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How To Get The Lighting Right: The Bathroom

25th August 2016

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Welcome to the fourth and final part* of my series on How To Get the Lighting Right in partnership with John Cullen. I do hope you have enjoyed it and found it useful. For new subscribers, who might not have seen earlier posts, we have done the kitchen, the sitting room, the bedroom and finally,

How To Get The Lighting Right: The Kitchen

18th August 2016

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The lighting is so often an afterthought - a few lampshades thrown in when the rest of the work is finished and the money has run out. But it is such a key part of a design scheme - so easy to get wrong and so stunning when it's done right, that I collaborated with

How to Get The Lighting Right in the Bedroom

11th August 2016

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As part of the August Updates I'm bringing you this one again - some of you will have missed it the first time round and some of you will suddenly find it's more relevant than it was when it came out the first time round. This week is part III in the mini-series How to

How To Get The Lighting Right: Lighting Art

12th May 2016

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how to get the lighting right - art work

how to get the lighting right: artwork. Picture light by TM Lighting It's back again - by more popular demand. This series on How To Get The Lighting Right continues today with advice on how to light art. Now, before you get carried away, I'm not assuming you've all got a stockpile of Picassos and

How To Get The Lighting Right: The Bedroom

4th February 2016

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This week is part III in the mini-series How to Get the Lighting Right and we're tackling the bedroom. In many ways this is a culmination of what we have already learnt downstairs but, given that we spend a third of our lives either sleeping, or attempting to do so, the lighting is just as

How To Get The Lighting Right: The Sitting Room

7th January 2016

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Welcome to part II of my mini-series in collaboration with John Cullen Lighting. Last month we spoke about how to get the lighting right in the kitchen and today we are moving into the sitting room. As you may remember from last month, John Cullen's design director, Sally Storey, came round and spent the morning

Dreamy New Lighting Collaboration

29th March 2023

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I have spent the last three months scouring the corridors of the internet in searching of great lighting. With deadlines looming I have bought some but how I wish I had known about this collaboration between Houseof and the interior designer Em Gurner, of Folds Inside, because it would have been worth waiting for. It

How to Get Your Garden Furniture Right

20th April 2022

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bubble club armchair by kartell via amara

There has been a lot of talk in recent years about the trend for bringing the outdoors in when it comes to colour and pattern. We know that the colour green is on the rise, houseplants are back with a vengeance and the trend for botanical plants is massive whether you favour the Arts and

A Very British Lighting Brand

22nd September 2021

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Original btc Drop 3

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

Is E-Design Right For You?

28th January 2021

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interior e-design by topology from £299 per room

Online interior design, or e-design as it’s more commonly known, is a phenomenon that has grown hugely over the last year, partly out of necessity and partly, I suspect, because we have all had to adapt to a more online life and familiarise ourselves with the technology that comes with that. interior e-design by topology

Lockdown Lighting Tips and Decorating Ideas

30th April 2020

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swachbox by sophie robinson

The remote recording of the podcast continues and this week Sophie and I repaired to our respective duvet tents for this episode of The Great Indoors in which we discuss ideas for lockdown decorating and I interview Sally Storey, the design director of John Cullen Lighting, on "decorating with light" as well as rounding up

Original BTC Lighting Celebrates 30 Years

11th March 2020

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hector 30 anniversary lamp by original btc in the home of madaboutthehouse.com

For this week's Wednesday Ad break I have teamed up with Original BTC as part of a long term collaboration and this is the first of four posts I shall be writing about them. We start with their 30th anniversary and the launch of the Hector 30 lamp which has been updated with a shiny

Getting Ready for December

28th November 2018

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Good Morning and welcome to Wednesday Ad Break. This week I have collaborated with Next on a post about getting ready for Christmas. Too soon? It's just under a month people, we need to face up to this now. Of course, I'm sure many of you are way ahead with present buying and list-making but

Lighting Trends 2018

15th May 2018

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Over the last three weeks I have run pieces on the main trends that emerged from Milan Design Week when it came to sitting rooms, kitchens and bathrooms. And that, I thought, was that. And then lighting experts John Cullen contacted me with some information they had put together on lighting trends for this year

How To Plan Your Decorating Budget

1st February 2017

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navy blue and gold wallpaper set off this pendant light perfectly image by Karen Knox

I'm excited to bring you the first in a new series on The Mad House today. When I asked you what you wanted from the blog a few of you said that you would like to see other voices from time to time to bring a change of pace. I have already started with my

Collect Lighting by Ferm Living

4th October 2016

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It's possible we have all become very spoilt these days. One of the things the internet has done is make it easier for small designer makers to get their stuff out in front of potential clients. This is, of course, utterly brilliant for both them and us. This has led, in turn, to many manufacturers,

Handblown Glass Pendant Lighting

14th September 2016

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Earlier this summer I went to the Rothschild & Bickers studio to learn about glass blowing. I have admired their gorgeous glass pendants for many years and, ever since I read a Donna Leon thriller set in a glass factory in Venice, have been keen to learn more about this ancient art. black kitchen with

How To Buy Vintage Lighting

7th April 2016

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concrete house by Airhouse Design with vintage lighting from skinflintdesign.com

Back by popular demand (well my demand at least) the How To Get The Lighting Right series has proved extremely popular so I thought I would extend it with a post on how buy vintage lighting. It's a question that clients often ask me, either because they want one, or they have already bought one

Industrial Lighting

12th November 2015

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So, the lighting in the loft. As you may remember this project was finished in the summer and I have published images of it previously (industrial style loft conversion). It was basically all there but just needed a few extra touches to finish it off. Knowing me that day will never actually come - the

Lighting by Jonathan Adler

17th September 2014

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Jonathan Adler must be wonderful to meet in real life. He is clearly one of those people who always knows the right thing to say. Sadly I missed the launch of his groovy new London shop earlier in the year so I didn't get the chance but today I wanted to give you his words