Roving reporter

Jam cushion

Waste not whatnot

Did you see SuperScrimpers? It’s a new Channel 4 series aimed at stopping rotten good-for-nothing wasteful consumerist families from buying loads of crap they don’t need. The bit I saw featured various WI-aged ladies give us tips on how to mend a jumper sleeve with a bit of old sock and making your own bath […]

Neil Wax

Inside my cleaning cupboard…

…go on, have a peep… I like to slosh both of these around, then use a mop to get it into the corners. Weekly at least. That lovely scent in my house? Probably a combination of these two products. And etc… I once said to someone that I’d cleaned my bathroom with missionary zeal, and […]

Shopper’s holiday

Vanessa Barlow and her husband spent last year revamping a 1960’s outbuilding in their garden in Lyme Regis, which they launched as a holiday-let this January, called The Garden House Studio. It’s neat, but isn’t it sweet? The beds fold up into the wall – and, shock, manage to look classy with it (those blankets […]

Bright ize

Despite having finished any such detailing in this house, I’ve become fixated on door handles. Specifically, super dooper ones by specialist company ize. Here’s one of the company’s newest collections by stylist Faye Toogood of Studio Toogood: On the left, the Sticks and Stones and Broken Bones collection and on the right a door knocker […]

Rebuilding by numbers

Architecture for Humanity , the non-profit organisation working to reconstruct countries afflicted by natural disasters – by constructing homes, schools and community buildings with an emphasis on design and longevity – is currently raising funds for Japan in the wake of the tragic earthquake and tsunami. You can donate here. Friends of the organisation, San-Fran company Heath […]