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This is it then; school's back, work's back and it's all happening again - perhaps not quite in the same way as two years ago, but the nearest we've had to normality in a long time. So, to continue with some normal let's return to our Monday classic with some beautiful rooms to guide you

Today I am rounding up three of the most popular and, dare I say, useful posts of recent times as part of this week's podcast shownotes. For those of you who are new here, or who don't check in all the time (how can that be? There are four posts a week - thoughts on

When the boys were small I used to do a frantic clear out before Christmas to make room for the deluge of new stuff that was about to arrive. Out went the toys that were no longer played with, the clothes that were too small, the broken bits of plastic tat. The 15yo was always

Episode Five is out today and you can, as always listen to it here, or wherever you like to download it from. We are often being asked about details from the shows so we thought it would be good to summarise the information in a blog post so you don't have to scramble for a

This was one of the most popular Monday posts this year. I did a regional round-up of beautiful rooms starting with the north and everyone enjoyed a stroll through. Here they are again and if you check the accounts some of the rooms have changed - in particular Lisa's Dawson's hall - she has gone

This week in my mini series 5 ways to revamp a room and this time we're looking at the bedroom. We have recently revamped The Mad House bedroom by changing the wallpaper (see below) and painting the walls. Neither of those tips appear in this list as I imagine you can work that one out

This week the 10 beautiful rooms is another house tour. Not, sadly, of a client of mine, but of an interior designer who has no need of my help for his home. It is the gorgeous flat of Oliver Thomas, who may be familiar to some of you as the runner up on The Great

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