I am delighted to tell you that this year I am collaborating with USM, a Swiss company that makes modular furniture which has become a design classic. We first met over a year ago to discuss working together as I am a huge fan of the brand and, as you know, I love learning about,…
Emma Morley is concerned about our brains. And our backs. An interior designer who specialises in office spaces – once commercial now often residential – she fears an epidemic not only of mental health issues at the end of this pandemic, but of back issues too as we spend hours on unsuitable chairs in badly…
This year has been so momentous in terms of changes to our lifestyles that everyone is doing surveys to find out what we are all thinking and doing and how we are spending our money. Listeners to the podcast will know I love a statistic, so today I thought I’d share the highlights from a…
I have written before about the importance of creating a dedicated workspace that can be office from 9-5 and cocktail lounge by half past. It’s certainly an aspirational idea now that so many of us work from home and, crucially, so many of us don’t have a “spare” room that can be turned into an…
The last six months have dramatically altered how we live. Aside from the Government’s advice, neatly summed up by Matt Lucas as Go to work. Don’t go to work, it seems that many of those who can work from home are doing so and a survey in September found that 30 per cent of adults…
After the 10th conversation about what I would do to the kitchen if we had the money and the justification for doing so, I heard the Mad Husband say to a friend: “She’s got that look in her eye. I know that look. She needs to decorate something.” Turns out I have a recognisable decorating…
It’s not news to say that the way we use our homes has dramatically changed over the last six months as we learn to work from home, school from home and get used to all being within the same four walls all the time. And John Lewis & Partners published a report yesterday which reveals…
As we slog on through this lockdown amid what is clearly some of the most unclear advice I have ever come across I shall try to keep this blog a haven of clarity and sensible information when it comes to your homes. Over the last couple of months I have written about how to work…
Now I sense this is a subject we will be returning to over the new few weeks but for now I wanted to share a few things that have helped me work from home over the last 20 years with babies, toddlers and now teenagers. Sometimes I had a dedicated space and often I didn’t.…
I spent years wanting a vintage steel desk. For a long time there was one in the window of our local antique/retro/junk shop but it cost around £1,800 and was way out of our budget. I think perhaps it was way out of anyone else’s too as it was there for such a long time.…