We have so many different types of house in this country – that is one of the fantastic things about living in this small island. There is no one style that you can say is typically British. Up in Scotland […]
Interior Design
In For A Penny, In for A Pound
It’s fun to visit showrooms and select furniture for each room. That doesn’t happen very often in my house, however when I decided to update, I did a mass all at once. I bought a gorgeous much coveted sideboard in […]
Live In A Home Before Changing Design Features
I’m not sure whether a team of designers deal with huge house developers – maybe they have an entire department dedicated to the task of constantly coming up with ideas for ew phases being devellped for release for sale. I […]
1950s Homemaking Seems Grim On TV
I was watching a wonderful old documentary on catch up tv the other day – it was primarily about holidays by the seaside but it also included some fantastic social history to savour. The days of families all travelling to […]
Engaging With Design Studios Gains Confidence
When we think of interior designs designed by interior designers . . . . the very posh and unbelievably expensive glass and shiny chrome look very often comes to mind. It seems to be assumed that the very phrase Interior […]
Brutalism Found A Tad Too Stark
We all know the colours we prefer and the materials that suit us best. Or at least we like to think we do. That’s fine for clothes – we can swap and change as often as our pocket allows. It’s […]
Getting Designs On That Unpromising Corner
I know several people who are in the middle of making that decision of whether to sell up and move to something bigger / smaller. We all moved into our current houses some years ago ad as with all families, […]
Minimalist Interiors For That Showroom Feel
I have a dream. . . . familiar words but not in the context I mean them. I do have a very attractive house, a good sized and very comfortably family detached on the best estate in this area. they […]
Like Father & Mother, Like Son Cottage
Isn’t it funny how we always look back to how our parents decorated their house and although we say we never want to have ours like that, we invariably end up with a similar regime in the long run. I […]
Modern Refurb Retains The Feeling Of Agedness
I have recenly had the pleasure of looking over a pal’s ‘little cottage’. It does look from the back as if it really is a) little and b) a cottage. Neither are actually accurate. I was amazed at what the […]