Visiting your local DIY superstores or independent garden centres are both great for picking up smaller plants, but if you've a reasonable budget and don't want to wait years for plants and trees to become more established, investing in more substantial specimens is a way to get immediate impact in newly designed gardens or bare corners.... Continue Reading →
Back in the day when kids were allowed to play out a) on their own and b) somewhere further than 5m from their own bedroom, my gang used to go off roaming the streets, having adventures and climbing trees. We'd build dens in dried up stream beds, tear around back alleys on our bikes and... Continue Reading →
It only seems like five minutes since we started digging out the dark woodland corner of the garden to create some seating, because the whole area has now taken on a life of it's own! Whilst I was down at Clerkenwell Design Week, Mr M & Brickie Brian built up the pillars to take the... Continue Reading →
Having long yearned for my own wisteria (it's *so* in the pipeline for Moregeous Mansions), there was really no debate as to whether I'd try to design in this visually beautiful tree to our new Sensory Garden down at Withington Baths. It was fate, plain and simple, to spot a huge Alba last week -... Continue Reading →
I know, I know, we're all packing away our thermals and getting the Fake Bake onto pasty legs, but in all seriousness summertime is the best time to think about keeping your house toasty next winter. As a woman living for over 18 months in an unrenovated, unheated Edwardian house, I've become an expert on... Continue Reading →
I was recently asked to be part of a newspaper DIY special and contribute 16 new and ongoing interiors trends for 2016. As with many press articles, it's all in the edit and some got lost along the way in print so here they are blogged! What do you reckon, any of your favourites I've... Continue Reading →
It'd be fair to say that the look of herringbone parquet has been somewhat out of flavour trend-wise for several decades. Not maybe at the luxury end of the interior design market, where beautiful timbers laid in this classic style will always look wonderful no matter what's on trend, but definitely at the regular residential... Continue Reading →
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