This has proved one of the most popular posts this year with many of you taking to instagram to describe your own red threads (rarely are they actually red) so I thought it might be useful to bring it back for anyone who missed it the first time around. Some weeks ago I wrote about…
This Wednesday’s Ad Break (paid collaboration) is with La Redoute, a company I have worked with every year for about six years now and am always happy to recommend their products. This year we have made a video answering some of your questions about creating the red thread and how to plan your lighting and…
This week’s property is perhaps nothing special on the outside- it’s attractive – but there are some clever ideas inside and it’s a classic four bedroom Victorian terrace family home. The sort of thing that will be familiar to many so it’s always worth having a look around. It’s on with Litchfields for £1,395,000 and…
It’s a while since we looked at location houses for inspiration and as the dust mounts here at Mad House II and the kitchen will finally be pulled out this week – we have managed to hang on to the sink, washing machine and dishwasher while all the building work was done around it and…
I have been dying to show you these images and tell you about this wonderful project I have been working on but I had to wait until the various press outlets had covered it. Now that they all have done that I’m free to share and I’m so excited to tell you all about it.…
It’s Fantasy Friday again and we’re looking at the property market to see what we might buy or be inspired by this week. So far this year we have been to a palatial property in south London, a 60s terrace (complete with serving hatch and short curtains) and now we are heading to a low…
Something about this house immediately caught my eye and I can’t decide if it was the shape or the colour or perhaps the garden. Whatever the case it deserved a closer look. I think it’s partly that it’s end of terrace and the dramatic blue grey colour of the brickwork makes it appear detached and…
We’re off to the North-East of England this week to this very pretty three bedroom former station house in Rowlands Gill, Tyne & Wear. It’s on the market with Inigo for £580,00 and has three bedrooms arranged over nearly 1,300 sq ft on three storeys. The house is tall for its setting because it was…
Spinning the dial again this week and we go from a nearly £2m artist’s studio to a two bedroom flat that is full of colour and character and proves one and for all that size isn’t everything if you decorate cleverly. It’s in south east London and is on with Inigo for £635,000. It’s on…
To West London and a rather fabulous three bedroom property designed by Frederick Wheeler in the 1890s to “suit the requirements of bachelor artists” and there’s so much to unpick in that sentence that all I’m going to say is that it really needs to be bought by a woman. Maybe even a woman who…