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Posts by Hannah Brierley
The Syllabus That Explains Why Your Living Room Feels Slightly Wrong
There is probably a room in your house that looks perfectly nice in photographs but is slightly odd when you…
The Freedom to Paint Your Own Walls
Walk into any DIY superstore on a Saturday morning and you will find the same scene: couples holding paint swatches…
The Deleted Chapter That Explains Why Your Room Feels Almost Right
At some point in the early 1980s British art schools quietly closed a door. It wasn’t dramatic, and there was…
The Room That Had To Do Everything (And Then Forgot How)
For most of human history, the idea that you might have a room just for sleeping in would have seemed…
5 Living Room Ideas that Put Bifold Doors Front and Centre
5 Living Room Ideas that Put Bifold Doors Front and Centre Who can resist opening a set of bifold doors…
How to create a WFH office without losing a bedroom
How to create a WFH office without losing a bedroom Working from home – how to create a healthy work-from-home…
Why British Decorating Looks the Way It Does (Blame the Sky)
Stand in a British living room – almost any British living room – and you will notice roughly the same…
The 1970s Room That Was Hiding Something
Walk into a 1970s front room and you are inside a very specific smell and a very specific lie. The…
The French Paper That Made Britain’s Walls British
There is wallpaper somewhere in a Georgian townhouse. It’s behind three layers of Victorian paint and a sheet of 1970s…