One Face of Your Window Has Been Swimming in Liquid Tin
Your window's flat glass looks identical from both sides. Both look transparent and feel faintly cool to touch. One side…
Decor
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…
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…
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 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…