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Objects Of Design #99: The Nook Hallway Organiser

Now this is a canny idea. Many of us urban city dwellers have been told that firstly, you must never leave anything important on a hall table as the burglars can look through the letterbox and secondly, well, secondly  we can only aspire to having room for a table in our halls. So, with that
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Beautiful Rooms for a Monday

clever window coverings on hooks by cote de folk
The decorator is IN the building! And we're off. Well sort of. He has juggled things around to come to us for two weeks (one room hopefully) and will then leave for two or three and come back again until Christmas (another room, hopefully). By then the radiators should be in - which means the
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Dream Homemakeovers and Grey is Back

pictures courtesy of channel 5 Dream Home Makeovers with Sophie Robinson
We made it back at last. What with Sophie having to do the voiceovers for her show, me on a book deadline and Covid striking our producer it took longer to get going than we thought and it was back to the duvet dens  last week for our recording of The Great Indoors Podcast …
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The Househunter: Five Bedroom Family Home

Right we're going aspirational for this week (after last week's post on how to add character) but I've chosen this one because I think there is value in it for everyone and we will be focusing on the downstairs rather than the numerous bedrooms. And to those who have asked for a wider variety of
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Six Rooms to Inspire

interior design by Interior Fox
And here we are again but I've found some rich colour-saturated rooms for you to soak up and hopefully feel inspired by. First up is this brilliant hall storage area by Andrew Jonathan, whose brilliant work has featured on these pages before and who has rebranded as AND (A New Day Design Studio) so do
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The Househunter: Room by Room

I've had to hunt about a bit this week to find you something you might think it was worth getting your virtual coat on for (not to mention shoes - what even are they and how do they feel?) but this is a very pretty house in north west London that is on the market
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The Househunter Room by Room

all blue via the modern house
Deep diving into a properly colour saturated space this week and hopefully giving you a chance to see how this all enveloping colour soaking might work in your own homes. This is a two bedroom flat in Tottenham, north London, that is on the market with Brickworks for £500,000. It's worth having a really good
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The Househunter: Room by Room

For anyone who has spent the first full working week of the decade wishing they could retreat back into peace and quiet I present this gorgeous former chapel near Aldeburgh in Suffolk. The single room building is on the market with The Modern House for £95,000. Continuing the fantasy getaway theme the garden is full
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10 Beautiful Rooms

bedroom belonging to Pearl Lowe
Welcome to this week's edition of 10 Beautiful Rooms and the best of this week's instagram, and yes we are, so far, resisting the Christmas decorations for another week. Today is all about warm and cosy spaces and, it turns out, quite a lot of fabulous bedrooms. devol kitchen But while you wander through these
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10 Best Storage Pieces

shaker shelves with downpipe wall
Following on from yesterday's post on the secrets to an organised home and the need - all right my need - to declutter before the end of the year, I thought we would focus on good storage today.  Also - good to have a break from the relentless tinsel-tinted coverage everywhere else no? you can
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How To Create The Perfect Entrance Hall

black bench from cox and cox
Right so first up let's be honest about the headline, which was created to tempt you all in. This post will NOT help you create the perfect entrance hall. There I've said it. That is not unless you have been architecturally blessed with a large space, preferably square and a window or two. No exactly,
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Hem is Here

I'm not making myself sound that old when I say I remember the days when you just went to the shop and either bought the thing that was there or you didn't. Either you liked the chair in the colour it was presented or you went without. And if the table that you had fallen
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Make your own Copper Hangers

The Mad House is not known for getting its hands dirty. It doesn't really tangle with DIY (or tents but that is another story). The Mad House is more a a sort of ASETMIFY (ask someone else to make if for you kind of girl). But then this email fell into my inbox and I
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Steambent furniture by Tom Raffield

I have written about Tom Raffield before but when I received a press release with two of his latest designs on I really wanted to show you. Coupled with the brilliant photography (see credits below and in each image) I would love to have just one of his pieces in my own home. The trouble
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Raven Hanger

raven hanger by Ingibjörg Hanna Bjarnadóttir.
raven hanger by Ingibjörg Hanna Bjarnadóttir is on sale at Skandivis As those of you who follow me on twitter may be aware, I was recently invited to Iceland to visit DesignMarch, the annual design and fashion fair, now in its fifth year. I wrote about the event last year for The Financial Times and was
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Objects of Design #316: Hat Tree

Ben Fowler's Hat Tree
Ben Fowler's Hat Tree Saturday morning. Everyone is still in the house. Everyone's shoes are piled up in the hall. Along with the school bags (flung there at 4pm yesterday) the coats hanging precariously on the single hook and waiting to fall off as soon as anyone brushes past. But wait. Look at this. A
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The Househunter: The House of My Dreams (No 1)

It seems fitting and, perhaps weirdly coincidental, that today, five years since I last went to New York and on the first full day of BlogTourNYC, that I have found this house to show you. For this is my dream house. This is where I stayed when I was last in New York and now
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Design Classics #10: The Eames Hang It All

  Its brightly coloured lollipop balls grace many a hallway although they are often obscured by the coats they were created to hold. The Hang-It-All is a classic set of hooks by those masters of modernist design Mr and Mrs Eames. In the mid 1940s Charles and Ray began designing products for children, including their
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How To Make The Most Of Your Staircase

Most of us never think about the stairs beyond whether they are capable of getting us up to bed and back down again without collapsing. Usually dressed in a simple carpet that we hope won’t show the dirt, they are largely ignored in favour of the main rooms of the house despite being the principle
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