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A few weeks ago I shared with you the news that we have recently fulfilled a 30 year dream of buying a house in Italy - just outside Turin. Those of you that follow me on instagram will have seen the odd story that my architect has shared as the building is fully rewired and

Hello everyone and welcome back to the blog. I hope you have all had a lovely summer. In an effort to prolong that holiday feeling I have a very special househunter for you today which is a fabulous flat in Lerici, Italy, that is complete 70s vintage from the floors and light fittings to the

As you read this we should just have returned from a site visit to the house where (hopefully) the rewiring and plumbing have been done and the builders are getting ready to put everything back again. This means that over the next few weeks and months the pictures should go from being mostly rubble to

My apologies for the radio silence over the last couple of weeks. It coincided with the Easter Holidays, the last mad rush of the builders finishing and, well, a short trip to Italy where, as some of you may already know, we signed the papers for a house in a lovely village near Turin. We

Hello everyone, firstly can I thank all of you who have followed me over to the new house on Substack either as a free or paid subscriber. I'm dropping in here to let you know that my first post will be going live this morning. I won't be writing on here every time there is

Well today’s the day. From today you will be able to join me over on Substack where I have been busy behind the scenes hanging the curtains, unpacking the archive and arranging the furniture ready to welcome you in. Some of you will have already seen the email I sent on Monday in which I

Off to a grand Victorian house in south London this week which has taken full advantage of the large rooms and high ceilings to really make bold use of colour. But before you worry this isn't for you, the colour drenching used throughout this property works brilliantly in smaller rooms with lower ceilings so this

It's been nearly a year and now I'm thrilled to show you the finished house as it appears in the 25th anniversary issue of Red magazine which is out now (even though it's the October issue). I will go through all the rooms in turn showing you what we did and where we sourced things

Dashing past and leaving you this lovely sunshine doorway this week. It's been a week of choosing paint colours and tiles for the house in Italy, arranging plumbing positions and, as you read this I may very well be hurtling along a zip wire over one of the largest quarries in Wales as part of

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

Right get your coats we're going to Somerset. The slight hitch is that we need three million quid, but let's worry about that when we get there. This fabulous modernist house was built in 1935 as a home for the composer Sir Arthur Bliss. It's set in 25 acres of gardens and ancient woodland and

SOLD OUT   Have we got news for you (as the saying goes)! Do you fancy coming on holiday with me and Sophie? A Great Indoors Road trip? Five days with us and 20 other like-minded design lovers? Where to you say? Well, how about a couple of days in one of the most famous

Good Day (can't say morning as it might not be when you are reading this) to you all. Firstly thank you so those who have signed up to join The Great Indoors Insiders Group, you should, by now, have seen all the details of a very exciting trip to Italy that we are hoping you

This two bedroom apartment in the heart of the City of London is, says Historic England, an "unusual example in Britain of the German Expressionist style" and was  Grade II listed in 1990. It is also a blend of Art Deco architecture and Moroccan style interiors. But before you panic that there's a lot going

We're off to Margate this week, the regency town that was first fashionable in the 18th century for Londoners looking for fresh sea air and which is now enjoying a resurgence as a haven for contemporary art and its creators. Before we get to this week's property though, I want to first tell you about

A break with the traditional Monday post of Beautiful Rooms as I figured you might want to be the first to see the not quite so beautiful rooms that we will be moving into in three weeks time. This is very much a post of befores. I'm hoping the afters will not take too many

I wasn't sure if I should post this given the sad news about the death of the Queen last night. In the end I have decided to leave it here as planned. There is no disrespect intended and it is up to you to read it now or later as you wish.  Something slightly different

Right we're all going to need a collective rummage down the back of the sofa for this one because it's expensive but it's lovely - at least I think it is although I'm aware that we don't always agree on these matters. Remember it's Fantasy Friday and for the eleventy billionth week of lockdown I

Well after last week's outrage over the narrowest, most expensive house in London let's try this. Although firstly that post was picked up on by a blog in Italy and secondly I saw on the local news last night that there is now an offer in - from a buyer in Cyprus so if I