Decorating dilemmas

Hidria

Jugs

Pssst. Wanna hear a styling secret? If in doubt, put a jug on it. If still in doubt, add more jugs.Well that’s how it goes in my house anyway. I love the things. These top two are some of mine, then below, some inspiration. They’re the sort of jugs I’d pass by in a jumble sale […]

Farrow & Ball Oxford Stone

Scores on the doors

To be honest, the thought of painting woodwork is merely a distant dream at the moment, but some day, these stripped and filled doors are going to have to be taken to task. I was just planning on white, but then a post on American blog My Favourite and My Best, has given me pause. […]

Joy of teen sex

Dammit!

Depressing Channel 4 show Joy of Teen Sex stole my kitchen wallpaper. I thought seeing wallpaper I really liked gracing the changing rooms of River Island or some such was the worst thing that could happen, but it forming the backdrop for some faux-counseling session for whey-faced teens really is the final straw. It’s like […]

It’s OK to have a TV

…but you wouldn’t know it from interiors photography. Obviously this is because they’re so ugly. I’ve just spent an hour trying to find any kind of cool TV shot and they don’t exist. The inspiration was the cover of this new book, Nesting, a kind of Swedish The Selby, as featured recently on ChocolateCreative‘s blog. […]

candy stripe fabric

Curtain up…

After two weeks I am physically exhausted, almost destroyed, but triumphant – like Bruce Willis in a vest at the end of Die Hard. It was touch and go, but finally I have marshaled my body weight in velvet into something that hangs up and keeps the breeze out. Here it is having a rest […]