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The Househunter: A colourful three bedroom modern house

This week a fairly typical looking suburban house - from the outside at least - which might feel relatable to many of us. I was asked to look at houses that aren't on millionaire's row, or aren't tiny crofts. In short, places that might resemble the sorts of houses that many of us live in.
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Beautiful Rooms For A Monday

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
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Thank You To The Mad House and all who read it

Well it seems to be getting more complicated as the days go by. Today was meant to be a sponsored feature but it has been postponed. I can't decide if all the cancelling and rescheduling is respectful or annoying. I'm not sure the Queen, who was, by all accounts, an immensely practical woman (well, as
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The Househunter: Look Familiar?

I wasn't sure if I should post this given the sad news about the death of the Queen last night. In the end I have decided to leave it here as planned. There is no disrespect intended and it is up to you to read it now or later as you wish.  Something slightly different
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Discussion: Designing Sustainably for the Home

Last week at Clerkenwell Design Week (back in real life for the first time in two years) I was delighted to chair a panel discussion on designing sustainably for the home. And yes it was just before I succumbed to the dreaded C (I kept a distance from most people and none of the panel
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Monday Postcards

Well it finally got me. Two years after the pandemic started the Covid has found me - and there was I thinking I was an outlier. Clearly not. So this post comes to you from my isolated sick bed  - see below - with a few postcards of my trip to Morocco - the covid
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Re:mix – One Company Tackles the Waste Paint Issue

I promised you more detail on the Little Greene Re:mix collection and so here, hot off the press as it launched yesterday, we are. For those of you who wanted to see other eco paints in last week’s post please do add them to the comments – as I said we couldn’t cover everything but
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Is Renting Furniture The Future?

set of six chairs to rent from Harth for £78 a month or buy for £1,560
Some of you may have noticed in the fashion magazines and on Instagram that there is talk of renting clothes – usually for big events where you might not want to buy an expensive dress or suit as you don’t know when, or if, you will wear it again. Case in point I bought a
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Christmas Presents Under £60

Wave Vessels £49.00
While this is the anniversary of us moving into this house - two dilapidated flats with no key for the meter, a boiler that needed mending (good luck with that just before Christmas) followed by a bust loo and a snowstorm (so cold we slept in our coats) no-one actually buys a house this close
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Christmas Is Coming (like it or not): A Guide to making it Eco-Friendly

I have to say I’m normally very last minute when it comes to Christmas posts but I had a bit of time to plan this year and having decided on the general themes that I’m going to look at (always trying to make it a little different from everything else out there) and the thing
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The Houseunter: Queen Anne splendour in Cambridge

Ooh look at this. I could move for this I really could. It's in Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, the birthplace of Cromwell - there is rumoured to be a tunnel from this to Cromwell House opposite and it has seven bedrooms and is on the market with Inigo for £925,00. This price is because it is
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Monday Inspiration: Beautiful Places to inspire your spaces

kitchen design by karen knox of making spaces
Happy Monday or whatever day you are reading this to you all. I'm excited to share today's finds with you as there are a couple that really set my heart racing and after nearly 10 years of this blog and 20 writing about interiors I'm taking that as a good sign. kitchen design by karen
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NEW POST: The Latest Interior Design Books Reviewed

from Phaidon's By Design, the world's best contemporary interior designers:Kit Kemp: Hyde Park Gate, private residence, London, UK, 2020. Picture credit: Simon Brown, courtesy of Firmdale Hotels
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
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Design for Diversity: The First Bursary is completed

At the beginning of last year Maxine Hall and Paula Moss were pondering the lack of diversity in interior design. Co-founders of Blackpop, a successful textile business based near Derby, they were thinking about offering a bursary to a local black student to see if they could start to make a difference to this imbalance.
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Monday Inspiration: Singing the blues

striped flooring by otto tiles
Now, as dedicated as I am to the cause of bringing you this blog I am not writing this after the result of last night's sporting event so while we may indeed be singing the sporting blues (or not) this week's post is about what has caught my eye this week. And in a week
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The Househunter: a large family home in the north of England

This is such a handsome house I'd buy it for that alone. Generally speaking, I tend to value interiors over exteriors as it's lovely to have a pretty house but it is more about what's going on inside and arguably you're better off living in the ugly house looking at the pretty one opposite but
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A New Interiors Store for the UK

Curved fluted panelled wooden walls, cream modern sofa, black frame and wooden coffee tables, Berber style rug from vivense
After a year of lockdowns when so many stores and businesses have pivoted to online only, it was exciting to hear about a new brand that has just opened up a showroom in London with plans to open more in each corner of the city over the next year so for today's Ad break I'm
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On My Radar: Interiors News

vinyl wrapped fridge at madaboutthehouse.com
Some lovely new ideas and shops for you this month with a variety of subjects so hopeful, as always, that there is something for everyone. First up Fridge Wrapping. For those of you who aren't on Instagram I recently decided to disguise my huge (and I thought) ugly stainless steel fridge by having it wrapping
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It’s Earth Day

nomad sultan rug by weaver green made from 54000 plastic bottles
The interiors business has traditionally been wasteful as we seek to constantly change our homes the way we used to change our clothes, but over the last couple of years, it feels like change (and awareness) is beginning to happen and filter through. There is a real passion for vintage and antique furniture now and
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