We love nothing more than ruminating over a trend here at ‘the House. So when super-chic bathroom supplier CP Hart asked us to explore a bathroom trend they identified as involving textured finishes, raw wood and tribal patterns on tiles, we didn’t need asking twice. They’ve appropriately named the trend Tactile Textures. We started by investigating it over on Pinterest (natch) before bringing our translation of it here to the blog. Lets start in a bathroom created by the highly respected designer Paola Navone, who is known for her sumptuous, rustic, contemporary ideas spanning the genres of ceramics, tiles, lighting and furniture design.

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Inspiration: Priest’s budget-blowing decor

An update to my earlier post about the Alphonse Mucha Art Nouveau wallpaper, photographed in a locked room, has just come through from our French decorating correspondents. If you missed it, here is the story of the priest of Rennes Le Chateau, who started spending eye-popping amounts, the source of which remains a mystery to […]

Decorating mystery: Wallpaper in a locked room

Do you like a mystery? A conspiracy? Well today we have a report from the Carcassonne region of France, sent in by our doughty French Decorating correspondent. He filed this picture with the information that “it was taken through the glass of a locked room.” Chills.

London Life by Colin O’Brien

I’ve just discovered Colin O’Brien’s work and got stuck on his website for half an hour. An exhibition of the photographer’s work opened at the Hackney Museum last week, showing life in London – and O’Brien’s local Hackeny, where he has lived since 1984 – over a period of more than 60 years. It’s unclear […]