Mulberry Cottage wins Christmas Window competition

Mulberry Cottage has been chosen as the inaugural winner of Coleraine Town Team’s Best Dressed Christmas Window competition.

After a long deliberation, taking into account innovation, colour and appeal, Mulberry Cottage won the inaugural Coleraine Town Team Best Dressed Christmas Window Competition' ' . The gifts and homeware shop in Stone Row, is owned by Ruth Davidson.

Speaking about the competition, she said: “I am absolutely ecstatic to win the award for the Best Christmas Window 2016 in Coleraine.  A number of people have already commented on the window and some have even popped in to say that they hoped I would win the competition.  Feedback has been really great and I am so delighted to have won.”

Ruth will receive a specially commissioned award designed by local artist Helen Harty which is inspired by the Coleraine Town Team logo.  Second place in the competition was awarded to Dixons of Coleraine located on Church Street while third place went to the Community Rescue Service charity shop on Bridge Street.

Coleraine Town Team Chairperson, Ian Donaghey, said: "This is the first year that the Town Team has organised the Christmas Window Competition in Coleraine and it was certainly not an easy decision to choose the top three Christmas windows for the town.  Mulberry Cottage appealed to all the judges and was awarded first place with a window display that created an enchanting winter wonderland that would entice people to come in and spend."

"The Town Team is delighted to have commissioned bespoke awards for the top three windows from one of our local artists Helen Harty and I'm sure all the winners will take pride in displaying their awards in their shop windows."

Finishing touches were added to the awards by Janet Millar from Kiso Arts who artistically inscribed the winners’ names.