Some of you will recognise this room as belonging to the hugely successful designer Sophie Ashby (who I interviewed on these very pages a while back). This one bedroom flat, which is located in the former BBC Television centre, is now on the market and I thought you might like to have a look. It’s…
This week on the podcast Sophie and I discuss how to buy furniture online and get it right. You can listen here and I will return to this as a full post next week as it’s an increasingly permanent part of our lives. We also discuss hall flooring and sound proofing in our regular Style…
Many of you will be familiar with Cox & Cox, a homewares brand that has featured on these pages many times since the blog launched nearly 10 years ago. Today, for my Wednesday Ad Break, I have teamed up with them to tell you about their paint collection which has expanded this week to include…
So what’s new? Well, it turns out, quite a lot. With news on the sustainable front too. But before we get into that, thank you so much for your kind and supportive comments yesterday. A couple of early nights and things always seem much better. Although I fear the lockdown madness may have got to…
Well here we are then. One year on. I remember the last time I went on the tube – to interview Orla Kiely for the podcast. I remember shutting the front door and opening it weeks later to find all the plants in the tubs in the front garden had died. And I remember the…
Now, first of all, before we get into this house a word about the house with the controversial staircase. The architect emailed me the other day to say he was loving the post and all the chat – he admitted the stairs were very Marmite – and suggested we have a chat about well, the…
And here it is. Finally, after three delays and a pandemic the next book in The Mad About The House series and this one’s for you. The Planner has space for you to write your own to do lists, draw your own floor plans and note down the addresses of the trades and the names…
At the beginning of the year I told you that I was working with the Swiss furniture brand USM and for today’s post I have interviewed the UK CEO (who actually launched the brand in this country back in the 1980s) about why mid—century furniture is perfect for any style of interior and properties of…
This, as befits a blog about interiors, is a post about a cushion. But it is also a post about what happened in Syria 10 years ago. And about what is happening now. Because this is not just any cushion. It is a cushion made by a woman, one of a group of women, living…
Since 2005 property lovers of all budgets have escaped to The Modern House to soak up the magazine-style photography and browse the beautiful homes featured on its pages. It matters not that they have no intention of buying or that they (by which I mean we) probably can’t afford any of the properties anyway, for…