A colour palette story we posted over a year ago, which still inspires us now – hope you find it just as lovely. The Easter weekend and I went on a tour of seaside towns. Aldeburgh in Suffolk has next to no ugly developments on the seafront. Instead handsome painted houses and funny little cottages face […]
This post was first published as ‘Black, red and green: Whitstable fisherman’s huts in June 2013. It’s a beautiful place to visit for the last bank holiday of the year, even if you can’t stay in a hut. And looking back on this post I am also reminded of what turned out to be a […]
This post was originally written when WillKat were newly engaged – remember then? This is Margaret Tyler at her home in Wembley, north London. She has a collection of around 10,000 Royal memorabilia items including mugs, teapots, plates and plastic bags. Yes, plastic bags. You can bet she didn’t yell ‘who cares?’ at the […]
Hello and welcome to My Friend’s House Greatest Hits II – our look back, for the second time, to posts from our archive. We’ll be doing it all week before resuming normal service. I picked today’s post because I was feeling nostalgic about an old holiday and because it struck me how long the patterned floor fixation has […]
It’s on record that whenever I go somewhere new – an obscure European town, a British seaside resort – I immediately want to buy a house and live there. Leaving aside the potential unhealthiness of this urge and what it says about me, I have to tell you that I have a new dream house. […]