And so it goes: You think you have a pretty modern aesthetic, you love contemporary buildings with cool cladding, weird materials and big jaunty windows that wrap-around corners. You have stainless steel worktops. All your house plants are in black pots. And yet…

You can’t stop yourself from going nuts for a picket fence.

I’ve just ordered one for the front garden. I hope it doesn’t kill my Victorian home’s curb appeal.