Decorating dilemmas

neon accents

Spring palette: Neon blancmange

I don’t know abut you, but around this time of year I like to start thinking about painting a neon stripe round the thigh of a table leg… Forcing a delicate lilac wall to make peace with an acid yellow sofa… And finishing it off by draping my 2012 wardrobe around artfully… These colour combinations […]

Chinese calendar

Great wall of China

As discussed previously we love Chinese calenders. The simple, graphic number, usually in one colour and the whisper-thin paper are endlessly appealing. Here’s mine:   Here’s Her’s: But I just saw this great idea for an different way of displaying one, from the Guardian, and I’m tempted. Yes, pleasingly, people often ask me where mine […]

Trend or travesty BHS light

BHS. Do you even know where your nearest one is? Well guess what, the store that opened in 1928 (in Brixton!) has come up with a nice slice of crochet chic for your home… Not very BHS are they? The largest one costs £190 and that’s not very BHS either. So, over to you – […]

Olaf Hajek

I was going to issue a warning about why you shouldn’t hanker after a huge blackboard wall like this one spotted on The Selby… if in fact the thing you love about it is the excellent drawings. My own blackboard wall is currently ‘decorated’ with the constituent elements of an apple crumble, a dozen songs […]