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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?

Wood Brass Sideboard

13th September 2016

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wood and brass sideboard from made.com

wood and brass sideboard from made.com Wood brass sideboard did you say? Well feast your eyes people. Just feast. I get asked so many times by clients about sideboards and a good sideboard is surprisingly hard to find. In that you can easily find lots for squillions of pounds. But, for some reason, in the

The Househunter: Converted Schoolhouse

This is a bit of a find. It's a two bedroom flat in a converted school house in south west London - SW11 to be

Black and White Patterned Chair

black and white patterned chair from happy and co

2016 has been the year of pattern. We have seen it on tiles and on carpets (see the new Liberty collection from Alternative Flooring) and

Dulux Colour of the Year 2017

In hindsight the clues were there. The staff were dressed in denim, the benches were painted in shades of blue from the gentlest spring sky

Industrial Leather Chair

industrial leather chairs

industrial leather chair brown from rockett st george This industrial leather chair is one of my favourites. And also, apparently yours as the stockist, our

The Househunter is Back for September

2nd September 2016

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It's September and so it's back. Time to poke around someone else's house. Just one for you this week, partly because the market is only just getting going again since the summer slowdown, and partly because I have been in Amsterdam for a party (I'm terribly glamorous you know) and you will be able to

10 of the Best: Dining Tables

tiptoe legs from France

So it's September. The summer holidays may still be rolling on, but for the rest of us, it's all about shiny new pencil cases and

Shades of Grey goes International

It's the last day of the August updates and I hope you will forgive me if I indulge myself a little and revisit this post

How to Create a Walk-in Wardrobe

bedroom as featured on madaboutthehouse.com

Many of you have asked about the walk-in wardrobe (or to be more accurate walk-through) that sits behind the purple wall in my bedroom and

The Househunter

Last one of the August updates on the Househunter and I love this house so much so we're going to have another look, but with

How To Get The Lighting Right: The Bathroom

25th August 2016

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Welcome to the fourth and final part* of my series on How To Get the Lighting Right in partnership with John Cullen. I do hope you have enjoyed it and found it useful. For new subscribers, who might not have seen earlier posts, we have done the kitchen, the sitting room, the bedroom and finally,

Antique Mirrored Wallpaper

Cole and Son Albemarle Albery resembles antique mirror wallpaper

Cole and Son Albemarle Albery resembles antique mirror wallpaper Regular readers will know I have been exploring antique mirrors on the blog recently after featuring

Brass Bar Cart

brass bar cart from Abigail Ahern

As the summer hasn't really materialised and the holidays are now nearly over, I thought we should revisit this fabulous bar cart today. It's such

The Househunter

We're going to the country this week because, well because look at that view. I'm not terribly good at the country myself; after years of

How To Get The Lighting Right: The Kitchen

The lighting is so often an afterthought - a few lampshades thrown in when the rest of the work is finished and the money has

French Connection Home Collection

17th August 2016

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I'm including this in the August updates series because some of these pieces have gone on sale since I first posted about them. That red leather chair for one..... It is a little known fact that red is actually a brilliant neutral. Fashiony people are often singing the praises of the red handbag on the

Mid-Century Style School Chairs

midcentury school chairs by olivia scott taylor 1

midcentury school chairs by olivia scott taylor Now I think you might like these. Mid-century style school chairs with a contemporary twist. Interested? I thought

August Updates: The Househunter

This is another great house that was marketed earlier this year. Come in and remind yourself of its fabulous kitchen. What about this then. Now

How to Get The Lighting Right in the Bedroom

As part of the August Updates I'm bringing you this one again - some of you will have missed it the first time round and

How to Mix Vintage and Contemporary

This was one of the most popular posts so far this year, so for anyone that missed it, have a catch up. I can also