Three months of hard graft, impeccable planning, sourcing some of the best products and all came to fruition for an install that happened in just under two days. As you know, I do just love a challenge! However not without the most massive organisational talent and design mastery of my design side kick Edwina Boase […]
Getting my groove on with T&G
The only type of groove I seem to be able to get jiggy with these days is with a V groove. I’m talking good old fashioned tongue and groove wall paneling that’s made its way, via my Pinterest boards, into the annex and it’s looking fabulous. One thing that’s a niggle for me, especially in […]
In this short video I have a poke around the kitchen of Sarah Mitchenall, the winner of The Great Interior Design Challenge, and interior designer at Black Parrots Studio. Now we all know Sarah is a designer with style oozing from every pore, but she’s also a queen of setting the style on a shoestring. […]
10 Stylish ways to style your kitchen
Kitchens are one of my favourite spaces to design, but I’m fully aware that they can cost a total bomb and yet all to often can end up looking rather uncreative. I’m not going to talk layout or practicalities in this post but focus on the look and style with ideas that are pretty thrifty […]
Ideal Home Show
This year I was invited to design 5 rooms sets for Ideal Home magazines stand at The Ideal Home Show. The theme was ‘Industrial Revolution’ which is such a wonderful brief from the editor Isobel. I began by researching the look using google images- and quickly built up some lovely mood boards featuring bare brick […]
