Joanna Cooper and Conor Murray will soon be upping sticks from Dublin and moving to her native Derry, to be closer to her mum.
The couple, their son, Alfie, and their dog, Kevin, will move into their ‘forever home’ in around a month’s time, and their knee-deep in renovations at the moment.
On Wednesday, Joanna shared a house update for her followers, with people calling it ‘divine’ and ‘dreamy’ even before it’s finished.
Pic: Joanna Cooper/TikTok
Joanna shared a clip of an archway between the hall and the kitchen, which she and Conor plan to fill with a window. She included a photo of said window, which is a tall, arched, double-door-style glass window with a black steel frame.
The model said she had been ‘so excited to see’ the light fixture in her kitchen ‘in real life’.
It’s a cool statement chandelier featuring three sculptural, cone-shaped shades suspended from black metal chains. Very avant-garde.
Pic: Joanna Cooper/TikTok
Joanna admitted: ‘We live so far from the house at the moment that we’re just going off pictures.
She ‘wanted to have fun’ with the upstairs bathroom, and so, she showed off an inspiration picture which featured a walk-in shower with an arched entryway: the focal point.
The funky shower features vertical green and light-toned subway tiles, giving it a boutique effect. Elsewhere, she said she’s ‘obsessed’ with the bubble-shaped radiator in the space.
Pic: Joanna Cooper/TikTok
Joanna also shared that she has big plans for her dressing room/walk-in wardrobe area, and that she’s delighted with the transformation her outdoor area has undergone since the last time she saw it.
She’s particularly happy with the paving in the back, while the garage will be converted into a gym/office space for them, she said.
Pic: Joanna Cooper/TikTok
Joanna previously shared that she feels an air of ‘guilt’ that she hasn’t been around more, given her mum’s battle with early-onset dementia.
Joanna announced her mum, Terri’s, ‘heartbreaking’ diagnosis in January 2023. Teri was just 62 years old when she was diagnosed in 2021, but started presenting signs of the disease when she was only 60.
Pic: Joanna Cooper/TikTok
Speaking to the Irish Independent, the rugby WAG revealed that her mum is living in a home, and the disease has progressed rapidly in recent times.
‘My mum is in a home and has been in a home for five years. But definitely there’s always part of you, when you live away, and you have a parent that’s not well, the guilt is always there,’ she explained.