Dear My Friend’s House reader. I need your help. I’m doing a straw poll, a wisdom of crowds type thing. Listen up: It’s not new, it ain’t a trend, but for ages I’ve wanted a black iron bedstead. But here is the thing. I like to sit up and read in bed. And sometimes eat […]
Here it is, my bathroom. It’s been good, I’ve liked it. The Neisha Crosland wallpaper just seen in the mirror is still my favourite wallpaper in the house. And yet… …look what’s happened just south of there since we had approximately 6000 days of rain.
It looks like another badly composed image of mine… It’s not! Well, it sort of is, but it’s also me capturing the least impressive, most insignificant corner of the Bloomingville stand at Home trade show. Nooooo, not because I’m hopeless. It was in the name of snapping that lamé cushion, which looked like it had […]
Let me start this post with a warning: DON’T google ‘copper kitchens’. I did it to research this post and I wouldn’t recommend it. Not because it turns out that (like everything else) it’s some weird web-friendly sexual practice, but just because the copper kitchens on display are hideous. I do believe there is another […]
I bored the arse off my hosts at a dinner this weekend talking about names for paint colours, and how powerful they can be when done right. Then this morning I was introduced to a company who have come up with paint names that seem specifically designed to touch my sentimental heart in a very […]