This has proved one of the most popular posts this year with many of you taking to instagram to describe your own red threads (rarely are they actually red) so I thought it might be useful to bring it back for anyone who missed it the first time around. Some weeks ago I wrote about…
This is still one of my favourite houses so far this year and I’m happy to post it again for you to see. It’s partly the combination of pink and green which is a current favourite but also the way it has been updated for modern living. So many city and town dwellers live in…
As regular readers know I take a break from blogging in August. This is partly to recharge my batteries and partly because I suspect that since I blog four times a week many of you don’t have time to read everything, or you might skip a post because it doesn’t feel relevant when it’s published…
The Do Less Harm Directory is live. And you will notice that it’s far from complete. Hopefully it will never be complete until we can add every company making anything to do with the home but in the meantime I wanted to launch it so you could start to see what it looks like. At…
Happy Monday to you all and welcome to our weekly stroll through some beautiful rooms that might give you inspiration for your own. This week we are mostly looking at reclaimed materials for floors. If I didn’t have floorboards and rugs, and if I owned my fantasy Italian house then I would definitely fill the…
Something different this week – it may well be divisive but it’s the first of its kind so worth exploring for that reason alone. It’s the first Dutch barn to be converted for residential use and it’s on the market with The Modern House for £1,200,000. What, you may ask, is a Dutch Barn? Well…
Hello and Welcome to The Great Indoors… as it were. It’s time for the second episode of this series and this time we spoke about Biophilia (which I wrote about in some detail recently, whether your childhood home influences your adult house and the new trend of colour blocking. You can, as ever, listen here…
When I wrote my book I carefully created the chapter on colour psychology in order of the colours of the rainbow as that made sense in term of how to approach them. In this series for the blog they have been completely random – often turning up according to what else I was writing about…
School’s out for summer then. Or out for ever in the case of the 18yo currently wandering around Sicily on a post A level trip while the nearly 16yo is taking more of a horizontal approach to his relaxation schedule. So with that in mind, here’s the first of this week’s beautiful rooms designed by…
So last week’s property had a mixed reception. Love the outside, less keen on the inside. So we’re going a little more traditional this week – more of your classically handsome well-dressed kind of thing. This is the one for me. Show me a floor to ceiling in a Georgian sitting room and I’m all…