Practical interior design tips for British homes: reading your light, testing paint properly, colour drenching, feature walls, scale, lighting and a weekend makeover checklist.
Interior Design
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 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…
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),…
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…