This week we’ll be focusing on one of the hardest working rooms in your home – the hallway. It is used as a thoroughfare for getting from downstairs to upstairs, it is home to lots of items such as coats and shoes and yet you still want it to look welcoming and presentable should any [...]

I’ve decided to focus on a different room each month so for a week each month, there will be a blog post focusing on one room in the house. I’m going to start with children’s bedrooms as they’re one of my favourites – I can really indulge in nostalgia and fun while playing around with [...]

I was asked this question recently ‘How do you decide on a paint colour for the other walls when wallpapering a feature wall?’ Wallpapering feature walls is very popular and works particularly well in rooms such as bedrooms when the ‘unbroken’ wall (not broken up by windows or doors) is that which the bed is [...]

Query:  Do you think a frosted bathroom window needs a window treatment? and if so, what would you suggest for a simple minimal way to dress up the window? Answer: Yes, I do.  While a frosted window will provide a certain amount of privacy, body shapes can be seen if it is dark outside and [...]

This Friday’s  ‘Interior Design solution’ post is doubling as a ‘Before and After’.  Here is a suggestion for an upstairs landing – how to have an attractive wall visible to the people in the hall downstairs yet not too flamboyant and ‘in your face’.  Here is a photo from a client’s hallway.  I only have the ‘after’ [...]

Fed up of low ceilings? Yearn after the high ceilings in Victorian and Georgian houses? How to make your ceiling appear higher?  This is a common query and as it was something we were addressing in a client’s house during the week, I thought I would do a blog post on it for this week’s Fix-it post.  High ceilings [...]

Mag from Goatsbridge Trout Farm tweeted me with some photos and a query.  She’s looking for some ideas for this space in her home. It is located beside this sitting /dining room and the door open out into this space. goatsbridge What do I suggest? Well, as you can see the sitting and dining room [...]

Query:  What kind of window treatment would be most suitable for a kitchen window in front of the sink? I like curtains but feel they may be impractical. For most kitchen worktop areas, curtains are impractical – in danger of getting wet from the sink, grubby from splashes, damp from steam and maybe even a fire hazard [...]

Dee from Greenside Up emailed me looking for a solution to dressing an arched window in their playroom cum guestroom.  The other window in the room is standard and hence, has an ordinary pole with red velvet curtains.  This window is single-glazed (rescued from an old convent and much loved) so needs insulation in the form [...]