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A House Tour of the Private Home of Piero Fornasetti

Come With Me To My New online House

The Househunter: Colour Drenching

Bloom! My Floral Carpet launches at Decorex

Beautiful Rooms For Monday

The Househunter: Codebreaking Interior Design

Beautiful Rooms To Start The Week

The Househunter: Small Flat Big Storage

Is AI the Future of Interior Design?

London Calling

10th May 2015

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I hope, given that it's the weekend, that you are having tea and toast in bed. Actually scrub that, given the image below I hope at the very least that it's cake. Either way, stop looking at the food for a sec and check out the crockery. They are the work of a designer called

The Househunter 7/5/15

Starting off with a house tour rather than a house for sale this week. This belongs to the artist and designer Sarah Hamilton who, having

Green Velvet Armchair

Martini chair from Atkin and Thyme I've never been one for green. There is no green in my house at all. Well apart from a

Tween Boy Room Makeover

So this is what happened. The builders took off the main roof ready to convert the loft. We had also asked them to do the

Lee Broom Carpetry Chaise Longue

Every now and then you just see a piece that stops you in your tracks and this carpet chaise longue by Lee Broom is one

Curved Floor Lamp

3rd May 2015

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There will be no ceiling lights in the loft. We are leaving the rafters exposed and painting them and as it won't have an enormous amount of height - why do we talk about lofty ceilings when usually, in lofts, they are anything but - we will be sticking to wall lights and floor lamps.

Ikea Villstad Chair

Well there's no getting away from the fact that the loft conversion is fully underway. There is no roof. There is a lot of banging.

The Househunter 1/5/15

Heading off to Devon this week to this newly renovated chapel house which is on the market with Strutt & Parker for £895,000. This Grade I Listed

Mirror in the Bathroom

All those of you who can name that tune can have an extra biscuit... image by seventeen doors I have been increasingly looking at round

Bathroom Tiles

Found on dulux.com.au I am trying to put together plans for the bathroom in the loft, which is slightly tricky as it's a room that

Searching for a Salvage Door

26th April 2015

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And so it begins. By the time you read this, the scaffolding should be going up and work on converting the loft about to start. Which means that I need to stop dreaming about what it might look like (and, crucially, stop pinning wildly unrealistic and unaffordable images) and start researching for the things we

Pie Chart Coffee Table

Now pay attention (007) because this is clever. It may look like a simple round coffee table but the first thing to note is that

Contemporary Double Sofa Bed (Part 47)

When this blog is not being Mad About the House it could double up as Mad About the Sofabed. As regular readers will know, there

Black Velvet Cushions

God alone knows what I'm doing looking at cushions. I could practically build a house out of the ones I've already got, I thought, as

A 3D-Printed Lampshade

Oooh this 3D printing lark is getting more exciting isn't it. My children are desperate to own a 3D printer and I imagine by the

&Tradition Industrial Wall Lamp

18th April 2015

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This rather fabulous light was designed by the cool brand Ontwerpduo in 2010 and now forms part of the &tradition collection. I'm thinking it would be perfect for the new loft which will have exposed roof joints, painted white, and an exposed brick wall, also painted white. I'm not sure there will be enough head

The Househunter 17/4/15

Following a truly disastrous set of passport photos taken on Monday, this week's Househunter is dedicated to Abroad. To places that require passports for entry.

Elizabeth’s Cabinet

Now I'm aware that this one is going to be quite controversial. For example, I won't be attempting to talk this one into my own

Wooden Peg Board

I have been hanging back on the peg board trend because I haven't, until now, found one that I love. But then I did.

Pick n Mix Ercol Chairs

These vintage Ercol Goldsmith chairs (don't you love the high back?) have been fully restored by Amy Cawson, of Florrie + Bill, and spray painted