My favourite room: ‘When my third house appeared on Home of the Year, people contacted me’ – inside designer Carla Benedetti’s renovated Wicklow cottageCarla Benedetti studied graphic design but when she bought her first house, she discovered she loved decorating so combines her graphics with interior design. Now on her fifth home, she still loves changing her own surroundings and does a lot of the practical work herselfGraphic artist/interior designer Carla Benedetti in the large kitchen of her home in the Wicklow mountains. The kitchen units are from Dunne’s Design in Wicklow. Carla Benedetti, who has bought and done up five houses in the last 20 years, says she never regrets moving from one house to another. She poured her heart into them all – all were gutted and then beautifully renovated in a style that suited the house.

Source: Irish Independent January 04, 2026 08:32 UTC