Decorating dilemmas

Tricia Guild sitting room

Guilty pleasure

Now, I wouldn’t bring this up on a dinner date with Tom Dixon, but I currently have a secret liking for Designers Guild. What I used to think of as all a bit Chelsea-ghastly, the current range is full of greys, pinks and zingy yellows, in wildly outsize blooms and on-trend geometric wallpaper patterns. Then […]

tv

A side issue

…but occupying my tiny mind none the less. As my lovely coffee table has been seconded to keep my TV off the floor, I’m after a discrete little something to put my coffee on. I’m currently using an upside-down blue crate and I ain’t happy about it. I saw these as part of Kate Jacobs’ […]

papering above dado rail

Diary of a wallpapering

My friend and I had an agreement. I’d help her do her living room if she’d help with my hallway. Today was the first leg. Since I painted my hallway white it was looking kind of boring. So I did a test… …with the amazing Cole & Son Palm Leaves wallpaper. I loved the crazy […]

Pink teenage bedroom

No frills

Cripes. I was struggling my way through the new Lonny online magazine, which has abandoned it’s bright, eclectic signature style for one issue to bring you a ‘Trad Home’ special. As I say, struggling through, trying to stay with it, when this flounced across the page. You wouldn’t make your worst enemy be a bridemaid […]

Nanashi light

Bargain basement and beyond

My Friend has these beautiful George Nelson light shades… I have these – almost the same, from the underrated Wilkinsons… (Wilkos only seem to currently have the skinny one above, but for £7 you can’t really go wrong can you?) I love my Wilkos one, but I’m feeling tempted by Clarice Demory’s spray-paint DIY versions. […]