What do much-loved sitcoms like Friends, The Simpsons and The Royle family have in common? Whether it’s to seat the laziest, rudest family on British television, placed in front of a water fountain for a particular group of ‘friends’ to…
You’ve seen it a hundred times in the movies: the couple returns home after a night out and the wife sits at a dressing table and takes off her jewellery in a very measured and mannered way (until the inevitable…
Now I know that summer is over and Autumn is pretty much upon us but I thought this post would be a lovely way to hang onto a piece of summer and to get us thinking about how we enjoy…
The garden is a special place for many people being a place of relaxation, creativity, and beauty. In some cases, however, maintaining a garden can become costly and it is therefore necessary to find ways to keep the spirit of…
I recently ran a post about one of my favourite architectural plants which proved relatively popular so thought it would be quite nice to run a few more. I have lots of favourite contemporary plants for the garden so plenty…
For ages now I’ve been wanting to write about contemporary style in the garden, but quite frankly the weather just hasn’t been getting me in the mood. Now we have had a little sunshine I’m feeling quite inspired and thought…
Last week I created a Mood Board to illustrate how to use online creators to pull together all of your ideas for a new decorating project. Interior designers use Mood Boards all the time when working with new clients to…
I think it’s hard to find any kind of inspiration for decorating a bathroom. As a room it needs to be functional and practical and it’s difficult to add any kind of real style outside of the essential bathroom furniture,…
