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Good morning and I wish you all a Happy Christmas, a good holiday and general greetings of the season. Father Christmas on skis by Kate Watson-Smyth The blog is going to take a break over the holidays now. I usually keep going throughout December but I'm sure you will all agree that this year has

There's a new trend in town and it's beautiful. At this time of year instagram fills up with Christmas trees and some of them are lovely but, to my mind, the best tree is the one that holds the most memories - clay figures made by your children at nursery, crackers made from old loo

Welcome to Monday - I hope it's going well so far... and I appreciate with the C word (not that one) the B word and, in the US, the T word things might not be all that, so let this be your escape from it all. Let's wander through today's very (I mean really) beautiful

Well that was controversial last week wasn't it? I was expecting the comments about the darkness (it was dark) but I wasn't expecting such dislike of open plan living (although I completely get that) and ultimately I thought it was interesting to see such a completely unexpected interiors to a somewhat classic Victorian terrace. That

I'm so excited to share this news with you today. It has been a long time in the dreaming and even longer in the making but Mad About The House is launching an online shop in January. Read on to find out the story behind Design Storey. The idea came about after realising that there

This year, instead of my own gift guide ( I feel like I'm a bit late to start that party now) I thought I would share some of the best gift guides I have seen for design lovers and that way you can all discover new people and ideas. My philosophy on choosing presents hasn't

Happy Monday to you all and first up I would like to thank so many of you for engaging and responding to the posting schedule dilemma of last week. Looks like we'll be staying at daily posts for the time being - that's four a week (with a fifth on Wednesday if there's a sponsored

We're off to Ramsgate this week, a coastal town in Kent, which isn't perhaps the first place you'd think of for groundbreaking architecture, but we have a brilliant reworking of a traditional Victorian house and it's worth a look.. coming in? Especially as it's well under a million..... It's not an entirely typical Victorian house

Today I am rounding up three of the most popular and, dare I say, useful posts of recent times as part of this week's podcast shownotes. For those of you who are new here, or who don't check in all the time (how can that be? There are four posts a week - thoughts on

It's that time again.... and what could be better than getting a present every month, or every three months? This is my idea of the perfect present and I'll take any of the below. Below are 15 of the best ideas I have found based largely around reading, stationery,  beauty and eco including both small

I was going to show you a very beautiful, very expensive, somewhat neutral house this week but given the reaction to the calming neutrals the other day, I decided against it and we shall look at this charming four bedroom maisonette which, as is so often the case, ties up a few of the themes