It is, as someone wrote on social media, the time of year when the interior designers get to tell their own stories. Eighteen room sets at Chelsea Harbour loosely following the idea of a (large) house from the entrance hall, via a dining room, morning room, library, office, bedroom and bathroom out to a garden…
Welcome to Monday and I hope you all had a restful half term if that was what you were doing. Suddenly after a month of bank holidays it feels like a long time until the next one although I imagine working parents are quite pleased they’re over for now. I took the week off as,…
Another week another postcard from The Great Indoors Podcast. This week we have interviewed Micaela Sharp, upholsterer, designer, businesswoman, and tv presenter who first came to our attention on Interior Design Masters, where she came third proving, yet again, that you don’t have to win the show to win at developing your career. Micaela talks…
If you ever read blog post titles this one may not mean that much to you but if I show you the pantry that possibly broke the internet it may seem more familiar. This narrow pantry was pinned and admired by everyone. My mother-in-law got contractors’ quotes to recreate it, I revised my whole philosophy…
Welcome to our monthly Style Surgery on The Great Indoors podcast. It’s the episode where we tackle all your design dilemmas and give you the answers you’ve been itching for. From updating a little boy’s room to make it fit for a toddler, how to bring some warmth to a dark Dallas kitchen to finding…
Well here we are again on a Monday and I thought it would be appropriate to start with an inspiring little home office as some of us will be heading deskwards shortly. Now many people talk about creating a working space under the stairs and it’s definitely cheaper and takes up less space than a…
Yes it’s a palace. Well part of a palace and it was named for King Ina of Wessex, who reigned from 688 to 726. His lands stretched from Kent to Devon although this house wasn’t built until the 14th century, and it’s not certain if the King even had a palace on this spot although…
This week on the podcast Sophie and I take a deep dive into kitchen design. Sophie is in the process of moving her small kitchen across the house to what was her huge sitting room. She has changed a window into a door to take advantage of the views over the garden and will be…
Today I want to return to a company I first wrote about in 2018 when they launched a range of sustainable white cotton bedding at accessible prices. Rise & Fall was set up to try and cut out all the noise around bedlinen and strip it back to its core components – stuff to sleep…
Hello to you all and hoping the sun is shining with warmth wherever you are. Welcome another week in The Mad House and first the news that our trip to Italy is sold out. I hope those of you that wanted to come managed to get a ticket and you should there is a waiting…
