Decorating dilemmas

Alison Rees ceramics

Pot black

Some rather wintery photos on what is meant to be a beautiful hot day, but these simple, almost stark pots caught my eye. They are by ceramicist Alison Rees who exhibited at New Designers and was invited back to their One Year On show this year. As I didn’t go to New Designers – because […]

Ugly wallpapered bathroom

Wallpapered bathrooms: Trend or travesty?

My obsession with wallpaper is no secret, but I wondered what you thought of a sub-set obsession with wallpapering the bathroom. My bathroom is a nightmare of pipes and gross black bits, but if I was redoing it I’d defo be after the sort of look gracing the cover of this month’s World of Interiors. […]

Indoor wall planter

Gardener’s world?

On my first day working at my very first interiors magazine the Editor asked me what I thought of a homes shoot. It was a ho-hum kitchen, but I did like the spindly geraniums that were growing on the huge windowsill. Editor looked displeased and told me that house plants were basically anti-style, hopelessly suburban. […]

Swan news

In Brixton Village over the weekend we passed by the shop Brixi with a ton of these in the window. Good grief, I thought, someone found the mother load of vintage swans at a market and is now selling them for £45 a piece. My mind later swung between fury over another human’s great find […]