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It's more important than ever to support small businesses and since I have, for once, managed to post this early in the month there is plenty of time to allow for slower shipping and nicer working conditions for those who are selecting, wrapping and delivering what you have bought. Last year I posted a Directory

Now I don't know about you but what with the change in weather and the realisation that most of my clothes are definitely meant for outside and not hours on sofas with slippers/indoor shoes, I have felt myself wandering towards shopping sites for the first time in weeks. Just for a look you understand. And

SOLD OUT   Have we got news for you (as the saying goes)! Do you fancy coming on holiday with me and Sophie? A Great Indoors Road trip? Five days with us and 20 other like-minded design lovers? Where to you say? Well, how about a couple of days in one of the most famous

Well it seems to be getting more complicated as the days go by. Today was meant to be a sponsored feature but it has been postponed. I can't decide if all the cancelling and rescheduling is respectful or annoying. I'm not sure the Queen, who was, by all accounts, an immensely practical woman (well, as

A new homewares shopping app has landed and it promises to be the Depop of interiors. And if you don't do Depop (pre-loved fashion) but you want to furnish your home with vintage or antique things or from small businesses and one-person outfits and to do it in a sustainable way with products that are

While many people claim not to want presents feeling they have enough and others feel it hard to justify asking for more "stuff" I have to say I love both the buying and the giving and, yes, the getting, so perhaps the answer lies in buying presents that won't add to the landfill overload (see

While this is the anniversary of us moving into this house - two dilapidated flats with no key for the meter, a boiler that needed mending (good luck with that just before Christmas) followed by a bust loo and a snowstorm (so cold we slept in our coats) no-one actually buys a house this close

I have to say I’m normally very last minute when it comes to Christmas posts but I had a bit of time to plan this year and having decided on the general themes that I’m going to look at (always trying to make it a little different from everything else out there) and the thing

Happy Monday or whatever day you are reading this to you all. I'm excited to share today's finds with you as there are a couple that really set my heart racing and after nearly 10 years of this blog and 20 writing about interiors I'm taking that as a good sign. kitchen design by karen

A new episode of our podcast, The Great Indoors, comes out today and we have discussed the huge fashan for rattan and how, as the saying goes, to make it really work for you in your home. I have been nervous of it until now as I have, in common with many others, tended to

Now, as dedicated as I am to the cause of bringing you this blog I am not writing this after the result of last night's sporting event so while we may indeed be singing the sporting blues (or not) this week's post is about what has caught my eye this week. And in a week

The interiors business has traditionally been wasteful as we seek to constantly change our homes the way we used to change our clothes, but over the last couple of years, it feels like change (and awareness) is beginning to happen and filter through. There is a real passion for vintage and antique furniture now and

A riot of pattern and colour for you this week - well mostly - and if there's no pattern and not much colour then there's texture. So important, so often overlooked. Let's dive in with this wonderful floral wallpaper: image via josh and tonic using Jannah wallpaper by Warner House 1870 This pattern, which comes

I'm so excited to share this news with you today. It has been a long time in the dreaming and even longer in the making but Mad About The House is launching an online shop in January. Read on to find out the story behind Design Storey. The idea came about after realising that there

This year, instead of my own gift guide ( I feel like I'm a bit late to start that party now) I thought I would share some of the best gift guides I have seen for design lovers and that way you can all discover new people and ideas. My philosophy on choosing presents hasn't

It's that time again.... and what could be better than getting a present every month, or every three months? This is my idea of the perfect present and I'll take any of the below. Below are 15 of the best ideas I have found based largely around reading, stationery,  beauty and eco including both small