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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?

A Cautionary Tale

10th March 2012

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So the architect. We had a tricky time with ours and I have to say the experience has left me wary of using one again. Perhaps because I had such very strong ideas of what I wanted. Probably because we didn't have a very good one. Here's what happened. I hadn't realised that, having paid

365 Objects Of Design #10: Electric Hand Mixer

Part of the Kitchen Essentials Series A little hand mixer is just such a useful thing to have in the kitchen and this, from Bodum's

365 Objects Of Design #9: Lekue Silicon Cake Mould

Part of the Kitchen Essentials Series Silicon moulds and utensils have really taken over our kitchen drawers in the last few years and I'm not

365 Objects Of Design #8: Stelton Coffee Press

Part of the Kitchen Essentials Series A cup of coffee is absolutely essential in my kitchen and this is the best way to drink it.

Mad About . . .Coffee Tables

CHALKBOARD COFFEE TABLE by Duffy London £245 www.hiddenartshop.co.uk The idea of painting a wall in blackboard paint in the kitchen is fairly ubiquitous now. I

365 Objects Of Design #7: Oxo Good Grips® Angled Measuring Jug

7th March 2012

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Part of the Kitchen Essentials Series Sometimes things are so-called good design because they are simply beautiful. Sometimes, it is because they are simply so practical that nothing else will do. This is one of those items. Every cook needs a measuring jug. Well maybe Jamie Oliver can do it all by eye these days

Design Classics #12: The Chicken Brick

They can be found in kitchens up and down the land. Most of them are probably lying forgotten at the back of a hardly opened

365 Objects Of Design #6: Salter 1200 CD Style Scale and Clock

Part of the Kitchen Essentials Series I first came across these by chance but they are absolutely the best scales I have ever had. Firstly,

Which Wallpaper Shall I Buy?

Emma contacted MadAboutTheHouse to ask about choosing wallpaper. Q: We are looking for some wallpaper for behind the bed in the master bedroom. The walls, floorboards

365 Objects Of Design #5: Kyocera Ceramic Knife

Part of the Kitchen Essentials Series The first time I used a ceramic knife I was terrified of losing a finger. Or three. But it

365 Objects Of Design #4: VKB Garlic Crusher

4th March 2012

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Part of the Kitchen Essentials Series So many garlic crushers can be fiddly to load and even worse to clean. This is the opposite. Bash the clove with the flat side then roll over it with the grooves until it reaches the desired level of, shall we say, "crushedness". Then the next really clever bit

365 Objects Of Design #3: Joseph Joseph Elevate Jar Spoon

Part of the Kitchen Essentials Series Twin brothers Richard and Anthony Joseph make some of the best designed and most useful kitchen products around. Their

Should I Have Hanging Bedside Lights?

Hannah contacted MadAboutTheHouse to ask about lighting in her bedroom. image from welke.nl Q: I'm thinking of installing bed-side lighting and the contractor who came round

365 Objects Of Design #2: Cuisinart Mini Processor +

Part of the Kitchen Essentials Series The thing about kitchen appliances is that the amount they are actually used is directly related to the amount

365 Objects Of Design #1: The Cuisipro Grater

Part of the Kitchen Essentials Series These graters, or to be more accurate, rasps as they are long and thin, are incredibly easy to use.

29th February 2012

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One year, one daily post. Starting tomorrow I will be giving you 365 suggestions for household accessories that will enhance your home either because they are beautiful, or because they are useful, and always because they are well-designed. March is all about kitchen essentials. In April we will be moving onto the finishing touches that

Mad About . . . Leap Year Calendars

It seems only appropriate that on this extra day of the year, we take a look at some of the best calendars around. Here are

Design Classics #11: The Tolix Bistro Chair

The Tolix chair, a favourite of cafes and retro kitchens all over the world, was designed in 1934. It was meant to be outside

Window Shopping

It is a truth, universally acknowledged by your Granny, that you should never buy velvet curtains as they will never wear out and you

Design Classics #10: The Eames Hang It All

Its brightly coloured lollipop balls grace many a hallway although they are often obscured by the coats they were created to hold. The Hang-It-All