Is this the home you got with your interest-free loan off your millionaire mate back in the 90’s?

And is that not one, but two pine mirrors? Here’s hoping you raise enough in book sales to get some interior decorating advice. Looks like you’ve tried to style up the fire-free mantlepiece there, but it’s gone a bit wrong where the edges of the picture and mirror frames line up. All in all this is a look that says bed-sit. Not very Notting Hill.

I’m giving this a rating of…Travesty!

Tenants wanted for wooden mansion…

I am posting in ignorance of the background, and in defiance of the recurring heat wave here in London, some snowy photos of these empty Russian mansions, abandoned in the forest. Aren’t they amazing? Here’s the source, but it doesn’t tell you much, just that some still have furniture inside, and that these incredible wooden structures […]

My desk: Tracy Kendall

Wallpaper designer Tracy Kendall Where is your desk from? My desk is from a designer called Jennifer Newman and what’s on it is the mix of whatever is happening at the time…. How about that deer clock? My father collected clocks and I’ve picked up the clock-collecting bug from him. This is one of about 70 or […]

A place for everything

Bordering on obsessively  tidy? Drawn to slightly weird things just because they provide homes for stuff that ends up lying about? Then behold the key box. An actual place to put your keys. Another find from the Barbican shop, but also available here, along with interior postboxes that attach to your front door and catch […]

Fence fever

And so it goes: You think you have a pretty modern aesthetic, you love contemporary buildings with cool cladding, weird materials and big jaunty windows that wrap-around corners. You have stainless steel worktops. All your house plants are in black pots. And yet… You can’t stop yourself from going nuts for a picket fence. I’ve […]