365 Objects Of Design

Well we've had the colour of the year and now it's time for the tile of the year as revealed by moi at an event with Topps Tiles last week and for this week's Wednesday AD Break I thought I would talk you through some of the trends around it and the different ways you

A return to this occasional series where we look at five key elements that you can change in a room to give it a new lease of life. Today it's the bedroom. Now, obviously the single most transformative thing you can do is buy a can of paint but that involves a certain amount of

Today I thought we would dive into a little colour psychology with an (amended) extract from my book but looking  also at inspiration and what's in the shops so that you can buy if you want but be inspired if you don't. I wanted to start with green as it's definitely one of the colours

This is just for fun but it probably also makes a wider point about how trends spread. I was looking for something completely different when I stumbled across these tiles. And then I found this light. And in newspapers we always used to say that two was a coincidence (ie not a story) but three

Over the last seven years of writing this blog I have been privileged to work with several companies writing about their products and styling their furniture. One that I have collaborated with on several occasions and we now have something of an ongoing partnership is La Redoute. While I have known about this French company

Welcome to the third, and final ( I hope but never say never) makeover of the Downstairs Loo. This room has never been quite right since we built it nine years ago. It's under the stairs but we stole a bit from the kitchen and, to be honest, we didn't quite take enough. Under the

Around the time of the first Women's March (not the first ever but the first after Trump was elected) an image of three women's clenched fists appeared on many instagram and twitter feeds. I used it myself after discovering that it was the work of Deva Pardue, who also founded All Womankind, a design initiative

Well I know the odds of a sunny long bank holiday weekend are slim and I know that we had one over Easter - four days of a heat so intense we could have been in Spain, but boy have we been punished for that ever since.  It's been so cold we've put the heating

Last week I made a lightning trip to Milan at the invitation of Samsung to see - not just some of their appliances but also to consider - via an installation they had created in the Brera Design District - the role of the kitchen in our busy 24 hour lives. samsung 24 hour kitchen

It seems apt that after posting about the forthcoming trends as seen at Milan last week, I find a new interiors brand that is using all those colours to showcase its lighting collection. So this post is twofold - have a look at the lighting from houseof and check out the colours (and arches) with

Now that the clocks have gone forward and we've all recovered from that missing hour (how can that be so hard?) the longer days and burgeoning blossom is making me desperate to bring a little of the outside in. Especially as it's not quite warm enough (at the time of writing) to go from inside