A secret compartment in Westport House leads rather unexpectedly to Jane Austen’s house in Chawton, Hampshire.

The crimson flock wallpaper in the Drawing Room at Newbridge, County Dublin, is two centuries old. But what came before it?

The former seat of the Dukes of Leinster enters a new phase in its history.

An 1840s interior is faithfully recreated on Dublin’s Ormond Quay

Recreating a one-room home in Dublin’s award-winning museum of tenement life’

How the hand-painted Chinese wallpaper in Westport House is being conserved.

How a poisonous plant came to cover the walls of a New England mansion

A look inside a cupboard in Castletown House takes us on a historical journey

A rare survival in County Tipperary

Stencilled decoration in Franconian farmhouses