A Minute With……Moss Cottage

Everything. T.v shows, Pinterest- which I’m a little obsessed with, Street style, Instagram, Art, Travel. There’s not enough hours in the day to take it all in.

3.Were you always into interiors?

Yes I remember driving my parents crazy with plans for my own room when I was about 10. I wanted it dark blue with a white wrought iron bed and yellow daisy curtains. But my mother was always into interiors and had amazing taste, she was a huge influence and constantly had a project on the go.

4.What’s your favourite and most challenging Annie Sloan project so far?

I think sometimes making over the simplest piece can be the most challenging as when you have a dresser or table you have more to work with, more angles. But making a simple chair something different can be fun, you have to push yourself to come up with something fresh that people haven’t seen. Mixing the Chalk Paint gives you tons of colour options as does the new white and black waxes.

Everyday is different/hectic no matter how I try to give myself a routine! New challenges and new suppliers with new stock nearly every week. I do treat myself to the odd new notebook or candle as the hours are pretty crazy and days off are few so I can justify just about anything.

6.What grabs your attention?

Colour, pattern, something I haven’t seen before. Packaging is key, sometimes I come across a cool new product but if it has bad packaging or has used a terrible font I just can’t sell it. If the packaging isn’t great it makes you question the rest of the product and the quality of it, if the branding hasn’t been put together properly what else hasn’t?!

7.If you were to achieve one thing this year, what would it be?

Finish the notebook range, hire more staff, and lots more video’s on social media and You Tube Channel! And some time off!

Customers come in frequently trying to recreate a look from Pinterest or Instagram. That is also where I get my inspiration for my stock so generally I will have it in the cottage or it will be en route. If we don’t have it I can recommend where you can find it or how you can make it. I love helping people create their dream weddings or interiors and it’s so lovely when they pop back with after pic’s and email me. I’m actually really lucky to have such cool creative customers, it makes my job really easy & I get to talk about party planning and interiors all day long.

 

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To get to Moss Cottage, take the Luas tram service to the Dundrum stop ad take a left on the main street, past the old shopping centre.