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PRAISE FOR MAD ABOUT THE HOUSE

A House Tour of the Private Home of Piero Fornasetti

Come With Me To My New online House

The Househunter: Colour Drenching

Bloom! My Floral Carpet launches at Decorex

Beautiful Rooms For Monday

The Househunter: Codebreaking Interior Design

Beautiful Rooms To Start The Week

The Househunter: Small Flat Big Storage

Five of the Best Gift Guides

8th December 2020

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mantel garland by melanie lissack for red magazine

This year, instead of my own gift guide ( I feel like I'm a bit late to start that party now) I thought I would share some of the best gift guides I have seen for design lovers and that way you can all discover new people and ideas. My philosophy on choosing presents hasn't

Monday Inspiration Beautiful Rooms

Happy Monday to you all and first up I would like to thank so many of you for engaging and responding to the posting schedule

The Househunter: A reinvented Victorian House

We're off to Ramsgate this week, a coastal town in Kent, which isn't perhaps the first place you'd think of for groundbreaking architecture, but we

Best of the Podcast: how to hide the tv and zone an open plan space

samsung frame tv at madaboutthehouse.com

Today I am rounding up three of the most popular and, dare I say, useful posts of recent times as part of this week's podcast

15 Brilliant Subscription Gift Box Ideas

book subscription box from reposed

It's that time again.... and what could be better than getting a present every month, or every three months? This is my idea of the

Monday Inspiration: Colour Blocking and Clever Ways with Paint

30th November 2020

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pink and yellow by colourist emilie fournet interiors

From Friday neutrals to Monday's (muted) brights and I hope you like these rooms that I have found to show you today. While I may not enjoy the zingy brights of a clean colour palette I'm all over lots of intense but muted colours; you know the ones that have a dollops of grey in

The Househunter: Warm Neutrals

Fancy coming for a look around this two bedroom ground floor flat in north London today? It's on the market with Mr and Mrs Clarke

Why The Worktop Is The Most Important Element of your Kitchen

This week for the Wednesday Ad Break we’re going to talk about worktops as part of a collaboration with Caesarstone who make engineered quartz worktops.

From My Radar To Yours: What’s New in Interiors this month

recycled plastic chair from & tradition

This idea of a news page seemed to go down well when I did it for the first time last month so here's this month's

Monday Inspiration: Six Rooms

internal black framed glass doors through to living room with soft neutral tones. by frank & faber

Last week a friend emailed to ask for advice about her knock-through sitting room. An idea which had seemed good at the time (two small

The Househunter: A Two Bedroom Flat with South-facing Garden

20th November 2020

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Surely the dream first time buy is a two bedroom flat with a south-facing garden, although this isn't really first time buyer prices, but, be that as it may, it's a great example of open plan living and squeezing a lot into a small space. Coming in? It's in Brackenbury Village, in west London (explains

Househunter: Room by Room

I was going to show you a very beautiful, very expensive, somewhat neutral house this week but given the reaction to the calming neutrals the

Interior Inspiration: Beautiful Rooms

pomegranate wallpaper by tatty lowther

Everything's coming up roses... well not necessarily yet but shall we go with the green of new beginnings ? Or maybe just - it was

The Househunter: A Four Bedroom Victorian Townhouse

Oh I love this house. You know how as a child we used to draw square houses with a window either side of the front

How To Buy Ethical Interiors

tortoiseshell bamboo covered cupboard with peach glass floor lamp, cream sofa and orange striped cushion. .interior designer Em Gurner, image by anna yanovski

This week on the podcast, Sophie interviews Chloe Bullock, a BIID member and the first interior designer in the UK to be vegandesign.org certified. There

A Directory of Small Businesses

3rd November 2020

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black table lamp and vintage plates by alijoedesigns with tap and drip design

Now this is going to be a collective post and so I'm going to need you all to chip in in the comments and if you come to this later on make sure you read the comments too. With the news of a second lockdown and the plight of small businesses once again pushed to

Six Rooms to Inspire

interior design by Interior Fox

And here we are again but I've found some rich colour-saturated rooms for you to soak up and hopefully feel inspired by. First up is

The Househunter: Georgian Dreams

warm neutrals via the modern house

Oh I had such a good house for you this week. A real mix of yesterday's post actually so I know you would have loved

Book Review: De Gournay Wallpaper and Scandi Rustic Interiors

St. Laurent designer Greg Natale photo Anson Smart

Suddenly there are new interiors books coming out every week after years of it being a massively unfashionable subject and it's becoming hard to keep

Monday Inspiration: Green and Floral

the gym at les deux gares hotel designed by luke edward hall

No I don't think I'm done with the florals and greens yet. Must be the onset of winter. And the clocks going back. Or the