365 Objects Of Design

A return to this occasional series where we look at five key elements that you can change in a room to give it a new lease of life. Today it's the bedroom. Now, obviously the single most transformative thing you can do is buy a can of paint but that involves a certain amount of

This is just for fun but it probably also makes a wider point about how trends spread. I was looking for something completely different when I stumbled across these tiles. And then I found this light. And in newspapers we always used to say that two was a coincidence (ie not a story) but three

Over the last seven years of writing this blog I have been privileged to work with several companies writing about their products and styling their furniture. One that I have collaborated with on several occasions and we now have something of an ongoing partnership is La Redoute. While I have known about this French company

Welcome to the third, and final ( I hope but never say never) makeover of the Downstairs Loo. This room has never been quite right since we built it nine years ago. It's under the stairs but we stole a bit from the kitchen and, to be honest, we didn't quite take enough. Under the

Around the time of the first Women's March (not the first ever but the first after Trump was elected) an image of three women's clenched fists appeared on many instagram and twitter feeds. I used it myself after discovering that it was the work of Deva Pardue, who also founded All Womankind, a design initiative

Well I know the odds of a sunny long bank holiday weekend are slim and I know that we had one over Easter - four days of a heat so intense we could have been in Spain, but boy have we been punished for that ever since.  It's been so cold we've put the heating

Last week I made a lightning trip to Milan at the invitation of Samsung to see - not just some of their appliances but also to consider - via an installation they had created in the Brera Design District - the role of the kitchen in our busy 24 hour lives. samsung 24 hour kitchen

It seems apt that after posting about the forthcoming trends as seen at Milan last week, I find a new interiors brand that is using all those colours to showcase its lighting collection. So this post is twofold - have a look at the lighting from houseof and check out the colours (and arches) with

Now that the clocks have gone forward and we've all recovered from that missing hour (how can that be so hard?) the longer days and burgeoning blossom is making me desperate to bring a little of the outside in. Especially as it's not quite warm enough (at the time of writing) to go from inside

Now I don't want to be too hasty about this but the sun is out and there is blossom and possible lawn-mowing in the air, so I thought I would do a little round up of rattan chairs as they feel summery, and rattan (or varieties thereof) is everywhere this season from handbags and lampshades

Today I wanted to tell you about a new site that has launched that is geared towards making shopping easier as it helps you to search for the item you want and gathers a selection of them all together in one place so you can easily see what's available and, crucially, not feel that you've

I'm excited to tell you about these rugs as I had a small, tiny, hand in the thinking behind them. Last year Wendy Morrison, a hugely talented designer with a background in fashion, wrote to me and asked if I would like to have one of her rugs for my bedroom. rug by Wendy Morrison

This is one of the most versatile pieces of furniture you can buy and I have found it in white, brown and black so it should suit all colour schemes although I will confess to rather loving the white one. woven leather bench white from soukcollective This will go at the end of the bed

I have written before how about mirrors are an essential feature of any room - especially one that is small and dark - as they will bounce the light around and make the space look bigger. But I also don't like modern mirrors to be too big as they can give the impression that you