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Anyone there? I'm fully expecting that the UK sun will have gone to everyone's heads on this bank holiday Monday and that I will be shouting into the void. But I shall just carry on and when you stagger in from the garden three sheets to the wind with sunburnt shoulders, you can take a

This week on The Great Indoors podcast Sophie and I discuss how to plan the decor, everything you need to know about choosing and laying rugs and, in a first for the show, we spent 10 minutes in the instagram-famous bathroom of tv presenter, fashion stylist and make-up entrepreneur Trinny Woodall. We recorded the first

Every year the interior design world gathers in Milan for the international trade show which takes place not only in eight airport hangars on the edge of the city, but also all around the central streets in pop up shops, gardens and palazzi. Nearly 500,000 people will fly in to see nearly 2,000 exhibitors and

Well this is a bit of a treat. You may be aware of Revamp, Restyle, Reveal, an interior design challenge run by Bianca Hall and Lisa Dawson, two women who never stop redecorating and who run a four-week challenge for 10 bloggers getting them to makeover one room in their houses. They have sponsors who

I can't quite believe it's already the third series of our podcast The Great Indoors and before I tell you what we were talking about this week I wanted to share a couple of reviews for anyone who has thought that it might be odd to talk about such a visual subject as interior design

It probably won't have escaped your notice that the 70s are creeping back into fashion. The high street is full of earthy tones and corduroy fabric and, as I have observed many times before, where the catwalk leads the cushions will follow. Only in this case I think it's come full circle from the cushions

Monday morning and a little ode to the transformative powers of pink. It's the new grey. I say that because, just like grey, there is a version of it that will go with every other colour on the spectrum. It's not a girly colour (and does it matter if it is?) but a warm shade

Staying in London this week as this lovely three bed maisonette perfectly illustrates a few of the things we have been talking about recently so I thought we would have a little nosey round. It's on the market with The Modern House for £985,000 and has a very pretty front garden. It's arranged over the

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

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. blue kitchen cabinets with

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

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. via stadshem.se styling by annica clarmell, image by janne orlander It's for sale (click picture caption links

And just like that it was half term. A quiet palette for you today as I spent last week travelling (two days in Milan ad one in Glasgow) so am feeling the need for something restful today. Fortunately it's half term and while the boys will be doing their own thing, it does mean that

Starting off the week with some calming neutrals and restful colours by which I mean (for me at least) some soft pinks teamed with lots of natural wood and dark accents as seen below. pink walls and black accents via @our_edwardian_home Now before you start asking about the ceiling, note how it matches the white

It's episode three of the podcast already and this week we are talking about the trends from Maison et Objet, small space living and how to plan the dressing room, which doesn't have to mean living in a mansion with an actual, you know, whole room involved but how you might rethink the space you

There has been a lot of talk about the ceiling being the fifth wall and how you shouldn't just paint them white - well all right that last bit was mostly me, but I thought it might be fun to look at a few painted ceilings in honour of the fact that I am about

Today's post brings you six of the best round coffee tables that are around at the moment, but while looking for them I started to wonder why it's called a coffee table in the first place? It's fine by me as I never drink tea but why aren't they called tea tables? I have written