Now I don’t know about you but these days I find it hard to operate without a list. I like the making of the list as much of the doing of the list and am one of those people who write things on the list that they have already done simply for the pleasure of…
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Now I’m not necessarily one for New Year’s Resolutions – mainly because I don’t like being told what to do. Or perhaps telling myself what to do but there’s no doubt that I like to take a few minutes on New Year’s Eve to get things in order mentally and think about how to start…
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Fancy a bit of a read? It’s reached that stage where a well-crafted turkey sandwich and ten minutes piece and quiet is looking rather attractive isn’t it? Well make yourselves comfy and I shall take you on a tour of the Vitra Campus. Yes it’s a factory. A factory which produces some of the most…
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Wishing you all a Very Happy Christmas and thank you all so much for your support over the past year. It means so much that you would take the time to drop in, read and comment as much to me as to each other. I love this community we have created and am thrilled that…
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Once again we’re doing 10 Beautiful Rooms with a difference for the Christmas season. So far this month we have looked at trends versus reality and how some of the best UK interiors bloggers decorate their homes for the festive season. This week we’re looking at 10 beautiful rooms that are listed on Booking.com and are…
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For one of the last issues of Beautiful Rooms before Christmas I thought I would show you 10 very different trees by 10 very different bloggers and maybe you will be inspired for next year or maybe you can just have a scroll while sipping eggnog or something. There are real and faux and kitsch…
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Now I don’t know you about but I often end up getting irritated with Christmas Gift Guides. I don’t want to be classed as the “foodie” or the “gardener” or the “best friend over 40” or the “mad woman with the cat”… actually that …. And the Mad Husband has never yet wanted anything from…
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This week I thought we’d do 10 Beautiful Rooms in a slightly different way. Essentially chosen by you or people like you. A few days ago I went to the annual trends dinner at Houzz where we ate delicious food and talked about our trend predictions for next year. It’s all very well to talk…
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And just like that it was the first day of the last month. So are you still up for a little fantasy house-hunting? The market dies down a little at this time of year although I have twice moved house on 10 December so there are people who are still looking either through desperation or…
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Right we’ve made it to the end of the month, pour yourself a drink because it’s about to be Christmas everywhere you look. I try to keep it to a minimum but even I have succumbed this year and will be publishing some gift guides next week so I hope you’ll drop in for those.…
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As if there wasn’t enough to do at this time of year when planning for Christmas, what with present-buying, parties and planning, there is one other, really important, thing that you should make time for if you want everything to run smoothly. Last week we looked at simple ways to create the perfect guest room …
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Cold then isn’t it? That’ll be November for you, so this week we’re going warm and cosy to banish the winter blues. These first images are from the Tine K catalogue. This Danish designer inspired me to use leather handles on my kitchen cupboards after I saw in a magazine that she had done the…
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Three for you this week, all quite different in look and feel so hopefully a bit of something for everyone. First up is this converted piano factory in Camden, north London. Fancy coming in….? There will be 10 flats (the most expensive is over eight million quid – I know!) but the cheapest (I’m using…
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It’s one of those things that seemed as if it might be fad, hung around long enough to classify as a trend and is now so firmly back on the interiors radar that it’s pitching to be a new classic. Yes it’s the drinks trolley. Suddenly no well-dressed home is without one and every client…
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Good Morning and welcome to the last of my collaborations with Brintons Carpets. I have already written a detailed guide on buying the right sort of carpet for the right room and now we are going to focus a little on the colour. Specifically the right shade of grey. As many of you will know,…
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Monday Morning and time for a new set of 10 Beautiful Rooms. This week we are sticking firmly in the monochrome palette. This is partly because it makes a great basis for any scheme. I don’t necessarily mean black and white as that can be stark and very modern soften it slightly to charcoal and…
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Starting off our house tour this week with a trip to Hampstead, always pretty in an idealised Richard Curtis London sort of way. For many years it was known as the home to academics, writers and media types it has, of course the massive Heath with swimming ponds and city views. And now that you…
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At this time of year thoughts often to turn to guests and the sleeping arrangements thereof. Now while I am fully on board with Benjamin Franklin’s belief that guests are like fish – both begin to smell after three days – I do also believe in making them as comfortable as possible while they are…
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Well there’s no escaping the fact that it’s nearly December and the shopping has to start sooner rather than later. Are you ready? I mean ready to start shopping rather than the actual being ready itself. That won’t happen for a while yet I’m sure. Anyway, in the interests of getting closer to that state…
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So you know I always say that you should buy an outrageous sofa and bring it down with cushions? Well sometimes you gotta do it the other way round. Mostly if you already own a sofa and have no intention of buying another – which is most of us isn’t it. Then you owe it…
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