My favourite room: ‘There were essays and projects to be done, bills to pay, bins to be put out and children to sort, but I loved art college as a mature student’

Maryruth Walsh and her husband Mark built their home in New Ross 40 years ago and it worked as the perfect home for raising their children. Once they were grown, she decided to pursue her dream of becoming an artist and the house has now turned into a haven of creativity and calm