Design Shopper

It’s coming up to that time of the year when guests are arriving and people need feeding. For many, the dining room has been knocked through to provide a large living space but even if you don’t have the luxury of a separate room, albeit one that is probably under-used for 51 weeks of the

from hegegreenall-scholtz.blogspot.comSo now it’s really cold. And those radiators just aren’t very welcoming. Isn’t it time you thought about opening that old fireplace back up? There’s nothing more welcoming than huddling round a real fire, or even a gas one come to that, on a winter’s evening. Paul Chesney, owner of Chesneys, which sells reproduction

www.minimoderns.com  new paint range shown on their backgammon wallpaper We buy more than 300 million litres of paint a year in the UK. Not surprising really when you consider that a lick of paint is one of the quickest, cheapest and easiest ways to create a new look. Various surveys have found that spending around £1,000

the new Arne Jacobsen sofa from Danish company www.andtradition.com There's nothing like a cold winter evening when you want to snuggle up in front of the telly with a good film to make you realise that your sofa is, well, frankly past its best. It can be a combination of things; simple old age both

traditional cast iron radiators So the first crisp breeze of autumn has sliced its way through the air and thoughts are turning to warm toasty evenings, cashmere socks and bowls of hot soup. Or at least to putting the heating on. For most of us that means firing up a series of ugly white steel

Things are still pretty tough out there and, as many of us have either spent all our money just getting onto the housing ladder, or are stuck in a slightly dilapidated house that we can’t afford to decorate, mad about the house has come to the rescue. I wrote this piece a couple of years ago

Image by Paul Massey for Living Etc On a trip to Naples this summer, we stayed in a fabulous hotel with, possibly, the best bed I have ever slept in. Indeed my younger son announced that “when I am a millionaire I will buy everyone in the family one of these mattresses”. It may have

Shades of white and grey is contemporary and stylishPicture from interiorstylefinder.com The number of people from working from home is growing all the time and may have reached a peak this summer during the Olympics when up to 1.5m of us were estimated to have shunned trains and tubes for a little typing in front