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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]