An excellent proposal from HAWSE (Homes through Apprenticeships With Skills for Employment) and Levitt Bernstein architects, who have drawn up plans to turn unused garages in Hackney into temporary housing for homeless people. Each house costs an estimated £13,000 to construct and the plan is to build most of the parts off site before they are fitted […]
So, we asked some of our friends to submit their own Real Reveals. Not everyone did… and I think we can all draw our own conclusions from their silence as to what state their houses must be in. But here are the brave, the unafraid to show and tell: This is from the lovely Decorator’s […]
Have you heard Habitat is opening up its very own vintage shop? Not here, in Paris. Next to the Saint Ouen flea markets. Everyone knows Paris flea markets are pretty magic. So, a Habitat shop nearby, selling all its old products from between the 60’s and 90’s, sounds sort of good. Unless, might it mean […]
My Friend is in her sick bed, so just a quick bit of something from the Great Knockers file today. That Lion head is now right up there with chubby fists from Toulouse when it comes to door dazzlers. For this writer, anyway. What do you think, trend or travesty?
Just got back from the most magic week in freezing Scotland, which could only have been more restorative if it hadn’t involved returning home to a freezer full of food, defrosting messily after its door was accidentally left open. Here’s a walk between Blanefield and Killearn, which inspired various questions between the two ramblers present. […]