House Notes #1

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I’ve been on Substack for nearly 10 months now. In that time the Mad About The House community has grown to nearly 12,000 free subscribers, with nearly 700 of you kind enough to pay to support my writing and allow me to continue publishing. Thank you to all. So I thought it was time to introduce something new – a free newsletter called House Notes, covering a variety of different topics. And I wanted to launch it during the summer holidays to give you opportunity to dip in and out.

HOUSEKEEPING: My month this month

A glimpse behind the scenes of what I have been up to. As you read this, I will be in my house in Italy, not just relaxing but also preparing for the first of my interior design retreats next month. There are still a couple of places left for the second one in October - you can find out more here.

Every time we go to the house we fill in a few more of the gaps. While I have never been one for slow renovation (that’s a topic for another day) I do believe it takes time to ful…