Take the test…

Came across this feature in online magazine Rue. It’s about a hip young couple who’ve inherited lots of gorgeous Midcentury Modern furniture from her grandparents. Ready?

Each modern scene has an equivalent photo from the family archives. This lounger actually looks better to me in the pinky fabric.

But points off for the shaggy rug being used as a sofa cover.

Now to me that lovely table has done nothing to deserve that cow-hide rug.

And I can’t shake the conviction that the sideboard should be mine.

OK. Time to face your feelings. Is this sweet, or smug? Were you totting up how much all the rosewood bling would have cost you on eBay? Or just saluting the turtle-necked one’s good taste? Remember, your answer reveals the true state of your soul.

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 […]

Real reveal: teenage dream

I received two pictures of my teenage bedroom through the post (remember that?) the other day. What else could I do but share. Exhibit a: I have to accept that this state of affairs is the default setting, forever, at my bedside. I’ve just cleared away a pile of books and sundry other rubbish. Nothing […]

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 […]

Cushions and spoons

Can there be anything more satisfying than a good cushion and a good spoon? Don’t answer that, I just wanted to tell you about designer Kirsten Hecktermann. Her background includes sewing things for stylists to shoot on the World Of Interiors and her own work is – I’m just going to go right ahead and say it […]