Interiors
Designer Spotlight: Anna Starmer
I may just have found someone who’s love of colour surpasses my own! I was lucky enough to listen to Anna talking at a design event last year, giving one of her hot-ticket talks on colour trends and I was just entranced. Her passion, innate creativity and ability to construct mouthwatering colour palettes just blew […]
Colour crush: Mint green
Time to ponder on this months colour crush which is also a bit of a trend forecast too. Mint green has been skirting around the edges of interior trends for a while but now it’s beginning to pull through. Part of the trend for gelato colours, or ice cream hues, like mint, pale pink and […]
The Great Indoors Podcast S2 Episode 3 Show Notes
For this latest episode of The Great Indoors Podcast, we recorded at Kate’s house in North London, where I discovered some Typography artwork, can you believe it! She was so busted! When I’d got over ribbing her for that we got down to some juicy debate over the trends we saw at Maison & Objet, […]
Can you wallpaper a bathroom and if so, how?
Is it a good idea to wallpaper the bathroom is a question I get asked a lot? Well let’s kick things off with a big fat yes shall we, so the next obvious question is how and indeed why would you want to. I personally love wallpaper in the bathroom as it really appeals to […]
Interiors trend report: Cane furniture
Stop press: Cane is no longer just for the conservatories After my trip to Maison and Objet in Paris last week, where I was scouting out all the trends at this international trade show, one thing surprised me (because a lot didn’t!) was the resurgence of cane furniture, but reinvented in a really modern and […]
The Great Indoors Podcast S2 Episode 2 Show Notes
Back on the podcast and Kate and I are already going head to head on some hot decorating topics. Here you’ll find the notes, links and some useful illustrations on points discussed on episode 2, series 2 of The Great Indoors Podcast. Should White Paint be banned? Kate and I discuss why we feel brilliant […]
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