Welcome to The Househunter and my selection of a fabulous property that is on the market this week. Each week we take a look around a different house or flat and see where we can take inspiration and what the owners have done that might give us ideas for our own spaces. The price is…
Michelle Ogundehin needs little introduction; the editor of Elle Decoration for 13 years (from 2004) she is now a regular television presenter, creative consultant and is just finishing off her first book. Notoriously private about her home, Michelle posts only corners of her rooms and has said she will never, ever, invite a magazine into…
One of the things that magazines and blogs and designers talk about all the time is how to get the lighting right in each room. I have done that myself (and I hope it was useful) but it seems to me that a far greater, and perhaps more common, issue is how do you PUT…
Before you start reading this new series, I know that some of you haven’t received the daily email update that a new post has been published. It didn’t go at all on Monday morning and was sent manually at about 9pm. This morning it went to some people and not others. It’s being investigated and…
I moved my office around last week to put the desk facing the window and noticed how the light caught the metallic gold ceiling. I often catch myself stopping on the way past to have a look in this room and take pleasure in the ceiling and so it has sparked today’s Beautiful Rooms post…
We’re going pink this week to a Georgian house in the Holly Grove conservation area of Peckham that was designed by the architect David Hingamp for him, his wife and his two children. It’s on the market with Mundays for £1.8m and has four bedrooms, a large kitchen, dining and living room as well as…
It occurred to me the other day that I have very rarely, almost never, talked about window dressings. Or, for the sake of this post, curtains. That’s partly, actually mostly, because I don’t have any, so it’s not something I think about and partly because when I started this blog – way back in 2012,…
There’s been a lot of talk about collaborations recently – everyone’s at it it seems and this week’s Wednesday Ad Break brings you details of another one that has a little bit of the dream team about it. Yes it’s the result of a mash up between the boho glam of Anthropologie and the vintage…
Many of you will be familiar with the American interior designer Kelly Wearstler, who has been dubbed the Queen of West Coast style. She has designed homes for Gwen Stefani, Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller. She has designed fabric and furniture, rugs and tiles all in her signature pared back maximalist style. And if that…
Green is all anyone is talking about at the moment; whether it’s colour of the year, our impact on the planet or new paint ranges so I thought we would use that as excuse to look at some greenspiration today and perhaps if you are thinking of incorporating this colour into your space it might…