Renovating is expensive, we all know that. No matter how well you plan, draw up spreadsheets or keep an eye on the pennies, there are always extras and there's never quite enough left for finishing touches. Especially for the garden, the area which always seems to come in at last place on most renovation To... Continue Reading →
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 →
We're still on our travels around the UK, hunting down superb seafood restaurants near to our routes to make everything seem a little less like work. There's a trick well and truly missed here as we journey up from Kent to Lincolnshire to Scotland, this blog post could be reading "Winkles from Whitstable to Whitby"... 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 →
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