I know there’s nothing new in this, it isn’t hot off the press or anything, but as Autumn arrives I’m fully back on board with my original plan for a grey and acid yellow living room. The trigger – these gorgeous new cushions, wallpapers and bits and bobs from Ferm Living.

Thanks to the ever on-the-case Home Shopping Spy for the image montage. My own plans include covering my 50s sofa with charcoal grey and putting Kuboaa’s acid yellow Wisteria wallpaper. Now all I need to do is find the perfect grey for the other walls…

Nice pins

I often see pictures stuck to walls casually with masking tape, sort of mood-board style. Here’s an even nicer way of doing the temporary display wall – seamstress pins. As spotted in Margaret Turtureanu and Lily Sielaff’s Munich jewellery store Jewelberry. The shop was full of cool display ideas. For instance, the table, which makes […]

A snip

Another thing I bumbled across, the interior paper cut collages of Abigail Reynolds. Found on this blog, based on creative jealousy. I saw her graduate piece at Goldsmiths degree show years ago, a 3D cardboard map modeled on South London crime statistics. It’s the one thing I remember from that show, and I really like […]

Bringing it all back home

On my long, quirky list of homes likes/don’t likes, I find I have no time (sorry) for clocks, but a big fancy for calendars. I imagine it says something terribly fascinating about my attitude to time, I just don’t know what. Well anyway, I just stumbled on my dream calendar, a thing I’d never have […]

Alpine style

Okay, so I should say right away that the rural Austria I visited was not a destination for cutting-edge design. The Austrians know how to do a good swimming pool though. This was in the basement of our hotel in Kitzbuhel. All concrete and polished metal with skylights showing glimpses of the street above. It […]