I will have chosen my clothes the night before. I go to Patrick Sheary on Clarendon Street in Dublin. I love clothes but I don’t like shopping so Paddy will phone me every couple of months and I’ll try stuff on. When you’re wearing the right clothes you feel great. I don’t wear bright colours for attention but it does make people smile.

During the week I work in my own practice where we’re doing all sorts of yummy stuff. We are still working with Peter Mark after 40 years and what I love about Peter Mark is that they’re reinventing themselves all the time and questioning what they are doing and what we are doing - so our designs for them are always evolving and it never gets boring.

I go to Rathmines to do my shopping. I only do enough for about three days because I don’t like wasting food.

I’ll get fish and amazing prawn cocktails from Connolly’s Fishmongers. I go to Fothergill’s for beautiful fresh bread and cakes. I’ll go to Lawlor’s Butchers for great meat and Fresh & Wild for my veggies. I like going there because everyone knows each other, it’s a little community, we have lost so many of those places. I love cooking - I don’t do measurements. I’ve had some disasters but I won’t make those again. Mrs Beaton - twelve pounds of butter - I love it!

13.00

I’ll buy the paper and I might go to Sandymount or if it’s raining I might settle down at home. I live in the centre of town and love that I can walk everywhere. I love to walk the South Wall or around the nature reserve in Sandymount. I might catch up with a friend. Most of my relatives live in the countryside - they’re all good farming folk. When I was a kid my mum wasn’t well for a couple of years and I lived with my aunt and cousins in Wicklow. It was fabulous.

17.30

Martin works on a Saturday so we usually don’t go out. I will have a nice dinner prepared for him, we might invite friends around or more than likely we will watch a film after dinner. I’m a bit more adventurous than him - I love Indian food or Chinese food.

If I’m filming at the weekend I don’t consider it work. I’m probably supposed to read things but I don’t - I just rock up. I really enjoy meeting the home owners. It's amazing to see the ingenuity and the passion people have.

If I’m filming at the weekends it’s wonderful because I get to travel and visit places I’ve never been to. There are restaurants and hotels all over Ireland and they’re fabulous. I love the Blue Goat deli in Ramelton. The owner there specialises in unpasteurised cheeses, salamis and gorgeous food - I literally fill the car when I go there.

I also love Keenan’s Hotel in Tarmonbarry - the rooms are fantastic and so is the food not to mention the beautiful walks nearby. Beside it is the Purple Onion where the owner Paul is a real foodie who waxes lyrically about his food and his wine - he really brings things to life.

20.00

My Saturday evenings have changed because I don’t drink anymore but I appreciate what I eat more. And I am very lucky to really appreciate the mornings and that’s a big difference.

There are two times of year that I adore - one is that first burst of colour on the trees in the Spring - that beautiful light lime green - it’s marvellous. I also love those two weeks in the Autumn when everything goes red and bronze, brown and yellow.

I am very privileged because I have been with Martin for 38 years, I enjoy meeting people and I am lucky enough to be in a job that’s not boring.

I am very lucky to still be with Martin after 38 years, and, as he said to me recently, we still like one another. We met on the staircase in The George on Valentine’s night 38 years ago. I think we’ve made huge strides in Ireland over a very short period and we should clap ourselves on the back. There is a bit more to do but I don’t think we should be negative - I think we do ourselves an injustice.

22.00

Martin loves horror but I hate it so I’ll leave him with The Walking Dead and I’ll plug in my audiobook. I like audiobooks because I’m dyslexic. I was only assessed just before the Leaving Cert and did the Leaving Cert orally. I was lucky - my father was sending me into the army but I got into Bolton Street instead. All I wanted to be from the age of six was an architect.

• Hugh Wallace is the presenter of Home of the Year and The Great House Revival. He has collaborated with EZ Living Interiors on the launch of the new 'Sofa Workshop x Hugh Wallace' collection which includes seven sofas and an array of chairs and footstools with prices starting at €599.