A few years ago, many visitors simply wouldn't have ventured from the safety of 100% Design to any other venues, what was the point...it was all under one roof! How things have changed. I remember speaking to Piers Roberts at Interiors Birmingham in 2009 about the recession and how we thought it would affect design... Continue Reading →
Moregeous Mansion gets some visitors or, How to seriously irritate your cat
Ah well. Supposed to be in London at a party for the Designersblock LDF2011 launch tonight but instead stuck in Manchester arranging all the dry rot works to take place at the water drenched tenanted flat blogged about yesterday. Blinking irritating being a landlord sometimes! On the bright side, Moregeous Mansion is getting some visitors... Continue Reading →
The Housepricecrash.co.uk forum put their tuppence in!
A busy week and then a fantastic day at CavFest yesterday meant I'm only just checking into the blog today and got a nice and then a bit of a nasty surprise. The nice bit was having several hundred visits to the Moregeous Mansion bird house post earlier this week. It's taken our garden by... Continue Reading →
Making a Moregeous Mansion – the best birdhouse in the West
Once upon a time there was a bit of a sorry looking birdhouse, rescued from a house renovated by Team Moregeous but not really given any of it's own TLC. Even so, our squirrels and birds loved it and the birdhouse was much used for several years, ignored by our resident pussy cat Mia whose... Continue Reading →
Rave on with a Smiley seat :)
I was a little peturbed to read the other day that some bright sparks have made a feature film of the 80's rave years using original footage. Bang goes keeping the kids in line if I appear anywhere in it, having spent many a late-80's evening waving my arms in the air, chewing gum and... Continue Reading →
How to design with chess pieces and chequerboards as inspiration
Mooching around the new look John Lewis near my house the other day, I spotted this super-sized chess piece masquerading as a side table from Content by Conran. It got me thinking that I'd seen quite a few chess type interior styles just recently, all of which have caught my eye as I'm dreaming about... Continue Reading →
Project Lauren / Modiste Designs launch night, finished bang on time!
Our work was done! The old shop false ceiling had come down (see here) as had the dividing wall, new changing rooms had been built along with a dividing wall between sofa and desk, the new lighting and sockets were fitted, everywhere was freshly painted in a taupe shade called Lauren and all the walnut... Continue Reading →
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