The bathroom project is happening. Slooooooowly. The layout’s all sorted – the shape of the shower area, repositioning the bath and basin – and I think I still like the idea of the black tiled floor mentioned here. But all I do is think about what can be done with the rest of it. Like painting the window and the small wall that surrounds it black – extending it along the wall a  bit to outline the basin (going to go next to the window) as well.

Then painting the other walls a soft almost-pink.

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Address book: Indigo and white

Jill and I were lucky enough to be sent some new products, and asked to photograph them in our own homes. We won’t say where they’re from just yet, as we love a guessing game as much as you do. We will point out however how perfect they are for the indigo and white trend […]

Pro ginger

I’m from the land of redheads and people hollering out their thoughts about that. There are hundreds of ginger lovelies in Scotland, I still notice it when I go home. And, who else was brought up on Charlie Brown books and remembers that Charlie was majorly in love with Little Red-Haired Girl? These two experiences […]

Through the Tudor keyhole

So my house in Margate was built around 1850, and converted into flats in the 1980s. I’ve written already here about how my usual taste has changed a little in sympathy with the old building, despite it being pretty short on original features. I have wanted to rip the kitchen out and replace it with […]

English Eccentrics

The above words for me usually conjure images of people with land, animals, clutter and an inbuilt sense of taste. As my brother used to say – this in the era when he bought a straw hat in Greece, then wore it out back in Glasgow ‘and got two “fuck you’s” and a “wanker” before […]