Colour clash conundrum

Can’t decide if I love the clashing colour combo of this new limited edition Pumpkin armchair, or if the red one looks too much like a cat’s ass. Maybe I love it either way. Thoughts?

Limited edition Pierre Paulin Pumpkin armchair at Ligne Roset

Two kitchen contemplations

Yes, although my new kitchen is a long way off, I can’t help my mind a-wandering to what I might do. OK, I’ve made a list of the tiles, wallpaper etc of my choosing in a little book. The kind of kitchen I’m pondering is, in a word, yellow. So I thrilled to this example, […]

Occasionally brilliant

In my eternal hunt for bedside tables for the bedrooms in this house, I have realised two things. 1. There are no nice bedside tables – by that I mean the variety with drawers and stuff. 2. I have a thing for occasional tables and stools (which make excellent bedside tables if you agree with […]

Sew chic

My house is full of things from my Grandma, but perhaps the most precious, and certainly the heaviest, is her hand-turn Singer sewing machine. The last two projects I used it for were sewing a stripy cushion (see our first ever post) and making a Torvill and Dean fancy dress costume (no pictures available. Ever.) […]

Now that’s a shelf display

I have a new long, high floating shelf in my white-walled living room and here is what I’d like to do with it. In reality it will probably become home to books and other coloured things – I’ll show you when it does. In the meantime, this display of white ceramics by Jonathan Wade can be […]