I’m not sure whether you’ve been following our work over on The Chromologist, but we get to write the loveliest things with the only restriction being that there must be a link to colour. Pretty unrestricting as it turns out.

I wanted to share this story with you from the site, because it’s about a friend, a trend forecasting fellow Scot who begins every text with ‘Yoohoo Jill’ – who does that? I love it. Here is a a brilliant photo that one of her friends snapped of her mid-phone call.

I met Sarah when I wrote about her old house years ago – for Grand Designs mag I think – and was completely bowled over by her original taste. She has since moved very near me and her now house, currently a building site, is going to be more fabulous than the last one most likely. The interview over on The Chromologist, is more about her work as an interiors trend and colour forecaster (and creative director of TrendPulse) – how she does it and what makes her tick. Have a read if you have time.

In the meantime, here are some lovely bits from her own collections of house ‘stuff’ that I REALLY REALLY WANT.

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Rugs shout out

Today I’m blurring blog with business, business with pleasure, pleasure with…that’ll do. It’s a shout out about Katrien Vermeeren and her company Emily’s House London who we’ve been working with lately and whose vintage rugs from the Middle East and Africa, we genuinely love – Kilims, Beni Ouarains, Boucherouites, Caputs and Tulus among them. I mentioned […]

Before and after: Going dark

This is a corner of the spare room in my house as it appeared in the book Design Bloggers at Home. This is that same corner now.

Books and mortar

Today the subject pendulum is going towards Weird on our Weird-Wonderful regulator machine. Second hand bricks (or are we calling even bricks vintage now?) stencilled to look like antique books. I like books, I guess I like bricks so I think these look cute. According to Light Reading Melbourne, who made them using old London […]

Light lust

It’s been a big week here at the towers, so I have few words today. But I am going to post lots of images from design and lighting company Apparatus Studio, which just made me sigh quite a lot (the last one has horse hair in it. Horse hair). Enjoy…