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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#115: Hoxton Shelving Unit

23rd June 2012

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These shelves just have a little more pzazz (as my son would say) that your average straight up and down bookshelves. Use them as a room divider between the front and back halves of you knock-through sitting room or just slot them in an alcove and fill them with books or objects of a combination

Objects Of Design #114 Metal Storage Stand

Made by a relatively new Devon-based company, this set of wrought iron shelves has clean modern lines and will work in any room of the

Should I Have A Black And White Bathroom?

Elizabeth contacted Mad About The House to ask for advice on going monochrome in her bathroom. Choose traditional black and white but lay it in

Objects Of Design #113: Stacked Shelf System

The problem with shelving is that it doesn't matter how carefully you plan it, you will never be able to fit everything. I'm not talking

Eight Of The Best Contemporary Shops Part I

Continuing the occasional mini-series on Good Shops That You Need To Know About, this week, Mad About The House turns its attention to the contemporary

Objects Of Design #112 Cycloc Bike Storage

20th June 2012

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Now I did promise that this month you would find storage solutions for almost everything you can think of and that includes bikes. I may not pedal around myself but I know plenty of people who do, and very often their bikes are piled up in the hall just waiting to attack your shins when

Design Classics #26: Bakelite Telephone

"Hello, Grindlethorpe 239 . . ." In 1951, the question "Are you on the phone?" meant did you own a telephone, not were you

Mad About . . . Mirrors

Mirror, mirror on the wall . . . in honour of the film Snow White and The Huntsman and also Mirror Mirror, starring Julia Roberts

Objects Of Design #110: Chunky Blanket Chest

My mother has an old blanket box at the end of her bed. It's a very beautiful item that came from my Grandmother and she

Objects Of Design #109: Library Unit

As we may have already discussed, our stuff has a habit of growing, be it shoes or books. This shelf is a very clever idea.

Objects Of Design #108: E15 Martha Coat Rack

16th June 2012

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Portable Coat Rack Made from 3cm of solid wood that simply leans against the wall, the genius of this coat rack is its portability. If you have a party and lots of guests have coats, you can simply move this into a spare room and pile the coats on to it rather than cluttering up

Objects Of Design #107: M3 Seat/Storage

Storage space is at a premium for most of us, not least because we seem be incapable of not buying more stuff, which means we

Does Good Design Make You Happy?

I recently wrote a piece for the Financial Times about Danish design and how the Danes passionately believe that good design improves people's lives. The

Objects Of Design #106: First Aid Locker

These rather fabulous metal cabinets don't have to be for First Aid kit although there's no reason why they shouldn't be. But the shape means

Design Classics #25: FAB Smeg Fridge

Wallace and Gromit have a SMUG fridge in their kitchen. There's also one in EastEnders, a show not usually noted for interior design. But despite

Objects Of Design #105: Libra Bubbles Wine Rack

13th June 2012

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Summer time and . . . you'll need somewhere to store the bubbles. This aluminium wine rack'll do the job nicely. The small one takes nine bottles and the larger one (which is an extra £153) takes 18, which is, frankly, enough for all but the most prolific of drinkers. I mean wine buffs. Cheers

Mad About . . . Lampshades

Someone once said that pendant lighting is like earrings for the home. When everything is painted and dressed with your furniture and possessions, it's time

Objects Of Design #104: Leonhard Pfeifer Farringdon Desk

It's true that for many of us a desk, rather than a corner of the kitchen table, is a luxury. But, if you have managed

Objects Of Design #103: Wire Tiered Storage

It doesn't matter how minimalist and pared back you think you are being, there is always twice as much stuff to store in a bathroom

Objects Of Design #102: City Sunday Magazine Rack

I've never been a huge fan of magazine racks. Partly because no-one can ever be bothered to empty them so the original item, which presumably