This was one of the first pieces I wrote at the start of lockdown so it might feel strange to remind ourselves of how we all felt back then. The rooms are still gorgeous though so do go and take a look. image via @whiterabbitliving
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This one's fairly self-explanatory but still useful so if you missed it first time round here it is again.
Back for another Wednesday Ad Break and this was such a fun job styling a bathroom with our former podcast sponsor Geberit. It had to be done completely in lockdown too with lots of messages and product links going back and forth and neither Sophie nor I got to see the finished rooms until we
This year throughout August I thought I would give you a series of postcards linking back to popular posts that have run through the first half of the year. I hope you enjoy these daily visits and reminders of some of the wide range of topics we have looked at together so far. This comes
This is the last post for July and I will be taking August off to recharge the, somewhat, depleted brain cells. That said there will be a couple of podcast posts as well as details of a bathroom I have styled so keep your eyes out for that. And, of course, those of you who
It seems as if home working is here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future, with some companies talking about people returning to the office only one day a week and others not due back until January at the earliest. So this week, on the podcast, Sophie and I discussed garden offices. We then
And here we are again with a little bit of soothing green for a Monday. This is for all those who need to take a breath. Green is a calming, creative colour (I wrote about the psychology of it here) and as the school holidays start but the actual holidays don't seem to, it seemed
To Brixton, in south London, this week and this distinctive Victorian terrace house which somehow manages to look much bigger than its neighbours because of the black paint and I would never have thought that was a thing until I saw this house. Anyway, it's on the market with Brickworks for £1,250,000. Coming in? There
It's five weeks since Rukmini Patel and I launched the Design for Diversity Pledge and accompanying sticker and we thought it might be time to update you on what has happened since. The first point to note is that we have had nearly 150 signs up from large brands to sole traders all of them
Finally, after 10 years of living in this house we have sorted out the outside lighting. At the start of the year I agreed to work with Original BTC for 12 months and this post for my Wednesday Ad break is part of that collaboration. Original BTC is a British company that also owns Davey
Well I'm feeling a bit better about things this week and I hope you are too and if you're not, well perhaps be reassured that it seems to be an emotional rollercoaster for all of us at the moment and you can be down for no apparent reason and bounce back up again for something
Now this is a treat; the Carmarthenshire home of the founders of gorgeous lifestyle brand Toast, is now on the market with The Modern House for £650,000 and I could. I really could. Jamie and Jessica Seaton are the couple behind the hugely successful business, which started out selling pyjamas and blankets, expanded into fashion,
Thank you all so much for your kind messages yesterday. It wasn't meant to be a complaint but it clearly struck a chord with many of us didn't it. I did that run - 20 minutes continuous and while I'm not going to say it made me feel better, a good sleep did, as well
I don't know about you but I'm exhausted. It's not just working in difficult circumstances over the last four months - and I say that in the knowledge that I have only had to work at home not school at home as the teenagers have been largely left to their own devices. I assume it's
Worrabout this then? A 218ft tall concrete Victorian folly with its own tennis court and swimming pool is for sale for £2.5m with four bedrooms arranged over 14 floors. And no lift. It's on the market with the St Quintin Property Group via Rightmove. Who's coming for a look round? Sway Tower has belonged to
And so we reach July and I have been taken by a meme which keeps popping up on Instagram which reads thus: "Dear July, I don't want any trouble from you, just come in, sit down, don't touch anything and keep your mouth shut". And I really can't think of anything more apt at the
This will be a polariser I'm sure but for many of you in the industry this will be instantly recognisable as a location house which has provided the setting for many fashion and lifestyle shoots. It is even rumoured to be the house that inspired Abigail Ahern on her own journey to the dark side.
Well I'm not sure if it's the gradual easing of lockdown - the 16yo has been to school twice in the last three months and is due to go again next week... I know! Or the fact that I have reluctantly taken up running in the form of the Couch to 5K but suddenly now
Diving into a little subtle pattern this week as I think there is a fashion for full on maximalism at the moment but it's not right for everyone so I thought we could have a look at it being used in different ways. I love pattern but, as regular readers no, am scared off too
Following on from the interview with Matt Gibberd yesterday, it seemed only right to check in and see if he had any new properties for sale given his comment that, since estate agents were allowed to open up again a few weeks ago, it was "busy, busy, busy". And indeed there is a slew of