Staying in London this week as that looks increasingly like we will be spending the summer given the constant to-ing and fro-ing over travel rules but nuff of that, let’s go and look at this pretty little one bedroom flat which sits on the first floor – only as it’s in St John’s Wood it’s…
Time for the monthly round-up of things from my inbox and we’re starting off with brand new company Colour Squatters, a new textile company founded by interior designer (and former journalist) Jill Macnair and textile designer Pablo di Francesco who met while training at the gym and starting chatting and, well, one thing led to…
Right so I’m going to try very hard to write about the picture next to the picture to avoid the scrolling up and down but this will mean we’re going straight in. None of that spraff about how are you, what’s the news, have you remembered to water the pots (er no not as often…
In a week where Britain sweltered in a heatwave, we saw one very nice house…. to paraphrase Gogglebox. I started off thinking we should head to the seaside, but then I popped in here on my virtual way to the coast and my heart was lost. It’s a Grade I listed Georgian townhouse in the…
Now this week is a very packed episode on the podcast and I urge you to listen because it is super useful as well. Firstly, we are discussing floor plans and how it’s important, before you so much as LOOK at a paint chart to decide if your rooms are in the right place for…
At the beginning of last year Maxine Hall and Paula Moss were pondering the lack of diversity in interior design. Co-founders of Blackpop, a successful textile business based near Derby, they were thinking about offering a bursary to a local black student to see if they could start to make a difference to this imbalance.…
It is a measure of how slowly interior trends move that I first started saying about three years ago that the the so-called millennial pink would deepen and darken to a more brick or terracotta shade as the 70s revival gathered pace. And suddenly this week it felt as if that colour was jumping out…
Now you might think that this £4m Queen Anne listed house in Buckinghamshire won’t have much to inspire you in your own homes and it’s true that the 7,000sq ft eight bedroom property might not relate to our own flats and terraced houses but a) there’s a good story b) there are things you can…
Now in theory this should be easy. White is white right? The perfect neutral that goes with everything. Except when it doesn’t. Like grey (and how to choose the right shade of grey paint remains one of my most popular posts) white is white in name only – and often not even then. It can…
Now, as dedicated as I am to the cause of bringing you this blog I am not writing this after the result of last night’s sporting event so while we may indeed be singing the sporting blues (or not) this week’s post is about what has caught my eye this week. And in a week…