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I hope you had a lovely summer. I will be back on Monday with some beautiful rooms to inspire and delight…. Lots of love to you all.

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I don’t know if m/any of you know but I have been writing a column in Red Magazine for nearly two years now. I began in the depths of lockdown in May 2020 and am delighted to still be there. It’s one of my favourite magazines and one I have bought since it first launched…

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A lovely selection of rooms for you this week even if I do say so myself so pour yourself a cup of something (tea, coffee, ambition) and let’s go for a wander starting with this gorgeous bathroom. Read on…

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Ok stop all the clocks and cut off the telephones and all that – this is the one. It’s a two bedroom house in east London and while it’s more expensive than last week – and sadly the lack of space means we won’t be sharing it – it’s so pretty that I think a…

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This week on the podcast, Sophie and I have done a fairly deep dive into eco paints. She was mostly enraged that there is no industry standard and everyone does what they want so we have looked into the subject in more depth to try and understand what’s what and what you need to know.…

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This blog has long been obsessed with the internal window. Where once it was all about crittal (or frittal – her faux sister) the look has now softened to be more about wood – where possible reclaimed. You can pick up salvage wooden doors for a reasonable price and the joy of that is that…

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Right that’s it. I’m moving to Lincolnshire to this supremely elegant five bedroom house set in seven acres with a kitchen garden and a wild swimming pond. It’s on with Inigo for £1.1m and it’s the perfect place to hide away from the world and grow vegetables which you can then cook in your outdoor kitchen.…

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Some of you will have read this before – I first published it in 2018 and it was then expanded to six questions for my second book 101 Interior Design Answers, which came out as the lockdown started in 2020. As we near the anniversary of that date and we appear to have lurched from…

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When I can’t sleep I decorate. Not literally but in my mind’s eye. I start with rooms I own and imagine methodically clearing them out to make way for a new design. Then, should rest still be elusive, I move onto rooms I don’t own. I might pick a style – this week it seems…

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I’ve said for a long time that the Georgian vicars got all the best houses and now, it turns out, the Georgian doctors did pretty well too. This terrace, near Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, is believed to have been his (and it would have been a he) home with the surgery next door. Now it’s Grade II…

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