Decorating ideas and lifestyle inspiration from Decorator's Notebook
-+*If you love global textiles as much as I do, you’ll already know how they can instantly warmth, texture and colour to your home. But striking the balance between bohemian and modern can sometimes be tricky - to get it right takes a very light touch. I came across this beautiful bedroom over at Design*Sponge…
-+*One of the things I like best about running our little online shop is imagining the things we’ve carefully chosen in their new homes, being looked at and loved by their new owners. However, it’s not something we often get to see, so when customers share their photos with us it always brings a huge…
-+*There’s something about abandoned houses that I find so fascinating. When I was a child I used to conduct my own archaelogical digs in the vegetable patch of our home - a former Georgian pharmacy - and collect boxes full of ‘artifacts’ for my collection. Glass lemonade stoppers, fragments of willow-pattern crockery, clay pipes and…
-+*When I see a home that really and truly reflects the personality and passions of the person who lives there, my eyes open a little wider. When that person’s passion is working with artisans in developing countries to create textiles that reflect local traditions, while appealing to Western tastes, the result is a lively blend…
-+*Upcycling salvaged materials can be a fantastic way to give your home a really individual look, but it’s not an easy style to get right. Although the finished result may look effortlessly thrown together, get it wrong and you could end up creating the furniture equivalent of Frankenstein’s monster. The owner of this warehouse-style apartment,…
-+*I shared one photo from this apartment on Twitter last week and the response was an immediate ‘wow’, so I thought you’d like to see the rest! The owners of this one-bed apartment have achieve the renovation holy trinity: bigger, lighter and on a budget. Have a browse and soak up the cool mix of…
-+*I love bringing little touches of nature into my home… a dried seedhead here, a pheasant feather there… they help to soften up a minimal room and bring a tiny bit of the outdoors in. This small New York apartment belongs to prop stylist Rebecca Bartoshesky and I really admire her style. She has just…
-+*The story of Madame de Florian’s home seems almost too far-fetched to be true, but the discovery of her glamorous Paris apartment - which has been locked behind closed doors since 1942 - is evidence of a life and style too fabulous to be fiction. {Getty images via AnOther} The apartment belonged to Marthe de…
