walls of their newly renovated home in Rush, Co Dublin. There also colourful artworks created by Jill and her business partner Gillian Henderson of Jill & Gill.

It’s been the proud boast of RTÉ’s flagship programme that many landmark Irish events “all started on the Late Late Show” — in its way it also changed many viewers’ lives.

Ever since The Good Life, a BBC sitcom about dreamers Tom and Barbara Good embarking on a life of self-sufficiency, became a success back in the 1970s, the phrase “the good life” has become a sort of shorthand to describe anyone who has slightly stepped back from the rat race. And it’s hard not to apply it to interior designer Ciara Jordan and her businessman husband Eamonn Cullen.

We’ve all learned new words and new ways of doing things over the last three years, ever since early 2020, when we first heard the word ‘Covid’ and, with it, our world turned on its axis.

As many a person knows, going into business with a sister can be fraught — and there are lots of inspirational cushion quotes to remind us of that. Who wouldn’t agree with the oft-quoted “sisters never quite forgive each for what happened when they were five” or “never let an angry sister comb your hair”.

As many a person knows, going into business with a sister can be fraught — and there are lots of inspirational cushion quotes to remind us of that. Who wouldn’t agree with the oft-quoted “sisters never quite forgive each for what happened when they were five” or “never let an angry sister comb your hair”.