I just returned from a week off during one of the most glorious Autumns I can remember. It’s barely coat weather, the sky is blue at least part of the day and all the newly dropped leaves are crisp, not clogging up the drains yet. I thought it took full sunshine and a beach to make […]
Regular readers of the blog will, I presume, be familiar with both of our houses. Although not necessarily which one is which. Today however you can get a more thorough dig around Jill’s home, because we’ve been invited to take part in the new Inside My Home feature on the DirectBlinds blog. Jill took up […]
Are you familiar with the story of London’s Mole Man? He was civil engineer William Lyttle, who over 40 years burrowed a maze of tunnels under his Hackney home. The late Mr Lyttle explained his burrowing as an attempt to create a wine cellar which got out of hand (we’ve all been there). The tunnels […]
You know you’re a bit boringly obsessed with interior design when you see a lovely shot of Dennis Severs’ house and you hone in on the tinniest of details. Can you see the shell light on the wall underneath that painting? For some reason the shell light has become an object of interest for moi. […]
“Who needs this rubbish?” That’s the reaction Zeev Aram remembers window shoppers having to his first store on the Kings Road. His first shop, opened in 1964, specialised in modern European furniture, including Castiglioni, Breuer, and Le Corbusier. At the time – a few months before Habitat opened down the road – the clean, spare lines […]