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We started the week with Ukrainian interior designers before moving to their products and, at first, it seemed right to finish the week with the traditional househunter from the historic city of Kyiv. I looked through dozens of places before settling on this one - modern, soviet-built, town, coast and country.  But then it didn't

A treat for you this week as we have two houses. It turned out that the two that ended up on this week's short list had a symmetry of price so I thought we could look at both. The first is the former home of the sculptor Dame Elisabeth Frink, in Dorset, which has recently

We interrupt our usual Friday Househunter service (first time in 10 years people) because I want to tell you about a new product that I have been working on and which will debut at Decorex this weekend. Vita is a sofa. But in addition to being a gorgeous curvy number she is also as sustainable

In a week where Britain sweltered in a heatwave, we saw one very nice house.... to paraphrase Gogglebox. I started off thinking we should head to the seaside, but then I popped in here on my virtual way to the coast and my heart was lost. It's a Grade I listed Georgian townhouse in the

Once a month I dig back through my inbox to see what's new in interiors and what you might like to know about from events to product launches and this week the first five emails I came up with were for businesses run by women. So I have decided to go with that as this

As ever, when I began looking to put this post together I had no theme in mind. Then I looked at my most recently saved posts on Instagram and realised I had been drawn to doors this week. And then, because if you can't become introspective in a lockdown when can you (?) I realised

Time for a full on fantasy Friday I think. If the week's news has got you down then come on over and let's go for a poke around this fabulous, huge warehouse conversion and you can imagine filling it with all your fantasy furniture and family as well. And speaking of being down, I found

As regular readers know I take a break from blogging in August. This is partly to recharge my batteries and partly because I suspect that since I blog four times a week many of you don't have time to read everything, or you might skip a post because it doesn't feel relevant when it's published

Today's post brings you six of the best round coffee tables that are around at the moment, but while looking for them I started to wonder why it's called a coffee table in the first place? It's fine by me as I never drink tea but why aren't they called tea tables? I have written

And here it is. Episode 6 is up and ready to download and here's a summary of what we discussed. In this show, the last of the series, we spoke about how to plan the hallway, whether expensive paint is worth the money, and three interiors books that would make great Christmas presents. hallway at

We have lived in this house for eight years now and it's fair to say that it has undergone a number of changes. This is partly down to the nature of my job and partly down to getting it wrong. Although perhaps there is no "wrong" maybe we should just call it changing my mind.

Starting the week with this new kitchen by Devol which is in an Islington townhouse. It's a large open plan space and by keeping it dark and not too fitted the owners have cleverly blended it into the living space so that it has become a room with a kitchen in it rather than a