Mad about the house

Since we all universally loved this house I thought, for the final archive post of the month, it would be fun to come back and look around again. I hope you have enjoyed revisiting some of this content during the summer and I'll see you back here on Monday with…

Responding to a brief which called for a “light-filled” home where the client could enjoy their artwork, whilst also creating an “elegant, functional series of spaces” for their young family to live…

This week's inspiration was begun by the top two pictures - one wallpaper, one paint and then I realised there was a theme developing as I had also promised to show you a couple of the new shots of my house taken by Mark Anthony Fox, who does a lot…

Spinning the dial again this week and we go from a nearly £2m artist's studio to a two bedroom flat that is full of colour and character and proves one and for all that size isn't everything if you decorate cleverly. It's in south east London and is on with…

A list of the best design inspiration I found online this week.

A sightly random selection for you this week although is anything ever really random? Bit early in the week for an existential discussion on the natural of randomness (although if you've ever tried to lay tiles without the brain forcing you into semblance of a pattern I'd be interested to…

As moving day approaches and, following a measuring up visit yesterday, I find I'm drawn to small houses and how they use the space. Is is just me or sometimes do rooms look smaller when they are half empty? Going round the new, smaller, house I suddenly felt the impact…

If you ever read blog post titles this one may not mean that much to you but if I show you the pantry that possibly broke the internet it may seem more familiar. This narrow pantry was pinned and admired by everyone. My mother-in-law got contractors' quotes to recreate it,…

I've said for a long time that the Georgian vicars got all the best houses and now, it turns out, the Georgian doctors did pretty well too. This terrace, near Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, is believed to have been his (and it would have been a he) home with the surgery next…

Italian globe trotter & HW style muse Valentina Barabuffi inspires us daily - from her hidden gems finds around the Mediterranean to her family life in Florence with her 3-year-old little guy. We followed Valetina during her last trip to Venice. Below, her favorite spots.