Interior design
Multifunctional Kitchens That Work Hard And Look Good
Six members of The House Directory share some of their most cleverly designed kitchen projects, all of which are as hardworking and practical as they are ...
How to Declutter Your Home: Easy Steps to Get Things in Order
In this blog we bring you 12 tips from renowned decluttering experts alongside selected products from The House Directory members to help to organise your home ...
The A-Z Advisory – Paint Colours & Finishes with Little Greene
Ruth Mottershead, creative director of Little Greene, answers TheHouseDirectory's questions about paint colours and finishes in this indispensable guide ...
‘The Makers Who Make Us’ – Soane’s 25 years of British craftsmanship
To mark their 25th anniversary Soane has launched the Egyptomania collection of fabrics, furniture and lighting. The collection is inspired by thousands of years of Egyptian ...
FIVE ESSENTIAL TIPS FOR GROWING YOUR INTERIOR DESIGN BUSINESS
Jenny Grove - author of Interior Design: A Professional Guide, Jenny Grove, shares her Five Essential Tips for Growing Your Interior Design Business, with advice from ...
Family businesses: on working together
We’d like to introduce you to some of the family businesses listed on TheHouseDirectory.com. It’s a tenuous path for family members to work together without conflict ...
Top tips for building a brand & developing your business
Polly Williams, the multi-award-winning Designers’ Advisor, founded Camberyard, an interior design business development consultancy, in 2015. Inspired by the belief that collaboration is better than competition, ...
SALVESEN GRAHAM IN COLLABORATION WITH DAVID SEYFRIED
Introducing the award winning four-piece furniture collection by Salvesen Graham, in collaboration with respected furniture maker David Seyfried. This collection, launched in 2016, was one of The ...
How to maximise your business at trade shows
Polly Williams, the Designers’ Advisor, is the founder of Camberyard, a multi-award-winning interior design business development consultancy. Here, Polly shares her expertise on how to maximise ...
The history of Colefax and Fowler
The 1930s – Sibyl Colefax Lady Colefax began decorating in 1930. She was well-connected and also ahead of her time: her circle of friends and acquaintances ...
Retrouvius for Perfumer H
Maria Speake and Retrouvius Design have created a multifunctional store, consultation and laboratory space for British perfumer Lyn Harris’ shop Perfumer H in Marylebone. The compact ...
Manuel Canovas 2018
Inspired by the work of French artist Jean Lurçat, and the sophisticated style of interior designer Madeleine Castaing, the Manuel Canovas 2018 Collection features rich jewel ...
Wooden Houses: from log cabins to beach houses
Wooden Houses: From Log Cabins to Beach Houses by Judith Miller (photography by James Merrell). Published by Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd Wooden houses range from ...
Plain English at Howe
A new collaboration between Plain English and Christopher Howe saw the launch last month of an exclusive new Plain English kitchen, designed by Katie Fontana especially ...
Catchpole & Rye’s Jersey project
Luxury bathroom manufacturers Catchpole and Rye have a vast selection of products, ranging from freestanding copper baths and traditional cast iron roll top baths, to marble ...
The Country House Ideal
The Country House Ideal, Recent Work by ADAM Architecture is a survey of country houses designed by the Winchester-based ADAM Architecture. It places the country house ...
Down at the deVOL cabin
Paul O’Leary, owner of deVOL Kitchens, took an ugly old 40ft trailer carcass and transformed it into a beautiful cabin that sits right by the river ...
Bert’s Barges
Bert & May, known for their distinctive reclaimed and new tiles, have just launched Bert & May Spaces, and Phase 1 is ‘Bert’s Barges’, in urban ...
An interview with John Stefanidis
John Stefanidis established his design practice in Chelsea in 1967, attracting a discerning international clientele with his carefully considered, vibrant and beautiful transformation of homes worldwide. ...
Shed Decor
Small space, big ideas: Shed Decor by Sally Coulthard is dedicated to decorating and equipping your shed space for relaxing, working and playing. There are hundreds ...
Imperfect Home by Mark & Sally Bailey
Mark and Sally Bailey of destination homeware store Baileys Home & Garden were early forerunners of ‘undecorating’, and their latest book Imperfect Home sees the beauty ...
OKA’s Battersea Power Station apartment
After lying derelict for thirty years, the landmark 42 acre site of Battersea Power Station is being brought back to life with architecture from Gehry Partners ...
Modern Country
Containing rarely seen images from the Côté Maison magazines, Modern Country – Inspirational interiors for Contemporary Country Living by Caroline Clifton-Mogg, brings together relaxed, informal homes ...
New design clinics at Sofa.com
New for 2015, Sofa.com are introducing a free interior design service in their Chelsea showroom in collaboration with Mark Walters and Martin Holland, recent winners of ...
Beautifully Small
In Beautifully Small, interiors stylist Sara Emslie embraces the positive aspects of living in small spaces and offers clever design solutions for pocket-sized interiors. One of ...
Bedroom opulence
This opulent bedroom is in the London flat of Dr. Amin Jaffer, Director of Asian Art at Christie’s International. The narrow room has an Indian sofa ...
Unseen London
In a fascinating new book, Unseen London, photographer Peter Dazeley shows us some of the capital’s hidden gems. We are taken behind the scenes in fifty ...
The Blues Kitchen’s faience bar
The Blues Kitchen in Shoreditch has recently opened, complete with a striking faience-fronted bar made from ceramic tiles by Craven Dunnill Jackfield. Victorian in its inspiration, ...
The Interiors of Chester Jones
An inspiring tome on the work of interior designer Chester Jones is just out. The Interiors of Chester Jones features more than a dozen of his ...
Award-winning London mews house
We were invited last week to view the latest project by award-winning developers McKinley Spaces. From the road, 5 Elvaston Mews in South Kensington looks ...
Retrouvius’ alpine retreat
The Retrouvius design team’s third collaboration with these clients has resulted in an alpine retreat high in a Swiss mountain village which has a chalet ...
Rose Uniacke opens new shop
Rose Uniacke has redesigned and extended her pared-down and elegant shop on Pimlico Road. In the light-filled rooms she combines an eclectic mix of antiques ...
A contemporary mountain chalet
Two giant wooden sculptures dominate the dining room cleverly located by the large windows in this contemporary mountain chalet in Cortina d’Ampezzo in Italy. Architect: ...
A Living Space, Kit Kemp’s new book
Last week, Anthropologie in Regent Street hosted a talk by interior designer Kit Kemp to launch her first book, ‘A Living Space’. Kit Kemp is ...
Smart dressing room
Deep in the Belgian countryside an 18th century farmhouse has been restored as a live/work space by an architect couple with a minimalist lifestyle. Their home ...
Hiring an interior designer or architect
You may be thinking of commissioning an architect or interior designer, but don’t know where to begin. How do you go about choosing? How do they ...
