Well what a week. I spent most of it filming for something that I will tell you all about in September and then my in-laws came for the weekend; the first time they have been here since 2019. It felt so strange to see them inside and not huddling under an umbrella at the end…
No film this week as we have a real interior designer’s home to visit and one of my favourites at that. Rachel Chudley has featured on these pages before and her home – a live/work space in a converted stable (all words to make the boldest interior designers quake a little in their boots) –…
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…
A masterclass in the red thread from the outside in this week. This two bedroom house in Brixton, south London, with a private courtyard garden was designed by the Angel O’Donnell studio and is on the market with The Modern House for £775,000. It’s a bold move to paint the outside of a house –…
And welcome February – let’s hope by the end of this (short) month that things are looking up. Vaccination is proceeding and numbers are dropping and, what’s more, by the time the 28th rolls round those who have had their jabs should be on the way to being immune. So there are reasons to be…
By many accounts last week was a tricky one, not just because of events in America which will have touched some of you personally, but also the first week of a new year which was, for many us, spent in another lockdown with dire news reports coming in from every direction. So, as usual, I…
I was going to show you a very beautiful, very expensive, somewhat neutral house this week but given the reaction to the calming neutrals the other day, I decided against it and we shall look at this charming four bedroom maisonette which, as is so often the case, ties up a few of the themes…
1 Ask yourself what feelings you need to have in the room you are decorating and see if the colours you have chosen make you feel that way. 2 Make a floorplan to check that everything fits in your room and how you can arrange it within the space you have. And don’t forget to…
Yes she’s finally finished her house and since we have only met once since before lockdown (when we recorded at Skye McAlpine’s house, we thought it would be good to show the finished article. So welcome to a house tour with Sophie Robinson. Now you can hear the full story on the podcast so do…
Regular visitors may remember that I visited Skye McAlpine’s London flat a couple of years ago just as she put it on the market – remember those gorgeous plaster pink walls and open shelving? Last week I was thrilled to visit her again, this time in her new house that she gutted and completely redecorated…