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 →
Ah, the outdoor privy. A property feature long forgotten by many, never known by most and only *enjoyed* by a dwindling 40,000 (the Halifax approximated in 2010) households in the UK. 40,000 plus the Prince of Wales perhaps because, would you believe, the Privy is back and it's had a bit of facelift! No longer... Continue Reading →
It's terribly topical at the moment isn't it, all this talk of buying British. It's also easy to fire off a tweet and consider your part played, we're all guilty of that. But it takes more. It takes action and decisive behaviour and putting your money where your mouth is. We all too easily think... Continue Reading →
Trying something new this month, I hope you like it! I get so busy with client work, our rentals/Airbnb and the renovation here at Moregeous Mansions that it's sometimes a little difficult to find time to share the fabulous things I spot every day. Seemed like a great idea to do a round up on... Continue Reading →
I've always been a gas girl, cooking with instant heat up or down. Who wouldn't have been persuaded that gas was the real Deal or No Deal by adverts like this.... https://youtu.be/upml_E1Jrug But, the times they are a changin' and if the cool kitchens at KBB 2016 proved anything, it was that smooth is the... Continue Reading →
You all know me by now right, there's nothing I love better than the smell of timber, a busy work bench and  stuff being made. Everything summed up in the image above really, taken up at a fantastic manufacturer company called Dresser Mouldings which we visited this month in Lancashire. They'd been recommended to me by a small... Continue Reading →
OK kitchen kids, here's your 2016 starter for ten: Which depth of kitchen work surface should you be specifying to make your block the coolest on the block? This is a rather important question when designing a kitchen and as you can see from my opening image, when we're talking worktops, we really are talking... Continue Reading →
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