Our food blogger Helen Parkin is back this month with a Spring stapple …. but with a difference! As I write this, we’re in the middle of the long Easter holiday weekend. Despite the strange weather we’ve had here over the winter – notably, a dire lack of rain – all the signs that we traditionally [...]
I discovered The Building Centre back in 2010 and have been visiting regularly. I like going to their many events and I adore the book shop (always leaves a very very deep hole in my finances!). I also have a variety of colleagues and friends who work there, so I often meet up with them in [...]
Our food blogger Linda Williams is back this month with a blog and ideas on how to use the earliest herbs we can find at this time of year.Last month I was writing just after we’d had heavy snow falls and spring seemed a long way off. Now there is sun streaming through the window, a [...]
Vintage or whatever word you may want to attribute to it these days, has really come of age so to speak, yesterday’s “bits and bobs” are today’s 21st Century antiques. As an interior designer these types of shows are a great source of meeting new dealers, looking at savvy ways of up- cycling and recycling old furniture [...]
Autumn and then Spring awakens the panic buttons in many clients when they first contact you after the winter pause that their garden has enjoyed. They have gotten over the Christmas lull and easing into winter has made them forget that come Autumn, everything looks holey and in spring everything starts running to weeds! Panic [...]
The last two post on art the ” Selecting Art – an interior designer’s perspective” for Easy Art UK and the insightful blog from artist Melanie McDonald on “Commissioning art works – the right piece of art for the right place“ and how she works with private commissions, made me think a lot more about art ion [...]
