Now I don’t know about you but what with the change in weather and the realisation that most of my clothes are definitely meant for outside and not hours on sofas with slippers/indoor shoes, I have felt myself wandering towards shopping sites for the first time in weeks. Just for a look you understand. And…
Now on the one hand the fact that everyone has to stay at home might/should mean the hall is free from coats, shoes and schoolbags and the detritus of modern family life. On the other hand the fact that everyone has to stay at home probably/does mean the hall is full of all the stuff…
Now I wrote last week about decorating in a lockdown and how what we want now might turn out to be quite different to what we want in a few months time. So I advised a little bit of caution and planning as your mood might very well change. You might, I said, be looking…
A slightly wordy title but one of the commonest questions I have been asked recently so I thought I would tackle it here. Since – as someone said to me the other day – many of us are seeing our homes in daylight for the first time and realising, now that we’re all in them…
There has naturally been a flurry of posts and features and articles (some of which I have contributed to) about how to make our homes work for us during this period and there are two points I want to make for anyone who a) isn’t suddenly feeling they want to rush out and paint their…
Come on in. Let’s go for a calm and quiet stroll through a collection of beautiful rooms and take a moment to look at what appeals (or doesn’t in each room). We have the time to plan so we might as well really look at what works for us in each of these and see…
Returning today to a house I featured three years ago when the owner, Greg Penn, was in the process of doing it up. He later sold it fully furnished and moved to Devon where he bought The Admiral’s House, part of the Royal Naval Hospital in Plymouth, which is an even more mammoth restoration job…
A long read for you today which you can book mark for later or peruse in stages as it’s mostly broken down into long bullet points. Listeners to the podcast will remember that we reviewed this book last year and I found it completely fascinating. You can listen to the episode here (look for 31…
Now I sense this is a subject we will be returning to over the new few weeks but for now I wanted to share a few things that have helped me work from home over the last 20 years with babies, toddlers and now teenagers. Sometimes I had a dedicated space and often I didn’t.…
So here we are then. It’s certainly not the new normal yet is it, but it’s the new reality at least. I hope you are all staying well and indoors. Can I firstly say thank you all so much for your messages of support for my post last week. I will absolutely continue to write…