Thank you to all the readers who posted helpful comments in reply to my wail about why-they-not-sell-brass-taps-that-i-can-afford? All the advice was really helpful, but, as is the way with these things, the final answer came from an unexpected source. As you can see progress on the kitchen creeps onwards – yes, we’ve built the units […]
It’s sunny, the living room is amazingly tidy because it’s deadline week at work. It’s time to show you the new velvet sofa that’s chopped the room in half. To recap, I’m still looking to fix the long blue-grey one with the rip that’s being covered up by that sheepskin rug. I’ll reveal my amazing […]
How many features about kitchen taps have I written in my life? How often have I confidently opined that the taps are the bit you mustn’t skimp on, money-wise? But sitting here, looking for my own set of perfect kitchen taps, I suddenly realise it’s just not that easy. For my about-to-arrive kitchen I am […]
Despite having edited a kitchen magazine and written features about lovely kitchens for years, I’ve never actually bought a kitchen before. I have replaced a kitchen once, with a school science bench that someone had lying around and gave it to me for free. Times have changed. For Margate all I needed to do was […]
My sofa, aged around eight years, is quite a classy number from Twenty Twenty One upholstered in what used to be a nice blue-grey wool from Kvadrat. Then it faded into more of a nondescript dirge. The light today coupled with my photographing makes it look even more dirgy.