What did you do with your Easter weekend? Thanks to a paint order that went wrong I didn’t spend mine painting the risers on the stairs, but instead took for my bed for three days to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race. And I do mean ‘thanks’ cos it was very restorative. However, late on Monday I did rouse myself to visit the latest exhibition at Turner Contemporary which I thought might have some appeal for you too.

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The gilded cage

Ah, poor cat. Moved from a house with a garden to one without. I’ve improvised with a tray of cat grass that has proved very popular in the chew-it-up-throw-it-up stakes. But still… Admittedly she’s something of a Miss Jean Brodie – in her prime, but certainly no kitten. The days of leaping about trees and […]

Cheery ceramics

There’s a lot of gloom about – not least because of world affairs. So here’s a quick picture fest of some cheerful ceramics that just made me smile. The face pots are called Pat and come in loads of colours. Perfect if you have a Pat in your life. Aren’t the trunks hilarious? Wish I’d […]

How to keep an expensive redecorating habit in check

As I ponder yet another new colour combination obsession (more on that in a moment), I’ve been thinking about how to stop buying, redecorating and clothing myself and my house according to what I’m writing about at any given moment for our colour employer. BUT… I just saw an idea that could be a cheaper […]

Nan Goldin commercial photos with very fine colour combos

A torn pink velvet sofa* in an ancient and empty dusty room with massive skirting boards painted grey, looking finished next to peeling lime-coloured walls. Deep burgundy anaglypta wallpaper with a black dado rail interruption all the way up a set of stairs…. I stumbled across this old 2010 lookbook from Melbourne fashion brand Scanlan […]