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Sourcing and styling vintage in your home
Join me and Lisa Dawson as we chat all things vintage from what to buy and where to find it as well as learning your own taste and styling it at home.
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Lisa Dawson
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Design Postcards: decoding Chequers
A peek inside the UK Prime Minister's official country residence – which is, frankly, a decorative disaster.
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Your decorating dilemmas solved
This month: what to do when the grey has sunk into your psyche, mixing pattern and colour, bathroom design chat, how to do those feature walls and…
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Design Postcards: The most photographed house in Notting Hill
This tiny and distinctive building, known as the Bank Robber House, is up for sale.
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January 2025

House Notes #7
This month we learn about the Interior Life of one of my favourite designers, discover the first carbon-negative fashion brand, and meander around a…
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How to design the perfect bedroom
It's not just about the bed: the colours, materials, layout and lighting all need to be considered if you want your room fit for a perfect night's…
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Eye on Design
A monthly round-up of design news, trends, and selected products – with places to source them.
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Design Postcards: Henry's Townhouse, London
The house that belonged to Jane Austen's brother is now a boutique hotel and you can stay there.
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Design Decoded: The Househunter
My regular series in which we look at a house on the market to see what inspiration we can take for our own places and spaces.
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The only interior design trend that really matters
It's time to make home more homely. But that doesn't mean buying into what the "experts" tell you is trendy. It's about finding your style and telling…
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30 interior design tricks you need to know
Yes, it's a list – but it's a really, really good one. For more posts like this and access to the full interior design archive, consider upgrading to a…
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Design Postcards: the fitted kitchen
This simple yet radical 20th-Century innovation changed the home forever. And if was designed by a woman, of course.
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