I met Sophie Bush about four or five years ago. “I’m thinking of starting a blog,” she told me. “What’s stopping you?”I asked, having only recently set up The Mad House. Sophie muttered about preparing and getting ready and more preparing and then I apparently said to her (I have no memory of this bit):…
Six months ago I brought you the first exclusive look at a capsule collection of furniture and homewares launched by Warehouse Home, the publishers of a bi-annual magazine and blog. That collection, which you can see and buy here was a huge success and the team have brought together a new group of designers and pieces…
As the world of blogging gets ever more crowded, some of us have had to think of ways to earn a living that aren’t just about sticking big banner adverts all over our carefully designed sites. After all, there’s nothing worse than spending your days writing about good design and then sticking a dirty great…
No film this week as we have a real interior designer’s home to visit and one of my favourites at that. Rachel Chudley has featured on these pages before and her home – a live/work space in a converted stable (all words to make the boldest interior designers quake a little in their boots) –…
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…
Today we are in The Great Outdoors for the latest episode of the podcast and not only are we outside but, after a year of trying, we managed to meet up with Arit Anderson, presenter of Gardener’s World, designer at Chelsea and writer and podcaster herself at Growing Greener. We met in Regent’s Park and…
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…
I promised you more detail on the Little Greene Re:mix collection and so here, hot off the press as it launched yesterday, we are. For those of you who wanted to see other eco paints in last week’s post please do add them to the comments – as I said we couldn’t cover everything but…
This week on the podcast, Sophie and I have done a fairly deep dive into eco paints. She was mostly enraged that there is no industry standard and everyone does what they want so we have looked into the subject in more depth to try and understand what’s what and what you need to know.…
It’s the last podcast of the current series and today we are talking about the top ten trends following the announcement of the Dulux Colour of the Year. Remember you don’t have to follow trends unless they are right for you and this is partly why we have identified 10 as they range from pale…