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Using Colour To Punctuate A Room

deep blue paint via atelier ellis
We begin the week, as usual with a stroll through some of the beautiful rooms that have caught my eye this week. And first up, the picture of the vintage jelly cabinet that I mentioned on Friday. Firstly - how pretty! But the point I made the other day is that it is narrow so
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The Househunter: Muted Victorian Elegance

Welcome back to the regular househunter slot after last week's Italian extravagance. That said, there were lots of inquiries so fingers crossed we will be visiting that at some point in the future. But for now we're back on more familiar ground with this pretty Victorian house in London. And the reason I wanted to
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

The newly renovated @plainenglishdesign showroom in New York shot by @garruppo
Well come on then own up? Who's spent the weekend cheating on instagram, twitter and blogs with the new app Threads? Me first? Yes, yes I have. And I have to say I rather like it. Having given up on the toxic cesspool that is Twitter some years ago (even this blog has somehow disconnected
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The Househunter: Jewel Tones in Central London

A two bedroom apartment for you in Marylebone, W1, this week and it's a riot of deep saturated colour and a lesson in how to use it. Bear in mind you might not like these particular colours but it's about how they have been used which provides the lesson. It's also a call to action
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

Monday again and we seem to be having a bit of a summer moment. And while I have been inclined to complain* (*mention in passing) that the kitchen is dark compared with the last one as it has no skylight, I have to say that at the back of the house with a stone floor
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The Househunter: A pretty maisonette in east London

I had thought of trying to find a white modern palette cleanser for you today after the reaction to the Wow!house on Wednesday but instead I found this and I liked it more. To address that - yes it is full on but it is also a showcase for the designers' ideas and as such
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Beautiful Rooms To Inspire

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
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Beautiful Rooms for Inspiration

designed by Hannah Pemberton of Wandalust
Hello to you all and hoping the sun is shining with warmth wherever you are. Welcome another week in The Mad House mad about the house in italy We paid a lightning visit to the house in Italy last week to make a lighting plan. The house needs completely rewiring as it that hasn't been
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Come Shopping With Me

It's been a while since we had a shopping post and given that my house is full of dust and I don't really need any new furniture (plus the design decision fatigue is real) I thought a little virtual wander round the corridors of the internet to see what's about might be just the thing.
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The Househunter: A Four Bedroom Victorian Terrace

This week's property is perhaps nothing special on the outside- it's attractive - but there are some clever ideas inside and it's a classic four bedroom Victorian terrace family home. The sort of thing that will be familiar to many so it's always worth having a look around. It's on with Litchfields for £1,395,000 and
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

It's a while since we looked at location houses for inspiration and as the dust mounts here at Mad House II and the kitchen will finally be pulled out this week - we have managed to hang on to the sink, washing machine and dishwasher while all the building work was done around it and
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Anatomy of a Beautiful Room

Well we had a weekend of the sitting room feeling lovely and done and spacious and now it's about to be filled with the kitchen as work starts at the back of the house. This week the upstairs bathroom will be finished so we can decommission the mould-filled shower room downstairs and start to plan
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Beautiful Rooms to Inspire

kitchen design by charlotte boundy
Greetings from the building site. The sitting room is now finished and about to be filled with the kitchen which is the next room to be tackled once the upstairs bathroom is finished. It's exciting to see each room shrug off its grey coat and emerge from the dust, but oh, the dust. It's relentless.
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Beautiful Rooms: Inspiration for your own places and spaces

the william morris room from wow house at Chelsea Design Harbour summer 2022
Today's post is brought to you from the sick bed as I appear to have succumbed to the so-called supercold. Or perhaps it's just that I haven't had a cold for three years so have forgotten how wretched they are. Or perhaps it's because the bedroom is currently the nicest room in the house as
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Beautiful Rooms for a Monday (and a book cover reveal)

I've never been one to show you a picture and encourage you to scroll down to the end to see more but today I'm going to do just that. In addition to sharing the rooms and interiors that have caught my eye this week today is also the day that the cover of my next
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Beautiful Rooms: Warm Shades for Autumn

As ever a collection of images that have caught my eye this week - some in relation to my own renovation and others just because they are, as the title suggests, beautiful rooms. We tend to think of rich russet, golden yellow and conker brown when it comes to Autumn but pink is also rich
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Welcome Back: Beautiful Rooms for Autumn

design by lucy williams
Hello! I hope you have all had lovely summers - perhaps a rest - or perhaps now the rest begins if children have gone back to school. The blog is back too and I was hoping to be able to share some news with you this week but it hasn’t quite happened yet so fingers
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Summer Is Here

Next week will see the start of my annual August postcards series which gives you the chance to revisit some of the most popular posts of the last year or, perhaps, see them for the first time. I'm aware of how busy your inboxes are and that it's an enormous privilege to granted access three
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

As ever a random selection of rooms which have caught my eye in the corridors of the internet this week. Starting off with this pretty table and chairs in what I think might be the image that first sparked my concept of the importance of a disrupter colour. Arts & Crafts Breakfast Table by christopher
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The Househunter: A Methodist Church and Sunday School Room

Right, this week is one for letting the imagination fly or at the very least thinking about colour palettes. It's a Grade II listed Methodist Church with, and this is the imaginative bit, an attached Sunday School room. It's on with Inigo for £750,000 and it's in Powys, Wales, and it's a while since we've
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