I chose five products available in stores or online, which are inspired by Anne Barber’s home. Have you any links to anything that you think would go well in her home? Share!

CHAIR

Bentwood chair in green. €119.00 (sale price) The Conran Shop at Arnotts.

T: +353 1 805 0400 W: www.buy4now.ie/arnotts

CUP

‘Blossom’ teacup and saucer €10.00 House of Fraser, Dundrum Town Centre.

T: +353 1 299 1400 W: www.houseoffraser.co.uk/

TABLE

Natural Oak Extendable Dining Table £535.00 plus delivery. From Irish and London web store – Sweetpea and Willow.

T: 0044 845 257 2627 W: www.sweetpeaandwillow.com

CUSHION

Flower cushion €7.00 Heatons – stores nationwide.

T: 01 4630100 W: http://www.heatonsstores.com/

GLASSES

Plastic wine goblets from €2.99 TK Maxx, Stores nationwide.

W: www.tkmaxx.com/

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Distressed table base purchased in Eclectic Interiors, Castecomer Estate Yard, Co. Kilkenny €120.0, ceramic table top commissioned from Andrew Ludick, Castecomer Estate Yard. Price on request. White chairs purchased on ebay €70.00 each.Patterned purple cushion from Miranda Groen, Kilkenny apx. €40.00. Poster bought in Chamonix for €10.00 and framed in the Framemakers, St. Mary’s Lane, Kilkenny. Blossom bowls €6.95 from Anne’s store - Butterslip. Little blue bird €5.00 bought on a trip to Turkey.

Picture - €100.00 Eclectic Interiors, Castlecomer Estate Yard, Kilkenny. Vintage cups – gift. Jug – Brid Lyons, Clay Creations,  Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. (0)56 7724977 Bowl – Andrew Ludick Ceramics, Castlecomer Estate Yard, Kilkenny. apx. €250.00. Flowers – Dried by Anne.

The bathrobes are available to purchase from Butterslip from €20.00.

Selection of bowls from : (1) Rosemary Durr pottery, Castlecomer Estate Yard, Kilkenny, from apx. €8.00 (2)Oxfam. from apx. €8.00 (3) Bowls purchased on trips to Morocco from €6.00 (4) Bowls from the Real Olive Company in Co. Cork. from €10.00

The Bicycle art piece is by Rachel Burke apx. €450.00. Hat by Rebekah Patterson Millinery, Kilkenny,apx.€170.00. The key bowl was a gift from Anne’s sister. The sofa was found in a skip and Ann upholstered in Designers’ Guild fabric, try Garenndenny Lane Interiors for similar.

‘Tomorrow is a lovely day’ print €14.99 TK Maxx homewares.

The glass vintage jug on left is a family heirloom. The red vase was bought from a potter in Westport for apx. €15.00. The green plastic jug is from Dunnes Stores (€10.00) The clear speckled water jug from Butterslip is €24.95, and the blue jug is from Rosemary Durr in Castlecomer Estate Yard.

The ‘Cow’ wallpaper in Anne’s spare room is from Louise Body Wallprints and is €85.00 per roll, available to order from Butterslip.

Please note : all images are copyright of Dylan Vaughan. Please do not re-post or use without his permission!

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AT HOME WITH ANNE BARBER

For the second ‘at-home’ feature in the Irish Independent Weekend magazine, photographer Dylan Vaughan and I visited the beautiful Anne Barber at home.  Anne owns one of my favourite shops - Butterslip in Kilkenny ( where I procured the necklace and brooches for the Sunday Times feature!) This feature was a great excuse to satisfy my curiosity - I’ve often wondered what her home looks like, considering how imaginative her shop is…I wasn’t disappointed.

Here’s the interview below, more after the jump!

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A VINTAGE WONDERLAND

Anne Barber has become incredibly adept at creating stylish places from tired old properties. She transformed an old angling store in Kilkenny in to ‘Butterslip’, a shop that has become somewhat of a destination for those seeking beautiful trinkets and objects for the home and wardrobe, a ‘treasure trove’ of a store in the true meaning of the term.

Her home, pictured here, is also the result of this ability. Once a simple council terraced house from the 60s, as Anne describes it - “perfectly proportioned mini house,” is now a vintage haven of incredible style. The colourful mish-mash of furniture and accessories creates an overwhelming feeling of comfort, antiquity and delicate sophistication.

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This is my first interiors feature for the Irish Independent Weekend magazine, which was published two weeks ago. I think the second one is out this Saturday… The idea is that I visit a home which is truely eclectic and unique, and then find five products on the internet or in stores that are inspired by this home. (These are coming up in the next post..)

This home was photographed by the fantastic Dylan Vaughan - a huge thank you to him for the use of the images for this post. We both had great fun visiting the Watts’ home -  the owner Tom has just started a new cucumber pickle company, so we were fed very well on our trip. You REALLY have to try these pickles, even if you think you don’t like them - you’ll love these. Does that make sense? Anyway - visit his ‘Secret Recipe Company’ facebook page >here< and his blog >here< You can also visit his ‘Imagine Wallpaper’ company page >here<!

Now to the article at hand… All the info for the photos is after the jump! >

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“Tom Watts and his family have created a home that is an idyllic fusion of comfortable family living and incredible design features. As with the best kind of fusion type situations, neither style overwhelms the other – the incredible pieces sourced from flea markets and auction rooms across the world sit back quietly in each room and watch family life mosey along without getting in the way.

The successful renovation of this farmhouse in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny is unsurprising - Watts is renowned for his innovation in bespoke digitally printed interior products. Through his company, Imagine Wallpaper, he prints designs on to almost every surface, be it wallpaper, tiles or even glass kitchen doors.

The family inherited the home four and a half years ago, moving in even though it was in a somewhat disheveled state. In 2008, Tom, along with just one labourer, Arek Kowalek, began the refurbishment – a period that proved both fraught, rewarding and at times even peculiar. At one stage they decided to make the back of the house become the front of the house - effectively turning the house around. When they went to knock a new entrance into the old rear wall of the house, they found an ancient front door already in situ. They had unknowingly followed the design footprint of an ancestral tenant……

READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE AND SEE MORE PHOTOS AFTER THE JUMP!

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