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Goooooooooood Mooooooooorning everyone. I trust you are well-rested and fully caffeined and ready to start the week. I have some lovely room inspiration for you today but I'm going to start with a picture of my new Quirky Bloom carpet that I designed for Alternative Flooring as, if any of you are heading to Decorex

A two bedroom apartment for you in Marylebone, W1, this week and it's a riot of deep saturated colour and a lesson in how to use it. Bear in mind you might not like these particular colours but it's about how they have been used which provides the lesson. It's also a call to action

This two bedroom apartment in the heart of the City of London is, says Historic England, an "unusual example in Britain of the German Expressionist style" and was  Grade II listed in 1990. It is also a blend of Art Deco architecture and Moroccan style interiors. But before you panic that there's a lot going

Something a little different for you this Monday as I have just returned from a two day trip to Paris for Deco Off. This is the time of year when the fabric houses show off their new collections, alongside the furniture trade fair, Maison et Objet, which runs at the same time outside the City.

A trawl through my own camera roll this week as there are thousands of pictures on it that I have clearly taken because I loved what I was seeing and yet there they languish, for the most part unseen again until a phone reminder "on this day" pops up and I am reminded once again

Back to the fantasy Friday househunting where, for those who are new, we ignore the price and look into the design and layout of a real house that is on the market to see what we can learn and how we might take inspiration for our own places and spaces. We're heading over to east

It's Monday, it's raining (in this corner of North London at least, I'm going to assume Monday is almost universal) and we are going to look at some warm and cosy spaces to cheer up this gloomy day. As always I hope they provide inspiration and spark ideas as you stroll through clutching your virtual

There is a US tradition of design showhouses - this does not mean the showhouse of a new development as it does in the UK, but rather a collection of rooms (in a real or staged house) put together by interior designers showcasing brands to create a series of spaces that show off different styles

Right, this week is one for letting the imagination fly or at the very least thinking about colour palettes. It's a Grade II listed Methodist Church with, and this is the imaginative bit, an attached Sunday School room. It's on with Inigo for £750,000 and it's in Powys, Wales, and it's a while since we've

Small space living this week and it's a new build flat in north west London by design-led developers Artform and design studio Scenesmith. At at time when many of us live in small spaces - and those of us in big houses are bound to have small rooms, this collaboration shows you that a modern

I've said for a long time that the Georgian vicars got all the best houses and now, it turns out, the Georgian doctors did pretty well too. This terrace, near Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, is believed to have been his (and it would have been a he) home with the surgery next door. Now it's Grade II

Sometimes the joy of a collection of inspiration images is that precisely that there is no theme - it is just that: a seemingly random group of pictures that have caught my eye during the week and that I feel you will like or be similarly interested in. But then is anything really ever random?

Maybe it's January maybe it's fashion, but either way I was drawn to these warm colours of vintage wood, rich cream and shades of chocolate this week. It all feels very cocooning and comforting but, at the same time, is essentially taking a classic black and white base and turning the dial round to the

This is a collection of eight new apartments a few minutes from Church Street in Stoke Newington, which is a cool villagey area in north London, and each one has private south-facing outside space while one, no 8, is part of the Government Help to Buy Scheme which means if you can raise a five

A little bit of light-hearted fun today. What with launching an online course and a sofa and working two huge interior design projects (I'll keep you posted but as you read this I will by flying back from Mallorca - scene of one of them) I thought I would just drop this in today as

This week's inspiration was begun by the top two pictures - one wallpaper, one paint and then I realised there was a theme developing as I had also promised to show you a couple of the new shots of my house taken by Mark Anthony Fox, who does a lot of the dreamy photography for

It’s the last podcast of the current series and today we are talking about the top ten trends following the announcement of the Dulux Colour of the Year. Remember you don’t have to follow trends unless they are right for you and this is partly why we have identified 10 as they range from pale

This week on the podcast Sophie interviews Russell Whitehead and Jordan Cluroe of the 2LG studio who are the new designers on that revamped 90s classic  Changing Rooms. Do they take it seriously? Do they think it's about design or entertainment? And what about that hair wall (google it)? Have a listen and see what

A new episode of our podcast, The Great Indoors, comes out today and we have discussed the huge fashan for rattan and how, as the saying goes, to make it really work for you in your home. I have been nervous of it until now as I have, in common with many others, tended to