By the age of nine I knew all about house envy. Every week our school bus would drive through a more affluent area of the …
House Envy: All You Need To Know

Lived Experience of Design and Home: Original Stories and Insights
By the age of nine I knew all about house envy. Every week our school bus would drive through a more affluent area of the …
Textiles and Pattern for the brave and the bold While clearing out my parents’ home I discovered this incredible piece of fabric. Not something you see …
Student accommodation is an essential rite of passage, learning to live independently, managing finances. For many, it is when they begin to collect their own household belongings and express their own sense of design.
An Inch of Space…. Is Worth A Thousand Pieces of Gold In 1998 my film, “A Thousand Pieces of Gold”, won a Gold award in the …
If you couldn’t pay your rent or mortgage for a few months and didn’t have a family support network…very quickly you could find yourself struggling. Interview with …
As a patient on a hospital ward.… It’s difficult to sleep. You are not in your own bed. You are not in your own home. …
We have lived here for 19 years – just me, my husband and our dog. It is a semi-detached 3 bedroomed house with living room and kitchen/diner. …
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 …