The Invisible Gap Between Your Two Tins of Paint
Buy a tin of Farrow & Ball's Elephant's Breath (yes, that's a real name, no we're not getting into it),…
Posts by Hannah Brierley
The Pub That Designed Your Living Room
If you walk into almost any British living room that was put together without much conscious effort – the kind…
The Smell That Divided Britain’s Living Rooms
It's a very specific smell. You know the one. You will have met it before, wrestling a flat-pack wardrobe up…
The Insurance Adjuster Who’s Been Living in Your Living Room
Somewhere in an office you will never visit, a person you will never meet has made a series of quiet…
The Measurement That Makes a Room Feel Wrong (And Can’t Be Painted Over)
There's a particular kind of miserable that has nothing to do with the colour on the walls or the sofa…
The Wallpaper Industry’s Dirty Little Secret
There's a recession on. You can't afford to move and a new sofa is out of the question. But on…
The Bold Wall That Britain Didn’t Choose
Estate agents call it a “feature wall”, and interior designers talk about it as a deliberate focal point: a wall…
The Unwritten Rules Your Gran Knew About Colour
Before anyone had ever handed you a fan deck of 214 shades of off-white, before Farrow & Ball gave every…
The Colour Knowledge That Died Quietly in the 1980s
You are standing in a professionally coordinated room. All of the colours, for walls and woodwork and soft furnishings, are…