A full year since we completed the bunkroom and the tinies asked for ‘more Christmas please’… so we delivered. I have been a fan of Lucy Tiffney’s work for many years now (dating back seven years when I bought a panel for the nursery) and Lucy’s Christmas range at Next is just perfect. Added some old decorations to their…
The response I had to this video has been insane – who knew that this simple solution would be such a hit? Because the room behind the door is so compact it was not practical for the door to open into that room… meanwhile, on this side, it irked me that the open door would block the view and…
My desire for a sunken seating area perhaps stems from my love of all things seventies when the conversation pit was first incepted; an area designed for chat, a step or more lower than the rest of a space, where seating is placed conducive to conversation. Typically enclosed on three sides, the built in lowered seating also allows for…
Welcome to the only complete bit of our of home – the garden. Take a little tour with me around the patios, up and down the steps, through the textures and the planting. There are zones, there are perfectly imperfect slabs (with a weathered look that are actually new), there are blue and white stripes in the form of…
Whilst the interior of the extension has come on leaps and bounds in the past six months, it is far from complete and, full of summer promise, we focussed our attention on the garden. With little knowledge of what makes a garden and her connecting patios ‘work’, my research began. We decided to keep things relatively simple in terms…
