You sort of forget that your streets have a lot of furniture on them – post boxes, electricity boxes etc. But you wouldn’t if you were in pockets of Berlin. There, stencil street artist Evol has turned those objects into mini high rise flats. I love this!

photo © Evol

photo © Evol

photo © Evol

Details are fantastic – those satellite dishes. Plus, bits of graffiti that I’m guessing were already on the boxes, now look authentically to scale with the buildings.

I also think the artist’s choice of architecture is just right. This wouldn’t work nearly so well had he turned those boxes into mansions or cottages, out of context with their surrounding streets.

Bingo!

Did you see the BBC 4 programme about the Bingo last night? I only watched it to give myself a break from reruns of You’ve Been Framed, but once it started I was totally gripped. It was amazing! For a start you got vintage news footage of the Bingo-mad ladies of Margate, and a glimpse […]

Your home is (usually) lovely

Kate Burt, a design journalist who, via her blog Your Home Is Lovely, brings frequent news stories and great affordable decorating ideas (go see her Early Learning Centre find) has given us all a gift today: evidence that her once pristine study… …has become the stuff of the ultimate Real Reveal! Behold, old food pots, worryingly […]

Last meals

Fresh from the pages of the Daily Mail – source of many an enjoyable homes story I have to admit – is a piece about artist Julie Green who for 13 years has been painting death row prisoner’s last meals onto plates.   The Mail didn’t pass any comment about what they thought of this, […]

On painting

Here’s a hint. If you are going to paint a great big tall set of shelves, don’t do it in an attic room. Let my four head-bumpings, umpteen sweary outbreaks and incident with a sock in the paint lid be a lesson to us all. The last, admittedly, being unrelated to height issues. So anyway, […]