It's been just lovely this week to have some Easter sunshine to get bulb burying & planting kick-started. We STILL haven't got round to renovating our 'eventual' house and it takes my mind off the interior by concentrating on at least some nice exterior areas to look at! All of the outside path needs replacing... Continue Reading →
Teapot fizz, a Passion For Homes & a Pitfield cockatoo
Life so far in 2013 has been a whirlwind of industrial glam, swimming pools and a flurry of tenants in & out... with little time for anything else! It's all calming down now - the madness of moving season is abating, the Baths tsunami has settled into a gentle wave and Project Rivet is complete...... Continue Reading →
How to make a landlord’s day with the perfect thank you card
Sometimes being a landlord is a bit of a thankless task: endless hours of boring as hell paperwork, fighting with the bank, viewings in the rain, cleaning dirty toilets.... you get the picture. But of course, no-one ever feels sorry for landlords as we have single-handedly ruined the economy with buy-to-lets, terrorise people with our... Continue Reading →
How to re-upholster an old Parker Knoll wingback chair
I knew it wouldn't be long before someone claimed my newly upholstered Parker Knoll - now named Mr Portier - but I thought it'd be Mr M, not her nibs! That didn't take long #fiveminutes 🙂 All finished now and I'm so happy with my first ever wingback chair, freshly painted, waxed and upholstered. It's... Continue Reading →
A glamorous, industrial and vintage feel at our latest interiors Project ‘Rivet’
Finally I get round to it!! Thanks to Andy Marshall Architectural Photography for such spectacular images, to Team & Mr Moregeous for such hard work, and also to my clients for allowing me such freedom and having such faith in our vision for the redesign of Project Rivet. It was a delight to give this... Continue Reading →
Project Rivet – Industrial style apartment design scheme: Bedroom before and afters
Project Rivet was a rather cold feeling apartment in an old factory in Manchester, converted by Urban Splash around 2000. The ceiling was a pale grey cement, the walls flat & white, the overall feel somehow impersonal and unwelcoming. This was all very architecturally & design modern in 2000 but when you live in a... Continue Reading →
How to create a chalk paint navy and copper metallic bed for under £50
Having my usual morning Twitter design browse this morning and nearly choked on my Frosties when I clicked the link to the Telegraph's interior design page and saw the bed above. I ADORE copper and have been using it in schemes for years, so the recent explosion in its use throughout the design world hasn't... Continue Reading →
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