There’s a whiff of Michael J Fox’s-finest to this photography project – forgive me the low-brow link. Japanese, London-based photographer Chino Otsuka has imposed her grown up self into a series of old photographs from her childhood resulting in her two selves meeting in a somehow quite sweet way – posing together on the beach, eating baguettes in Paris, standing next to a snowman and so on. The project is entitled Imagine Finding Me and its images are accompanied on the artist’s website with the words: “If, again I have the chance to meet, there is so much I want to ask and so much I want to tell.”

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The old bamboo

Same old story. Went to the Londis to buy a paper, came back with this.

Farewell beautiful wallpaper

Well this is a decorating blog, so if you’re going to witness grown people saying an emotional goodbye to wallpaper somewhere then it’s going to be here. I’ve lived with a lovely blush pink Neisha Crosland wallpaper in my bedroom for seven years. I haven’t stopped loving it – though I always wished we’d papered […]

Address book: geometric bathroom flooring

Back again to the bathroom project I started thinking about months ago. It’s got to be a budget project, but seriously, anything will be better than the mouldering hole I have at the moment. The basics of the room are great – it’s a good size for a London one-bed flat. It has a very […]

Wallpaper printing with Eley Kishimoto

When I was first in London – some 15 years ago – I saw a picture in a magazine of an Ant-style chair with a simple but dynamic pattern printed directly onto the wood. The print was Flash by design duo Eley Kishimoto, a total classic which – as they’ve proved in the years since […]