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Get Your Hygge On

18th October 2016

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sheepskin throws from cowboykate.co.uk

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last couple of years, you cannot have failed to notice the proliferation of magazines and and newspapers urging you all to get hygge. A quick search on Amazon reveals at least a dozen books with hygge in the title, and my inbox tells me of

Candlesticks and Hygge

5th February 2015

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The eagle-eyed among you (well those who follow me on Twitter anyway) will have noticed a certain amount of grumbling recently following two power cuts in a week. Yes, a WEEK. It was like the 1970s round here. And not in a good way. I didn't get any Angel Delight and there were no suede

The Househunter: A Colourful Apartment in Norway

12th March 2021

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apartment belonging to Einar Jone Rønning Mateusz Michalowski and stylist: Josefine Johansson Studio

Right get your coat (and your passport) we're off to Norway to this colourful period flat, which not only features in one of the country's most popular dramas (EXIT - can't get it here I've tried) but is also the cover of the hugely successful Rockett St George Extraordinary Interiors In Colour book. Rockett St

Book Review: De Gournay Wallpaper and Scandi Rustic Interiors

29th October 2020

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St. Laurent designer Greg Natale photo Anson Smart

Suddenly there are new interiors books coming out every week after years of it being a massively unfashionable subject and it's becoming hard to keep up. Today I'm going to show you two books from either end of the spectrum - in a vain (probably laughable) attempt to try and keep all of the people

Happiness At Home: A podcast special episode

16th April 2020

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my mantelpiece is a collection of family souvenirs and happy memories

Now this might be quite a timely - if long - post. We planned to focus on happiness at home for this episode of the podcast several weeks ago (well before all this) but it turns out that this might be just the thing for now. So today on The Great Indoors, Sophie and I

Mad About The House 101 Interior Design Answers: the new book

30th December 2019

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image by by Rekha Damhar copy

Hello and almost Happy New Year. I wanted to finish off the old one, and the decade come to that, by showing you my new book which will be out on 5 March: Mad About The House, 101 Interior Design Answers. It's a collection of 101 of the most common questions that I have been

The Danes Love Colour After All

11th October 2018

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autumn/winter 18 by BoConcept

Some years ago - when this blog was just a fledgling - I wrote a piece for The Financial Times about whether good design makes you happy. It was based largely around the Danish interior style of minimal furniture, pared back design and muted colours. The pictures were, as you might expect, largely pale and

10 Beautiful Rooms is back for Autumn

3rd September 2018

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Hello and how lovely to be back on these pages. Some of you will have read the newsletter, which went out at the weekend, but for the rest of you welcome back to The Mad House. I thought we would start with some fabulous workspaces seeing as so many of us will be going back

How To Create A Home That Boosts Health and Happiness

19th June 2018

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farrow and ball citron

Now I'll admit I'm an old cynic and when I saw this book title: Happy By Design by Houzz editor Victoria Harrison I was a little sceptical. Surely decorating your house the way you want makes you happy? And there are people to help you with that. And I firmly believe, as do the Danes,

Wooden Pallet Furniture

16th May 2018

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image by reena @hygge_for_home

Quick the sun's out and it might have disappeared again by the time you read this so I wanted to rush in and show you this, because if you're anything like the rest of us you will have seen the sun, realised you hate your garden furniture, realised you haven't got a squillion pounds to

Mad About The House: How to Decorate Your Home with Style: The Reviews

30th March 2018

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KWS with book image by Frida Green of Pavilion

I hope you will forgive me a little mini-break here. Many of you will be away on holiday for the next few days or busy with friends and family rather than house-hunting or blog-reading. I tend to only take a break from publishing over Christmas but this year, having been so busy with the book

10 Beautiful Rooms: Wales

5th March 2018

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muted colours from @harpcottage

And so we come to Wales in our tour of the country. And it's true that styles seem to change a little as we go round. The North, according to Instagram at least, was all about dark and dramatic tones. When we go to the South West, there was still some dark but you were

10 Beautiful Rooms: Trends versus Reality

4th December 2017

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This week I thought we'd do 10 Beautiful Rooms in a slightly different way. Essentially chosen by you or people like you. A few days ago I went to the annual trends dinner at Houzz where we ate delicious food and talked about our trend predictions for next year. open plan kitchens was the most

What Is Home: Interview with Tom Dyckhoff

1st November 2017

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Home seems to be the word of the moment. Dulux referenced it when it announced its colour of the year recently and creative director Marianne Shillingford spoke at length about how, in times of uncertainty, all we want is to come home. To be home. To metaphorically hide under the duvet in a place where

10 Beautiful Rooms

3rd July 2017

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Gooooooood Mooooorning everyone and I'm very excited to bring you this week's edition of 10 Beautiful Rooms which is a house tour that I think you are going to love. It's the home of Reena Simon, who lives in Cardiiff *, in Wales, and I've followed her on Instagram for a while where she shows

Objects of Design #346: The Cargo Trike

10th February 2014

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monochrome interiors HQ of Butchers and Bicycles in Copenhagen This a story of a bicycle. But before you start complaining that I've gone completely off message (and God knows I can barely ride a bike never mind own one) it is also the story of what may be the most beautiful office you will ever

Objects of Design #328: Tea Light Holder Lamp

23rd January 2014

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tea light holder lamps by henry's future

tea light holder lamps by henry's future I like the idea of candlelight but, if I'm entirely honest, I rarely light one. I love the idea of hygge*, but, truth be told, I don't always practise what I preach. candle lamps come in two sizes available from notonthehighstreet.com And then I saw these. Regular readers

Objects of Design #254: Kitchen Matches

10th November 2013

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kitchen matches from plumo.com

kitchen matches from plumo.com If you're a fan of candles, then in addition to the sticks to stand them in, you'll also be needing these. Now I know matches are rather dull, useful things but these boxes are so pretty that I would want them out on display (I know children/safety/matches/danger etc but you can

Objects of Design #252: Glass Hanging Lantern

8th November 2013

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glass-hanging-lantern-bowl

add a tealight for instant hygge, from scandinavian shore Now I know we dealt with lighting in some detail last month (click here for 31 different lighting ideas) but then along comes another beauty and it has to be included. After all, the right lighting is an important part of the winter nesting process isn't

Objects of Design #248: Silver Floorstanding Candlesticks

4th November 2013

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silver candlestick holders floor standing from nordic house

floorstanding metal candlesticks from nordic house it seems fitting as we head into the colder months to talk once more of hygge. A Danish word which translates loosely as cosiness, it's greatly enhanced by the use of candles, which the Danes light every day. So we turn to Nordic House, run by Sandie and Alan