Usually, when you are househunting, you might tick four beds, period, townhouse and prepare to scroll through dozens of similar (and familiar looking) houses all of which you like (they are literally ticking your boxes) but with no surprises. Then this comes up. And yes it’s a four bedroom Victorian townhouse – you’re familiar with…

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It’s one thing to read about a brand on their website but another to visit their factory and really get a feel for what goes into the products. It’s well over a year since I teamed up with Original BTC and, as their new collection drops, I was finally able to travel to the Potteries…

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After last Monday’s unexpected (for me at least) look at incorporating yellow accents into the home, followed by its inclusion on the list of trends last week’s podcast, I thought I’d stay with colour this week for our weekly wander through some beautiful rooms in search of inspiration for our own. Before we start though…

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Oh I know I’ve said it before (no, not quite every week) but this time I mean it. No I really do. This is the one. The one that I want… woo hoo hoo… etc. This Georgian house sits on one of London’s garden squares and well, look I know it’s £3.75m (read it fast…

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It’s the last podcast of the current series and today we are talking about the top ten trends following the announcement of the Dulux Colour of the Year. Remember you don’t have to follow trends unless they are right for you and this is partly why we have identified 10 as they range from pale…

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Today I wanted to share a couple of initiatives with you relating to sustainability. Did you know that currently only 10 per cent of the furniture and homeware items that are disposed of within the UK is recycled? Or to put it another way over 20 million pieces of furniture are thrown away in the…

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Some of us are clinging onto summer while some of us are eyeing cosy jumpers and woolly socks and are ready to move into the new season. For me this is one of those “how it started… how it’s going” posts. As regular readers will know I have traditionally not been a fan of yellow.…

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Continuing the modern theme of this week with a look at this Huf House in Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire which is on the market with The Modern House for £3,600,000. Now I’m not usually drawn to the idea of living in a super modern glass house but there was something about this one which nestles…

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Last weekend I rushed over to The Design Museum in West London to catch the last day of the Charlotte Perriand exhibition. This French designer, whose life literally spanned the 20th century (1903-1999) is one of my design heroes and yet her name is not famous like Le Corbusier and Jean Prouvé with whom she…

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This is it then; school’s back, work’s back and it’s all happening again – perhaps not quite in the same way as two years ago, but the nearest we’ve had to normality in a long time. So, to continue with some normal let’s return to our Monday classic with some beautiful rooms to guide you…

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