Blackrock-based Jane O’Carroll Design (01-2783925 janecarrolldesign.com) makes beautiful, 100 per cent cotton appliquéd quilts for cots, prams and children’s beds. A single bed quilt, 170cm by 120cm, costs €96. A cot quilt, 100cm by 125 cm, costs €75. She’s offering Bargain Hunter readers 10 per cent off her quilt range. Offer ends March 22nd.
THREE OF THE BEST . . . BIRD TABLES Create a designer residence for your feather friends with this Orla Kiely Stem print abode available from UK-based Wilde and Wolf (tel: 0044- 1225789909 wildandwolf.com) reduced to to €30, from €32.41, excluding delivery.
Invest in a solid maple Stanley lounge chair with black patchwork leather upholstery by Cork-based Fergal O’Leary of Horizon Furniture (tel: 021- 4313313 horizonfurniture.ie). The new design, 65cm by 83cm by 77 cm, a floor model, is reduced by 54 per cent from €900 to €400. Or add colour to your home with the Spectrum console table – actually two tables – each 200cm by 82cm by 35cm, set edge to edge, which have been reduced by 47 per cent each from €3,200 to €1,700. Shop the sale at 34 Tramore Commercial Park, Tramore Road, Cork.
THREE OF THE BEST . . . BIRD TABLES Approved by Birdwatch Ireland Donegal-based Chic Hens (tel:086-0616324 chic-hens.ie) started out building habitats for hens but have extended their range to include duplexes, apartments and grande homes, all with slate roofs sourced from salvage yards.
Terry Design, based in Portadown, Co Armagh (tel: 0044-2838333215 terrydesign.co.uk) make beautiful bespoke built-in pieces and a collection of upcycled designs that includes this Sledge coffee table, 235cm by 55cm by 32cm, made from reclaimed timber. Irish Times readers who present today’s column can buy it for €600 instead of its usual price of €740. Offer ends April 10th. The ceramic skull pictured is by Patrick Colhoun (tel: 0044-7530919418 patrickcolhoun.com).
THREE OF THE BEST . . . BIRD TABLES This hand-painted upcycled Dolly Bird House, 30.48cm by 20.32cm, by Belfast artist Eimear Maguire is made from old pine boards and their feeders are made using vintage crockery. Maguire tests every design with the birds in her own back garden. The design is available from Jam Art Factory (tel: 01-6165671 jamartfactory.com), at 14 Crown Alley, Temple Bar and 64/65 Patrick Street, Dublin 8, €55.
To celebrate St Patrick’s Day the Irish Design Shop, 41 Drury Street (01-679 8871 irishdesignshop.com), is offering 10 per cent off their unframed landmark prints by husband and wife team Fiona Snow and Mike Michael Mohler of Snow Design. Choose from the Poolbeg chimney stacks, the Ha’penny Bridge and the Campanile in Trinity College. The A3 format, normally €32, is reduced to €28.80, while A4 sizes can be purchased for €22.50 instead of €25. Offers end March 16th.
Spring clean your life by investing in custom-built wardrobes. This model by O’Driscoll Furniture (tel: 086- 7737677/087-6536240) features sleek concealed handle pulls, oak veneer set into a Portuguese limestone surround. Available in oak, walnut, maple or sycamore it will suit a modern or period interior. Prices for a double door unit start at €1,800 excluding stone surround. Include the stone surround and the wardrobe will cost from €150 per square metre. Present today’s Bargain Hunter to get 10 per cent off before March 27th.
TRENDING. . . INDUSTRIAL LIGHTING Barn conversions are all the rage. Co Monaghan company Mullan Lighting (tel: 047- 86584 mullanlighting.com) based in Mullan village is a small company creating waves in Europe with their industrial manufactured designs. Having helped illuminate Google’s European headquarters in Dublin, they recently finished the barn-like Public Grill and Bar, in Sundybyberg, Sweden, a mix of warm redbrick walls, salvaged wood beams and vaulted pine ceilings. Mullan Lighting’s Dune Bar in clear well glass, a five-arm chandelier costing €1,168.50 give a warm glow to the library area while their dark antique brass lights, €212. 18, hang over the bar.
Designist (tel: 01-4758534 designist.ie) is offering iPhone 5 users the chance to attire their phone in a very contemporary take on national dress – a Kovet (kovet.ie) phone cover. There is a cool Diarmuid agus Grainne, designed by Alan Nagle; Nicola Colton champions a very Irish phrase in her Raining Cats and Dogs design; Is Maith Liom Cupan Tae by Poppy & Red; and Fatti Burke’s Home will delight friends and family overseas as well as smartening up your technology. Normally €30 Designist is offering them for €25, on orders made before close of business on March 16th. There will also be 10 per cent off on all Irish stock.
