Tips for Creating a Stylishly Curated Kitchen with Clare Altarafi of Clare Elise Interiors We absolutely love designing and styling kitchen spaces, which more often than not tend to be open plan. Although they may have practicality at their core, by no means does that mean there should be a compromise on design. Our aim […]
Beautiful Basins to Lift a Bathroom Scheme Entrepreneurialship has boomed during lockdown, Covid 19 triggering a surge in new businesses of more than 400,000 in the UK alone in 2020. Many of these businesses are responding to the changing needs of our socially distanced world – offering logistics, home delivery services, technology, digital wellness and […]
A beautiful Georgian Cloakroom Restored You may remember that a few years ago, before Covid, we had the opportunity to visit a beautiful Georgian Townhouse in Richmond that had been loving restored with the help of interior designer Ann Jackman. It is a stunning property and we recently returned to photograph it professionally. It is […]
Designs for Living : A Post Covid Home Over the last year, the pandemic has had a transformational effect on so many aspects of our lives. Now that we are beginning to emerge from lockdown, there is a focus on the longer-term impact of the virus, how and where we live and work, and […]
Creating Miniature Interiors: The Great British ‘Box Room’ Challenge What is it about miniature interiors that is so intriguing? I’m sure the majority of us have had a dollshouse of some sort when we were little, maybe a Sylvanian families set, a little Wendy house at the back of the garden, or little villages created […]
Definitive Decorating in an Uncertain World One of the most interesting things about the response to the pandemic – if you’ve been lucky enough to be able to observe it from the sidelines rather than be engulfed by it – is the way small businesses have responded to the crisis. For many, the secret of […]
Feel Good Design Naturally One of the things that the last year has taught me – and I’m guessing plenty of others – is the importance of nature to wellbeing. And I don’t mean that in a fanciful, mystical sense but in the way that being confined to your own four walls deprived of the […]
As lockdown eases, outdoor markets and fairs are beginning to open up and right now they represent the best way to have a day out, safely browse and pick up a bargain. Here’s a round-up of what’s going on in the next few weeks and months.
Sales of art have soared in the last year, find out how the art world has responded to lockdown and what is selling.
We’ve all learnt to value outdoor space a little more over the last year. If you’re lucky enough to have your own garden, however small, here are some helpful ideas from Belderbos Landscapes to inspire you to make the most of it.