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10 Beautiful Rooms

8th May 2017

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Hello everyone, are you ready for this week's edition of 10 Beautiful Rooms? This week we're dividing things up between light and dark. image courtesty of Chan + Eayrs First of all a series of rooms by the firm Chan + Eayrs whose first project The Herringbone House featured on these pages a few months ago.

10 Beautiful Rooms: Warehouse Home

1st May 2017

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88 illustrator Sara Bergman, Stockholm credit Kristofer Johnsson

I met Sophie Bush about four or five years ago. "I'm thinking of starting a blog," she told me. "What's stopping you?"I asked, having only recently set up The Mad House. Sophie muttered about preparing and getting ready and more preparing and then I apparently said to her (I have no memory of this bit):

10 Beautiful Rooms

17th April 2017

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And this comes with apologies to all those who were waiting for it in their inbox this morning - I mistyped the date and scheduled it for tomorrow instead. Here it is now. I'm so sorry. I hope you are all enjoying the long weekend and lounging about in a suitably lazy fashion. As I

10 Beautiful Rooms

3rd April 2017

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Kitchen of Sarah Ellison of Frank & Faber image by Paul Craig

As some of you may be aware, last week I went to the George Northwood salon for an insanely expensive haircut to get over my raging midlife crisis. Well the haircut was lovely and clearly I am now ruined for anywhere else but, more to the point, what a gorgeous salon. I instagrammed a picture

10 Beautiful Rooms

13th February 2017

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grey panelling via 1st-option.com Today's selection of beautiful rooms is definitely giving me house envy. But, at the same time, they are good for inspiration. Not that I need any incentive to change my house. I would say we are in a perpetual state of "nearly there" and I can't decide if that's because that's

10 Beautiful Rooms

6th February 2017

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stainless steel and rustic wood kitchen via jo cowen architects

the estate trentham Time for our weekly dose of interiors inspiration with 10 Beautiful Rooms. These are not necessarily rooms that you want to live in or slavishly copy but are designed, instead, to inspire and, well yes it's Monday, delight. They might be rooms that you would never dream of living in but are

10 Beautiful Rooms

2nd January 2017

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photo by innerstadsspecialisten.se

styling by Linda Åhman photo by Jonas Gustavsson HAPPY NEW YEAR! And how is everyone feeling? Recovered? Ready to foreswear the booze, the sugar, the carbs and the bread for ever more? Or, gearing up for a little snifter later as it's still the holidays for another day or two? I know which camp I

My Top Ten Interior Design Tips #10

28th December 2016

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YOUR HOME YOUR STORY This may sound completely obvious but this really is the key to turning every house into a home. It's also the one thing that many of us don't do. We have been so conditioned (by estate agents) to neutralising our homes for sale that we often forget those personal details. Now

10 Best Rugs

3rd November 2016

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The first Thursday of the month (or whatever day you happen to be reading this) means it's time for my round of the ten best... this time we're looking at the 10 best rugs that are around at the moment, new out, classics, just stuff that I like etc. I have chosen them because I

10 Best Armchairs

6th October 2016

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pink and brass armchair from westelm

It's that time of the month again and here is my round up of the 10 best armchairs that I definitely like and think you might too. I have included a mix of high street and handmade, mid-century and modern, pattern and plain. Most of them come in other colours or are made to order,

10 Best Floor Lamps

7th July 2016

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oliver floor lamp from graham & green

Well that month flew past didn't it and so we find it's time for the second of my 10 Best series. Last month I showed you 10 of the best dining chairs and this time we're going to be looking at 10 of the best Floor Lamps. Lighting is so often left to the last minute

Smink Things: Wallpaper and Tiles

3rd February 2016

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Firstly can I say Welcome Back especially to those of you who noticed the blog had a sick spell over the weekend and was offline for 25 (loooooong) hours. We're back now, but I realise that those of you who subscribe (and may I just thank you for doing that and I hope you're still

Desk Storage and Other Things

30th November 2014

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Browsing around the interweb the other day I came across this site called April and the Bear (great name I thought) and went in to investigate. Turns out it's an Irish online retailer with a really good eye for interesting and unusual stuff. Now I know you like a weekend wander round a new shop

Objects of Design #310: Brass Vases

5th January 2014

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brass vases from ferm living

brass vases from ferm living New year, still loving that brass though. Use these gorgeous pots for flowers, plants or, my personal favourite, just for putting all those bits and bobs that seem to accumulate on worktops and coffee tables and the like. close up: use the brass pots by ferm living for tidying up

Objects of Design #210: Embrace Storage Unit, Table and Stool

27th September 2013

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mult-tasking furniture Yesterday I spoke about multi-tasking furniture (yes I did, did you read to the end?) and while I know that many of you are reluctant to spend lots of money on items that your children will grow out of in ten minutes, there are pieces out there that will really go the distance.

Objects of Design #105: Vintage Cinema Seats

13th June 2013

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vintage cinema seats You might think this is a touch leftfield as a storage item but the first obvious answer is what is a chair if not storage for the body (or perhaps just bottom) and the second, less obvious, is that storage is about finding space to put things and the joy of these

Objects Of Design #252: Favourite Things Pendant

7th November 2012

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these are a few of my favourite things We're all curators now. This unusual pendant light allows you to reach in through the side and insert your favourite objects, which are then beautifully highlighted from above without spoiling the light source in the room below. Possibly one of the few situations when you can be

Decorating in a Lockdown

31st March 2020

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orla kiely yellow landing book nook and vintage eames rocker

There has naturally been a flurry of posts and features and articles (some of which I have contributed to) about how to make our homes work for us during this period and there are two points I want to make for anyone who a) isn't suddenly feeling they want to rush out and paint their

The most popular interior styles of 2020

17th March 2020

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Vintage (Shutterstock - Pavlovska Yevheniia)

Now this dropped into my inbox a couple of days ago and I thought it might be fun to share; a round up of the top 20 interior design styles as evidenced by google searches so far this year. These things are often to be taken with a pinch of salt, not so much for

Small Space Decorating, how to create an Insta-worthy tree and the enduring appeal of English Country style (podcast notes)

14th November 2019

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I promised you a chunky post to make up for missing the other day and this one has a lot of content in it. Now it's a sort of written version of the podcast for those who like images to go with their listening but I also try hard to make sure they work as