Fantasy business idea

Mr MFH and I are forever announcing to each other that we should open an independent cinema in Se22. My version of the fantasy involves a massive design project including a perfect brasserie (might have been done before), and a few hotel rooms. So really more a boutique hotel with a public cinema. His version tends to get stuck on the details – budget and the likes. Anyway, I’ve found the site…

Actually in SE21, ultra swish and Georgian to boot. The first thing I’ll do is paint that door.

Then all it needs are some of these…

a small one of these…

somewhere nice to eat Eggs Benedict…

and a place for a night cap…

Er yeh and some capital etc.

What would you do if you had some spare millions kicking around?



Trend or travesty?

So very hard to write anything now without starting “F***  your….”. But here goes. I’ve been writing about a house with bright yellow walls and black outlines this week. It took me back five years to another house I wrote about – the New York apartment of designer Thomas Paul, which has bright yellow walls and […]

clock vignette

Forget you

My attention has been drawn to a tumblr site, the concept of which is so simple I wish I’d thought of it myself. Yes, F***YourNoguchiCoffeeTable is a regular post of a single interiors picture and caption. The one below reads, “F*** your giant wall word.” As a puncturing of design snobbery and hipster nonsense it’s perfect. A lot of pleasure […]

table of the elements

Right a bit…

Spring is here at My Friend’s House. The evidence? Well I washed the shower curtain and hung it up to dry outside. And I did the tiniest bit of home improvement, the first in months. I hung up a picture. Yes. I’m sure you’ll agree that there is nothing more likely to cause arguments fun than […]