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How to find your home interior style
Do you ever wonder why your house looks the way it does? Why you’re drawn to certain interior styles, or seem to choose the same colours time and time again? Have you considered whether your choices...
Why upholstery isn’t just for antiques
When you think of upholstery, you may automatically imagine valuable vintage chairs, Mid-Century design classics or inherited items of antique furniture. But actually, upholstering something more...
How furniture upholstery can pay tribute to past memories
Furniture can hold memories for lots of different reasons. An antique chair passed down through generations or a sofa that provided many happy hours of sitting on during childhood, for instance. But...
Give your outdoor furniture a summer makeover
Think you have to settle for boring garden furniture? Think again. If your mind is wandering to lazy summer evenings sipping Rosé in the sun, it might be worth taking another look at your outdoor...
Why broken is beautiful
The ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi is based on the belief that ‘broken is beautiful’. Celebrating flaws and imperfections, it’s a technique where damaged objects are put back together using...
Facing the future
What lessons will we learn from 2020, I wonder? The year that turned all our lives upside down and forced us all to stop in our tracks. I can’t help thinking about a synergy with another time in my...
Perfect spring projects
Spring has always been the most popular time to get stuck into projects around the home and garden. This year is rather different for all of us… But perhaps you’re still feeling now is the ideal...
Re-upholstering a treasured piece of furniture: What’s your story?
Now more than ever people’s stories and connections matter. I’m very privileged that I get to hear them and be part of them. I am a valuing those connections more than ever right now. There are all...
Upcycle a vintage piano stool in six steps
Practical and multi-purpose, a piano stool is a great introductory upholstery project if you’re lucky enough to own or come across one. I’m a big believer in the fact that anything can have a new...
Could saving your sofa save the planet?
We’re all looking for ways to live a more sustainable life, and most of those changes – unsurprisingly – are going to start at home. The hot topic of protecting our planet is hard to ignore. In...
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