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A House Tour of the Private Home of Piero Fornasetti

Come With Me To My New online House

The Househunter: Colour Drenching

Bloom! My Floral Carpet launches at Decorex

Beautiful Rooms For Monday

The Househunter: Codebreaking Interior Design

Beautiful Rooms To Start The Week

The Househunter: Small Flat Big Storage

Is AI the Future of Interior Design?

Objects Of Design #196: Numbered Hooks

12th September 2012

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That's Monday to Saturday sorted then So we've looked at the idea of hooks in a previous post. Here are some different ones. You could hang a week's worth of clothes on numbers one to five and put pyjamas on the sixth. Or, if they're older, you could try and persuade them to do a

Design Classics #33: The AGA

Classic style in contemporary white Beloved by the middle classes, owners of farmhouses and readers of a certain type of fiction, the AGA is a

Objects Of Design #195: Large Cone Light

Witty and clever I just love this light. Designed by Alex Garnett, it's the perfect solution to those annoying eco bulbs which are too big

Mad About . . . Knitting

When a recession starts really biting interior design trends often turn to the homespun. Not necessarily because we are all creating and making our own

Objects Of Design #194: House Pendant

A good strong light will help them see their homework This rather beautiful pendant needn't just be restricted to kids' bedrooms but if they've grown

Objects Of Design #193: Living Button Wall Hook

9th September 2012

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Make it as easy as possible for them to tidy up Children and teenagers hate tidying up (well so do I come to that) and the solution is that you have to make it as easy as possible for them. My nine-year-old will have absolutely no truck with either a chest of drawers or a

Objects Of Design #192: Talk Whiteboard

Perfect for all those messages It's not their fault but we all know that somewhere between the ages of about 12 and 16, teenagers brains

Objects Of Design #191: Night Night Light

Night Night Sleep Tight These gorgeous night lights were designed by Clifford Richards, whose colourful graphic designs embodied the pop art feel of the Sixties.

House Sweet House

The new HOUSE collection from John Lewis John Lewis may have a reputation as a solid dependable high street store but for the last couple

Objects Of Design #190: C’est Magnifique Wallpaper

Perfect for tween or teen The design will grow with a teenage girl Some time around the end of primary school and the start of

How To Create The Perfect Home Office

5th September 2012

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Shades of white and grey is contemporary and stylishPicture from interiorstylefinder.com The number of people from working from home is growing all the time and may have reached a peak this summer during the Olympics when up to 1.5m of us were estimated to have shunned trains and tubes for a little typing in front

Objects Of Design #189: Klick Desk and Chair Set

Is it a table? A sweet little desk and chair that tucks away into the smallest of corners and is so stylish that you could

Design Classics #32: Sarpeneva Pot

The perfect marriage of form and function Scandinavian design is known chiefly for its ability to combine form and function without one losing out at

Objects Of Design #188: Up Up And Away Wall Stickers

Change the stickers as they grow I'm a big fan of a wall sticker. You can change them as they grow up and their tastes

Mad About . . . Owls

The Autumn Winter collections have landed and with them a parliament of owls. Yup, that's the collective noun. I don't know who thinks these things

Objects Of Design #187: Green Toddler Table Utensils

3rd September 2012

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Designed to fit those chumbly toddler hands Danish table design for the smallest members of the family. Toddlers instinctively reach for round and chubby objects and they will love this set of cutlery, plates and cup. The fork has prongs but they aren't sharp, the knife will cut boiled potatoes and the softer foods but

Objects Of Design #186: Moody Mule Bed Linen

Strong colours look great in kids' rooms This colourful design is great for a child's bedroom. There's far too much pink and pastel around, and

Objects Of Design #185: Child’s Cushion Art

Turn your child's drawing into a cushion This is such a great idea to preserve a child's drawing. We've all framed one or two of

Objects Of Design #184: Fun Basin

Why not have a little fun in the bathroom? So to finish off a month of bathing belles, we end on a fun note. Literally.

Objects Of Design #183: Bathroom Wallpaper

Why not use wallpaper in the bathroom? Splashproof wallpaper from Graham and Brown It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of wallpaper and in