I’ve been looking at sinks, for a possible kitchen makeover. I’m thinking a butler’s sink, subway tiles and brass taps with the pipe-work showing. Scullery-chic is the idea. But today I’m featuring some far more mainstream sink stylings. The book Something Like A Nest by Andy Sewell looks at typical scenes of middle class British life, and a lot of them include sinks. The images are so familiar, with almost all of them including a fancy potted plant and a bottle of Carex anti-bacterial hand wash. The views out over back garden or fields is also key, suggesting the sink as a space of contemplation rather than outright drudgery.

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Get the look: Shrink’s office

For all the cerebral snoopers out there. I’ve stumbled into a feature about the offices of Psychoanalysts. It’s a nice piece of escapism for anyone who’s a) been in therapy or b) is into Woody Allen movies. Stacks of books, disturbing art, piles of paper, heavy on the textiles, plenty of chaise – there are […]

Lost Glasgow

Fancy stepping inside a piece of lost Glasgow architecture? The George Hotel in Buchanan Street is no longer there, but you may know it better than you think… not least as the setting for bits of Trainspotting. These images were taken by photographer and film-maker Michael Prince. I found the story via a page on Facebook […]

THE 1970s interiors bible

I was in Oxford overnight on saturday and the hotel I was staying in had a library whereupon I found on its shelves a book – nay the book – from the decade of my birth.* By one Terence Conran. The House Book was published in 1974 and is already recognised by industry-folk-in-the-know as a […]

Boomerang generation

Jill and I have both just read the memoir of punk band The Slits guitarist Viv Albertine. Lots and lots to enjoy in it, but we were both struck by the freedom they had to be young and skint in London. Squats, bar jobs, midnight rent-flits and lots of time to form a band and […]