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 …
Homes For Life, And A Lifetime
Energy Costs – The Bleak Reality
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: …
Interior Design Masters? I Don’t Think So!
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, …
It’s Basically A House On A Boat
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, Materiality and Light
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 …
War – And The Place We Call Home
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 Living – A New Experience.
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 …
Geography And The Lived Experience Of Design.
Space, Geography, Interior Design – and everything in between There is much more to interior design than a ‘beautiful home’. People tend to assume interior …
I Am The Third Generation On This Hill Farm.
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 …
To Be Near The Sea: To Paint, To Live.
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 …