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A House Tour of the Private Home of Piero Fornasetti

Come With Me To My New online House

The Househunter: Colour Drenching

Bloom! My Floral Carpet launches at Decorex

Beautiful Rooms For Monday

The Househunter: Codebreaking Interior Design

Beautiful Rooms To Start The Week

The Househunter: Small Flat Big Storage

Is AI the Future of Interior Design?

Objects Of Design #209: Flensted Mobile

25th September 2012

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happy whales The classic nursery decoration, mobiles come in a million different styles and shapes from cute to cool with variations in the middle. These are by Danish designer Ole Flenstead who came up with his first design in 1953. If you don't fancy these whales there are lots of other gorgeous designs including balloons

Objects Of Design #208: Rustic Wooden Storage Box

when they've finished using it for toys you can keep it by the fire The trouble with a lots of kids' storage is that by

Objects Of Design #207: Isaac Desk Lamp

Affordable desk lamps in bright coloursphotograph by Xavier Young Everyone needs a task lamp, either by the bed for reading or on the desk for

Objects Of Design #206: Face Painted Boxes

Smiling faces, happying tidying? Maybe? Keeping children's rooms tidy is a perennial problem and I just hate all those plastic boxes. Don't get me wrong,

Objects Of Design #205: Clouds Bedding Set

For all those who hate pink and blue Kids bedding is so often either stereotypical pink fairies and blue pirates or hideous cartoon designs which,

Meet The Designers: Joseph Joseph

20th September 2012

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Antony and Richard Joseph Twin brothers Antony and Richard Joseph launched Joseph Joseph in 2002 selling innovative and stylish kitchenware. Their clever folding Chop2Pot board and Nest, a set of stacking bowls including a colander, sieve and juicer, take everyday objects and somehow make them better in ways that you wouldn't have thought necessary

Objects Of Design #204: Bunk Pod

Launched at Design Junction this week Still on the subject of beds, comes this fabulous bunk pod from new company IO Kids Design. It's just

Cheap and Chic: Decorating on a Budget

Things are still pretty tough out there and, as many of us have either spent all our money just getting onto the housing ladder, or are

Objects Of Design #203: Iris Day Bed

Perfect for a teenage bedroom Day beds are perfect for older children and teenagers as they fit with the idea of making their bedroom more

Design Classics #34: The Wishbone Chair by Hans Wegner

image from puregreendesign.blogspot.com Run your hands along the back of a Wishbone chair and you can instantly understand why Hans Wegner was known as the

Object Of Design #202: PS 2012 Bench with Storage

18th September 2012

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Stack 'em up For many years I have nurtured a fantasy for a row of vintage wooden cinema seats in my hall - perfect for storing shoes underneath and sitting on to put on said shoes. Sadly, I have neither the space not the available funds to fulfil this particular fantasy but this comes in

The House Is Finished

the extended kitchen with its tin tile ceiing Finally, the house is finished. And here are the photos to prove it. They were taken by

Mad About . . . . Staying in

image via Pinterest Now that the global economy means that we can’t afford to go out for dinner as much, the humble supper party has

Objects Of Design #201: Calico Desk Set

Perfect for the early years Buying the right desk is tricky as it all depends on how your child likes to work. Do they want

Objects Of Design #200: Large Canvas Cushion

Comes with a handy pocket As they grow older they often want their rooms to be more like bedsits than bedrooms. A bunch of floor

Objects Of Design #199: Giant Wall Mirror

15th September 2012

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where there's a teenage girl there's usually a mirror It's a truth universally acknowledged that a teenage girl in a possession of a new outfit must be in want of a mirror. The bigger the better. But it's not all about vanity, drape this with fairy lights and it will look pretty but it

Objects Of Design #198: Tree Shelf

Imaginative shelving It's amazing what you can do with some wood and a few wall stickers isn't it. I'm a big fan of icelandic designer

Skool for Skandi

The new Skandi range from BHS It's no secret that Mad About The House has a bit of crush on all things Scandinavian and the

Objects Of Design #197: Remember Chalkboard

Spell it out There's a definite theme emerging here. Teenage bedrooms: it's all about reminding and tidying. Anyway, this might help. At least it says

Sleep Tight: A Buyer’s Guide To Beds

Image by Paul Massey for Living Etc On a trip to Naples this summer, we stayed in a fabulous hotel with, possibly, the best bed