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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?

Moving Day

25th February 2012

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Moving day dawned bright and early (as the cliche goes). Although actually as it was a December morning in London it was, of course, neither of those things, but it did at least dawn, in a grey and sluggish sort of way. The old house looked like this: The new one looked like this, only

Design Classics #9: The PH Artichoke Light

It has not escaped Design Classics' notice that there is a certain fascination with all things Danish at the moment. The jumpers, The Killing,

Design Classics #8: The Bubble Chair

It's a bit space age, a bit glamorous, a bit indoor hammock. The Bubble chair was built to swing lazily on a landing by a

All The Shops And Sites You Need To Know

zoffany persian tulip wallpaper via madaboutthehouse.com

As a frequent contributor to The Independent's regular 50 Best features, I have been researching and discovering new places to shop for over ten years

Design Classics #7: The Panton S Chair

The first cantilevered chair made from a single piece of plastic, the Panton Stacking or S is also perhaps the sexiest chair ever made. It

Books Maketh The Room

13th February 2012

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“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house,” Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Thomas Jefferson declared that he could not live without books and managed to create three libraries in his lifetime. When the first burned down, he wrote to

Mad About . . . A Wooden Laptop Case

If traditional laptop cases in bright colours and padded neoprene aren't your thing, take a look at this. It's wooden. Yes that's right. Solid wood

Mad About . . . A King Kong Bathroom Cabinet

Liven up your bathroom storage with this King Kong cabinet. Kong and the planes are magnetic so you can pass those regulatory two minutes of

Mad About . . . Stag Head Wallpaper

Moving on from hanging a single stag's head on your wall, now it's about plastering them all over. This gorgeous teal wallpaper is from the

Mad About . . . Old Zinc Mail Boxes

Bought four of these vintage zinc mail boxes from Rockett St George and fixed them to an awkward corner in the kitchen. Now everyone has

How to Hang Wallpaper

8th February 2012

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I love wallpaper. Always have. The bolder the better. In every house we have owned, and we are serial movers, there has always been at least one wall of the stuff. From big splashy flowers to flock or metallic and monochrome, wallpaper is the way to bring a room to life. It's not for everyone

Mad About . . . Metropolitan Line Luggage Racks

Remember the old days of the London Underground? Fusty smoke-filled carriages, soot in the air and, for those on the Metropolitan Line, the high-backed seats

The Renovation Begins

Just over one year ago we moved into our new house. A beautiful London townhouse, it had been divided into two flats and left empty

How To Make The Most Of Your Staircase

Most of us never think about the stairs beyond whether they are capable of getting us up to bed and back down again without collapsing.

Design Classics #5: The Duvet

It was the 1950s, or thereabouts. Sir Terence Conran was in Sweden. With a girl. And Our Tel found himself lying under a strange cover

Design Classics #4: The Juicy Salif Lemon Squeezer

6th February 2012

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Philippe Starck was having lunch on the Amalfi coast. As he ordered a plate of calamari he was pondering his latest commission from the Italian design house Alessi. The company, responsible for so many iconic designs over the years, had requested a tray and Starck needed to work out how to bring his unique talents

Design Classics #3: The Barcelona

Such is the iconic status of the Barcelona chair that it has its own page in the Barcelona Yellow Pages. Not only that but

Design Classics #2: The Cafetiere

It seems hard to remember a time when the cafetiere was an object of luxury. For Britons, used to a mug of instant coffee, the

Design Classics #1: The Lava Lamp

Who hasn't stared fascinated at its gently blobulous movements up and down the glass. At the waxing and waning of the shapes as they