outdoor living – Mad About The House

Re-inventing Estate Agency: an interview with The Modern House

25th June 2020
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As regular readers will know I, and many of you, am slightly obsessed with The Modern House, a UK estate agency that has reinvented the genre, not just by apparently agreeing to sell only beautiful houses, but by turning itself into a sort of magazine providing endless inspiration and aspiration to those of us who…

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Seletti Outdoor Shower

10th July 2014
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I’ve given up trying to schedule posts to go with the weather, but it’s July, it’s officially summer and if it’s not hot today then it will be tomorrow. Maybe. Anyway, weather schmeather, this was just too much fun not to share. It’s a copper outdoor shower by Seletti and it costs £159. You just…

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Zinc Planters from Cox and Cox

22nd June 2014
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I am not one of life’s gardeners. However, I do like a nice garden to look at and now that it’s indisputably summer (the season if not the weather) it’s time to think about pretty things to put in it. I have always loved the zinc buckets that florists use to display their wares and…

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Recycled Garden Furniture

17th June 2014
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There was a brief spell of sunny weather a couple of days ago. Did you see it? Did you sit in it more to the point. It seems to have gone again now but, in the hope that it will return I found this the other day and wanted to show it to you. It’s…

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Outdoor Rugs

19th May 2014
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So outdoor rugs. I have just always loved them. I think it’s the idea of having a proper outdoor sitting room – as in living in a climate that’s so gorgeous all the time that you can afford to have proper comfortable furniture outside. Because it won’t be constantly rained on. Basically I would like…

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Buttoned Velvet Cushion

18th May 2014
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Finally, dare we to hope that summer is on its way? Apparently we can’t officially call it summer yet as the bluebells are still out and they are the quintessential spring flower. But, technicalities aside, the sun is out, I can smell the neighbouring barbecues as I type and I have (steady) put my sandals…

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Striped picnic blankets and cushions

16th April 2014
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grey striped garden cushions from nordic house

It’s been nearly a week of sunshine (not that I’m counting or anything) and operation fantasy garden is in full swing. I’ve found the perfect elegant lounging chair, some great accessories for eating outside and now this gorgeous quilted picnic blanket and cool striped cushions. I’m not one for bright colours and florals so it’s…

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Garden Lounge Chair

13th April 2014
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I hardly dare think it, let alone write it, but perhaps, just perhaps it is time to think that summer might be around the corner. There is blue sky with fluffy white clouds, there is a yellow orb peeking shyly out from behind them and the lawn definitely needs mowing. This metal lounge chair is…

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Mad About … Outdoor Living Rooms

15th July 2013
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There is something almost unbearably romantic about an outdoor living room. Perhaps it is just the promise of a summer so long and hot that you don’t need to worry about the rain ruining the furniture. Perhaps it is simply that in the UK, the summers are neither long enough not dry enough to warrant…

365 Objects Of Design, In the garden, Volume II

Objects of Design #71: Mustique Lounge Chair

10th May 2013
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There’s nothing like a bit of rattan to get you in the mood for summer and, of course, we all know the sun always shone in the 70s (ssh yes it did, it’s the land of nostalgia where it’s always summer). This chair just puts me in a sunny mood straight away. It looks so…

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