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Interior Styling with La Redoute



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sitting room styling with La Redoute by madaboutthehouse.com photography by
It has become one of the annual styling jobs that I most look forward to and this year was no exception. I first worked with La Redoute about five years ago styling one room. This year there were three; jam-packed with new collections and products and for today’s Wednesday Ad break I’m going to show
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Monday Inspiration



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Open plan living dining, dark parquet floor, dark wood coffee table pale blue walls via historika hem. Madaboutthehouse.com
Good Mooooooorning and Happy Monday (or hello and happy whatever day it is when you are reading this. Here, as ever to start the week are my favourite rooms that I have found and want to share with you as you might find them as inspiring as I have. kitchen design by Huntsmore Having just
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The Househunter: An Artist’s House in South London



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Let me start by saying I loved all your suggestions for Captain Cook in last week's house and you are clearly all much better at film writing than me. So this week I present you with a rather fabulous house in south London and you can supply the script yourselves. It belongs to an artist.
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The Househunter: Hillside House in Hastings



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It's more of a cliffside house really but I fell down an alliterative rabbit hole.... anyway look at this. A Grade II listed property with views over the rooftops below to the sea beyond and after the year we've had this seems like the perfect place to be living right now. Come to think of
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The Househunter: A former Stables in the City



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There's something so romantic about this former stables which has been converted into a two bedroom house and which looks like it belongs deep in the French countryside. But it's actually in Canning Cross in the Camberwell conservation area. Once a working stables, the building, which is set down a cobbled street, is now a
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It’s Earth Day



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nomad sultan rug by weaver green made from 54000 plastic bottles
The interiors business has traditionally been wasteful as we seek to constantly change our homes the way we used to change our clothes, but over the last couple of years, it feels like change (and awareness) is beginning to happen and filter through. There is a real passion for vintage and antique furniture now and
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The New Bathroom Range from Duravit



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The new D- Neo range from Duravit
For this week’s Wednesday Ad Break I’m delighted to introduce you to Duravit, a bathroom company that was founded over 200 years ago in Germany's Black Forest and with whom I am collaborating this year. Even as I type my builder is working on my shower room (installed eight years ago and, until he arrived,
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On My Radar: Women in Interiors



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Julia wallpaper by Elizabeth Ockford part of The Garden range inspired by amazing women
Once a month I dig back through my inbox to see what's new in interiors and what you might like to know about from events to product launches and this week the first five emails I came up with were for businesses run by women. So I have decided to go with that as this
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Is Swedish Style actually the new Scandi?



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image via historikahem.se
For years everyone has referred to Scandinavian style as a catch-all phrase for everything that is minimal, pared back and mostly mid-century modern. But did you know that this is actually more of a Danish look? And I have seen Scandinavians refer slightly crossly to being all lumped in together when they are very distinct
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The Househunter: A house by the sea



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Right it's official, the lockdown is easing and we're officially allowed to spend the night away from home (in our bubbles) so I thought we should take a trip to the seaside, in our own virtual bubble, to look at this huge Georgian townhouse in fashionable Margate. Who's coming? It's big enough for us to
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The Hottest New Interiors Books Reviewed



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Image from Every Room Should Sing by Beata Heumann (Rizzoli)
Back with a new series of the podcast and this week we are reviewing three of the newest interiors books, two of which are published today. Elsewhere in the show, which for this series is sponsored by Harlequin, we discuss scented candles – expect strong opinions there and whether you should unconservatory your conservatory. Do
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Interview: What will our interiors look like post-pandemic?



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Today I’m chatting to Ed O’Donnell,  the interior designer and one half of Angel/ODonnell whose house I featured on these pages a few weeks ago and whose staircase caused such consternation – we’ll deal with that at the end. In a piece he wrote recently his thoughts on trends chimed very much with my own
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Beautiful Rooms: Panelling for All



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elegant panelling via @alicegraceinteriors
This week I have fallen down the rabbit hole that is panelling. There's no doubt that it's everywhere at the moment and I have succumbed in my own house in my newly redecorated office. That said it's one of those classics that is having a moment (like brass) rather than a fad that will pass
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The Househunter: An Antique Dealer’s Apartment



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It's all about the simple details this week. Good bones, great furniture and no fancy paint tricks. And while I speak as a fan of fancy paint trick, this lovely one bedroom apartment in a building dating back to the 1800s shows you the power of buying well. I also think it shows you the
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Liberty Reintroduces Wallpaper



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wallpaper and fabric from the new Modern Collector range at Liberty London
Liberty is one of the most visited and iconic (and I don't use that word lightly) shops in the capital. Its huge beamed presence stands behind Oxford Street Tube station and if you haven't posted a picture of its distinctive floral displays are you even an Instagrammer? Now the store has reintroduced Liberty wallpaper to
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms



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poochi wallpaper by divine savages in creme
A riot of pattern and colour for you this week - well mostly - and if there's no pattern and not much colour then there's texture. So important, so often overlooked. Let's dive in with this wonderful floral wallpaper: image via josh and tonic using Jannah wallpaper by Warner House 1870 This pattern, which comes
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The Househunter: A One Bed flat in West London



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Some of you will recognise this room as belonging to the hugely successful designer Sophie Ashby (who I interviewed on these very pages a while back). This one bedroom flat, which is located in the former BBC Television centre, is now on the market and I thought you might like to have a look. It's
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Finding the Perfect Neutral paint with Ruth Mottershead of Little Greene



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colours from the new stone collection by little greene
This week on the podcast Sophie and I discuss how to buy furniture online and get it right. You can listen here and I will return to this as a full post next week as it's an increasingly permanent part of our lives. We also discuss hall flooring and sound proofing in our regular Style
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New: Cox & Cox launch their own paint range



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Many of you will be familiar with Cox & Cox, a homewares brand that has featured on these pages many times since the blog launched nearly 10 years ago. Today, for my Wednesday Ad Break, I have teamed up with them to tell you about their paint collection which has expanded this week to include
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From My Radar to Yours: What’s new in Interiors



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broste copenhagen pam table in recycled paper via Amara
So what's new? Well, it turns out, quite a lot. With news on the sustainable front too. But before we get into that, thank you so much for your kind and supportive comments yesterday. A couple of early nights and things always seem much better. Although I fear the lockdown madness may have got to
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