Christmas is a wonderful time to unleash your decoration ideas and I love the way the house takes on a whole new look for a few weeks. Now usually when I throw parties I’m super relaxed, I never think of fancy table dressing ideas. It’s a terrible confession for an Interior Stylist to make, but […]
Anyone watching The Great Interior Design Challenge on BBC2 has picked up on the craze for painting furniture, and anyone one watching closely will notice that the top coat just gets slapped on bare wood. New products, readily available on the market, have made painting an unloved and unwanted piece of furniture desirable again, and […]
Xylo furniture
I’ve just stumbled across a fantastic new company on the web. Xylo furniture take old, well made brown furniture, that’s no longer loved or wanted, (hence very cheap) and pimped it up with gorgeous splashes of contemporary colour. “Xylo source previously owned furniture that was created by master craftsmen using skills and techniques that […]
Upholstery project
I found this tired old chair at a car boot sale at Brighton Marina and snapped it up for £40. It looked in very good nick for such an old chair, I reckon by the shape of it it’s Georgian and still well sprung and filled with horsehair. I gave it to my friend Anna […]
