It’s Christmas Eve in our Irish home and by looking at snaps I shot in our sitting room I realise we never stop renovating. We finished installing a new fireplace (the original one had a broken fire brick in the chimney). We had a broken pipe that leaked through the floor above and marked the ceiling in the sitting room. And we have almost completed a built-in bookshelf. All those things are in this simple 2025 photo. I need to bookmark this page and share a shot from the same position in 2026.