Pity the poor man of the house, for Farrow & Ball have a new pink paint out. The above shows the new Nancy’s Blushes, with Arsenic (the green), on a background of Dimpse (also new). This is relevant not only because I’m a pink pervert, with an uncontrollable lust for anything in this colour, but […]
Here she is, doing what she does best. Now, here’s the project she has been working on for six years. It’s her primary form of exercise. I’ve come to love these chairs because of their unfashionable floral upholstery rather than in spite of, but the cat has worked hard to show that she has other […]
Just back from glorious perfect Sardinia. While I whittle down my hundreds of pictures of pink and yellow buildings (trend!) and spiky pot plants, here’s a house thing I’ve been thinking about. Hooks for coats. A hallway sorter. Back in our second ever post I was extolling the visual delights of plugging door handles into […]
Glad you asked. Decorating a rented property… my god have I put the hours in on this one? When I was renting everyone had just gone Changing Rooms mad, and I had to paint over plenty of rag-rolled Moroccan-inspired hallways and forest green bedrooms with buckets of trade white. Well, my ‘expertise’ has now been […]
I’m having a cabinet curtain quandary…try saying that when you’re drunk. As mentioned a while back I’m mid-way through making these shelves more likeable to my eye. That’s them, already painted in Fired Earth’s Carbon Blue and on their way to becoming a linen cabinet. Now I want to add a curtain on the front, […]