Today I thought we would have a look at arranging furniture because it’s not just about where the sofa goes but if you are planning a new room – from scratch – you need to know where the furniture will go before you can work out where the lights will go. And your builder will…
Last week for the Beautiful Rooms post we spoke about the Red Thread and how you can use it to create a cohesive theme in your house. This week, the houses are all very different and while I’m certain they will all have their own red thread, I am choosing to look at little more…
This week on the podcast we discussed whether Instagram is simply the 21st century version of Keeping Up With The Jones (you can listen here) and then we moved on to talk about quick budget home updates and how to decorate kids’ rooms, which I have written about below for listeners who like to read…
Some weeks ago I wrote about The Red Thread – used by the Swedish to describe something that follows a theme. The idea of the red thread isn’t new; Theseus followed a red thread given to him by Ariadne to find his way out of the Minotaur’s cave in Greek mythology, and it has been…
In this week’s episode Sophie and I had a long discussion about how to get the lighting right as well as working with architects and interior designers. I hope you will find the information useful even if you don’t listen to the podcast (why not?!) so I have summarised our conversation below for you. How…
For the last month I have been working with Houseology, a brand founded by a team of interior designers, to make series of four films for their Brit List series. It has been fascinating to learn more about four chosen brands – from Kelly (who needs no introduction) – more of which later – to an…
Good Morning and welcome to Monday. We start this week’s room inspiration with a visit to the house of Philippa McFarlane, who has featured on these pages before. I love her house and these brass-lined blue kitchen cabinets are definitely on my “to steal” list if I ever redo my kitchen. Philippa (and I urge…
I really wanted to find a Queen Anne house for this week as I just managed to see the film before Oscar night and have been obsessively researching the truth of the matter ever since. It seems, from a few google searches, that while all the characters certainly existed and the power play between them…
Now then, I wasn’t going to post this as I thought you might all know the answer, but I get asked this a lot so I’m going to assume that some of you don’t. So I thought it might be worth laying it all out as a guide for you to virtually cut out and…
Spring may not actually be in the air but it really does feel like it doesn’t it? So we’re going to start this week’s beautiful rooms tour with a window flung wide in this gorgous Stockholm kitchen below. It’s for sale (click picture caption links for details)and billed as somewhere you can add your own…