My garden backs onto sheltered housing – designed for people aged over 55. These compact, purpose-built bungalow homes each have with their own front door …
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My garden backs onto sheltered housing – designed for people aged over 55. These compact, purpose-built bungalow homes each have with their own front door …

News this week that the UK government has (finally) recognised the need to help people with their energy bills is welcome indeed. The governor of the Bank of England states: …

BBC’s Interior Design Masters is yet another quick fix, staples, glue, centrepiece, wow factor, TV game show. From this, viewers will think ‘interior design’ is about shoddy craftsmanship, …

I have been living on this boat since September. Essentially, it’s a long corridor. It’s 45 ft and as wide as my arm span – 6 …

Surfaces of Light I know this room so well and yet through every season it looks very different. Light has the power to transform an …

Disturbing images from war-torn Ukraine show just how fragile our home life can be. For anyone. In war, our home can be lost to us in …

Apartment: Interview March 2022 It’s a modern apartment. There is a small hallway when you come in …. a bathroom to the left… a double bedroom …

Space, Geography, Interior Design – and everything in between There is much more to interior design than a ‘beautiful home’. People tend to assume interior …

Farm: Interview October 2021 We built the house ourselves on a site on the family farm. Work started on 19 May 2000 and we moved …

Living by the sea: Interview October 2021 For 16 years my husband and I had been living in a really nice terraced farmer’s cottage in …