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Your Home is Lovely: chic interiors on a budget
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Home interiors inspiration on a budget: from vintage Ebay finds to bargain design homewares, DIY tips and quirky shopping ideas, we'll help you pimp your pad with panache
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Miraflores, a stunning 1962 house

I am so jealous of Samantha Bensons house in Rickmansworth. The place is like a time machine back to the 1960s – but not a polished, idealised 2012 recreation of what it could have looked like, but a...

23 h ago

Architectural drawings by illustrator, Thibaud Herem

These architectural drawings by Thibaud Herem, a French illustrator based in London, are beautiful in their simplicity and friendly edges. And theres a reason for the latter: the drawings a...

1 day ago

A calm but colourful home

I love the relaxed, unprecious styling of this apartment in Holland, belonging to graphic designer and artist Jane Schouten. She is the owner of the Etsy shop All the Luck in the World and ...

2 days ago

Interesting ceiling shades (and procrastination)

My parents have just redecorated their front room and my dad asked if Id help him to find a ceiling lampshade – ideally just like the pink glass, giant saucer-shaped 1930s one they rashly gave away d...

3 days ago

Jazz Covers II - the new Taschen book

If, like me, you still harbour fondness for a bit of old-school technology, you may also still have a cherished vinyl collection. And even if youve converted the lot to digital, you can still make go...

6 days ago

American pressed metal ceiling tiles

A while ago I wrote about some quirky ideas for kitchen splashbacks on the blog and, in more detail, in my Insider column (published this Sunday coming). One of them was to use old-sch...

24 may 12

Having a laugh

A home without laughter is... well, not a great place to be for too long. Which is what drew me (along with a lot of nostalgia) to these colourful, chirpy prints themed around some British comedy gre...

23 may 12

Who lives in a shed like this...?

Its Chelsea Flower Show season: the 99-year-old event opens officially today, but I got a sneak preview* of one of the exhibits from yesterdays press day. And its not hard to tell who is behind this ...

22 may 12

Pedlars open a pub

Charlie and Caroline Gladstone, the stylish owners of Pedlars have opened a pub in Wales, the Glynne Arms. As regular readers may know, Ive worked on a soon-to-be-published book with the couple,...

21 may 12

Stylish food part II

...Secondly, I mentioned a few weeks back the book Id worked on with the lovely Charlie and Caroline Gladstone, the couple behind Pedlars, about getting the most from the great outdoors. Well th...

18 may 12

Stylish food part I

Im away from my usual posting station today and experimenting with blogging via an app on my phone. Its a bit limiting and so I shall just share a few snaps of a a couple of good-looking food stories...

18 may 12

A calming bedroom colour combination

How beautiful is this blue and mustard/gold bedroom? The downlit wall really adds drama and the illusion of different layers – making a flat wall an interesting canvas, even before the art gets hung....

17 may 12

Slim Aarons sexy seventies photography

Some photos of a beautiful house that I was recently sent featured a big, framed print by the late American photographer, Slim Aarons. It was one of his most famous shots (which you can see directly ...

16 may 12

Old-school sound systems

This weekend, my youthful lodger looked at my music corner (below) and commented: "Stuff for playing music was big in the olden days, wasnt it?" And he wasnt even looking at the admitted...

15 may 12

Four ways with photos

My photographic wall sticker fox, £24.99 from the Binary Box (including a free – 2D – squirrel) hasnt garnered many fans since he appeared above the TV, on my sitting room wall a couple of months ago...

14 may 12

Sweet wrapper light

I do love a bit of ingenuity to create nearly free stuff that spruces up your space. And this is quite the most creative use of rubbish Ive seen in a long time: a decorative bedroom light – made from...

11 may 12

Painting the stairs

When I decided to paint my stairs, I knew it would be an arduous job. I didnt think that what I started before Christmas would only just have come to an end though... Wow. So, 35 steps and 8 (final) ...

10 may 12

My dream kitchen (and what Alvar Aalto has to do with it)

I have somewhat of an obsession with all-wood kitchens of a particular style. I recently posted about a house with a parquet wall, which looked very good, but this room ticks even more boxes.Everythi...

04 may 12

ArtHAUS: a very unusual exhibition

Is it art? Is it interiors? Is it a cross between beautiful and a little bit freaky? Yes, all of that and more. ArtHAUS is an "immersive installation," say its curators, "that f...

03 may 12

Lost cinemas

I absolutely love these images of Islingtons lost cinemas. They – along with images of other lost cinemas and abandoned spaces – will be on show at an interesting new art space in EC London from toni...

03 may 12

The V&As pattern archives

The V&A has an incredible three million designs for textiles, wallpapers and prints. Lots are 20th century designs and the museum has taken a selection and adorned new objects with these little b...

03 may 12 1 person likes this

Urban art by Trevor Burgess

I was born and brought up in the city, and hold London close to my heart. But often, when capturing the place in art, theres an urge to edit out the ordinary, the not architecturally fashionable, the...

02 may 12

Homes-y events this summer

In case you didnt see my Insider column this Sunday about some of the great events nationwide where you can satisfy your craving for interiors, art and design porn (and learn new skills at events whe...

01 may 12

Pedlars Guide to the Great Outdoors

How very exciting. The book I worked on with the ridiculously stylish Charlie and Caroline Gladstone, the couple behind beautiful shop, Pedlars, has been pre-listed on Amazon... though its not out un...

30 apr 12

Vintage East German dollshouse furniture at Winters Moon

Winters Moon, which sells very beautiful pieces of pre-loved furniture in Chichester, has just got a small delivery of some very sweet miniature versions of their usual wares, from a stock of unused ...

27 apr 12

Geometric walls and glorious greys

Very simply and swiftly today – two ideas from homes that I fell in love with online this week. Take a look at the sites they were posted on for more images and details.I have been writing about usin...

26 apr 12

Out of the dark

If you are near west London this week, theres an interesting (and colourful, as you can see below) event going on in Shepherds Bush until 29th. Its a pop-up shop/fundraiser, featuring furniture made ...

25 apr 12

Pretty Pegs

What a very excellent idea this is: a company that sells Ikea-compatible legs for the Swedish stores sofas and beds. But they come with legs... right? Of course, but those legs are often the very thi...

24 apr 12

Oddities

"Its a bit weird, but I thought youd like it," said my friend yesterday, on giving me this funny little ceramic owl, below. She knows me so well. I think hes fantastic, and fantastically frea...

23 apr 12

Rockett St Georges new old photos

This is just up my street: slightly creepy old stuff, with a quirky new angle (just like my Victorian dolls heads mounted under a perspex Muji CD holder).Clockwise from left: The Family; Th...

20 apr 12

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