Interior Design, Home Renovation, DIY and Trends
Si's seafood search can't be all gigantic seafood platters and sizzling scallops you know. Wherever we travel to with work - currently all over the UK on sixteen different TV renovation projects - I ask pals or Google to hit me up with suggestions for fabulous fish. There's gotta be some perks to be away... Continue Reading →
"It'll just be a little detour" I promised him as we left Stirling "Apparently there's a couple of nice stretches of water not far from here and we should be able to see a lot of it in an afternoon." That'll be me completely underestimating the size of the Trossachs region and it's 22 lochs.... Continue Reading →
"Labour will give renters a default right to have pets, which is the case in many countries, including Belgium and Italy." tweeted Tom Copley, London Assembly Member this week. A man who clearly knows an evil landlord when he sees one and who has never had to hoist a feline urine soaked sofa out of... Continue Reading →
Trick well and truly missed. "Winkles from Whitstable to Whitby", the title could have read, resplendent in alliteration glory. Only we didn't stop in the seafood-famous Whitby to pursue the perfect heading, but instead maintained a northern course the other week en route from Lincolnshire to Stirling, aiming for Bamburgh and it's magnificent rock topping... Continue Reading →
In the days before kitchen extensions became ten a penny, homeowners used to simply pinch a bit of the garden and add on a garden room - a conservatory. Often these were white plastic upvc, which is now very much out of fashion with the style brigade. Many conservatories are now being ripped down and... Continue Reading →
Yes, they are. Just like sisters. Tiles are coming out of the kitchen and out of the bathroom too. Not old enough to recognise the reference? Let's get this out of the way first. One of the best sisterhood stomping' song ever... https://youtu.be/kUnJj9kZQTU Got it? Marvellous, let's move on. Too long confined to the splash... Continue Reading →
They don't call me the wallpaper wizard for nothing but even I had my decorating socks blown off today when I came across this... Ceramic wallpaper. Yep, you heard me right. Ceramic wallpaper. It's a never ending adventure of pattern and texture in the Manchester HQ of Casa Ceramica. I've bought lots of gorgeousness from... Continue Reading →
