I actually did something practical with my bank holiday weekend. Remember my cork wall chat? My patterned floor plans? Well voila here’s a half-finished room for my son with both of those elements… Ok confession, I did not paint the Pitch Black wall (which I love) or install the cork. A nice decorator did that for […]
I’m actually too young to have taken O-levels, but ‘GCSE’ just sounds so downmarket, don’t you think? And anyway, this inspiration, like the qualification, is much more 70s than 90s. It’s the plants one used to be obliged to draw week in, week out, in the pottery-dust sunlight of the school art room. Spider plants, […]
Put’ big light on. There is only one bit of my lovely light-filled flat by the sea that is dingy, and that’s the bathroom. It’s sandwiched between two other rooms, and has a floor space so small that the cat couldn’t even swing a mouse. It’s very dark and, when the door is shut, rather […]
Well, if Ilse Crawford can make it look so nice…
This blog post is a year old but the colour combo is still pretty hot. Just off Mull is the isle of Ulva – or, according to the Viking’s who named it, ‘Wolf island’. It’s privately owned, has no tarmac roads and has a population of 16. So imagine my surprise to find this scene in the […]