THE MOREGEOUS NOTEPAD… Making Homes More Than Gorgeous
Interior Design, Home Renovation, DIY and Trends
Floral artistry is a career with two sides. One is impossibly, gloriously glamorous, filled with exotic blooms, thrilling commissions and fashionistas. The other is the crack of dawn starts to ensure the best buds, the late nights prepping for big events and the eternal search for new creative directions. Manchester based floral designer David Jayet-Laraffe... Continue Reading →
Seriously show stopping interiors are created by extremely talented creatives, but it takes much more than a flair for colour to run a successful interior design business. I'm delighted to have been asked to host a new series of podcasts with Sofa Workshop, and our first chat is now live, featuring London based but Northern... 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 →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDVovh89fgY&t=6s Dream gig or what?! I'd a fabulous time chatting with Insta-Queen Lisa Dawson this summer in her geeeee-orgeous Yorkshire home. This one is all about finding your core style and being true to your interior self - sometimes hard to do in a world filled with 'inspo'. I'll do a 'proper' blog post soon... Continue Reading →
